List of reality television show franchises
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Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 shows that have become franchises
Media franchise
A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters, setting and trademarks of an original work of media , such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. Generally, a whole series is made in a particular medium, along with merchandising and endorsements...

 with production of local versions around the world.

Big Brother
Big Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...

Original name: Big Brother

Origin: The Netherlands

Date started: September 16, 1999

Creator: John de Mol

First network to broadcast: Veronica

First country to adapt: Germany

Country with the most seasons: Spain
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
African Continent
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

Big Brother Africa
Big Brother Africa
Big Brother Africa is a television program produced by Endemol. The show initially involved 12 countries within Africa with two countries being added in season 4...

M-Net Mark Pilgrim May 25, 2003
 Albania Big Brother
Big Brother (Albania)
Big Brother Albania is a reality show on Top Channel .-Series Details:...

Top Channel
Top Channel
Top Channel is a commercial television station with national frequency coverage in Tirana, Albania founded by media mogul Dritan Hoxha, and part of Top Media Group. Since September 2003, Top Channel became present on satellite broadcasting all over Europe through DigitAlb, and North America through...

Arbana Osmani February 23, 2008
Arab World
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

بيغ براذر الرئيس
Big Brother Al-Rais
Big Brother: The Boss
Big Brother: The Boss was a 2004 Arabic-language television show, based on the worldwide hit Big Brother, in which contestants live in a specially built house while competing for a prize...

MBC2 Razan Maghrebi February 21, 2004
 Argentina Gran Hermano
Gran Hermano (Argentina)
Gran Hermano is a reality television program produced by Endemol hosted by Jorge Rial, taking over Soledad Silveyra after hosting the first three seasons. It's Argentina's version of the Big Brother franchise on Telefe. It first aired on March 10, 2001...

Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...

Soledad Silveyra
Jorge Rial
March 10, 2001
 Australia Big Brother Australia Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 (2001-2008)
Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

 (2012-)
Gretel Killeen
Gretel Killeen
Gretel Killeen is an Australian journalist and author. Killeen is well known for being the primary host of Big Brother Australia from its inception in 2001 until the 2007 season ....


Kyle & Jackie O
April 22, 2001
 Belgium Big Brother Kanaal Twee
Kanaal Twee
-Flemish productions, currently off-air:*Big Brother & its BV version*Dennis *De Heren Maken de Man *De Raf & Ronny Show...

Walter Grootaers September 3, 2000
 Brazil Big Brother Brasil Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

Marisa Orth
Pedro Bial
January 29, 2002
 Kingdom of Bulgaria Big Brother NTV Niki Kunchev & Evilana Pavlova October 18, 2004
 Canada Loft Story
Loft Story (Canada)
Loft Story was a Canadian French television series broadcast on the TQS television network, and was an adaptation of the show Loft Story in France, which itself was an adaptation of the Big Brother franchise...

TQS
Tqs
V is a Canadian privately-owned French-language television network. The network has owned-and-operated and affiliated stations existing throughout Quebec, although it can also be seen over-the-air in some bordering markets in the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick...

Renée-Claude Brazeau & Philippe Fehmiu (2003); Isabelle Maréchal (2006); Virginie Coossa (2006–07); Marie Plourde (2006–08); Kim Rusk (2008) October 5, 2003
Big Brother
Big Brother (Québec)
Big Brother 2010 is the first season with the name "Big Brother" and seventh season of the Big Brother franchise on V in the Canadian province of Quebec...

March 14, 2010
 Colombia Gran Hermano Canal Caracol Adriana Arango & Carlos Calero July 27, 2003
 Independent State of Croatia Big Brother
Big Brother (Croatia)
Big Brother is a reality show shown on RTL Televizija in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run...

RTL
RTL Group
RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...

Antonija Blaće September 18, 2004
 Czech Republic Big Brother
Big Brother (Czech Republic)
Big Brother was a reality TV series shown in the Czech Republic, TV Nova. It is also known as Velký Bratr. The Czech version is based on the popular Big Brother international television series produced by Endemol where a number of contestants, usually 14 or more, live in an isolated house for...

TV NOVA Eva Aichmajerová
Lejla Abbasová
Leoš Mareš
August 28, 2005
 Denmark Big Brother
Big Brother (Denmark)
Big Brother Denmark is a television series produced by Endemol. It has had a total of 5 seasons spreading over 332 days with no plans on having another series. The first season aired in 2001...

TV Danmark Lisbeth Janniche January 28, 2001
 Ecuador Gran Hermano Ecuavisa
Ecuavisa
Ecuavisa is one of the major television networks in the Republic of Ecuador.Since the start of their transmissions, on March 1st of 1967, the channel is one of the major networks and biggest of Ecuador, It broadcasts on channel 8 in Quito and on channel 2 in Guayaquil...

Totty Rodríguez March 16, 2003
 Finland Big Brother Suomi SubTV Vappu Pimiä & Janne Kataja August 28, 2005
 Early Modern France Loft Story M6 Benjamin Castaldi April 26, 2001
 Germany Big Brother
Big Brother Germany
Big Brother Germany is a reality show on RTL II . It was the first adapted version based on the original Dutch Big Brother series by Endemol in 1999.-Big Brother Germany summary:...

RTL II
RTL II
RTL II is a privately owned, commercial, general-interest German television channel.It was founded as a second-generation commercial broadcaster in 1993. It quickly became infamous for its perceived "trash programming", comprising lots of soft porn as well as shows such as Peep and many...

Alexandra Bechtel February 28, 2000
 Greece Big Brother
Big Brother (Greece)
Season 1 premiered on ANT1 on September 10, 2001 for a duration of 113 days. The season ended on December 31, 2001. The season used the traditional Big Brother format. This season is considered the most successful season out of the three to follow on ANT1, with massive viewership. Its finale on New...

ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

Andreas Mikroutsikos September 10, 2001
 Hungary Big Brother: Nagy Testvér
Big Brother (Hungary)
Big Brother is a reality show shown on TV2 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run...

TV2
TV2 (Hungary)
TV2 is a Hungarian commercial television channel operating since 1997, providing a large variety of programming. It is owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG...

Claudia Liptai & Attila Till September 1, 2002
Big Brother VIP 2003
 India Bigg Boss Colors Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty is an Indian film actress and model. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar , she has appeared in nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading role being in the 1994 Aag. Although she has been through years of decline during her career, Shetty has been...

August 18, 2008
 Israel האח הגדול
HaAh HaGadol
HaAh HaGadol
HaAh HaGadol is the Israeli version of Big Brother reality-television series, hosted by Erez Tal and Assi Azar.Earlier versions of the same series include:* HaAh HaGadol 1, the first season from 2008....

Channel 2
Channel 2 (Israel)
Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on...

Erez Tal
Erez Tal
Erez Tal is an Israeli broadcasting personality.-Biography:His first hit program was "Ma Yesh" , broadcast on Galatz, Israel's Army radio, where he started his partnership with Avri Gilad....


Assi Azar
Assi Azar
Assi Azar is an Israeli television personality, who co-hosts Big Brother - Israel with Erez Tal.His first program was online TV show KIK. In 2004-2005 Assi co-hosted TV youth show Exit...

September 1, 2008
VIP האח הגדול
HaAh HaGadol VIP
HaAh HaGadol VIP
HaAh HaGadol VIP started on March 1, 2009 and ended on March 31, 2009. The VIP season was the second season of the Israeli version of the Big Brother series and the first season of the VIP series. The show follows the main Big Brother rules, but with some changes...

March 1, 2009
 Italy Grande Fratello Canale 5
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....

Alessia Marcuzzi
Alessia Marcuzzi
Alessia Marcuzzi is an Italian television host and actress.-Biography:Born in Rome, she has debuted in Telemontecarlo hosting Attenti al dettaglio and then Qui si gioca, with Josè Altafini, in the 1991/1992 season. In march 1992 also presented the kids show Amici mostri...

September 14, 2000
 Mexico Big Brother México Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

Adela Micha (2002–2003); Verónica Castro (2003–2005) March 2, 2002
Big Brother VIP Víctor Trujillo
Víctor Trujillo
Víctor Trujillo , is a Mexican host, comedian and political commentator. He is best known for his character Brozo el Payaso Tenebroso , a green-haired, unkempt, obscene and aggressive clown ....


Verónica Castro
2002
Big Brother: El Reencuentro TBA 2010
 Netherlands Big Brother
Big Brother (Netherlands)
The Dutch Big Brother is the original version of the TV reality shows. It created the format in which contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of a prize at the end...

Talpa Bridget Maasland September 16, 1999
 Nigeria Big Brother Nigeria M-Net
M-Net
M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....

Olisa Adibua & Michelle Dede March 5, 2006
 Norway Big Brother Norge
Big Brother Norway
Big Brother Norge was the Norwegian version of reality TV show Big Brother and was aired from 2001 to 2003 on TV Norge for three moderately successful seasons. In 2005 and 2006 it was merged with the Swedish version of the show...

TVN Trygve Rønningen February 24, 2001
     
Pacific region
Gran Hermano del Pacífico RTI
RTI Colombia
RTI Colombia, also known as Radio Televisión Interamericana , is a Colombian television production company. It aired 14.5 per week of programming each week in 1993....

 (Colombia), RedTV(Chile), Red Telesistema (Ecuador), ATV
ATV (Peruvian Network)
ATV or Andina de Radiodifusión y Television shortly known as ATV, is a Peruvian television network founded in 1969, after unsuccessful attempt on early 1970s and after the political turmoil in Peru the station was closed...

 (Perú)
Lorena Meritano (hostess), Janine Leal (co-hostess), Juan Francisco Escobar and Álvaro García (co-hosts) June 11, 2005
 Philippines Pinoy Big Brother
Pinoy Big Brother
Pinoy Big Brother is the Philippine version of the reality television show Big Brother . It follows the same premise as its many foreign counterparts around the world: twelve Philippine residents are forced to live with each other inside a house for about 3 months or at least 100 days...

ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

Willie Revillame
Willie Revillame
Willie Revillame is a television host, actor, and a recording artist in the Philippines.-Career:He is the host of TV5's primetime variety show Wil Time Bigtime...


Toni Gonzaga
Toni Gonzaga
Celestine Cruz Gonzaga , better known as Toni Gonzaga, is a Filipino singer, television host and actress. She started her career with GMA Network, then later moved to ABS-CBN Network...


Mariel Rodriguez
Mariel Rodríguez
Mariel Rodriguez-Padilla is a Filipino commercial model, endorser, TV host, former MTV VJ and actress. She first started as an MTV VJ. Currently, she co-hosts the noontime variety show Happy Yipee Yehey!...


Bianca Gonzalez
Bianca Gonzalez
Bianca Gonzalez is a Filipina TV host and model.-Education:Bianca Monica Malasmas Gonzalez graduated from high school at the De La Salle Santiago Zobel School and graduated with a degree of AB Communication Arts with a minor in Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University.-Writer:Her first job in...


Luis Manzano
Luis Manzano
Luis Philippe S. Manzano , also known by his nickname Lucky, is a Filipino actor, TV host, VJ and model. He is the son of award-winning actors Edu Manzano and Vilma Santos, from whom he inherited his Chinese features.Manzano started his career as a commercial model for clothing brand, HUMAN...

August 21, 2005
Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition
Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition
The first celebrity edition of Pinoy Big Brother, titled Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition is a special edition of the original show...

February 5, 2006
Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition
Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition
Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition began airing on April 23, 2006, three weeks after the end of the first Celebrity Edition. It ran for six weeks and closely resembled the original show, unlike the relatively short Teen Big Brother, its British counterpart...

April 23, 2006
 Poland Big Brother TVN / TV4 Andrzej Sołtysik; Martyna Wojciechowska March 3, 2001
 Portugal Big Brother TVI Teresa Guilherme September 3, 2000
 Kingdom of Romania Fratele Cel Mare Prima TV Virgil Ianțu March 16, 2003
 Russia большой брат TNT Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is a Lithuanian actress, who stars mostly in Russian movies.-Youth:Ingeborga Dapkunaite was born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR. Her father was a diplomat and her mother a meteorologist. For many years her parents worked in Moscow, and she only saw them on holidays...

May 10, 2005
   

Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

n peninsula
Big Brother Various networks Adam Alsing; Brita Møystad Engseth January 29, 2005
 Serbia Veliki Brat TV B92, Pink m, Pink BiH Marijana Mićić
Marijana Mićić
Marijana Mićić is a Serbian TV host, and occasional actress, best known as the host of Serbian Big Brother. She hosted a number of shows, most of them for Serbian production company Emotion. She also took part in the Serbian remake of The Simple Life, alongside Ana Mihajlovski.Sometimes other TV...

, Ana Mihaijlovski
September, 2006
 Slovakia Big Brother Súboj TV Markiza September 18, 2005
 Slovenia Big Brother Kanal A Nina Osenar March 17, 2007
 South Africa Big Brother South Africa M-Net Gerry Rantseli & Mark Pilgrim August 26, 2001
 Spain Gran Hermano Telecinco Mercedes Milá April 23, 2000
 Sweden Big Brother Sverige Kanal5 Viktoria Tolstoy September 4, 2000
 Switzerland Big Brother Schweiz TV3 Yves Schifferle September 3, 2000
 Thailand Big Brother Thailand iTV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

Saranyu Vonkarjun April 2, 2005
 United Kingdom Big Brother Channel 4 Davina McCall July 14, 2000
 United States Big Brother CBS Julie Chen July 5, 2000

Clash of the Choirs
Clash of the Choirs
Clash of the Choirs is a reality talent contest miniseries that debuted on NBC in the United States on December 17, 2007. There were four episodes scheduled in the “quick competition”...

Original name: Clash of the Choirs
Clash of the Choirs
Clash of the Choirs is a reality talent contest miniseries that debuted on NBC in the United States on December 17, 2007. There were four episodes scheduled in the “quick competition”...



Origin: Sweden

Date started: December 17, 2007
2007 in television
2007 in television may refer to:*2007 in American television*2007 in Australian television*2007 in British television*2007 in Canadian television*2007 in Japanese television...



Creator: Friday TV
Friday TV
Friday TV creates and distributes television formats. Friday TV also provides production and consulting services to television production companies and broadcasters worldwide.- History :...



First network to broadcast: NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...



First country to adapt: Sweden

Country with the most seasons: Sweden
Region/Country Local name Main presenter Network Year premiered
 United States Clash of the Choirs
Clash of the Choirs
Clash of the Choirs is a reality talent contest miniseries that debuted on NBC in the United States on December 17, 2007. There were four episodes scheduled in the “quick competition”...

Maria Menounos
Maria Menounos
Maria Menounos is a Greek-American actress, journalist, and television presenter known in America for her appearances as a correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.-Early life and beauty pageants:Menounos, a...

NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

2007
 Sweden Körslaget Gry Forssell
Gry Forssell
Gry Charlotta Forssell is a Swedish television host on TV4 and TV3 and radio talk-show host. She is the daughter of singer Tomas Forssell and niece to actor Johannes Brost.-Radio- and TV-shows :*Byhåla 2, SVT, 1992...

TV4 2008
 Norway Det store korslaget Øyvind Mund TV2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

2009
 Finland Kuorosota Kristiina Komulainen Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

2009
 Denmark AllStars Lisbeth Østergaard TV2
TV 2 (Denmark)
TV 2 is a publicly owned television station in Denmark based in Odense. The station began broadcasting on 1 October 1988, thereby ending the television monopoly previously exercised by the Danmarks Radio ....

2008
 Poland Bitwa na glosy Hubert Urbanski
Hubert Urbanski
Hubert Kirył Urbański is a Polish actor, journalist and presenter of TVN.Urbański studied at Warsaw XIX lyceum of Warsaw Insurgents , and then at the University of Warsaw, where he studied Hindi philosophy...

 & Piotr Kedzierski
TVP 2
TVP 2
TVP2 is a Polish public mainstream TV channel operated by TVP. Its varied line-up contains all kinds of programming although it focuses on entertainment: stand up comedy, comic shows, cabaret, and themed talk shows .-Polish soap operas:* M jak...

2010
 Spain La Batalla de los Coros Josep Lobató
Josep Lobató
Josep Lobató i Pérez is a Catalan radio and television presenter.He studied design and combined these studies with several courses of communications and show presenting....

Cuatro 2008
 Early Modern France La Bataille des Chorales Benjamin Castaldi
Benjamin Castaldi
Benjamin Castaldi is a French television personality of Italian origin and current host of Secret Story, the spinoff of Loft Story. And, La Ferme Célébrités....

TF1
TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

2009
 Latvia Koru Kari Lauris Reiniks
Lauris Reiniks
Lauris Reiniks is Latvian pop music singer, songwriter, television host and actor. Lauris was educated at the Jelgava Music college in Latvia and the University of Latvia, but acting skills have been honed in Los Angeles, California. He has released 7 solo albums...

TV3
TV3 Latvia
TV3 Latvia is a television channel targeted at a Latvian language audience owned by Modern Times Group . It was launched in 1998, but did not receive a terrestrial license until 2001...

2008
 Switzerland Kampf der Chöre Sven Epiney
Sven Epiney
Sven Epiney is a famous Swiss television host TV-moderator, radio moderator and editor, who works for SF DRS and DRS3 Television channels in Switzerland. He speaks German, French, English and Italian. He was the Swiss commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and...

SF 1
SF 1
SF 1 is a Swiss television channel run under the public SRG SSR idée suisse broadcasting group. It is the first of the three national German language channels in Switzerland ....

2010
 Turkey Korolar Çarpışıyor Behzat Uighur Show TV
Show TV
SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...

2009

Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

Original name: Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...



Origin: UK

Date started: May 15, 2004

First network to broadcast: BBC1

First country to adapt: Australia
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
 Australia Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...

Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

Daryl Somers
Daryl Somers
Daryl Paul Somers OAM , is an Australian television personality. The son of a dairy farmer and a cabaret singer, Somers rose to national fame as the host of the long-running comedy-variety program Hey Hey It's Saturday.-Early life:Somers, who has an Irish Catholic heritage, was educated at...

, Daniel MacPherson
Daniel MacPherson
Daniel Donald MacPherson is an Australian actor and television presenter, best known for his roles as; Joel Samuels on Neighbours, PC Cameron Tait on British police drama The Bill, and Detective Senior Constable Simon Joyner in City Homicide...

