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Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001
| Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 11:23 am
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117936245?cs=1&s=h&p=0 Encore for 'Rock Star' Burnett-produced skein gets second season By JOSEF ADALIAN "Rock Star" will rock on. CBS has greenlit production on a second season of the Mark Burnett-produced talent hunt, which got off to a slow start last summer but ended up a sleepersleeper success for the net. Skein will return this summer, with Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke back as hosts. Burnett and exec producer David Goffin are keeping a tight lid on details about the new season, saying some key deals have yet to be hammered out. Original skein was designed to find a new lead singer for Aussie rockers INXS. It's unclear whether the new season will be devoted to finding a lead singer for another headless band or go in a completely different direction, such as creating a new band. Details on the creative direction could be finalized as soon as this week. Casting has already started, with applications being accepted via CBS.com and Rockstar.msn.com. Whatever changes are made, "At the end of the day, the show will always be about finding a rock star," Goffin said. Burnett said that even he was surprised by the cult following "Rock Star" built last summer. " 'Survivor's' huge, but wherever I go now, people tell me 'Rock Star' is their favorite show. I'm glad it's back," he told Daily Variety. "We know we're going to get the same audience back next summer. Now it's about growing that audience." Burnett credited CBS Corp.-CEO Leslie Moonves for sticking by "Rock Star." "Leslie helped in figuring out the content. He really got involved," producer said, noting it was Moonves' idea to have early results in the voting announced on the skein's Tuesday edition. Burnett said it's likely "Rock Star" will stick with its twice-weekly format on CBS. Goffin said proof of the show's season-one success is in the sales data for the new INXS album and upcoming tour, which he said is sold out in North America. A few weeks ago, he said, he was INXS, and there was "Rock Star" winner J.D. Fortune, "who a year ago was sleeping in his car. Now he's in a bed filming a musicvideo with Estella Warren." In addition to Fortune, runner-up Marty Casey has an album coming out on Burnett's Sony-based imprint, while contestant Mig Ayesa has just signed with Universal Music, Burnett said. "Rock Star" averaged a 3.1/8 in adults 18-49 for its Tuesday performance show, with ratings increasing throughout the summer and reaching a season high with its finale. Burnett, Goffin and Lisa Hennessey are exec producers, while Conrad RiggsConrad Riggs serves as co-exec producer.
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Kc103
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07-13-2004
| Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 11:56 am
That's great to hear. Thanks for posting the article. I wonder who the band will be? Maybe they've still been concentrating on Van Halen. Any other speculations? Who could it be?
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Landi
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07-29-2002
| Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 1:18 pm
i'm seeing Marty, JD and INXS NEXT WEEK! i got tickets ages ago! it's going to be AWESOME!
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Bonzacat
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07-08-2003
| Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 2:15 pm
landi - I'm seeing them the 27th - what day is your concert?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 2:29 pm
the 23rd! at Oakland's Paramount Theater
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Bonzacat
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07-08-2003
| Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 2:32 pm
Have a great time!!!! (I know you will!) 
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 12:05 pm
I may watch this.
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Enbwife
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:37 am
Landi & Bonzacat - please post here and let us know how the concert was. I wish I was going but it sold out at the closest city (Toronto) in record timing... I wish I was going!!
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:53 am
Landi & Bonz - throw a pair of panties at JD for me 
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Bonzacat
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07-08-2003
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:54 am

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Kc103
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07-13-2004
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 12:09 am
I'd love to hear how the concerts were too! I'm going to go see them on Feb. 4th.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 12:45 pm
Rock Star 2 will form a new group with “members from existing or defunct bands” The identity of the Rock Star 2 group has been revealed, sort of. Executive producer Mark Burnett told the London Free Press that the group will not be a name band such as Van Halen. Instead, as the paper reports, it “will be a brand new group comprised of members from existing or defunct bands.” Those exact people will be revealed later this week. This news explains last week’s rumor that Tommy Lee is participating in the show, perhaps as the new group’s drummer. And that also one of the possible directions the show would take in its second season. Burnett said this format will be even better than the previous season’s. “Last year was the year to prove ourselves and the integrity that we stood for to the rock community. We’re gonna really, really grow this year,” he said. He said the delay in announcing the group is because everyone has to sign “very complicated agreements. You have a TV agreement, record agreement, a tour agreement, and there are a few people in the band.” The show is currently casting; potential lead singers “were only told judges were open to hearing a range of singing styles, giving as examples John Mayer, Chester of Linkin Park, Joss Stone and Amy Lee of Evanescence,” the paper reports. Reality blurred
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 9:50 pm
Aw, Jan... you always beat me to the punch when it comes to breaking news! This is wonderful news... they're auditioning for the Travelling Wilburys, Part Deux. 
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Surfgirl
Member
10-11-2003
| Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 4:24 am
I loved the first Rock Star, and I am sure this season( hopefully) we be just as good.. but I was really hoping it was Van Halen. It would of been great to see them on top again. Well, maybe next time...
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 11:19 am
Apparently Tommy Lee will definitely be one of the band members
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 6:24 pm
I was at Myrtle Beach, SC the other week and wished I had my camera with me. There were several billboards advertising the local Legends Theatre with 10 foot tall JDs as Elvis on them. I guess the contract he signed with Legends allows them to use his likeness for years to come. He was gorgeous as Elvis.
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Producerchic
Member
06-29-2004
| Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 11:56 pm
I read also that unlike AI, Rock Star is letting finalists from last year come back for another shot... and Suzie is one of those returning...
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 9:23 am
Tommy Lee, guitarists from Metallica, Guns ‘n’ Roses will form new Rock Star 2 group Supernova As promised earlier in the week, when Rock Star 2’s new format was revealed, the rockers involved have been announced. Along with Tommy Lee, who we already knew was participating, “guitarists Jason Newsted (Metallica) and Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses), are forming a new band called Supernova,” Variety reports. Yes, Supernova. In addition, the show “has signed songwriter-performer Butch Walker to produce Supernova’s first album, to be released just before the new band hits the road in 2007,” Variety says. Besides hosting the show with Brooke Burke, Dave Navarro says he’ll have “[f]riends of mine, like Slash, Macy Gray, Moby and Rob Zombie, … join us and throw in their two cents about who should stay and who should go.” LINK
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