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Scorpiomoon
Member
06-06-2002
| Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 6:12 pm
Press release for Canadian Idol III CTV Announces Third Season of Canadian Idol Toronto, ON (December 9, 2004) - Canada's summertime obsession is back - and bigger than ever. As revealed by Kalan Porter last night on etalk Daily, CTV will begin production in the New Year on a blockbuster third season of the show viewers can't get enough of: Canadian Idol. And with an expanded audition tour for Season Three, Canadian Idol will travel to previously untapped cities and provinces in the search for Canada's next undiscovered singing sensation. Canadian Idol is based on FremantleMedia and 19TV's smash-hit international format Idols. CTV and producing partners Insight Productions are currently finalizing details for a national audition tour to begin in February, 2005. Last season's nine-city audition tour will be expanded to include even more stops and will travel to new areas of the country. Details will be announced soon. Musical magistrates Farley Flex, Jake Gold, Sass Jordan and Zack Werner are back to judge the thousands of Idol hopefuls expected to try out from coast to coast. Series host Ben Mulroney and comedic correspondent Jon Dore also return to join them on the cross-country adventure. "Canadian Idol is unique because it connects viewers from every part of the nation and from all walks of life," said Susanne Boyce, CTV's President of Programming and Chair of the CTV Media Group. "Whether you are watching on one coast or the other, Canadian Idol captivates Canadians because it reflects the intrinsic flavour of our country." Viewers flocked to Season Two of Canadian Idol, propelling the series beyond the already phenomenal success of Season One. By the end of Season Two, ratings had increased by 14 per cent. The series finished with an average audience of 2.2 million, with over four million viewers watching when Kalan Porter was crowned the new Canadian Idol on Sept. 16.* Indeed, by the end of the 34-episode run, Canadian Idol had been viewed by over 17 million Canadians, representing 64 per cent of the English population. And with 32 million votes cast, voting exploded by 57 percent in the second season, including an extraordinary 3.6 million votes received after the final showdown between Porter and Theresa Sokyrka. Numbers aside, the second season of Canadian Idol hit its stride as what the Toronto Star calls a "cultural juggernaut." Recognized as one of the most innovative Idols formats in the world, Canadian Idol continued to surprise viewers with its unique Canadian approach. When Canadian Idol competitors accompanied themselves on instruments for Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy, they achieved a world first for Idols formats around the globe. The second season kicked off February 13 in Ottawa and took producers across the country this winter and spring on a nine-city tour to Montreal, Halifax, St. John's, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and Vancouver. In May, 155 "gold ticket" winners from across the country journeyed to Toronto with the hope of making it to the coveted "Top 32." In June, the Top 32 took to the stage and viewers took to the phones, reducing the 32 semi-finalists to a diverse group of 10 competitors. As the show progressed through the summer, these 10, formerly unknown, amateur singers would become household names. In the end, an 18-year-old ranch hand from Medicine Hat, Alberta would triumph as Canada's second Canadian Idol. Porter went on to release Awake in a Dream, the ballad that has become eight times platinum and remained on the top of Canada's Single's Chart for over two months. It was the biggest-selling single debut ever for a Canadian artist. His debut full-length CD, 219 Days, debuted at Number Four on Nielsen's SoundScan chart last week - one of the busiest release weeks of the year - just behind U2, Shania Twain and Eminem. It remains at Number Four for the second week in a row. Porter is currently rehearsing for a cross-country tour to begin in February, 2005. CTV will re-broadcast the two-hour season finale of Canadian Idol on New Year's Day, Saturday, Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. ET (check local listings).
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Kellirippa
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 10:07 pm
Thanks Scorpio! Glad to see Ben's coming back...
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 8:03 pm
Yaa! Looking forward to it.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 8:03 am
Starts May 30th
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Scorpiomoon
Member
06-06-2002
| Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 12:49 am
What??? May 30th? Man, time flies!
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Alegria
Member
07-05-2002
| Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 12:39 pm
Yeah! Nice to have CI to look forward to as AI is wrapping up.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, May 16, 2005 - 7:04 pm
yes it is, I'll run a game again this year once the finalist are chosen if anyone is interested...
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 8:57 am
I'm in Jasper!! Thanks  
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Kellirippa
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 9:08 pm
I'll give it a go, I can't do worse than I did last summer!
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 6:20 am
(from my TV guide this week) Where'd the final 187 come from : Nfld 7 NS 6 NB 8 Que. 29 ON 63 Man 17 Sask 13 Alta 26 BC 18 city with most gold tickets - Toronto with 37
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Tatyana
Member
08-06-2001
| Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 4:05 pm
me too
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Scorpiomoon
Member
06-06-2002
| Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 3:45 am
I'm in. And I am going to try to not do as badly as last time. It's AWWWN! 
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 6:44 am
I'll join in again as well (now if I can just remember to play every week ) 
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 11:19 am
Hey,Jimmer, if you use the "Check all new messages" link at the right hand top corner of the page, every time you come to TVCH, you will know whenever someone posts in CI and that way you can remember to play!!!  
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 11:30 am
I use the "Check all new messages" link all the time and I still forget! Thanks for the suggestion though Jan. It's fun to play and I appreciate Jasper's efforts organizing it. I’m looking forward to another great CI season but they may have trouble topping last year.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 11:34 am
but they have 187 to choose from this year so there has to be 10 really good ones in that group, I hope!!!
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Luvmom
Member
10-17-2000
| Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 5:10 pm
i'll join too jasper.Can't wait for this season to start.I hope it is as interesting as last season.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 6:43 am
Next Monday! Just as everything is winding up we get something new! Lucky us! I look forward to doing the game, it was fun last year, hopefully we get some good candidates to run some quirky questions on. I'll try to think up some sort of bonus round to do when they have weeded down to the final 30 (or whatever) when we can start voting for our top 10 (or 12 if they change the format). This year they upped the age limit to what on AI, I know both Bo and Constantine were turning 30. Wasn't CI always higher?
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 9:54 am
Jasper I'd like to join the game as well. Thanks for doing it.
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Scrapforme
Member
01-16-2004
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 5:29 am
Jasper, I'll join the game this year again. And thanks for all the work you put into this.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 7:08 pm
Boy we are getting a triple dose next week, Mon, Tues and Wednesday night to start off with! Then I think it settles in to a regular two times a week.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Friday, May 27, 2005 - 5:40 am
Does CI show on any American satellite channels?
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 27, 2005 - 11:35 am
I don't know the answer to that Beachcomber as most of us who have watched CI, in the past, live in Canada - I know some Americans in border states do get Canadian channels but I guess that won't help you in North Carolina! Do the satellite servers in your area have a website? Maybe the websites will list what they carry?? I am sorry I can't be more helpful 
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Friday, May 27, 2005 - 12:09 pm
Thanks Jan, I am just dreading my annual AI withdrawal and was hoping that TPTB would show CI in America. I am sure it would get big numbers here even if we can't vote.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 27, 2005 - 12:27 pm
Well it is true that American Idol gets huge numbers in Canada, Beach, even though we can't vote   
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