 & Sonia Kruger
Sonia Kruger
Sonia Melissa Kruger is an Australian television presenter. She is best known for co-hosting the popular Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, hosting 10 Years Younger in 10 Days and for the role of Tina Sparkle in the hit 1992 film Strictly Ballroom.-Early life:Born in Toowoomba,...

October 5, 2004
 Austria Dancing Stars ORF1
ORF1
ORF eins is an Austrian television channel. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955.ORF eins is one of four public TV channels in Austria. ORF eins broadcasts TV series and featured films, whereas ORF2 focuses on cultural programming and information. ORF Sport Plus is the...

Alfons Haider, Mirjam Weichselbraun
Mirjam Weichselbraun
Mirjam Weichselbraun is an Austrian television host.Her first experience in broadcasting was with the regional radio station Antenne Tirol in 1999 and she first appeared in front of the camera in 2001 on the culture program Das Magazin on the channel TV Tirol.In 2000, she was voted the BRAVO-Girl...

 & Klaus Eberhartinger
Klaus Eberhartinger
Klaus Eberhartinger is an Austrian singer and presenter.In Braunau am Inn, Eberhartinger grew up and graduated in 1968. He then stayed for a year in the United States of America, before he began medical studies in Graz. It was in Graz, where he met the sister of Thomas Spitzer, who had founded...

Autumn 2005
 Brazil Dança dos Famosos Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

Fausto Silva, "Faustão" 2006
 Kingdom of Bulgaria Dancing Stars
Dancing Stars
Dancing Stars is the Bulgarian adaptation of the BBC Worldwide format Dancing With The Stars. The first season of the show started on 22 September 2008 and was aired on bTV. The first season of the show was hosted by Radost Draganova and Todor Kolev...

Radost Draganova & Todor Kolev bTV September 22, 2008
 Chile El Baile en TVN Televisión Nacional de Chile
Televisión Nacional de Chile
TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...

Rafael Araneda
Rafael Araneda
Rafael Luis Domingo Araneda Maturana is a popular Chilean TV presenter, best known for his participation in the show Rojo Fama Contrafama as the host. Also he was the host of Estrellas en el Hielo, Sin Prejuicios, Rojo VIP, Noche de Juegos, El Baile en TVN...

 & Karen Doggenweiler
Karen Doggenweiler
Karen Sylvia Doggenweiler Lapuente is a popular Chilean journalist and TV presenter.Doggenweiler is the daughter of Félix Doggenweiler Heim, of Swiss-German descent and Silvia Lapuente, of Spanish-Aragonese descent. She is married to the Chilean politician Marco Enríquez-Ominami. The marriage...

October 16, 2006
 Mainland China (including  Hong Kong) Hunan Satellite Television
Hunan Satellite Television
Hunan Broadcasting System formerly known as Golden Eagle Broadcasting System , is China's second biggest television network after China Central Television . The television network is owned by the Hunan provincial government. The network is based in Changsha in Hunan and Xining in Qinghai...

, TVB Jade
TVB Jade
TVB Jade is a flagship TV channel in Hong Kong, established by Television Broadcasts Limited, and is one of the free-to-air Cantonese language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival ATV Home...

Autumn 2007
 Independent State of Croatia Ples sa zvijezdama HRT1
Croatian Radiotelevision
Croatian Radiotelevision is a Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite...

Barbara Kolar & Duško Čurlić December 2, 2006
 Czech Republic Když hvězdy tančí Česká televize
Ceská televize
Česká televize is the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting four channels.- Czechoslovak Television :Television in Czechoslovakia started to take its first steps before World War II. However, before visible results could be achieved, all activities were interrupted by...

Marek Eben
Marek Eben
Marek Eben is a Czech actor, singer, composer, writer and television host. He studied music and drama at the Prague Conservatory...

 & Tereza Kostková.
Winter 2006
 Denmark Vild med dans TV 2
TV 2 (Denmark)
TV 2 is a publicly owned television station in Denmark based in Odense. The station began broadcasting on 1 October 1988, thereby ending the television monopoly previously exercised by the Danmarks Radio ....

Spring 2005
 Estonia Tantsud tähtedega Kanal 2
Kanal 2
Kanal 2 is a privately owned Estonian television channel. Its literal name in English is "Channel 2".First broadcasts were aired on October 1, 1993.- Television series :Daytime* Victoria * Julia – Wege zum Glück ...

Mart Sander
Mart Sander
Martin Laurent Sander is an Estonian singer, actor, director, author and television host.-Life and career:...

 & Merle Liivak
Autumn 2006
 Finland Tanssii tähtien kanssa MTV3
MTV3
MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

Spring 2006
 Germany Let's Dance RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

.
Hape Kerkeling
Hape Kerkeling
Hans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling is a well-known German actor, presenter and comedian.-Career:At secondary school in Recklinghausen, Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band and published a record .Kerkeling started his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German...

 & Nazan Eckes
Nazan Eckes
Nazan Eckes is a German television personality of Turkish descent at the German television channel RTL.-Professional career:...

April 2006
 Hungary Szombat esti láz RTL Klub
RTL Klub
RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...

.
András Stohl
András Stohl
Stohl András is a Hungarian actor.-Career:Stohl graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest in 1990. He became a member of the Katona József Theatre in Budapest. In 2001 he became a freelancer, after the leadership of the theater decided that his work on television was irreconcilable...

 & Zsóka Kapocs
March 2006
 India Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa SET
Sony Entertainment Television (India)
This article is about the SET channel in India. For the Indian version broadcasted worldwide, see Sony Entertainment Television Asia.Sony Entertainment Television, or SET, is a Hindi-language based general entertainment television channel in India. It was launched in October 1996 and is owned by...

September 2006
 Israel Rokdim Im Kokhavim Channel 2
Channel 2 (Israel)
Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on...

Avi Kushnir & hila nachshon 2005
 Italy Ballando con le Stelle Rai Uno
Rai Uno
Rai 1 is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Rai Tv from 1954 to 1961, called Programma Nazionale from 1961 to 1979, after called Rete 1 from 1979 to 1982, then called Rai Uno from 1982 to...

Milly Carlucci
Milly Carlucci
Camilla Patrizia "Milly" Carlucci is an Italian television presenter, actress and singer. Carlucci played the role of Urania in the 1985 film The Adventures of Hercules. In 1996 she became a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. Since 2005 she has been the sole host of the Italian version of Strictly...

Autumn 2004
 Japan Shall We Dance? NTV
Nippon Television
is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...

 Malaysia Malam Sehati Berdansa November 10, 2007
 Netherlands Dancing with the Stars RTL4 Summer 2005
 New Zealand Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a New Zealand television series based on the British series Strictly Come Dancing. The show introduces eight local celebrities paired with professional ballroom danceers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing...

TVNZ Jason Gunn
Jason Gunn
Jason Gunn is a New Zealand television personality. He is now best known as the main host of the hit New Zealand entertainment television show, Dancing with the Stars, Wheel of Fortune, and The Rich List.- Early career :...

 & Candy Lane
Candy Lane
Candy Lane is an award-winning New Zealand Choregrapher, Dancer, Television presenter, Fashion Designer wife and mother of two. She is well known to New Zealand audiences for being the Co-host on Dancing with the Stars ., TVNZ, Retrieved October 26, 2010-Dancing With The Stars:Since the show's...

May 1, 2005
 Norway Skal vi danse? TV 2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

Winter 2006
 Poland Taniec z Gwiazdami
Taniec z Gwiazdami
Taniec z gwiazdami is a Polish light entertainment reality television series broadcast by TVN. It is the Polish version of the BBC's popular Dancing with the Stars / Strictly Come Dancing franchise which has been sold to more than 30 countries worldwide.The 1st season of Taniec z gwiazdami aired...

TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

Magda Mołek, Hubert Urbański
Hubert Urbanski
Hubert Kirył Urbański is a Polish actor, journalist and presenter of TVN.Urbański studied at Warsaw XIX lyceum of Warsaw Insurgents , and then at the University of Warsaw, where he studied Hindi philosophy...

, Katarzyna Skrzynecka
Katarzyna Skrzynecka
Katarzyna Skrzynecka is a Polish actress. She appeared in the comedy television series Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi in 2003.-References:...

 & Piotr Gąsowski
Piotr Gąsowski
Piotr Gąsowski is a Polish actor, comedian and presenter. He appeared in the television series Aby do świtu... in 1992.-References:...

Spring 2005
 Portugal Dança Comigo RTP1 Catarina Furtado
Catarina Furtado
Catarina Furtado is a Portuguese television presenter, actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. Catarina was born in Lisbon in 1972 and is daughter of RTP journalist Joaquim Furtado...

 & Silvia Alberto
 Kingdom of Romania Dansez pentru tine ProTV Ştefan Bănică, Jr.
Stefan Banica, Jr.
Ștefan Bănică, Jr. is a Romanian entertainer, the son of actor Ștefan Bănică. In his early career he starred in a couple of successful romantic films ....

 & Iulia Vântur
 Russia Танцы со звездами 2005
 Serbia Плесом до снова RTV Pink
RTV Pink
RTV Pink or Radio-Television Pink is a popular, privately-owned, national TV network in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. TV Pink has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming...

October 24, 2007
 Slovakia Let's Dance TV Markiza Adela Banasova & Martin "Pyco" Rausch Auumn 2006
 South Korea Dancing with the Stars MBC
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC (Hangul : 문화방송주식회사, Munhwa Bangsong Jushikoesa) is one of four major national South Korean television and radio networks. Munhwa is the Korean word for "culture". Its flagship terrestrial television...

June 10, 2011
 Sri Lanka Sirasa Dancing Stars
Sirasa Dancing Stars
Sirasa Dancing Stars is a Sri Lankan reality dance show broadcast by Sirasa TV. It went on air on February 9, 2008. It won the award for the most popular program in Sri Lanka earlier this year. It's yet another creation of Mr...

Sirasa TV
Sirasa TV
Sirasa TV is an analogue terrestrial television network in Sri Lanka. It is the sister channel of 'Channel 1 MTV' which was established in 1992. Sirasa TV was founded in 1998 to similar itself to their Radio network Sirasa FM. Sirasa TV is owned by the Sri Lankan business conglomerate The Capital...

Nirosha Perera & Suraj Mapa February 9, 2008
 Sweden Let's Dance TV4 Agneta Sjödin
Agneta Sjödin
Agneta Sjödin is a Swedish presenter and TV-personality on the Swedish television channel TV4. Hosted the first two seasons of the popular show Let's Dance on TV4, along with David Hellenius....

 & David Hellenius
David Hellenius
David Hellenius is a Swedish comedian and television presenter, often co-operating with Peter Magnusson.Hellenius started his television carrier at ZTV. In 2004, he led the first season of the Swedish Idol series, "Idol 2004", on TV4 with Peter Magnusson. Hellenius and Magnusson were later joined...

January 2006
 Turkey Bak Kim Dans Ediyor Show TV
Show TV
SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...

Şebnem Dönmez
Sebnem Dönmez
Şebnem Dönmez is a Turkish movie, television series actress and host of television shows.Originally a model, she debutted in 1992 at the television scene taking part in a motorsports show of TRT, at that time Turkey's only channel...

April 6, 2007
 Ukraine Танці з зірками 1+1 Yuriy Horbunov & Tina Karol
Tina Karol
Tina Karol , born Tatiana Grigorievna Liberman , is a Ukrainian singer. Karol represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006.- Biography :...

September 2006
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...

BBC1 Bruce Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, CBE , commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality...

 & Tess Daly
Tess Daly
Helen Elizabeth "Tess" Daly is an English television presenter. She is married to the presenter Vernon Kay.-Early life:Daly was born in Derbyshire to Vivian , who died of emphysema, and Sylvia Daly...

May 15, 2004
 United States Dancing with the Stars ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

Tom Bergeron
Tom Bergeron
Tom Bergeron is an American television personality and game show host, best known as the host of the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars and host of America's Funniest Home Videos . He was also host of Hollywood Squares and a fill-in host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...

 & Samantha Harris
June 1, 2005
Mira Quien Baila
Mira Quien Baila (U.S.)
¡Mira Quien Baila! is a reality show airing on Univision in the United States. The show is the American/Spanish language version of the show from Spain's TVE TV Espanola's show of the same name and a spin-off of Come Dancing in England, a series that dated back to 1949.During this first season of...

Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

Javier Poza

Chiquinquirá Delgado
Chiquinquirá Delgado
María Chiquinquirá Delgado Díaz is a TV host, model, and actress. She is currently the host of ¡Despierta América!, the morning show on the Univision network in the United States...

September 12, 2010
 Vietnam Bước nhảy hoàn vũ
Bước nhảy hoàn vũ
Bước nhảy hoàn vũ is a reality show produced by Vietnam Television and Cát Tiên Sa Production. The show originates from the BBC series Strictly Come Dancing and is a part of the international Dancing with the Stars franchise. The first season was set to air from April 11 to June 20, 2010 with 8...

VTV3
Vietnam Television
Vietnam Television, or VTV, is the national television broadcaster for Vietnam. Like all media of Vietnam, its programming is directly controlled by the government.-History:...

Thanh Bạch & Thanh Thảo April 11, 2010
 Dominican Republic and  Puerto Rico ¿Quien Baila Mejor? Autumn 2007
         

       

World
Dancing with the Stars World Championship 2007

Expedition Robinson
Expedition Robinson
Sources-External links:* *...

/Survivor
Survivor (TV series)
Survivor is a reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other tribe...

  • Original name: Expedition Robinson
  • Origin: Sweden
  • Date started: September 1997
  • Creator: Charlie Parsons
    Charlie Parsons
    Charlie Parsons is a British television producer who created a number of notable television shows including Survivor. He also created The Big Breakfast and The Word....

  • First network to broadcast: SVT
    Sveriges Television
    Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

  • First country to adapt: U.S.

Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
African Continent Survivor Africa: Panama
 Argentina Expedición Robinson Canal 13
Canal 13 (Argentina)
El Trece is an Argentine television network and the flagship station of the same network, located in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires.- Foundation :...

Julián Weich
 Australia Australian Survivor
Australian Survivor
Australian Survivor was a television series based on the popular reality show Survivor. The series was filmed in November and December 2001 and aired weekly from 13 February - 15 May 2002 on Australia's Nine Network...

Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

Lincoln Howes February 13, 2002
 Belgium &  Netherlands Expeditie Robinson
 Brazil No Limite Rede Globo Zeca Camargo
 Kingdom of Bulgaria Survivor BG
Survivor BG
Survivor BG is the Bulgarian version of the reality show Survivor, broadcast and produced by bTV.-Season 1:The show's first season was filmed on a deserted island in the Caribbean off the coast of the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2006 by an international Bulgarian-Argentine team...

bTV Kamen Vodenicharov September 20, 2006
 Chile Expedición Robinson, la isla VIP Canal 13
Canal 13 (Chile)
Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...

Sergio Lagos July 19, 2006
 Colombia Expedición Róbinson Canal Caracol
 Independent State of Croatia Survivor
 Czech Republic Trosečník TV Prima
TV Prima
TV Prima is a Czech private television station. Its channel is broadcast from Prague. Its current owner is FTV Prima, spol. s r. o., general manager Marek Singer....

Marek Vašut
 Denmark Robinson Ekspeditionen
 Ecuador Expedición Robinson
 Estonia Ekspeditsioon Robinson
 Finland Suomen Robinson Nelonen Jarmo Mäkinen
 Early Modern France Les Aventuriers de Koh-Lanta TF1 Denis Brognart
 Germany &
 Austria
Expedition Robinson
 Greece Expeditie Robinson
 Hungary Survivor - A sziget RTL Klub András Stohl
 Israel Survivor 10 Channel 10 Guy Zuaretz December 15, 2007
 Italy Survivor
Isola dei Famosi
Italia 1
Italia 1
Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...


Raidue
Benedetta Corbi - Pietro Suber
Simona Ventura
Simona Ventura
Simona Ventura is an Italian television presenter.-The Beginnings:Ventura started in TV on "Domani Sposi" with Giancarlo Magalli on Rai Uno....

 Japan Survivor Japan
Survivor (Japanese TV series)
was a Japanese version of the Survivor game show, broadcast on the Tokyo Broadcasting System on Tuesdays.Its hosts were Neptune as 'Presenter', and Munehiro Tokita, a voice actor, as 'Guide Staff'...

TBS TV
Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
has a 28-affiliate news network called JNN .TBS produced the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast in Indonesia , Germany , Britain , Spain , Italy , Finland Philippines , India and the United States has a 28-affiliate news network called JNN (Japan News Network).TBS...

Neptune
Neptune (Owarai)
is a three-man Japanese conte group consisting of two boke, , and - usually referred to as , and one tsukkomi, . Their trio name comes from the Kinnikuman character, Neptuneman.-History:...

March 2002
 Latvia Robinsoni
 Lithuania Expedition Robinson
Middle East Survivor
 Norway Robinson Ekspedisjonen
 Pakistan Mountain Dew Survivor
 Philippines Survivor Philippines
Survivor Philippines
The first season of Survivor Philippines premiered on September 15, 2008, and ended its run on December 12 of the same year. Auditions for this season were held in six Philippine cities in May 2008. From these auditions, 18 contestants were selected to participate on the show in June 2008...

GMA Network
GMA Network
GMA Network is a major commercial television & radio network in the Philippines. GMA Network is owned by GMA Network, Inc. a publicly listed company...

Paolo Bediones
Paolo Bediones
Paolo Bediones is a Filipino commercial model, television host, journalist, newscaster, and radio announcer.Bediones started his career as a commercial model, and later transitioned to television show hosting. He is best known for hosting GMA Network's Extra Challenge and Survivor Philippines...


Richard Gutierrez
Richard Gutiérrez
Richard Kristian Rama Gutierrez, popularly known as Richard Gutierrez , is a television actor and commercial model who works in Filipino productions.-Biography:Gutierrez is the son of Eduardo P...

September 15, 2008
 Poland Wyprawa Robinson TVN Hubert Urbański
 Portugal Survivor TVI Carlos Ribeiro
 Russia Posledniy Geroy Channel One Sergey Bodrov
 Serbia Survivor Panama Fox Televizija Andrija Milosevic October 27, 2008
 South Africa Survivor South Africa
Survivor South Africa
Survivor South Africa: Panama is the first season of the South African reality television show Survivor South Africa, a spin-off from the popular US reality television series Survivor, which itself was a spin-off from the Swedish Expedition Robinson...

