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When confronted with a mega-hit like Fox?s ?American Idol,? television executives at competing networks typically respond in the same way: they try to copy it. But NBC has decided to jump into the already-crowded music competition fray in a slightly different fashion-by extending the concept to the Internet. This week the once Must-See-TV network announced plans to produce ?StarTomorrow,? an Internet series that will let audiences select the country?s next big band or singing group using their computers. If all goes as planned, ?StarTomorrow,? which will debut early this summer...
...online process for ?StarTomorrow? is, in many ways, similar to that of "Idol" and its imitators. A new episode will be downloaded each week consisting of about 20 auditioning bands, and users will then be able to vote on which ones they think deserve to go to the next round. They can also link to the groups? backstories and listen to what music industry executives and other celebrity musicians think of the performances. The winner will be signed to the Casablanca label, a division of-you guessed it-NBC's sister company, Universal Music Group, run by Tommy Mottola...
...idea for ?StarTomorrow? was hatched in NBC?s broadcast department seven months ago, when Mottola and the producers of ?The Biggest Loser? pitched the idea as a reality show for the TV network. Gaspin felt the "Idol" genre was already too crowded, but decided-when he started his new job on NBC?s digital end-that it might stand a better chance on the Net. For one thing, it makes economic sense...
...argue with. According to the show, nearly half a million people have auditioned so far. But if the auditions have become the closest thing America has to a national-service program and yet so much of the show is devoted to the awfulness of the applicants, then American Idol's message is simple and unambiguous: America, you stink...
...offensive," says an Ono spokesman. "The filmmakers are fulfilling an assassin's dream." Leto, shown here clutching copies of Catcher in the Rye and Double Fantasy, as Chapman did the day he shot Lennon in 1980, co-stars with Lindsay Lohan as a Lennon fan. And yes, the teen idol has packed on the poundage, George Clooney-style, to portray the deranged loner. Perhaps he has seen what a little potbelly can do for a heartthrob's career...