M-Net Mark Bayly September 3, 2006
 Spain Supervivientes: Expedición Robinson
 Sweden Expedition Robinson
Expedition Robinson
Sources-External links:* *...

SVT Harald Treutiger May, 1997
 Switzerland Expedition Robinson
 Turkey Survivor Büyük Macera Show TV
Show TV
SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...

Acun Ilıcalı
Acun Ilicali
Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish television personality, producer and sport journalist. He is also the founder and head of Acun Medya.- Biography :...

 United Kingdom Survivor ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

Mark Austin May 21, 2001
 United States Survivor CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

Jeff Probst
Jeff Probst
Jeffrey Lee "Jeff" Probst is an American game show host, executive producer and a reporter. He is best known as the host of the U.S. version of the reality show Survivor.-Biography:...

May 31, 2000
 Venezuela Robinson: La Gran Aventura


Fear Factor
Fear Factor
Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare reality game show. The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland. When Endemol USA and NBC adapted it to the American market in 2001, they changed the name to Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of stunts for a...

Original name: Now or Neverland

Origin: The Netherlands

Date started: 1998

Creator: John de Mol

First network to broadcast: Veronica

First country to adapt: U.S.

Country with the most seasons: UK
Country Name Host Channel Premiere Jackpot
 Albania Fear Factor Vizion Plus
Vizion +
Vizion Plus is a satellite frequency, private television station founded in 1999 in Tirana, Albania, part of Edil-Al construction group and WAZ-Mediengruppe. Besides being found terrestrially throughout Albania, the station can be found in Europe through Tring Digital, North America on IPTV and...

Arab World
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

Fear Factor عامل الخوف Najla Badr MBC1
Middle East Broadcasting Center
The Middle East Broadcasting Center Group is the first private free-to-air satellite broadcasting company in the Arab World which was launched in London in 1991 and later moved to its headquarters in Dubai in 2002. MBC Group provides multiple channels of information, interaction and entertainment...

2004 50.000 SR
Saudi riyal
The Riyal is the currency of Saudi Arabia. It is abbreviated as ر.س or SR . It is subdivided into 100 Halalas . The Saudi Ghirsh is 5 Halalas.-History:...

 Australia Fear Factor Marc Yellin Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

AU$50.000
 Belgium Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

Walter Grootaers VTM
VTM
The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...

2005
 Brazil Hipertensão
Hipertensão (season 1)
Hipertensão was the first season of the Brazilian stunt/dare reality television show Hipertensão, which premiered April 14, 2002, with the season finale airing May 5, 2002 on the Rede Globo television network.-Overview:...

Zeca Camargo TV Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

April 14, 2002 – May 12, 2002 R$50.000
Hipertensão X
Hipertensão (season 2)
Hipertensão 2 is the second season the Brazilian stunt / dare reality television show Hipertensão, which premiered September 2, 2010, with the season finale airing on October 21, 2010 on the Rede Globo television network.The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by journalist Glenda...

September 2, 2010 R$500.000
 Kingdom of Bulgaria СТРАХ Nikolay Mladenov Nova TV March 1, 2009 15.000 лв
 Chile Fear Factor Chile Canal 13
Canal 13 (Chile)
Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...

November 13, 2010 CL$3.000.000
 Colombia Frente al miedo Juan Pablo Llano Caracol TV
Caracol TV
Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...

2005
 Independent State of Croatia Fear Factor Antonija Blaće RTL
RTL Televizija
RTL Televizija is a Croatian commercial broadcaster with national availability that has been broadcasting since April 30, 2004.RTL Televizija is 74% owned by the RTL Group....

 Egypt Fear Factor Extreme أرض الخوف Sally Chahin AlHayat TV April 2009 US$50.000
 Finland Pelkokerroin Aleksi Valavuori Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

September 13, 2008 €10.000
 Early Modern France Fear Factor Denis Brogniart TF1
TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

10 000 €
 Germany Fear Factor Sonja Zietlow
Sonja Zietlow
Sonja Zietlow is a German television presenter. She is most famous for her own tabloid talk show Sonja, which aired from 1997 to 2001 on Sat.1, and, more recently, as host of several RTL shows, most notably "Der Schwächste fliegt!", German adaptation of the hit BBC quiz show "The Weakest Link" in...

RTL 2004
 Greece Fear Factor Kostas Sommer
Kostas Sommer
Kostas Sommer is a Greek actor who has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows. In 2005, he appeared in the Hollywood film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo starring Rob Schneider as the Greek gigolo Assapopoulos Mariolis...

ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

June 2006
 Hungary A Rettegés Foka Kostas Sommer
Kostas Sommer
Kostas Sommer is a Greek actor who has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows. In 2005, he appeared in the Hollywood film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo starring Rob Schneider as the Greek gigolo Assapopoulos Mariolis...

RTL Klub
RTL Klub
RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...

2005
 India Fear Factor India
Fear Factor India
Fear Factor India is an Indian adaption of the popular reality show Fear Factor. The series premiered on Sony TV on March 10, 2006, and is presented by Indian television actor Mukul Dev...

Mukul Dev SET Asia
Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi
Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian stunt/dare reality game show based on Fear Factor. It was originally created by Endemol and the first episode aired on July 21, 2008 on Colors...

Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...

Colors July 21, 2008
 Indonesia Fear Factor Indonesia Agatsya Kandau RCTI
RCTI
RCTI is Indonesia's first privately owned television network and is based in West Jakarta. RCTI broadcasts Indonesian Idol as well as sinetron , films, news and current affairs, reality shows and religious programs...

Rp.50.000.000
' Fear Factor Malaysia Shamser Sidhu Ntv7Intv7 August 27, 2005 RM10.000
' Fear Factor: Factor Miedo Julio Bracho Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

MX$150.000
 Netherlands Now or Neverland
Fear Factor
Fabienne de Vries Veronica
Veronica (television channel)
Veronica is a commercial TV channel in the Netherlands, owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media . Other channels of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in the Netherlands are SBS6 and NET 5....

1998 €100.000
 Norway TV3
TV3 (Norway)
TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...

 Philippines Pinoy Fear Factor
Pinoy Fear Factor
Pinoy Fear Factor is a franchise reality show on ABS-CBN that started airing on November 10, 2008. It ran for 15 weeks, ending on February 20, 2009. The show is based on the Dutch reality game show Now or Neverland and is produced by Endemol. It is hosted by Filipino actor-host Ryan Agoncillo...

Ryan Agoncillo
Ryan Agoncillo
Kristoffer Lou Ryan Agoncillo , popularly known as Ryan Agoncillo, is a Filipino Film and Television actor, model, singer, photographer, and TV host.-Early life:Agoncillo was born on April 10, 1978...

ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

November 10, 2008 – February 20, 2009 P2.000.000
 Poland Fear Factor - Nieustraszeni Roman Polko
Roman Polko
Major General dr Roman Polko is a Polish Army officer, acting chief of Biuro Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego , former commander of "GROM", doctor of military science studies, speciality: management....

Polsat
Polsat
Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...

50.000zł
 Portugal Fear Factor - Desafio Total Leonor Poeiras
José Carlos Araújo
TVI 2004
 Kingdom of Romania Pariu cu Frica Fear Factor Pro TV
Pro TV
Launched in December 1995, Pro TV reaches almost 99% of Romania’s 21.5 million people and has 48% of its broadcast schedule comprising locally-produced programs...

April 6, 2008
 South Africa Fear Factor Thapelo Mokoena M-Net
M-Net
M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....


E.tv
R300.000
 Spain Factor Miedo Alonso Caparros Antena 3
Antena 3 (Spain)
Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....

2005
 Sweden Fear Factor Pablo Roberto TV4
 Turkey Fear Factor Türkiye
Fear Factor Extreme
Acun Ilıcalı
Asuman Krause
Asuman Krause
Asuman Krause is a German-born former model and singer of mixed Turkish and German-Dutch descent.Krause grew up in Germany until the end of middle school. Afterwards she decided to stay with her mother in Turkey...

Show TV
Show TV
SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...

2006
2010
TL100.000
 United Kingdom Fear Factor UK Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders (television carpenter)
Ed Sanders is an English carpenter and television personality. He learned carpentry to help keep himself employed between acting jobs.In 1999, he landed the role of Eddie Moliano in the Sky One series Dream Team...

Sky One
Sky One
Sky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...

2004 £20.000
 United States Fear Factor Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan
Joseph James "Joe" Rogan is an American comedian, video blogger, actor, writer, podcaster, and martial artist. He is best known for his work on NewsRadio, his work as color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and his hosting work on Fear Factor.-Acting:In 1994, Rogan co-starred on...

NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

June 11, 2001– September 12, 2006 US$50.000


Got Talent

Original name: America's Got Talent

Origin: United States

Date started: June 21, 2006

Creator: Simon Cowell

First network to broadcast: NBC

First country to adapt: France

Country with the most seasons: United States
Country Name Channel Premiere Host
 Albania Albanian's Got Talent Top Channel
Top Channel
Top Channel is a commercial television station with national frequency coverage in Tirana, Albania founded by media mogul Dritan Hoxha, and part of Top Media Group. Since September 2003, Top Channel became present on satellite broadcasting all over Europe through DigitAlb, and North America through...

August 25, 2010
Arab world
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

Arabs Got Talent MBC1 2010 TBA
 Argentina Talento Argentino Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...

July 27, 2008 Mariano Peluffo
Mariano Peluffo
Mariano Peluffo is an Argentine television presenter.He began his career as a producer in El Agujerito Sin Fin, a children's programme of Canal 13 in the 90s with Julian Weich....

 Armenia Թաքնված տաղանդ Shant TV
Shant TV
Shant TV is a private television broadcasting company in Armenia. Shant TV was founded by Arthur Yezekyan in Gyumri, the second largest city of Armenia, in 1994. In 2001 Shant TV moved to Yerevan, capital, and within 3 years gained high popularity and trust...

ԳՐԻԳՈՐ ԱՂԱԽԱՆՅԱՆ
 Australia Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show which premiered on 18 February 2007 on the Seven Network. The show was based on the Got Talent series format that originated in the United Kingdom with Simon Cowell...

Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

February 18, 2007 Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist...

 Belgium Supertalent in Vlaanderen VT4
VT4
VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...

March 15, 2007 Dré Steemans
Dré Steemans
Dré Steemans was a Belgian tv and radio host.-Career:Steemans debuted on 1 September 1985 in the radioshow Het Genootschap of Luk Saffloer, in which he started using his alter ego Felice Damiano...


Ann van Elsen
Ann Van Elsen
Ann Van Elsen is a model and TV personality from Mol, Antwerp in Belgium. She was crowned Miss Belgium in 2002.- Biography :...

 Kingdom of Bulgaria България търси талант
Bulgaria's Got Talent
Bulgaria Searches for a Talent is the Bulgarian version of the Got Talent series. The original title of the show in Bulgarian language is "България търси талант" . It launched on bTV on 1 March 2010. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for...

bTV March 1, 2010 Mariya Ignatova
Alexandra Raeva
 Chile Talento Chileno Chilevisión
Chilevisión
CHV, also known as Chilevisión, is the third oldest television station in Chile. Formerly called Teleonce and RTU , this TV station was owned by University of Chile, a Chilean state university...

September 27, 2010 Julián Elfenbein (2010)
Rafael Araneda
Rafael Araneda
Rafael Luis Domingo Araneda Maturana is a popular Chilean TV presenter, best known for his participation in the show Rojo Fama Contrafama as the host. Also he was the host of Estrellas en el Hielo, Sin Prejuicios, Rojo VIP, Noche de Juegos, El Baile en TVN...

 (2011-)
 Mainland China 中国达人秀
China's Got Talent
China's Got Talent is a British-owned Chinese reality television series on Dragon TV and a part of the Got Talent franchise, hosted by Cheng Lei. It is a talent show that features all different kinds of performances of all ages competing for performing contract with Fremantle Media and Sony Music...

DragonTV
DragonTV
Shanghai Dragon Television or Dragon TV is a provincial satellite TV station. It launch in October 1998 as 'Shanghai Television' but changed its name to Dragon Television on October 23, 2003...

July 25, 2010 Cheng Lei
Cheng Lei
Cheng Lei is a television host.Cheng Lei was a student in Shanghai Theater Academy at the 90s. After graduation,he was chosen as a host for Broken Brain by Shanghainese producer, Xiao Chen. He also worked on several interviews.Cheng's family has a long history of liver disease...

 Independent State of Croatia Supertalent
Supertalent
Supertalent is a talent show that is a Croatian license version of the British popular talent show Got Talent whose authors are Simon Cowell and Ken Warwick....

Nova TV September 25, 2009 Rene Bitorajac
Rene Bitorajac
Rene Bitorajac is a Croatian actor. He appeared in a number of Croatian and Bosnian films since the 1980s. Most notably, he starred in the 2001 Academy Award-winning Bosnian film No Man's Land...


Igor Mešin
 Czech Republic
 Slovakia
Česko Slovensko má talent   TV JOJ
TV JOJ
-About TV JOJ:It was launched on 2 March 2002 as a successor of the TV Global, which was broadcasting since March 2000. TV Joj was built by former head of Czech Republic channel TV Nova, Vladimír Železný, when he was at war with TV Nova’s U.S. investor Central European Media Enterprises...

 
  TV Prima
TV Prima
TV Prima is a Czech private television station. Its channel is broadcast from Prague. Its current owner is FTV Prima, spol. s r. o., general manager Marek Singer....

August 29, 2010 Martin "Pyco" Rausch
Jakub Prachař
 Denmark Talent DR1
DR1
DR1 is a Danish national television channel, produced by the public service broadcaster, DR. It was the first television station to be established in Denmark, and began broadcasting in 1951 – at first only for an hour a day three times a week....

August 15, 2008 Felix Schmidt
Mikkel Herforth (2008)
 Estonia Eesti talent
Eesti talent
Eesti Talent is the Estonian version of the Got Talent series. It was launched on TV3 on October 9, 2010. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of the show receives 250 000 kroons . It is hosted by singers...

TV3 (Estonia)
TV3 (Estonia)
TV3 is a commercial television channel targeted at an Estonian language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded in 1996 after two recent television stations, EVTV and RTV joined....

Autumn 2010 Eda-Ines Etti
Eda-Ines Etti
Eda-Ines Etti is a singer and celebrity in Estonia, also known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000. Under her abbreviated stage name Ines, she was Estonia's representative for the contest in Sweden. Her song "Once in a Lifetime" received fourth place in the contest...

& Tanel Padar
Tanel Padar
Tanel Padar is an Estonian singer. He is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999...

 Finland Talent Suomi Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

October 1, 2007 Susanna Laine
Martti Vannas
Jarkko Valtee
Osku Heiskanen
 Early Modern France Incroyable Talent
Incroyable Talent
La France a un incroyable talent , previously known as Incroyable Talent is a French television programme, based on the Got Talent series. It debuted on M6 on 2 November 2006, created by Alessandra Sublet....

M6 November 6, 2006 Alessandra Sublet
Sandrine Corman
Sandrine Corman
Sandrine Corman was Miss Belgium 1997 and represented her country at Miss World 1997 and Miss Universe 1998....


Alex Goude
Alex Goude
Alex Goude is a French journalist, television host, author and actor.-Career:He was a former footballer. He started as a journalist in video games including le Journal de Mickey, for which he is still working....

 Georgia (country) ნიჭიერი
Georgia's Got Talent!
Georgia's Got Talent! is the Georgian version of the Got Talent series. The original title of the show in Georgian language is "ნიჭიერი" . It launched on Rustavi 2 on February 1, 2010. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support...

Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company , better known as Rustavi 2, is the most successful private television broadcasting company in Georgia. The Rustavi, based in Tbilisi, was founded in 1994 in the town of Rustavi. It is a privately owned free to air terrestrial broadcaster that currently reaches around...

February 1, 2010 Tika Patsatsia
Tika Patsatsia
Tika Patsatsia is a Georgian model, singer, TV host. She was Miss Tbilisi, Miss Georgia and got third place in Miss Golden Globe).-Biography:...


Vano Tarkhnishvili
Vano Tarkhnishvili
Vano Tarkhnishvili is a Georgian actor, director and TV presenter.-Theatre parts:*Pygmalion*Bakula’s Pigs*Our Small City*National Hymn*Tartuffe-Movie parts:*Listen To Chopin*Delirium*Girls and Boys...

 Germany Das Supertalent
Das Supertalent
Das Supertalent is the German talent show and part of the internationally successful Got Talent franchise, presented by Marco Schreyl, who was joined by Daniel Hartwich from the second season onwards...

RTL Television
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

October 20, 2007 Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl is a German television and radio host.- Television career :In 1997, Schreyl began his television host career at MDR television...


Daniel Hartwich
 Greece Ελλάδα Έχεις Ταλέντο
Ellada Eheis Talento
Ellada Eheis Talento
Greece, You Have Talent is a Greek reality television series on the ANT1 television network and is part of the Got Talent multinational franchise. It has been one of the most successful Greek TV shows over the last five years. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians,...

ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

March 23, 2007 Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti is a Greek talk show and game show host since 2004, television actress, and former fashion model.-Filmography:*Ta Tsakalia: Ena koinoniko provlima, 1981 .... Athina Fotiadou*Garsoniera gia deka 1981...


Christos Ferentinos
 Hungary Csillag Születik
Csillag Születik
Csillag Születik is the Hungarian version of the Got Talent series. The title of the show after translation to English means A star is born. It launched on RTL Klub on October 20, 2007. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support...

RTL Klub
RTL Klub
RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...

October 20, 2007 Ördög Nóra
Stohl András
 India India's Got Talent
India's Got Talent
India's Got Talent is the Indian franchise of the Got Talent series, and is a cooperative effort between India's TV channel Colors and Britain's FremantleMedia. The first episode of India's Got Talent premiered on June 27, 2009. India's Got Talent follows the global Got Talent format, in which...

Colors June 27, 2009 Nikhil Chinappa
Ayushmann Khurrana
Ayushmann Khurrana
Ayushmann Khurrana : Former Radio Jockey and now a Video Jockey and Television Anchor and soon to become Actor, Ayushmann Khurrana began as a contestant of the reality show MTV Roadies Season 2 which catapulted him to fame and he moved on to become a VJ on MTV as well as anchoring popular shows and...


Roshni Chopra
Roshni Chopra
Roshni Chopra is an Indian actress, television presenter and the winner of NDTV Imagine's reality show, Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl.She is known for playing the role of Pia, the younger sister of protagonist Bani Walia in Ekta Kapoor's Kasamh Se on Zee TV. She was also the presenter of the pre and...

 Indonesia Indonesia's Got Talent
Indonesia's Got Talent
Indonesia's Got Talent is an Indonesian talent variety showed on Indosiar that began July 23, 2010. It is based on the Got Talent franchise, a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company...

Indosiar
Indosiar
Indosiar is a publicly owned national television station in Indonesia, and has been operating from West Jakarta since 1994. It was listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2004. Citibank Singapore has an 8.5 percent shareholding...

July 23, 2010 Tora Sudiro
Vincent Rompies
 Israel הדבר הגדול הבא
Hadavar Hagadol Haba
Reshet
Reshet
thumb|right|"Reshet" logoReshet is one of the two concessionaires running the Israeli commercial television channel, Arutz 2 since 1993. Reshet is considered one of the most successful television networks in Israel....

June 26, 2007 Noa Tishby
Noa Tishby
Noa Tohar Tishby is an Israeli actress, producer, model and singer, currently residing in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.-Career:In her homeland of Israel, Noa Tishby’s name is well known...

 Italy Italia's Got Talent
Italia's Got Talent
Italia's Got Talent is the Italian version of the international Got Talent series. The pilot episode was aired on December 12, 2009 on Canale 5. In that episode Carmen Masola's talent, now known throughout the world, was discovered. The first episode was seen by 5,3 million people.After this...

Canale 5
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....

December 12, 2009 Simone Annichiarico
Geppi Cucciari
 Lithuania Lietuvos talentai TV3 Lithuania
TV3 Lithuania
TV3 is a television channel owned by Modern Times Group and targeted at a Lithuanian-speaking audience. It was founded on May 7, 1992 and launched on April 11, 1993 as "Tele-3" before being renamed "TV3" in 1996....

September 27, 2009 Mindaugas Stasiulis
Džiugas Siaurusaitis
 Luxembourg Wanns de eppes kanns! RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg is the main television channel in Luxembourg, broadcasting in Luxembourgish.The small television market in Luxembourg led to a unique system in Europe: Luxembourg remains the only country in the world to run television stations in both the PAL and SECAM formats. Originally, both...

February 28, 2009 TBA
 Netherlands Holland's Got Talent SBS 6
RTL 4
RTL 4
RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. The station has three sister tv channels: RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8...

March 28, 2008 Gerard Joling
Gerard Joling
Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 80's and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics", "Love is in your Eyes", and his biggest hit, "No more boleros", a song that reached the top 10 in...


Robert ten Brink
Robert ten Brink
Robert ten Brink is a Dutch presenter and actor.He won the Golden TeleVizier-Ring in 1993 for All you need is love reality-TV.In 1997, he was chosen as Holland's most popular personality....

 New Zealand New Zealand's Got Talent
New Zealand's Got Talent
New Zealand's Got Talent was a New Zealand reality television show which premiered on 8 September 2008 on Prime Television New Zealand, New Zealand. The show is based on the Got Talent series format that originated with America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent...

Prime Television
Prime Television
PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...

September 8, 2008 Andrew Mulligan
Andrew Mulligan
Andrew Mulligan is a New Zealand television presenter. He co-hosts on Sky Television's PRIME TV channel at 6:30pm weekdays, The Crowd Goes Wild, with former New Zealand test cricketer Mark Richardson...


Jason Reev es
 Norway Norske Talenter
Norske Talenter
Norske Talenter is a Norwegian talent show with the same format as Britain's Got Talent. 16-year old singer Erlend Bratland won the first series and hip hop dance group Quick won the second series. Judges are music producer Jan Fredrik Karlsen, singer and actress Mia Gundersen and comedian/actor...

TV 2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

February 22, 2008 Marte Stokstad
Sturla Berg-Johansen
Sturla Berg-Johansen
Sturla Berg-Johansen is a Norwegian stand-up comedian, imitator, actor and television host.He grew up in Tønsberg where he started his acting at Tønsberg Amateur Theater. He worked at a traveling agency at the end of the 1980s, and he was, among other things, in charge of entertainment for...


Pia Lykke
 Philippines Pilipinas Got Talent
Pilipinas Got Talent
Pilipinas Got Talent is a Philippine talent show on ABS-CBN that began February 20, 2010. It is based on the Got Talent franchise, a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company. "Pilipinas" is the Filipino word for Philippines. Anyone can join and showcase their talents...

ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

February 20, 2010 Billy Crawford
Billy Crawford
Billy Joe Crawford is a Filipino-American recording artist, singer-songwriter and philanthropist.Crawford is a Bilingual Filipino Singer. His second language is English and he is conversational in French. Crawford not only lived in New York City, USA, but also in Paris for five years and for one...


Luis Manzano
Luis Manzano
Luis Philippe S. Manzano , also known by his nickname Lucky, is a Filipino actor, TV host, VJ and model. He is the son of award-winning actors Edu Manzano and Vilma Santos, from whom he inherited his Chinese features.Manzano started his career as a commercial model for clothing brand, HUMAN...

 Poland Mam talent!
Mam talent!
Mam talent! is the Polish version of the Got Talent series. The aim of the program is to choose the most talented person from people showing their talents. The winner of the show in the first series got €100,000, in the second and third series - 300,000 zlotys...

TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

September 13, 2008 Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop is a Polish journalist, television and radio personality, connected with TVN, TVN Turbo and Radio Zet. On TVN he currently presents morning show Dzień Dobry TVN in duo with Dorota Wellman, Poland's Got Talent in duo with Szymon Hołownia and game show Minute To Win It. On TVN Turbo he...


Szymon Hołownia
 Portugal Aqui Há Talento
Aqui há talento
Aqui há talento was the older Portuguese version of the Got Talent series. It launched on RTP1 on February 1, 2007. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers competed against each other for a €10,000 money prize. It was hosted by Sílvia Alberto. The judges were Joaquim...

RTP1 January 28, 2007 Sílvia Alberto
 Russia Минута славы Channel 1 February 17, 2007 Alexander Oleshko 
Willey Haapasalo
 Serbia Ja imam talenat
Ja imam talenat
Ja imam talenat! is a Serbian television series, format of Got Talent series...

RTV Pink
RTV Pink
RTV Pink or Radio-Television Pink is a popular, privately-owned, national TV network in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. TV Pink has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming...

September 21, 2009 Ivana Bajić
Vladimir Aleksić
 Slovakia Slovensko má talent Markíza
Markíza
Markíza is a television station in Slovakia. The station launched on 31 August 1996. The station was owned by the politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of CME network...

September 21, 2008 Maroš Kramár
Barbora Rakovská
 Slovenia Slovenija ima talent POP TV
POP TV
POP TV is a Slovenian commercial television station operated by the multi-media company PRO PLUS d.o.o.It is a TV channel with the highest ratings in Slovenia , and at the same time the most popular and trustworthy...

March 21, 2010 Peter Poles
Peter Poles
Peter Poles is a Slovenian television personality, responsible for presenting the Slovenian televote results in various editions of Eurovision Song Contest. Poles first filled this role in 2003, returning in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009...


Vid Valič
 South Africa SA's Got Talent
SA's Got Talent
SA's Got Talent is a South African television show on SABC 2 and part of the Got Talent series. Presented by radio personalities Rob van Vuuren and Anele Mdoda, singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of each...

SABC2 October 1, 2009 Rob van Vuuren
Anele Mdoda
 Spain Tienes Talento Cuatro January 2, 2008 Nuria Roca
Eduardo Aldán
 Sweden Talang TV4 April 13, 2007 Peppe Eng
Peppe Eng
Peppe Eng is a Swedish television host for the sports news on TV4. In 2007 he hosted Talang 2007 and is highly tipped to host Talang 2008.In 2007 he was also a contestant on TV4's reality show Let's Dance.-Source:**...


Kodjo Akolor
Kodjo Akolor
Kodjo Akolor is a Swedish TV/radio personality and comedian.He started as a comedian in 2005 and after two years became a regular on contemporary R&B themed radio station The Voice. In 2008 Alkolo became a reporter for Vakna med the voice a TV and radio show multi-casted on TV-channel Kanal 5 and...


Tobbe Blom
Tobbe Blom
Tobias Peter "Tobbe" Blom is a Swedish TV host on TV4 and magician. He is best known for his stage name Tobbe Trollkarl.Tobbe was the host of Idol 2005 along Johan Wiman and has also done a kids show for morning TV on TV4...


Markoolio
Markoolio
Marko Kristian "Markoolio" Lehtosalo is a Swedish-Finnish multi-platinum selling recording artist, singer, musician, songwriter, actor, and comedian...

 Turkey Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye! Show TV November 13, 2009 Acun Ilıcalı
Acun Ilicali
Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish television personality, producer and sport journalist. He is also the founder and head of Acun Medya.- Biography :...


Tanem Sivar
 Ukraine Україна Має Талант
Ukraine's Got Talent
STB
STB (Channel)
STB is a Ukrainian commercial television network. Today, the coverage area of the network is 85% of Ukraine's territory. It is broadcast in all oblast centers and all Ukrainian cities with a population greater than 50,000...

April 3, 2009 Oksana Marchenko
 United Kingdom Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...

ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

June 9, 2007 Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England...

 United States America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of...

NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

June 21, 2006 Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...


Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer is a British-born American television presenter, best known as host of the tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show since its debut in 1991...


Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon
Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon is an American actor, comedian, rapper, entrepreneur, record producer, radio, and television personality. On television, Cannon began as a teenage sketch comedian on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'N Out, and America's Got Talent...

Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento Estrella TV
Estrella TV
Estrella TV is a Spanish-language television network owned by Liberman Broadcasting. The network launched September 14, 2009.-Affiliates:-Former Affiliates:-Controversy:...

September 2, 2010 Unknown

Iron Chef
Iron Chef
is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1992, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended...

Original name: Ryōri no Tetsujin (Ironmen of Cooking)

Origin: Japan

Date started: 1993

First network to broadcast: Fuji Television
Fuji Television
is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....



First country to adapt: United States

Note: While The Next Iron Chef is not a direct adaptation of the original Japanese series, it is included because it is part of the Iron Chef franchise. Specifically, it is a competition designed to select a chef who will become one of the Iron Chefs on Iron Chef America.
Country Local name Host Network Date premiered
 Australia Iron Chef Australia
Iron Chef Australia
Iron Chef Australia is an Australian cooking show based on the Japanese show Iron Chef, as well as its American adaptation Iron Chef America...

Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist...

Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

October 2010
 Israel קרב סכינים
Krav Sakinim
Oded Menashe Channel 10
Israel 10
Channel 10 , formerly known as Israel 10 is a commercial broadcasting television channel licensed in Israel. It operates under the auspices of the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority .-History:...

2007
 United States Iron Chef USA
Iron Chef USA
Iron Chef USA was the first American adaptation of the Japanese television series Iron Chef. Iron Chef USA appeared on the UPN television network in 2001. Only two episodes were aired : "Las Vegas Showdown" and "Holiday Battle"; neither received critical acclaim...

William Shatner
William Shatner
William Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T...

UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

2001
(only two episodes produced)
Iron Chef America
Iron Chef America
Iron Chef America: The Series is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef, and is the second American adaptation of the series, following the failed Iron Chef USA. The show is produced by Food Network, which also carried a dubbed version of the original Iron Chef. Like the...

Alton Brown
Alton Brown
Alton Crawford Brown is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the host and main commentator on Iron Chef America...

Food Network
Food Network
Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

January 16, 2005
The Next Iron Chef
The Next Iron Chef
The Next Iron Chef, is a limited-run series on the Food Network now in its fourth season. Each season is a stand-alone competition to select a chef to be designated an Iron Chef, who will appear on the Food Network program Iron Chef America....

Alton Brown
Alton Brown
Alton Crawford Brown is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the host and main commentator on Iron Chef America...

 and Mark Dacascos
Mark Dacascos
Mark Alan Dacascos is an American actor and martial artist. He won numerous karate and various styles of kung fu championships between the ages of 7 and 18....

Food Network
Food Network
Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

October 7, 2007
 United Kingdom Iron Chef UK
Iron Chef UK
Iron Chef UK was a British competition-based cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef and Food Network's Iron Chef America. It was produced by IWC Media and broadcasted on Channel 4.-Summary:...

Olly Smith
Olly Smith
Olly Smith is a TV presenter, wine expert and newspaper columnist. He is the presenter of The Secret Supper Club for Channel 4, Iron Chef UK for Channel 4 and regularly appears on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen, BBC Breakfast, Great Food Live, Food Uncut "Fern" and Taste, and formerly presented the...

 and Nick Nairn
Nick Nairn
Nick Nairn is a Scottish celebrity chef.- Work :Nick Nairn is a chef, food consultant, television personality and spokesperson on diet, healthy eating and Scottish produce. Nick started his working life in the Merchant Navy, and having tasted food from all corners of the world, returned home to...

Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

April 26, 2010
(on hiatus since May 17, 2010)


Just the Two of Us

Original name: Just the Two of Us

Origin: United Kingdom

Date started: February 23, 2006

Creator: BBC

First network to broadcast: BBC

First country to adapt: Australia

Note: Though it was based on the American series Celebrity Duets
Celebrity Duets
Celebrity Duets was an American reality television show of the progressive game-show type, which combined celebrities of different backgrounds with professional singers in a weekly elimination competition....

, the shows are ostensibly not connected.

Pop Idol
Idol series
The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...

Original name: Pop Idol

Origin: United Kingdom

Date started: October 5, 2001

Creator: Simon Fuller

First network to broadcast: ITV

First country to adapt: Poland
Region/Country Local name Network Hosts Premiere
Arab world
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

سوبر ستار
Super Star
Super Star (Arabic television show)
Super Star is an Arabic television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment & developed by Fremantle Media. The show unites the Arab community by democratically choosing the next singing sensation. The show is broadcast worldwide on Future TV, a...

Future TV Rania Kurdi
Ayman Kaissouni
Majdala Kassar
Wael Mansour
June 23, 2003
 Armenia Հայ Սուպերսթար
Hay Superstar
Hay Superstar
Hay Superstar / Hye Superstar is the Armenian version of the British television hit show Pop Idol. It is a talent contest to find the best young singer in Armenia.-Summary:-Season 1 :...

Shant TV
Shant TV
Shant TV is a private television broadcasting company in Armenia. Shant TV was founded by Arthur Yezekyan in Gyumri, the second largest city of Armenia, in 1994. In 2001 Shant TV moved to Yerevan, capital, and within 3 years gained high popularity and trust...

Michael Poghosyan
Michael Poghosyan
Michael Movsesi Poghosyan is an Armenian film and theatre actor and judge on the Armenian version of Pop Idol....


Naira Gurjianyan
March 2006
 Australia Australian Idol
Australian Idol
Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...

Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

Andrew Günsberg
James Mathison
James Mathison
James Mathison is an Australian television presenter.-Early life:Mathison was born in Sydney, New South Wales He grew up in Frenchs Forest and attended St...


Ricki-Lee Coulter
Ricki-Lee Coulter
Ricki-Lee Coulter is an Australian recording artist and television and radio presenter. In 2004, Coulter was placed seventh place on the second season of Australian Idol...

July 27, 2003
 Belgium Idool
Idool
Idool is the Belgian version of the Idol series. The series was launched in late 2002 by Belgian television network VTM. The contestants are first narrowed down to 100 contestants, and then down to 30-50 through several auditions and tests by a panel of judges. From this point on, the viewers...

VTM
VTM
The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...

Koen Wauters
Koen Wauters
Koen Maria Gaston Wauters is a Flemish singer, active with the band Clouseau, television presenter, and occasionally actor and race car driver.-Biography:...


Kris Wauters
Kris Wauters
Kris Wauters is a Flemish artist, active with the band Clouseau combined with his brother Koen Wauters....

2003
 Brazil Ídolos
Ídolos Brazil
Ídolos is a Brazilian reality television competition to find new solo singing talent. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, of which two series were broadcast between 2001 and 2003....

SBT Lígia Mendes
Beto Marden
April 5, 2006
Rede Record
Rede Record
Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

Rodrigo Faro
Rodrigo Faro
Rodrigo Faro is a Brazilian telenovela actor, singer, dancer and TV presenter.He was a singer of the boy band Dominó.-Television jobs:*A Indomada *Malhação *Suave Veneno...

August 19, 2008
 Kingdom of Bulgaria Music Idol
Music Idol
Music Idol is the Bulgarian version of the British television hit show Pop Idol. It is a talent contest to determine the superior pop performer and its first season was aired on bTV from February 26 until June 7, 2007. During its third season, the show went international and auditions took place in...

bTV Sanja Nikolic
Ivan Hristov
Andrei Arnaudov
February 26, 2007
 Canada Canadian Idol
Canadian Idol
Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...

CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

Ben Mulroney
Ben Mulroney
Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" Mulroney is a Canadian television host, and is the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.-Early life:...


Jon Dore
Jon Dore
Jonathan David Dore is a Canadian comedian and actor.-Career:Dore spent three years co-hosting Rogers Television's Daytime. For his work, creativity and quick improv skills, he received the Impression Award for best on-air personality in 2001...

June 1, 2003
 Independent State of Croatia Hrvatski Idol
Hrvatski Idol
Hrvatski Idol is the Croatian version of Pop Idol. There have been two seasons of Hrvatski Idol. The first one was won by Žanamari Lalić, who received 54% of the vote in the finale night...

Nova TV Nikolina Božić
Predrag Šuka
2004
Hrvatska traži zvijezdu
Hrvatska traži zvijezdu
Hrvatska traži zvijezdu is the second Croatian version of Pop Idol and is currently airing on RTL Televizija....

RTL
RTL Televizija
RTL Televizija is a Croatian commercial broadcaster with national availability that has been broadcasting since April 30, 2004.RTL Televizija is 74% owned by the RTL Group....

Antonija Blaće February 2009
 Czech Republic Česko hledá SuperStar
Cesko hledá SuperStar
Česko hledá SuperStar is the Czech version of Idol series. It is broadcast on Czech TV Nova, first series in spring 2004, the second a year later, the third series in autumn 2006. The show was very popular in 2004, with an audience of more than 3.5 million people ; other media attention was also...

TV Nova Ladislava Něrgešová
Ondřej Brzobohatý
Petr Holík
Leoš Mareš
February 29, 2004
 
  Czech
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

&
Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

Česko Slovenská Superstar
Česko Slovenská Superstar
Česko Slovenská Superstar is the joint Czech and Slovak version of Idol series' Pop Idol merged from Česko hledá SuperStar and Slovensko hľadá SuperStar which previous to that had three individual seasons each.The first season premiered in September 2009 with castings held in Prague, Brno,...

TV Nova
Markíza
Markíza
Markíza is a television station in Slovakia. The station launched on 31 August 1996. The station was owned by the politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of CME network...

Leoš Mareš
Adela Banášová
September 6, 2009
 Denmark Idols
Idols (Denmark TV series)
Idols: Ærlig Jagt. Ægte Talent. is the Danish version of the worldwide TV format Pop Idol which is broadcast on TV3 Danmark.-Season one:In mid 2003, auditions were held in Aarhus & Copenhagen...

TV3
TV3 (Denmark)
TV3 Denmark is a Danish television station.TV3 is one of the channels owned by the Viasat Corporation. The sister channel is TV3+. The channels shows a lot of American and British shows, such as: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, NCIS, Las Vegas, Bones, Two And A Half Men, Prison Break, American Idol...

Tomas Villum Jenson
Uffe Holm
2003
 Estonia Eesti otsib superstaari
Eesti otsib superstaari
Eesti otsib superstaari is an Estonian reality-competition gameshow airing on TV3. It debuted on 11 March 2007 and it has since become one of the most popular shows in Estonia...

TV3
TV3 (Estonia)
TV3 is a commercial television channel targeted at an Estonian language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded in 1996 after two recent television stations, EVTV and RTV joined....

Aigi Vahing
Jüri Nael
Ott Sepp
Märt Avandi
Ithaka Maria
Tanel Padar
February 2007
 Finland Idols
Idols (Finland)
Idols is a Finnish reality-television singing competition that airs on MTV3 . It debuted in the summer of 2003, and went on to become one of the most popular shows on Finnish television...

MTV3
MTV3
MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

Ellen Jokikunnas
Ellen Jokikunnas
Ellen Jokikunnas is a Finnish model, PR manager, and television presenter. She is best known for hosting all four seasons of Idols, but her first fame came from competing in the Miss Finland pageant in 1998...


Jani Toivola
Jani Toivola
Jani Petteri Toivola is a Finnish actor and dancer. He studied in HB Acting Studio, New York in 1999–2002. He has performed in several dance works, television series and plays. Toivola is also openly gay. His father is Kenyan and mother Finnish.Toivola has been a veejay for the chart programme of...


Heikki Paasonen
August, 2003
 Early Modern France Nouvelle Star
Nouvelle Star
Nouvelle Star is a French television series based on the popular Pop Idol programme produced by FremantleMedia and broadcast by M6 in France....

M6 Benjamin Castaldi
Benjamin Castaldi
Benjamin Castaldi is a French television personality of Italian origin and current host of Secret Story, the spinoff of Loft Story. And, La Ferme Célébrités....


Virgine Efíra
Virginie Guilhaume
2003
 Georgia (country) ჯეოსტარი
Geostari
Geostari
Geostar is the Georgian franchise of the Idol series, which airs on Rustavi 2. Georgia is the fifth former Soviet country to have acquired an Idol franchise after Armenia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Russia...

Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company , better known as Rustavi 2, is the most successful private television broadcasting company in Georgia. The Rustavi, based in Tbilisi, was founded in 1994 in the town of Rustavi. It is a privately owned free to air terrestrial broadcaster that currently reaches around...

Duta Skhirtladze
Anano Mjhavia
2006
 Germany Deutschland sucht den Superstar
Deutschland sucht den Superstar
Deutschland sucht den Superstar is a German reality talent show, also commonly known by its initials DSDS. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by English media mogul Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, of which two series were broadcast between the years of 2001 and...

RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl is a German television and radio host.- Television career :In 1997, Schreyl began his television host career at MDR television...

November 24, 2002
 Greece Super Idol
Super Idol
Super Idol was the first Greek version of the British television hit show Pop Idol. It was a talent contest to find a pop performer. The first series of the show, from February 8 to June 17, 2004, was hosted by Themis Georgantas and the winner was Stavros Konstantinou.Due to low ratings Mega...

Mega
Mega Channel
Mega Channel, also known as Mega TV or just Mega, is a major television network in Greece. Teletypos S.A. was founded in 1989 under the name Teletypos Television Programmes S.A...

Themis Georgantas February 8, 2004
Greek Idol
Greek Idol
Greek Idol is a reality television competition to find new solo singing talent. Part of the Idol franchise, it is based on the British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller. The first season of the show debut on March 5, 2010 on Alpha TV. The second season is scheduled to premiere on 19 February 2011...

Alpha TV
Alpha TV
Alpha TV is a Greek terrestrial channel . The station features a mix of Greek and foreign shows with an emphasis on entertainment programs. The studios are located near Athens...

Roula Koromila March 5, 2010
 Iceland Idol stjörnuleit
Idol Stjörnuleit
Idol stjörnuleit is Iceland's version of the British reality series Pop Idol. The show allows the people of Iceland—through telephone voting—to select the winner of several televised singing contests, following the same format as Pop Idol...

Stöð 2
Stöð 2
Stöð 2 is an Icelandic television channel, owned and operated by 365. Founded in 1986, It was the first privately owned television station in Iceland following the lifting of the state monopoly on television broadcasting...

Jói
Jóhannes Ásbjörnsson
Jóhannes Ásbjörnsson , nicknamed Jói, is an Icelandic TV and radio show host.-TV career:...


Simmi
Sigmar Vilhjálmsson
Sigmar Vilhjálmsson , nicknamed Simmi, is an Icelandic TV host. He is the son of Vilhjálmur Einarsson, silver medallist of the 1956 Summer Olympics in triple jump....

2003
 India Indian Idol
Indian Idol
Indian Idol is an adaptation of the Pop Idol format. It started airing in India with the first season in 2004-2005 and followed that with second , third and fourth seasons...

Sony TV Mini Mathur
Mini Mathur
Mini Mathur is an Indian actress and television personality. She was a video jockey on SUN TV India and hosted a couple of shows for the channel. She is also a co-host of the Indian reality singing contest Indian Idol....


Hussain Kuwajerwala
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Hussain Kuwajerwala is an Indian actor, anchor and dancer. His most prominent roles to date have been Sumit Wadhwa in the soap Kumkum and Chirag Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi...


Meiyang Chаng
Meiyang Chаng
Meiyang Chang is an Indian actor, television host, singer and qualified dentist.- Personal life :Meiyang Chang studied in Dhanbad, Dehradun, Mussoorie, and Bangalore. He attended Colonel Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun and Wynberg Allen School in Mussoorie...


Abhijeet Sawant
Abhijeet Sawant
Abhijeet Sawant is an Indian singer. He is the winner of Indian Idol , a show that follows the extremely popular Idol series format, which began with Pop Idol in the UK...

2004
 Indonesia Indonesian Idol
Indonesian Idol
Indonesian Idol is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia Asia, which began airing on RCTI on March 2004. Part of the Idol franchise, it was as a spin-off from the UK show Pop Idol...

RCTI
RCTI
RCTI is Indonesia's first privately owned television network and is based in West Jakarta. RCTI broadcasts Indonesian Idol as well as sinetron , films, news and current affairs, reality shows and religious programs...

Amelia Natasha
Amelia Natasha
Amelia Natasha or more commonly known as Ata was a host of the popular TV show Indonesian Idol for its first four seasons, from 2004-2007....


Irgi Fahrezi
Dewi Sandra
Daniel Mananta
Daniel Mananta
Daniel Mananta is a Chinese Indonesian television host, VJ and actor. He's best known as a VJ for MTV Indonesia since 2003. Mananta hosts Indonesian Idol and was one of the host on the Asian Idol show in 2007 for the first time held in Indonesia...

March 2004
 Kazakhstan SuperStar KZ
SuperStar KZ
SuperStar KZ was a reality television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol, which aired from 2003 to 2007 on the Kazhak television station Perviy Kanal Evrasia. The talent contest determined the best young singers in Kazakhstan by allowing viewers to vote by phone or SMS...

PKE
Perviy Kanal Evraziya
Perviy Kanal Evraziya is a local Kazakh television station that has been in operation since October 1997. It is one of many privately owned television stations in Kazakhstan closely monitored for any bad press about the Kazakh government that could have a detrimental effect.-Information:There are...

Irina Kordyukova
Serik Akishev
Erik Solo
Ulpan Kuraisova
Sabina Sayakova
Alan Cherkasov
Adil Liyan
June 17, 2003
 Republic of Macedonia Македонски идол
Macedonian Idol
Macedonian Idol
Macedonian Idol is a Macedonian reality-competition talent show airing on A1 TV, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The auditions for the first season started in the summer 2010 and the show aired for first time on 13 November, 2010. Hosts of the show are Ivanna Hadžievska and Nenad...

A1 autumn 2010
 Malaysia Malaysian Idol
Malaysian Idol
Malaysian Idol is the Malaysian version of the Idol Series that started in UK, similar to shows such as UK's Pop Idol and American Idol in the franchise. This show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Malaysia, with the winner receiving a major record deal, although some runners-up...

8TV
8TV (Malaysia)
8TV is a private Malaysian Chinese television station, previously known as MetroVision Channel 8. Metrovision closed on 1 November 1999. 8TV was officially launched on Thursday, 8 January 2004 as 8TV after being acquired by Media Prima Berhad....


TV3
TV3 (Malaysia)
Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad or TV3 began broadcasting on 1 June 1984 as Malaysia’s first commercial television station. It is part of Media Prima Berhad group of companies. It now transmits opened broadcasting business private 24-hours a day, 7 days a week since 1 January 2010...

Koo Sui Jien
Sharifah Aleya
Cheryl Samad
2004
 Netherlands Idols
Idols (Netherlands)
Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....

RTL 4
RTL 4
RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. The station has three sister tv channels: RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8...

Tooske Ragas
Reinout Oerlemans
Reinout Oerlemans
Reinout Oerlemans is a Dutch soap opera actor, film director, television presenter and television producer. He is the founder of the TV production company Eyeworks.-Personal life:...


Chantal Janzen
Chantal Janzen
Chantal Janzen is a Dutch actress and musical star. She starred in The Preacher, Full Moon Party and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and presented Idols....


Martijn Krabb
Wendy van Dijk
2002
 New Zealand NZ Idol
New Zealand Idol
NZ Idol, more commonly known as New Zealand Idol, was the New Zealand version of the Idol series originated as the hit British TV series Pop Idol. New Zealand first saw the Idol format when TV2 aired American Idol 2, which garned impressive ratings...

TV2 Dominic Bowden January, 2004
 Norway Idol
Idol (Norway)
Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne is a television show on the Norwegian television channel TV 2, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show describes itself as a "Search For A SuperStar". The contestants are first narrowed down to 100 contestants, and then down to 24-50 through several...

TV2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

Thomas Numme
Harald J. Rønneberg
Solveig Kloppen
Ingrid Gjessing
Kåre Magnus Bergh
Solveig Kloppen
Kåre Magnus Bergh
Solveig Kloppen
Marte Stokstad
Kyrre Holm Johannessen
2003
 Pakistan Pakistan Idol Geo Network Cancelled 2007
 Philippines Philippine Idol
Philippine Idol
Philippine Idol was the first franchise of Idol series in the Philippines, the 35th country in the world to air a national Idol franchise and the sixth in Asia. The franchise was first awarded by FremantleMedia, 19 Entertainment and CKX, Inc. to Associated Broadcasting Company in 2006 and then to...

ABC-5
Associated Broadcasting Company
The Associated Broadcasting Company, Inc is a television network in the Philippines, with main broadcast facilities and transmitter located at 762 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. The network was previously known as the , Associated Broadcasting Company remains the legal...

Ryan Agoncillo
Ryan Agoncillo
Kristoffer Lou Ryan Agoncillo , popularly known as Ryan Agoncillo, is a Filipino Film and Television actor, model, singer, photographer, and TV host.-Early life:Agoncillo was born on April 10, 1978...

July 30, 2006
Pinoy Idol
Pinoy Idol
Pinoy Idol was a Philippine interactive reality-based singing competition created and developed by FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment which aired on GMA Network...

GMA
GMA Network
GMA Network is a major commercial television & radio network in the Philippines. GMA Network is owned by GMA Network, Inc. a publicly listed company...

Raymond Gutierrez
Raymond Gutiérrez
Raymond Kristoffer Rama-Gutierrez , is a TV Host, editor, columnist, endorser, and actor in Philippines. He comes from a family of actors and performers.-Early life:...

April 5, 2008
 Poland Idol
Idol (Polish TV series)
Idol is a television show on the Polish television network Polsat, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Poland. It is hosted by Maciej Rock....

Polsat
Polsat
Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...

Maciej Rock 2002
 Portugal Ídolos
Ídolos Portugal
Ídolos is a reality television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Portugal. The first two seasons were hosted by Sílvia Alberto and Pedro Granger...

SIC
SIC
Sic is a Latin word that means "thus" or, in writing, "it was thus in the source material".Sic may also refer to:* Sic, Cluj, a commune in Romania* SiC, Silicon carbide, a semiconducting material, also used to make metalworking tools from...

Sílvia Alberto
Pedro Granger
Cláudia Vieira
João Manzarra
2003
 Russia Народный Артист
Narodniy Artist
Narodniy Artist
Narodniy Artist is a television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Russia. The show is produced by RTR in association with FBI Music & FremantleMedia...

RTR Fekla Tolstaya
Ivan Urgant
Ivan Urgant
Ivan Andreevich Urgant is a Russian television personality, showman, and an actor.Ivan Urgant was born in Leningrad in a family of actors Andrey Urgant and Valeriya Kiseleva....

2003
 Singapore Singapore Idol
Singapore Idol
Singapore Idol is a television show on Channel 5 of MediaCorp TV. It is a competition among undiscovered singers in Singapore. Like others in the Idol series, it is modelled after Pop Idol. The current judges are singer/songwriter Dick Lee and record producers Florence Lian and Ken Lim. Previous...

MediaCorp 5 Daniel Ong
Gurmit Singh
Hady Mirza
August 9, 2004
 Slovakia Slovensko hľadá SuperStar
Slovensko hladá SuperStar
Slovensko hľadá SuperStar is a casting television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Slovakia and is shown by the national TV network STV from season 1 & 2...

Markíza
Markíza
Markíza is a television station in Slovakia. The station launched on 31 August 1996. The station was owned by the politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of CME network...

Adela Banášová
Martin Rausch
Laco Lučenič
2004
 South Africa Idols
Idols (South Africa)
Idols is a television show on the South African television network M-Net, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in South Africa....

M-Net
M-Net
M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....

Colin Moss 2002
Afrikaans Idols Kyknet
KykNet
kykNET is a South African television channel, which broadcasts in Afrikaans. Owned by pay-TV operator M-Net, it was launched on the DStv satellite service in October 1999.-Programs:Some of the programs broadcast on kykNET:*DKNT*Trompie...

Sean Else
Liezl van der Westhuizen
May 28, 2006
 Sweden Idol
Idol (Sweden)
Idol is a Swedish reality-competition talent show airing on TV4. It debuted in August 2004, and it has since become one of the most popular shows on Swedish television...

TV4 Peter Jihde
Peter Jihde
Peter Jihde is a Swedish television host and sports reporter on TV4.Jihde was born in Malmö, Sweden. He has hosted "Sporten", "Fotbollskväll", and has presented Olympic games and football world championships. Jihde has also hosted his own talk show "Hos Jihde" on SVT and is a former floorball...


Carolina Gynning
Carolina Gynning
Carolina Gynning Nilsson is a Swedish model, actress and television host. Gynning became especially well-known to the public after winning Big Brother 2004, and has since become a television host for shows such as Dagens Man, Idol 2007 and Förkväll.-Early life:Gynning was born in Malmö but grew up...


Carina Berg
Carina Berg
Carina Lilly Berg is a Swedish comedian and radio/TV personality. Berg is married to television host Kristian Luuk, who hosted Melodifestivalen 2007 and Melodifestivalen 2008. As of 2006 Berg is one of the hosts for the show Förkväll along with Carolina Gynning and Alexandra Pascalidou on TV4 in...


Sanna Bråding
Sanna Bråding
Sanna Bråding is a Swedish actress. Her first appearance was in the soap opera Tre Kronor during the 90s. In 2004 she starred in the film A Hole in My Heart...


Mogge Sseruwagi
Tobbe Blom
Tobbe Blom
Tobias Peter "Tobbe" Blom is a Swedish TV host on TV4 and magician. He is best known for his stage name Tobbe Trollkarl.Tobbe was the host of Idol 2005 along Johan Wiman and has also done a kids show for morning TV on TV4...


Johan Wiman
David Hellenius
David Hellenius
David Hellenius is a Swedish comedian and television presenter, often co-operating with Peter Magnusson.Hellenius started his television carrier at ZTV. In 2004, he led the first season of the Swedish Idol series, "Idol 2004", on TV4 with Peter Magnusson. Hellenius and Magnusson were later joined...


Peter Magnusson
Peter Magnusson
Charles Peter Magnusson is a Swedish Actor, writer and comedian.Magnusson was the host of the first season of Idol 2004 in Sweden...

August 2004
 Turkey Turkstar
Turkstar
Turkstar is a reality television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Turkey. It is hosted by Seray Sever, Gamze Özçelik & Haldun Dormen...

Kanal D
Kanal D
Kanal D is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey and part of Doğan Holding which is owned by the Turkish media tycoon Aydın Doğan.Kanal D also runs an international channel, Euro D which is available online....

Seray Sever
Gamze Özçelik
Gamze Özçelik
Gamze Özçelik is a Turkish actress, model and TV hostess.-Biography:She studied at Maltepe Anatolian High School, and went on to graduate from Istanbul Bilgi University. She won the Elite Model look 1999...


Haldun Dormen
Haldun Dormen
Haldun Dormen is a famous Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor and film director. Dormen is of Turkish Cypriot descent.- Biography :...

2004
 United Kingdom Pop Idol
Pop Idol
Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...

ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England...


Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton is an English journalist and television presenter. Early in her career, she was notable for her articles at the Daily Mirror and for her role as editor of Smash Hits magazine...

October 5, 2001
 United States American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...

Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

Brian Dunkleman
Brian Dunkleman
Brian Dunkleman is a comedian and actor. He is best known as being co-host with Ryan Seacrest on the first season of American Idol on the Fox Network.-Career:...


Ryan Seacrest
Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest is an American radio personality, television host, network producer and voice actor. He is the host of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, a nationally syndicated Top 40 radio show that airs on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and throughout the United States and Canada on Premiere Radio Networks,...

June 11, 2002
American Juniors Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

Ryan Seacrest
Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest is an American radio personality, television host, network producer and voice actor. He is the host of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, a nationally syndicated Top 40 radio show that airs on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and throughout the United States and Canada on Premiere Radio Networks,...


Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight , known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author...

June 3, 2003
 Vietnam Thần Tượng Âm Nhạc
Vietnam Idol
Vietnam Idol
Thần tượng âm nhạc: Vietnam Idol is a Vietnamese reality television competition to find new solo singing talents. It is part of the Idol franchise; it originated from the reality program Pop Idol created by British entertainment executive Simon Fuller...

HTV9
Ho Chi Minh City Television
Ho Chi Minh City Television is the official televised channel of Ho Chi Minh City. HTV broadcasts in three channels: entertainment & advertisement service and gameshow on HTV7, information, propaganda-trend, official and analog-digital on HTV9, and HTV4. HTV also has several specific cable and...


HTV7
Ho Chi Minh City Television
Ho Chi Minh City Television is the official televised channel of Ho Chi Minh City. HTV broadcasts in three channels: entertainment & advertisement service and gameshow on HTV7, information, propaganda-trend, official and analog-digital on HTV9, and HTV4. HTV also has several specific cable and...


VTV6
Phan Anh
Thanh Thảo
Sỹ Luân
Nguyên Vũ
May 23, 2007
Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

Asian Idol
Asian Idol
Asian Idol is a reality singing competition, which featured winners of Idol competitions from six Southeast and South Asian countries consisting of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam...

RCTI
RCTI
RCTI is Indonesia's first privately owned television network and is based in West Jakarta. RCTI broadcasts Indonesian Idol as well as sinetron , films, news and current affairs, reality shows and religious programs...

Amelia Natasha
Amelia Natasha
Amelia Natasha or more commonly known as Ata was a host of the popular TV show Indonesian Idol for its first four seasons, from 2004-2007....


Daniel Mananta
Daniel Mananta
Daniel Mananta is a Chinese Indonesian television host, VJ and actor. He's best known as a VJ for MTV Indonesia since 2003. Mananta hosts Indonesian Idol and was one of the host on the Asian Idol show in 2007 for the first time held in Indonesia...


Soo Kui Jien
Soo Kui Jien
Soo Kui Jien, , is a Malaysian television personality.- Biography :Better known as Handsome Jien, Jien got his big break when he became a host on the Disney Channel in 1997. He has worked as an emcee and host on television in Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore and Malaysia. At 5' 9", he has also acted in...

December 15, 2007–December 16, 2007
East Africa
East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...

Idols East Africa
Idols East Africa
Idols East Africa was a singing competition, serving as the second season of the pan-African franchise of the Idol series after Idols West Africa. It premiered on April 2008 and ended on July 27....

8
Channel 8
Channel 8, as a television channel, may refer to*MediaCorp Channel 8, Singapore*TVB8*Channel 8 Australia, a now defunct erotic TV channel*Canal 8 de Tucumán, a television station in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina...


M-Net
M-Net
M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....

Lebogang Mzwimbi
Thato Matlhabaphiri
Angela Angwenyi
Trevor Siyandi
Kawesa Richard
April 2004
Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

Latin American Idol
Latin American Idol
Latin American Idol is the Latin American edition of the popular British franchise of Idols, well-known for its American version American Idol. The show aims to discover the pop idol of the Latin American region...

Sony
Sony Entertainment Television (Latin America)
Sony Entertainment Television, commonly shortened to Canal Sony , is a general entertainment channel co-based in Perú, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil and Miami, Florida, United States. It airs in 26 countries in Latin America, and is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment...

Erika de la Vega
Monchi Balestra
Jon Secada
Jon Secada
Jon Secada is a Cuban-American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah, Florida. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion...


Mimi
Gustavo Sánchez
Oscar Mediavilla
July 12, 2006
West Africa
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...

Idols West Africa
Idols West Africa
Idols West Africa is the West African version of the Idol series franchise. Based in Nigeria, it is a talent contest to find a recording artiste, and aired on M-Net in 2007. Like the Pan-Arab entry to the series, the show incorporated countries throughout the West African region.-Season 1:The show...

M-Net Mike Majic 2007
Western Balkans Idol BKTV Dejan Pantelić 2004
World
World
World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....

wide
World Idol
World Idol
World Idol was the title of a one-off international version of the television show Pop Idol, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows around the world competing against each other.The performance show was held on Christmas Day 2003, with the results show held on New Year's Day...

RTL Television
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...


ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...


TV 2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....


FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...


CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...


Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

Ant and Dec
Ben Mulroney
Ben Mulroney
Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" Mulroney is a Canadian television host, and is the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.-Early life:...

December 25, 2003

Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...

Original name: Project Runway

Origin: United States

Date started: December 1, 2004

Creator: Eli Holzman

First network to broadcast: Bravo

First country to adapt: United Kingdom
Country Name Host Channel First Premiere
Arab World
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

بروجكت فيشن المصمم العربي
Project Fashion- Al Musamim Al Arabi
Norma Naoum Future TV
Future Television
Future Television a television station broadcasting from Lebanon. It was founded in 1993 by Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Future TV is also available via satellite in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Politically, the channel supports the views of the Future...

2006
 Australia Project Runway Australia
Project Runway Australia
Project Runway Australia is a reality television show based on Project Runway wherein fashion Designers compete by making specific garments for specific challenges. All contestants appearing on the show are designers residing in Australia. The show features Megan Gale as the host, and Kirrily...

Kristy Hinze
Kristy Hinze
Kristy Hinze is an Australian model, actress and television host. Hinze has appeared in Sports Illustrated as well as the Victoria's Secret catalogue.-Life and career:...

Arena July 7, 2008
 Belgium Project Runway Belgium VTM
VTM
The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...

2008
 Brazil Projeto Fashion Adriane Galisteu
Adriane Galisteu
Adriane Galisteu is a Brazilian model, actress and TV host. She was born on April 18, 1973, in São Paulo, Brazil. She has appeared in the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine on a number of occasions and was a VJ for MTV Brasil...

Band
Rede Bandeirantes
Rede Bandeirantes , officially nicknamed Band or Band Network, is a television network from Brazil, based in São Paulo. Part of the Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação , it aired for the first time in 1967...

September 17, 2011
 Canada Project Runway Canada
Project Runway Canada
Project Runway Canada is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian television adaptation of the American reality television series Project Runway, which debuted on the Slice network on October 8, 2007. The second season aired on Global. The series' host is fashion model Iman, while Canadian designer Brian...

Iman
Iman (model)
Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid , professionally known as Iman , is a Somali-American fashion model, actress and entrepreneur. A pioneer in the field of ethnic cosmetics, she is also noted for her charitable work. She is married to David Bowie.-Early life:Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, Iman is the daughter...

Slice
Global
October 8, 2007
 Finland Muodin huipulle Minna Cheung MTV3
MTV3
MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

November 1, 2009
 Hong Kong 時裝世界精英大獎
Fashion World Talent Awards
2009
 Israel פרויקט מסלול
Proyekt Maslul
Project Runway Israel
Proyekt Maslul is the Israeli Version of the American reality TV show "Project Runway". The show was filmed during the winter of 2008-2009 and premiered on June 17, 2009...

Shiraz Tal
Shiraz Tal
Shiraz Tal is a Israeli fashion model.Tal began her modeling career at age 15 in Paris. She was discovered by the Image Models modeling agency of Israel. She is best known for her work as a model in Armani Exchange advertisements, but she was also featured in the spring/summer 2000 Louis Vuitton...

TVA
TVA (TV network)
TVA is a privately owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media...

June 17, 2009
Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

Project Runway Latin America Rebecca de Alba
Rebecca de Alba
Rebecca de Alba is a Mexican model and TV presenter. She dated Mexican actor Guillermo Capetillo and Mexican singer Leonardo de Lozanne...

FTV 
Glitz*
September 20, 2010
 Malaysia Project Runway Malaysia
Project Runway Malaysia
Project Runway Malaysia is a Malaysian reality television series on 8TV that focuses on fashion design. Its contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are usually restricted in their time, materials, and theme. Their designs are judged and one or more designers are...

Bernie Chan 8TV
8TV (Malaysia)
8TV is a private Malaysian Chinese television station, previously known as MetroVision Channel 8. Metrovision closed on 1 November 1999. 8TV was officially launched on Thursday, 8 January 2004 as 8TV after being acquired by Media Prima Berhad....

August 3, 2007
 Netherlands Project Catwalk
Project Catwalk (Netherlands TV series)
Project Catwalk is the Netherlands version of the reality show Project Runway. It was shown in 2007 and was won by Django Steenbakker.-External links:*...

Renate Verbaan
Nikkie Plessen
RTL 5
RTL 5
RTL 5 is the 2nd channel of the RTL Group in the Netherlands. The channel mainly broadcasts American films and hit series but also local productions including Jensen! and Holland's Next Top Model, a Dutch version of America's Next Top Model. RTL 5 recently started airing the Dutch version of...

October 8, 2007
 Norway Designerspirene
Designerspirene
Designerspirene is a Norwegian reality television series that focuses on fashion design. The show is aired on TV3 and is based on the American format, Project Runway hosted by Heidi Klum. Project Runway has been Emmy-nominated for "Outstanding reality-competition program" in 2005 and 2006...

Vendela Kirsebom
Vendela Kirsebom
Vendela Maria Kirsebom is a Norwegian-Swedish model and actress living in Nesodden, Norway.-Early life and career:Vendela Kirsebom was born in Stockholm, Sweden to a Norwegian mother; her Swedish father was of Turkish descent. At age 13, Kirsebom was discovered in a Stockholm restaurant by Eileen...

TV3 February 26, 2007
 Philippines Project Runway Philippines
Project Runway Philippines
Project Runway Philippines is a Philippine adaptation of Project Runway. This reality television series, which aims to find "the next big Filipino fashion designer," is produced by Solar Entertainment Corporation and Unitel Productions. It is shown on ETC Entertainment Central...

Teresa Herrera
Tweetie de Leon
ETC
ETC Entertainment Central
ETC Entertainment Central is a Philippine television channel produced and founded by Solar Entertainment Corporation which also created its sister stations,Solar TV, Universal Channel, Diva Universal, 2nd Avenue, Jack TV, Basketball TV, & Solar Sports...


SBN 21
Southern Broadcasting Network
SBN is a Philippine television network owned by Filipino-Chinese tycoon Lucio Co, the owner of Puregold Price Club Inc., a supermarket chain. Its main broadcast facilities at 5/F Summit One Bldg, Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City...

July 30, 2008
 Portugal Projecto Moda
Project Runway - Projecto Moda
Projecto Moda , is a TV-show that premiered in 25 July, on public network RTP1. This will be the Portuguese version of Project Runway....

Nayma Mingas RTP1 July 25, 2010
 South Korea 프로젝트 런웨이 코리아
Project Runway Korea
Project Runway Korea
Project Runway Korea is the Korean version of the American reality show Project Runway. It is Korean television's first localized franchise from a foreign-language reality competition, and the third Project Runway version in Asia after Malaysia and the Philippines.The winner of Project Runway...

Lee So-ra TVA
TVA (TV network)
TVA is a privately owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media...

February 7, 2009
 Turkey Proje Moda Güzide Duran Star TV July 9 , 2007
 United Kingdom Project Catwalk
Project Catwalk
For the Dutch version of Project Catwalk, see Project Catwalk Project Catwalk is a competitive reality television series focusing on fashion design. In the UK it is shown on the digital station Sky One. The show follows a group of fashion designers as they compete against each other to avoid being...

Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los...

 (season 1)
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...

 (seasons 2–3)
Sky One
Sky One
Sky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...

2006–2008
 United States Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...

Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...

Bravo 
Lifetime
December 1, 2004


Reality Circus
Celebrity Circus (Australian TV series)
Celebrity Circus was an Australian reality television series which aired in 2005 on the Nine Network.The show took celebrities and, with the help of Silver's Circus, trained them into circus acts...

Original name: Celebrity Circus

Origin: Australia

Date started: May 8, 2005

Creator: David Barbour & Julian Cress

First network to broadcast: Nine Network

First country to adapt: Portugal
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
 Argentina El Circo De Las Estrellas Telefe Susana Giménez
Susana Giménez
Susana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host....

March 26, 2007
 Australia Celebrity Circus Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

Charles 'Bud' Tingwel
Charles Tingwell
In 1941, aged 18, he volunteered for war service overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, personnel from Commonwealth air forces were part of a joint training and assignment system. Consequently, Tingwell trained as a pilot in Canada during 1942...

May 8, 2005
 Belarus Звездный цирк HTV 2007
 Brazil Circo do Faustão Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

Fausto Silva July 8, 2007
 Chile Circo de Estrellas TVN
Televisión Nacional de Chile
TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...

Rafael Araneda
Rafael Araneda
Rafael Luis Domingo Araneda Maturana is a popular Chilean TV presenter, best known for his participation in the show Rojo Fama Contrafama as the host. Also he was the host of Estrellas en el Hielo, Sin Prejuicios, Rojo VIP, Noche de Juegos, El Baile en TVN...

March 25, 2010
 India Comedy Circus
Comedy Circus
Comedy Circus is a reality-based stand up comedy show that brings India's TV celebrities to perform with professional comedian partners on a highly competitive and challenging stage. It is judged by Archana Puran Singh. Satish Shah and Johny Lever had judged this show...

Sony TV
Sony Entertainment Television (India)
This article is about the SET channel in India. For the Indian version broadcasted worldwide, see Sony Entertainment Television Asia.Sony Entertainment Television, or SET, is a Hindi-language based general entertainment television channel in India. It was launched in October 1996 and is owned by...

Shruti Seth
Shruti Seth
Shruti Seth is an Indian television, VJ and film actress.-Early life:Shruti Shokeen was born on 18 December 1977 in Gujarat, India. She did her schooling from Ashok Academy and graduated from St. Xavier's College Ahmedabad with a degree in Economics and Commerce. She is married to film director...

June 16, 2007
 Italy Reality Circus Canale 5
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....

Barbara D'Urso September 17, 2006
 Mexico Los 5 Magníficos Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

Marco Antonio Regil
Marco Antonio Regil
Marco Antonio Regil is a Mexican television personality and game show host, born in Tijuana, Mexico. He began his career as a Radio D.J. when he was 15 years old...

April 15, 2007
 Portugal Circo das Celebridades TVI Júlia Pinheiro March 19, 2006
 Poland Gwiezdny Cyrk Polsat
Polsat
Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...

Zygmunt Chajzer and Agnieszka Popielewicz March 6, 2008
 Russia Цирк со звёздами 1TV
Channel One (Russia)
Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...

2007
 Spain Circus: Más dificil todavía Cuatro Josep Lobató September 15, 2008
 United Kingdom Cirque de Celebrité
Cirque de Celebrité
Cirque de Celebrité was a celebrity reality TV show broadcast on Sky One. The show features celebrities training for and then performing various circus acts. The winner of the 2006 series was Grace Adams-Short....

Sky One
Sky One
Sky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...

Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax is a BAFTA nominated American comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.-Early life:...

 (2006), Jenni Falconer
Jenni Falconer
Jennifer 'Jenni' Falconer is a British television presenter.-Early life:After her family relocated to the South of England when she was seven, Falconer moved to Leeds in 1994 to study Spanish and Italian. Whilst studying at university, she also launched her television career...

 (2007)
October 15, 2006
 United States Celebrity Circus
Celebrity Circus (U.S. TV series)
Celebrity Circus is an American version of the Celebrity Circus reality television show based on the Australian television series of the same name originally aired in 2005...

NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

Joey Fatone
Joey Fatone
Joseph Anthony "Joey" Fatone, Jr. is an American singer, dancer, actor and television personality. He is best known as a member of the boyband, 'N Sync, in which he sang baritone. In 2007, he came in second place on the ABC reality show Dancing with the Stars...

June 11, 2008


Single Moms
Must Love Kids
Must Love Kids is a reality dating show that debuted on TLC in the United States on July 15, 2008. The series followed three single moms as they entered the world of dating. The moms had to balance their careers and raise their children while trying to find a lifelong partner. Must Love Kids was...

Original name: Ensam mamma söker

Origin: Sweden

Date started: September 2, 2007

Creator: Friday TV
Friday TV
Friday TV creates and distributes television formats. Friday TV also provides production and consulting services to television production companies and broadcasters worldwide.- History :...



First network to broadcast: TV3
TV3 (Sweden)
TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded on 31 December 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3...



First country to adapt: Finland

Country with the most seasons: Sweden
Region/Country Local name Network Year premiered
 Sweden Ensam mamma söker TV3
TV3 (Sweden)
TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded on 31 December 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3...

2007
 Finland Sinkkuäidille sulhanen Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

2007
 United States Must Love Kids
Must Love Kids
Must Love Kids is a reality dating show that debuted on TLC in the United States on July 15, 2008. The series followed three single moms as they entered the world of dating. The moms had to balance their careers and raise their children while trying to find a lifelong partner. Must Love Kids was...

TLC
TLC (TV channel)
TLC is an American cable TV specialty channel which initially focused on educational content. Since 1991 TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed networks...

2008
 Netherlands Alleen nog een man Net 5
NET 5
NET 5 is a commercial TV channel in the Netherlands owned by Sanoma and Talpa Holding . Other channels of the group in the Netherlands are SBS6 and Veronica.- History :...

2008
 Denmark En mand til mor TV3 2008
 Norway Mamma søker kjæreste TV3
TV3 (Norway)
TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...

2008
 Poland Mamy Mamy TVP1 2008
 Early Modern France Maman cherche l’amour M6 2008
 Germany Papa gesucht RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

2009
 Kingdom of Romania Mame Singure Kanal D
Kanal D Romania
Kanal D Romania is a nation-wide television channel in Romania and part of Doğan Holding which is owned by the Turkish media tycoon Aydın Doğan. The channel was launched on 18 February 2007.-External links:* *...

2008


Star Academy
Star Academy
Star Academy is a highly successful television show format based on the Spanish format "Operación Triunfo" produced by Endemol, that has been broadcast in over 50 countries...

Original name: Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo is a reality-show talent contest which first aired on Spain's TVE network in 2001. A kind of cross between Pop Idol, Voces en Función, Star Search, and Big Brother, the show aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their...



Origin: Spain

Date started: 2001

First network to broadcast: TVE

First country to adapt: France
Related series: The Voice
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

Project Fame
Project Fame
Project Fame was a pan-African version of the international talent/reality show Star Academy. Held in Johannesburg, South Africa from June to August 2004, the show had 16 African contestants - 9 of which were South African - groomed for stardom, with the weakest being eliminated on a weekly basis;...

M-Net
M-Net
M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....


DStv
DStv
DStv is MultiChoice's multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa, launched in 1995. It operates from two satellites over Africa, broadcasting on Ku band via Eutelsat W7 and Intelsat 7 , which only requires a small satellite dish...


The Africa Channel
The Africa Channel
The Africa Channel and The Africa Channel UK are American English language Television channels that feature programming from Africa. They are intended to give viewers a taste of the best English-language programming from the African continent. Programming includes: News, documentaries, music,...

2008
Arab Maghreb
Maghreb
The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...

Star Academy Maghreb Nessma TV
Nessma TV
Nessma TV is a commercial TV channel, that has a range covering Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria Libya and Mauritania. Mediaset owns 25% of it. All programs broadcast on this channel have subtitles in French or Maghrebi Arabic. It broadcasts such programs like Maghreb version of Who Wants to Be a...

Nabila El Kilani 2008
Arab world
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

Star Academy الأكاديمية LBC
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...

Hilda Khalife
Hilda Khalife
Hilda Khalife is a one of the recognized TV presenters in the Arab world. Despite her modeling career, Khalife's fame started in 2004 when she began hosting the first season of the pan-Arab televised talent show Star Academy Arab World on LBC, the Arabic adaptation of the French television show...

December 5, 2003
 Argentina Operación Triunfo Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...

Alejandro Wiebe
Alejandro Wiebe
Alejandro Wiebe nicknamed Marley is an Argentine TV host.He is currently working for TV channel Telefe.-Telefe:*Odisea*El Show de la Tarde*Operación Triunfo *Por el Mundo...

2003
 Belgium French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

Star Academy RTL-TVi Plastic Bertrand
Plastic Bertrand
Plastic Bertrand is a Belgian musician, songwriter, producer, editor and television presenter, best known for the 1977 international hit single "Ça plane pour moi".-Early life and bands:...

2002
 Belgium Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

Star Academy Kanaal Twee
Kanaal Twee
-Flemish productions, currently off-air:*Big Brother & its BV version*Dennis *De Heren Maken de Man *De Raf & Ronny Show...

Walter Grootaers 2005
 Brazil Fama Globo TV
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

Angélica Ksyvickis April 27, 2002
 Kingdom of Bulgaria Star Academy
Star Academy Bulgaria
Star Academy was a Bulgarian reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol, based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo. It consisted of a contest of young singers. It was broadcasted on Nova Television...

Nova TV Maria Ilieva
Maria Ilieva
Maria Ilieva is a Bulgarian singer and producer recognized by some as the most successful female vocal artist of the contemporary Bulgarian music scene. Judge on the upcoming first season of X factor Bulgaria.-Early life:...

April 4, 2005
 Canada Star Académie
Star Académie
Star Académie is a Canadian reality TV series started in 2003, aimed primarily at the Quebec television audience, featuring an array of competing young women and men for the title of the best singer...

TVA
TVA (TV network)
TVA is a privately owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media...

Julie Snyder
Julie Snyder
Julie Snyder is a Francophone Canadian talk show host and producer, appearing as host or guest on various television programs in Canada and France.She graduated from Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in 1986....

2003
American version aired on CBC
 Chile Operación Triunfo Mega
Red Televisiva Megavisión
MEGA, formerly known as Red Televisiva Megavisión, is the first private TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago on digital frequency channel 27 for HDTV.Among the many TV shows broadcast on MEGA are:...

Álvaro Escobar 2003
East Africa
East African Community
The East African Community is an intergovernmental organisation comprising the five east African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Pierre Nkurunziza, the President of the Republic of Burundi, is the current Chairman of the East African Community. The EAC was originally...

Tusker Project Fame M-Net
M-Net
M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....


NTV
NTV - Kenya
NTV came into being on May 12, 2005. A new face from the previous Nation TV station under the Nation Media Groups arm that has been in existence since 1999.It has been a popular TV Station in Kenya along with KTN and KBC among others.- Youtube :...


Channel 10
UBC
Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
Uganda Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster of Uganda. It was founded as a result of the "Uganda Broadcasting Corporation Act, 2004", which merged the operations of Uganda Television and Radio Uganda...

2006
Citizen TV
StarTV
StarTV
Star TV is a Tanzanian television station with a wide range of broadcast content. It is based in Mwanza, near Lake Victoria, and maintains offices in Dar es Salaam....


WBS
WBS
WBS may refer to:* WebChat Broadcasting System, a virtual community* Warwick Business School, the largest academic department of the University of Warwick* Ward-Beck Systems, Canadian manufacturer of Audio and Video equipment...


Rwanda TV
Gaetano Kagwa
Mich Egwang
2008
 Early Modern France Star Academy TF1
TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

Níkos Aliágas
Nikos Aliagas
Nikos Aliagas is a Greek-born French host of the French music reality program named Star Academy. One of his parents came from the area of Stamna in the prefecture of Aitoloacarnania in Greece. He speaks five languages including English...

2001
 Georgia (country) ვარსკვლავების აკადემია
Star Academy (Georgia)
Star Academy is the edition of the international television format Star Academy in the Republic of Georgia.Star Academy is the place where 14 young singers pass a difficult, dynamic, interesting and obstacle-ridden path to the career of a successful singer and becoming a real star...

Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company , better known as Rustavi 2, is the most successful private television broadcasting company in Georgia. The Rustavi, based in Tbilisi, was founded in 1994 in the town of Rustavi. It is a privately owned free to air terrestrial broadcaster that currently reaches around...

Sopho Khalvashi
Sopho Khalvashi
Sopho Khalvashi is a Georgian musician. She comes from a family of Adjarian origin. It was announced on December 12, 2006 that she would represent her home nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. The song "Visionary Dream" was Georgia's first entry into the contest...

March 25, 2008
 Germany Fame Academy RTL 2
Tele 5
Tele 5
Tele 5 is a commercial television channel in Germany. The channel is largely known for showing classic American films and series, Japanese Anime and Shows.Tele 5 broadcasts from the Astra 1H, 1M, and 3A satellites and is uplinked by ASTRA Platform Services....


MTV2 Pop
MTV2 Pop
MTV2 Pop was a German music channel. It launched on 1 May 2001, taking over the transponder left by the analogue service of MTV UK and Ireland when it closed down. It replaced VH1 Germany...

Nova Meierhenrich September 7, 2003
 Greece Fame Story
Fame Story
Fame Story was a Greek reality TV show that was a licensed version of Endemol's Star Academy on the ANT1 network. It has been one of the most successful Greek TV shows over the last years. The contestants gave a weekly performance in a 2½–3 hour episode in which the contestants were judged...

ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

Natalia Germanou
Natalia Germanou
Natalia Germanou is a Greek lyricist, television hostess, radio producer, DJ and journalist.Germanou has written lyrics for many popular Greek singers such as Anna Vissi, Christos Dantis, Elena Paparizou, Sakis Rouvas, Despina Vandi, Mihalis Hatzigiannis, Notis Sfakianakis, Natasa Theodoridou,...


Andreas Mikroutsikos
Andreas Mikroutsikos
Andreas Mikroutsikos is a composer, lyricist, singer and TV presenter. He is the brother of Thanos Mikroutsikos and is considered to be Greece's "reality king". His top hits were "the kiklopaki " or "oso girizei i gi "...


Tatiana Stefanidou
Tatiana Stefanidou
Tatiana Stefanidou is a Greek television host and former journalist on Greek television.-Personal life:In 1995, Stefanidou got married to businessman Panayiotis Stavropoulos, but the marriage ended in a divorce seven years later, in 2002. While married to Stavropoulos, she met a rising TV...


Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti is a Greek talk show and game show host since 2004, television actress, and former fashion model.-Filmography:*Ta Tsakalia: Ena koinoniko provlima, 1981 .... Athina Fotiadou*Garsoniera gia deka 1981...

2001
 India Fame Gurukul
Fame Gurukul
Fame Gurukul is an Indian prime-time show on Sony Entertainment Television which premiered on 27 June 2005. The program is produced by the same production house of Indian Idol...

Sony
Sony Entertainment Television (India)
This article is about the SET channel in India. For the Indian version broadcasted worldwide, see Sony Entertainment Television Asia.Sony Entertainment Television, or SET, is a Hindi-language based general entertainment television channel in India. It was launched in October 1996 and is owned by...

Mandira Bedi
Mandira Bedi
Mandira Bedi is an Indian actress, model and television presenter who gained celebrity status playing the title role in the 1994 television serial, Shanti, shown on India's national channel, Doordarshan which was the first ever daily soap on Indian television.She followed up her career in TV...

2005
Celebrity Fame Gurukul Manav Gohil
Manav Gohil
Manav Gohil is an Indian television actor and anchor. He was one of the presenters in the Indian television show, Fame Gurukul which ended on 20 October 2005...

 Italy Operazione Trionfo
Star Academy
Italia 1
Italia 1
Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...


Rai Due
Rai Due
Rai 2 is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai 1 and Rai 3. Rai 2 first started transmissions on November 4, 1961...

Miguel Bosè
Miguel Bosé
Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen...


Francesco Facchinetti
2002
September 29, 2011
 Mexico Operación Triunfo Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

Jaime Camil
Jaime Camil
Jaime Federico Said Camil de Saldaña da Gama is a Mexican actor, singer and host.-Biography:Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Camil is the son of Jaime Camil Garza, a very successful Mexican businessman, and Cecilia Saldaña Da Gama, a Brazilian singer...

2002
 Moldova Fabrica de Staruri Prime TV
2 Plus
Andreea Raicu
Dan Negru
2008
 Netherlands Star Maker Yorin
Yorin
Yorin was a Dutch television channel. Yorin disappeared and most programs of this channel went to RTL 5. The programs of RTL 5 moved to a new channel called RTL 7....

Gijs Staverman 2001
Star Academy Danny Rook 2002
 Philippines Pinoy Dream Academy
Pinoy Dream Academy
Pinoy Dream Academy is the Philippine version of Endemol's Operación Triunfo . The format is similar to Big Brother, where a set number of finalists would live inside the Academy for four months and will be trained by guest teachers to be multimedia performers...

ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...


Studio 23
Studio 23
Studio 23 is a Filipino television network owned by the ABS-CBN Corporation. The network is named for its flagship station in Metro Manila, DWAC-TV, which is carried on UHF channel 23...

Nikki Gil
Nikki Gil
Monica Pauline "Nikki" Gil is a Filipino singer, actress, host, model and myx VJ.-Biography:Monica Pauline Gil was born in Manila to Dino and Julie Gil. She is of Filipino, Spanish and German descent...


Toni Gonzaga
Toni Gonzaga
Celestine Cruz Gonzaga , better known as Toni Gonzaga, is a Filipino singer, television host and actress. She started her career with GMA Network, then later moved to ABS-CBN Network...


Bianca Gonzalez
Bianca Gonzalez
Bianca Gonzalez is a Filipina TV host and model.-Education:Bianca Monica Malasmas Gonzalez graduated from high school at the De La Salle Santiago Zobel School and graduated with a degree of AB Communication Arts with a minor in Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University.-Writer:Her first job in...

2006
Pinoy Dream Academy: Little Dreamers
Pinoy Dream Academy: Little Dreamers
The second season of Pinoy Dream Academy formally began on June 14, 2008. Nikki Gil and Toni Gonzaga reprise their roles as hosts of the show, but Gonzaga now handles the main hosting plum while Gil appears both on the Probation Nights and Little Dreamers Gala/Expulsion Night...

2008
 Poland Fabryka Gwiazd Polsat
Polsat
Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...

Maciej Rock September 19, 2008
 Portugal Operação Triunfo RTP
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....

Catarina Furtado
Sílvia Alberto
2003
Academia de Estrelas TVI Teresa Guilherme 2002
Academia de Famosos Paulo Pires 2003
 Kingdom of Romania Star Factory Prima TV
Prima TV
Prima TV is a Romanian commercial TV channel, famous mainly for the Cronica Cârcotaşilor show and various reality shows.-Start:Prima TV was launched as one of the first commercial television stations in Romania in December 1997...

Laura Iordache
Virgil Ianțu
2003
 Russia Фабрика звёзд
Fabrika zvyozd
Star Factory
Star Factory is a Russian television show aired on Channel One since 13 October 2002. The show is the Russian version of the Endemol format Operación Triunfo....

ORT
Channel One (Russia)
Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...

Yana Churikova
Yana Churikova
Yana Churikova is a Russian journalist and television host who worked on MTV Russia before moving to Channel One, where she hosted seven seasons of the Star Factory show. She has also gained publicity across Europe and the world for presenting the results of the Russian televote at the Eurovision...

2002
 Spain Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo is a reality-show talent contest which first aired on Spain's TVE network in 2001. A kind of cross between Pop Idol, Voces en Función, Star Search, and Big Brother, the show aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their...

TVE
Telecinco
Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish commercial television channel operated by Mediaset España. Launched in 1990 as Tele 5, it was the fifth of the national terrestrial television channels. In 1997, Tele 5 was rebranded as Telecinco, dropping the flower logo seen in other Mediaset channel...


Telecinco 2
Telecinco 2
LaSiete , formerly known as Telecinco 2, is a Spanish digital terrestrial television channel, operated by Gestevisión Telecinco. It began its broadcasts on 18 February 2008, replacing Telecinco Sport. On 18 May 2009, Telecinco 2 changed its name to LaSiete.-Logos:- External links :* *...


La Siete
Digital+
Carlos Lozano
Jesús Vázquez
2001
 Turkey Akademi Türkiye ATV
ATV Turkey
atv is a nationwide TV channel in Turkey, founded in 1993. atv is one of the most widely watched TV channels in Turkey. atv is an acronym of Actual Television.Since 2007 atv is owned by Çalık Holding.- Shows :News Programming* atv Ana Haber...

Öykü Serter 2004
Star Akademi Türkiye 2008
 United Kingdom Fame Academy
Fame Academy
Fame Academy is a televised competition to search for and educate new musical talents. The winner received a chance to become a successful music artist. The prize consisted of a £1m recording contract with a major record company, plus the use of a luxury apartment in London and a sports car for one...

BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

Patrick Kielty
Patrick Kielty
Patrick Kielty is an Irish comedian and television personality from Dundrum, Northern Ireland.-Background:He was affected by The Troubles in Northern Ireland. On 25 January 1988 his father, businessman Jack Kielty, was shot dead by the Ulster Defence Association /"Ulster Freedom Fighters" , a...


Claudia Winkleman
Claudia Winkleman
Claudia Anne I. Winkleman is an English television presenter, film critic, radio personality and journalist.- Early life and family :...


Cat Deeley
Cat Deeley
Catherine Elizabeth "Cat" Deeley is an English television presenter and model. Since 2006, Deeley has also been the host of So You Think You Can Dance in the United States, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition...

2002
 Ukraine Фабрика зірок
Fabrika Zirok
Fabrika Zirok
Фабрика зірок , is a Ukrainian televised talent show, which began in 2007 that features a group of young male and female candidates from all over Ukraine....

Novyi Kanal
Novyi Kanal
Novyi Kanal is a Ukrainian television channel.- History :The channel was launched on August 15, 1998. At first, it was broadcast only in Kiev, but since 1999, it has extended its range to six other regions of Ukraine, and from 2000, is received in more than 17 major cities...

Andriy Domansky (Season 1)
Dmitry Shepelev (Season 2)
Andriy Domansky & Masha Efrosinina
Maria Efrosinina
Maria "Masha" Efrosinina , , is a Ukrainian television host.-Overview:Graduating from a high school with a gold medal , Efrosinina enrolled into the Department of Foreign Languages in the Kiev University to graduate as an interpreter of the English and Spanish languages.In 19 she debuted on the...

 (Season 3)
October 7, 2007
 Ghana  Liberia  Nigeria
West Africa
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...

Project Fame TV3
TV3 Ghana
TV3 Network Limited is a private, free-to-air television broadcaster in Ghana. Launched in 1997, TV3 Ghana airs and produces a variety of television programmes including acclaimed news bulletins, dramas and successful reality television and entertainment shows.TV3 Ghana established itself as the...


Clare TV
NTA
Nigerian Television Authority
The Nigerian Television Authority - also known as NTA - was inaugurated in 1977 and is the government-owned body in charge of television broadcasting in the country. The NTA claims to run the biggest television network in Africa with stations in several parts of Nigeria...


ABC TV
Dare Art Alade
Fumnilayo Raimi
2008
 Bosnia and Herzegovina  Independent State of Croatia    Serbia
Western Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...

Операција триумф
Operacija Trijumf
Operacija trijumf
Operacija Trijumf is a regional music talent TV reality show filmed in Belgrade, Serbia, aired in the region of former Yugoslavia. It is a local version of Star Academy reality series that was developed and is licensed worldwide by Endemol...

B92
B92
B92 is a radio and television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Its programs, including the news cover topics with fairly liberal political painted attitudes...


Nova TV
TV In
TV In
TV IN is a television station in Montenegro. It started working in early 2002. It is based in Podgorica. It is currently one of the most watched TV stations in Montenegro...


FTV/RTRS
Radio Televizija Republike Srpske
Radio Televizija Republike Srpske , otherwise RTRS, is the public-service broadcasting organization of the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina....


A1 TV
Ana Mihajlovski
Ana Mihajlovski
Ana Mihajlovski is a Serbian television presenter mostly hosting locally licensed reality programmes through Emotion Production. She also occasionally works as an actress....


Nikolina Pišek
Nikolina Pisek
Nikolina Pišek is a Croatian TV presenter currently with Nova TV. She occasionally also works as TV actress.-Career:...


Milan Kalinić
Maca Marinković
Dragan Marinkovic (actor)
Dragan "Maca" Marinković is a Bosnian actor and TV personality from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Widely known by his nickname Maca, though trained as an actor, Marinković is most notable for his outrageous personality showcased during his stints on reality television...

2008
 United States The One: Making a Music Star
The One: Making a Music Star
The One: Making a Music Star was an American reality television series that aired in July 2006 on ABC in the United States, and CBC Television in Canada. The show was hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, known to Canadian viewers as the host of CBC's The Hour...

ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

George Stroumbolopoulos 2006


NOTE: The American adaptation was canceled after two episodes and did not determine a winner.

The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...

Original name: The Amazing Race

Origin: USA

Date started: September 5, 2001

Creators: Bertram van Munster, Elise Doganieri

First network to broadcast: CBS

First country to adapt: Asian continent
Region/Country Local name Network Series and winners Main presenter Date premiered
Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

The Amazing Race Asia AXN Asia
AXN Asia
AXN Asia is a pay-tv, cable and satellite TV channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It is available in throughout the 18 countries around the Asia-Pacific region...

Season 1, 2006
The Amazing Race Asia 1
The Amazing Race Asia 1 is the first season of the reality television game show The Amazing Race Asia. The show features ten teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around Asia and Pacific Rim to win US$100,000. Applications were accepted through March 31, 2006...

:   Joe Jer & Zabrina
Zabrina Fernandez
Zabrina Fernandez , along with partner Joe Jer were the first winners of The Amazing Race Asia, a franchise of the hugely popular reality show The Amazing Race....


Season 2, 2007
The Amazing Race Asia 2
The Amazing Race Asia 2 is the second season of the reality television game show The Amazing Race Asia. The show features ten teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world to win US$100,000....

:   Adrian & Collin
Season 3, 2008
The Amazing Race Asia 3
The Amazing Race Asia 3 is the third installment of the reality television game show The Amazing Race Asia. The show features ten teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around Asia to win US$100,000. The season premiered on September 11, 2008 and consists of 11 episodes, two...

:   Vince
Vince Matthew Chung
Vince Matthew Chung , along with his team member Sam Wu , won The Amazing Race Asia 3.-The Amazing Race Asia: Season 3: Vince Matthew Chung along with his fellow team member Sam Wu became the 1st ever winners of the The Amazing Race Asia from Hong Kong in November 2008...

 & Sam
Season 4, 2010
The Amazing Race Asia 4
The Amazing Race Asia 4 is the fourth installment of the reality television game show The Amazing Race Asia. The Amazing Race Asia 4 features several teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world. Production for this installment was delayed in 2009...

:   Richard & Richard
Allan Wu
Allan Wu
Allan Wu is a Singapore-based Chinese-American actor and MTV Asia VJ who is recognized by many people as the host of the Asian version of The Amazing Race....

November 9, 2006
Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel
The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel
The Amazing Race Latinoamérica, previously known as The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel, is a reality game show based on the American series, The Amazing Race....


The Amazing Race Latin America
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...

 Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...


Space
Space (Latin American TV channel)
Space is an Argentine cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System and Time Warner. It airs movies, series and television shows. It is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina...

Season 1, 2009
The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel 1
The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel 1 is a reality television game show of The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel. The show featured eleven teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across Latin America to win US$250,000. The race was produced by RGB Entertainment...

:   Matías & Tamara
Season 2, 2010
The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel 2
The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel 2 is the second installment of The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel, the Latin American edition of the reality television show The Amazing Race...

:   Mauricio & Carlos
Season 3, 2011
The Amazing Race Latinoamérica 3
The Amazing Race Latinoamérica 3 will be the third installment of the Latin American edition of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race Latinoamérica 3 will be the first season aired in the Space channel in association with Disney Media Networks Latin America...

: Airing
Harris Whitbeck
Harris Whitbeck
Harris Whitbeck is CNN's International Correspondent based in Mexico City, Mexico. He covers key events in Latin America and around the world for CNN Worldwide, including CNN International, CNN en Español, and CNN/U.S....

September 20, 2009
 Australia The Amazing Race Australia
The Amazing Race Australia
The Amazing Race Australia is an Australian reality television game show based on the American reality television series, The Amazing Race that is broadcast on the Seven Network. The series features eleven teams of two who are in a pre-existing personal relationship, and follow the various...

Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

Season 1, 2011
The Amazing Race Australia
The Amazing Race Australia is an Australian reality television game show based on the American reality television series, The Amazing Race that is broadcast on the Seven Network. The series features eleven teams of two who are in a pre-existing personal relationship, and follow the various...

: Nathan & Tyler
Season 2, 2012: Upcoming
Grant Bowler
Grant Bowler
Grant Bowler is a New Zealand actor who has worked in American, Australian and New Zealand films and television.He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne Patterson in Blue Heelers and also appeared as Wilhelmina Slater's love interest Connor Owens in Ugly Betty.In November 2010, he was...

May 16, 2011
 Brazil The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária
The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária
The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária is a Brazilian version of the popular franchised reality television show The Amazing Race. Hosted by Rony Curvelo, it is independently produced and aired in a purchased time slot in the Brazilian television network RedeTV!...

RedeTV! Season 1, 2007
The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária
The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária is a Brazilian version of the popular franchised reality television show The Amazing Race. Hosted by Rony Curvelo, it is independently produced and aired in a purchased time slot in the Brazilian television network RedeTV!...

: Patrícia & Sane
Rony Curvelo October 13, 2007
 Mainland China The Amazing Race: China Rush
The Amazing Race: China Rush
The Amazing Race: China Rush is a Chinese reality television series. Based on the American reality TV series, The Amazing Race, it features 10 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across 11 cities in China to win a world tour provided by Travelzen...

ICS
Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group , under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group , is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company...

Season 1, 2010
The Amazing Race: China Rush
The Amazing Race: China Rush is a Chinese reality television series. Based on the American reality TV series, The Amazing Race, it features 10 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across 11 cities in China to win a world tour provided by Travelzen...

:    Charlie & Rachel
Season 2, 2011
The Amazing Race: China Rush 2
The Amazing Race: China Rush 2 is a Chinese reality television series. Based on the American reality TV series, The Amazing Race, it features 11 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across 11 cities in China to win a trip to Hoh Xil Natural Reserve and a trip around the...

: Airing
Allan Wu
Allan Wu
Allan Wu is a Singapore-based Chinese-American actor and MTV Asia VJ who is recognized by many people as the host of the Asian version of The Amazing Race....

August 8, 2010
 Israel המירוץ למיליון
HaMerotz LaMillion
HaMerotz LaMillion
HaMerotz LaMillion was the Israeli version of the American reality show The Amazing Race. It was produced by Reshet and premiered on February 5, 2009 on Channel 2 with the season finale on June 11, 2009. The show featured 10 teams of two, with the winning couple won ₪1,000,000...

Channel 2
Channel 2 (Israel)
Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on...

Season 1, 2009
HaMerotz LaMillion
HaMerotz LaMillion was the Israeli version of the American reality show The Amazing Race. It was produced by Reshet and premiered on February 5, 2009 on Channel 2 with the season finale on June 11, 2009. The show featured 10 teams of two, with the winning couple won ₪1,000,000...

: Guy & Shay
Season 2, 2011
HaMerotz LaMillion 2
HaMerotz LaMillion 2 will be the second installment of the Israeli version of the American reality show The Amazing Race. The series features 11 teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world to win ₪1,000,000....

: Upcoming
Raz Meirman
Raz Meirman
Raz Meirman is Israeli male,the host of HaMerotz LaMillion, the Israeli version of The Amazing Race, an American reality show that first aired on CBS in 2001....


Ron Shahar
February 5, 2009
 Norway The Amazing Race Norway TV 2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

Season 1, 2012: Upcoming TBA TBA, 2012
 United States The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series)
The Amazing Race is an American reality game show in which teams of two or four race around the world against other teams, with the first-place team winning $1,000,000. As the original version of the Amazing Race franchise, the CBS program has been running since 2001 and is airing its nineteenth...

CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...


Season 1, 2001
The Amazing Race 1
The Amazing Race is the first installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race...

: Rob & Brennan
Season 2, 2002
The Amazing Race 2
The Amazing Race 2 is the second installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 2 featured 11 teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world...

: Chris & Alex
Alex Boylan
Alex Boylan is known as a reality TV contestant, TV show host and producer. He first came to public attention as part of the winning team together with his friend Chris Luca in the second season of the reality TV show The Amazing Race in 2002...


Season 3, 2002
The Amazing Race 3
The Amazing Race 3 is the third installment of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. This season featured 12 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world, making it the first season to have 12 teams...

: Flo & Zach
Season 4, 2003
The Amazing Race 4
The Amazing Race 4 is the fourth installment of the reality television show on US television The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 4 featured 12 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world...

: Reichen
Reichen Lehmkuhl
Reichen Lehmkuhl, , is an American former reality show winner, model, and occasional actor...

 & Chip
Chip Arndt
Chip Arndt is an American gay activist, best known as a winner of The Amazing Race 4 in 2003 with former partner Reichen Lehmkuhl. The team was the first out gay couple to win a reality television competition...


Season 5, 2004
The Amazing Race 5
The Amazing Race 5 is the fifth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 5 featured 11 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world....

: Chip & Kim
Season 6, 2004
The Amazing Race 6
The Amazing Race 6 is the sixth installment of the reality television series The Amazing Race. It premiered on November 16, 2004, and concluded on February 8, 2005.Freddy Holliday & Kendra Bentley were the winners of this Race....

: Freddy & Kendra
Season 7, 2005
The Amazing Race 7
The Amazing Race 7 is the seventh installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 7 features 11 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world...

: Uchenna & Joyce
Season 9, 2006
The Amazing Race 9
The Amazing Race 9 is the ninth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. This season featured eleven teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world to win one million dollars. The show premiered on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 and concluded on...

: BJ & Tyler
Tyler MacNiven
Tyler MacNiven is an American filmmaker and reality television contestant.-Stanford University Admission Campaign:MacNiven first received attention in 1998 when, while a senior at Woodside High School in Woodside, California, he launched a political-style campaign to supplement his application to...


Season 10, 2006
The Amazing Race 10
The Amazing Race 10 is the tenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 10 features twelve teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world....

: Tyler
Tyler Denk
Tyler Denk is an American male model notable for his appearance on tenth season of The Amazing Race, which he had won along with teammate James Branaman...

 & James
Season 12, 2007
The Amazing Race 12
The Amazing Race 12 is the twelfth installment of winning reality television show The Amazing Race.The 12th season premiered on November 4, 2007 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. It took the timeslot of the canceled CBS series Viva Laughlin. The finale aired on January 20, 2008 at 8 p.m...

: TK & Rachel
Season 13, 2008
The Amazing Race 13
The Amazing Race 13 is the 13th installment of the reality television competition series The Amazing Race. It featured 11 teams of two, each with a preexisting relationship, in a race around the world....

: Nick & Starr
Season 14, 2009
The Amazing Race 14
The Amazing Race 14 is the fourteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 14 featured 11 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world....

: Tammy & Victor
Season 15, 2009
The Amazing Race 15
The Amazing Race 15 is the fifteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 15 featured 12 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world....

: Meghan & Cheyne
Season 16, 2010
The Amazing Race 16
The Amazing Race 16 is the sixteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 16 features eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world....

: Dan & Jordan
Season 17, 2010
The Amazing Race 17
The Amazing Race 17 is the seventeenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 17 features 11 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world....

: Nat & Kat
Season 19, 2011
The Amazing Race 19
The Amazing Race 19 is the nineteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 19 features several teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world. The 19th season premiered on September 25, 2011.The nineteenth cycle started on...

: Airing
Phil Keoghan
Phil Keoghan
Philip John "Phil" Keoghan is a New Zealand-born television personality, best known for hosting the U.S. version of The Amazing Race on CBS, since its 2001 debut. He is also the creator and host of No Opportunity Wasted, which has been produced in the United States, New Zealand, and Canada...

September 5, 2001
The Amazing Race: Family Edition
Season 8, 2005
The Amazing Race 8
The Amazing Race 8 is the eighth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race...

: Linz Family
The Amazing Race: All-Stars
Season 11, 2007
The Amazing Race 11
The Amazing Race 11 is the 11th installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race...

: Eric & Danielle
The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business
Season 18, 2011
The Amazing Race 18
The Amazing Race 18 is the eighteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 18 features eleven teams of two – each returning from a previous edition – in a race around the world for a $1 million prize.The eighteenth cycle started on Sunday,...

: Kisha & Jen

NOTE: There was a Central Europe
Central Europe
Central Europe or alternatively Middle Europe is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe...

an version, which was planned to air in 2006 on AXN Central Europe. It was canceled and is therefore not included in the list.


The Apprentice

  • Original name: The Apprentice
  • Origin: U.S.
  • Date started: January 8, 2004
  • Creator: Mark Burnett
    Mark Burnett
    Mark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...

  • First network to broadcast: NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

  • First country to adapt: Brazil

Country Name Host Channel Premiere Catchphrase
Africa countries
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

The Apprentice Africa
The Apprentice Africa
The Apprentice Africa is an African version of the original American Reality TV format, The Apprentice, hosted by Donald Trump. The show was hosted by Mr. Biodun Shobanjo, an advertising magnate, co-founder of Insight Communications and CEO of Troyka Group. It gathered 18 contestants from across...

Mr. Biodun Shobanjo Nigeria NTA
Nigerian Television Authority
The Nigerian Television Authority - also known as NTA - was inaugurated in 1977 and is the government-owned body in charge of television broadcasting in the country. The NTA claims to run the biggest television network in Africa with stations in several parts of Nigeria...

, Silverbird TV, Super Screen, MBI
Ghana TV3
TV3 Ghana
TV3 Network Limited is a private, free-to-air television broadcaster in Ghana. Launched in 1997, TV3 Ghana airs and produces a variety of television programmes including acclaimed news bulletins, dramas and successful reality television and entertainment shows.TV3 Ghana established itself as the...


Kenya KTN
Kenya Television Network
Kenya Television Network is the leading television station in Kenya with its headquarters at the I & M Towers in downtown Nairobi. Its headquarters will change later on in the year as it moves in with its parent company's other subsidiaries at the newly-built Standard Group Centre on Mombasa road...


Uganda WBS
WBS
WBS may refer to:* WebChat Broadcasting System, a virtual community* Warwick Business School, the largest academic department of the University of Warwick* Ward-Beck Systems, Canadian manufacturer of Audio and Video equipment...


Tanzania TBC1
February 2008
Arab world
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

الإدارة جدارة
El Idara Jadara
Mohamed Ali Alabbar LBC
LBC
LBC Radio operates two London-based radio stations, with news and talk formats. LBC was Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, providing a service of news and information to London. It began broadcasting on 8 October 1973, a week ahead of Capital Radio...

Cancelled
 Australia The Apprentice Mark Bouris
Mark Bouris
Mark Bouris is an Australian businessman who is best known as the founder and chairman of 'Wizard Home Loans', Australia's second largest non-bank mortgage lender behind Aussie Home Loans...

Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

September 28, 2009
 Belgium De Topmanager Rob Heyvaert VT4
VT4
VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...

March 1, 2006
 Brazil O Aprendiz Roberto Justus
Roberto Justus
Roberto Luiz Justus is a Brazilian television personality.Justus was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Son of Hungarian immigrants, Justus has hosted the popular program O Aprendiz, the Brazilian version of The Apprentice. He is married to Ticiane Pinheiro, who is the daughter of the Garota de Ipanema ...

Rede Record
Rede Record
Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

November 4, 2004 Você está demitido!
João Dória Jr
 Mainland China 赢在中国 CCTV
China Central Television
China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...

2006
 Colombia El Aprendiz Jean-Claude Bessudo Canal Caracol May 2005 Estás despedido!
 Denmark Klaus Riskaer Pedersen February 4, 2009 Du er fyret!
 Estonia Mantlipärija Armin Karu TV3
TV3 (Estonia)
TV3 is a commercial television channel targeted at an Estonian language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded in 1996 after two recent television stations, EVTV and RTV joined....

2007
 Finland Diili Jari Sarasvuo
Jari Sarasvuo
Jari Sarasvuo is the founder, chief owner and CEO of Trainer's House, a Finnish company that arranges training and lectures particularly for marketing topics....


Harry Harkimo
Harry Harkimo
Harry "Hjallis" Harkimo is a Finnish businessman and sportsperson. He is the chairman of the board of the Helsinki-based ice-hockey team Jokerit,. He is also the developer of the team's home arena, Hartwall Areena, and as an investor in sports...

MTV3
MTV3
MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

2005
2009
Mä annan sulle potkut!
 Germany Big Boss Reiner Calmund RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

2004 Sie haben frei!
 India Business Baazigar Cyrus Sahukar Zee TV
Zee TV
Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which broadcasts various programmes in Hindi and other regional languages of India. Broadcasting is also present in various nations of South Asia, Europe, the Middle East,...

handing out air tickets
 Indonesia The Apprentice Indonesia Peter Gontha Indosia October 3, 2005 Anda saya pecat!
 Republic of Ireland The Apprentice
The Apprentice (Irish TV series)
The Apprentice is an Irish reality television series, in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a job as "apprentice" to business magnate Bill Cullen....

Bill Cullen TV3 September 2008 You are fired!
 Netherlands De Nieuwe Moszkowicz Bram Moszkowicz
Bram Moszkowicz
Abraham Maarten Moszkowicz is a Dutch lawyer. Bram Moszkowicz is the son of Berthe Bessant and lawyer Max Moszkowicz...

 New Zealand The Apprentice Terry Serepisos
Terry Serepisos
Terry Serepisos is a bankrupt Wellington-based property developer and former owner of A-League association football club Wellington Phoenix. In 2010 he was the host in the New Zealand incarnation of the hit TV series The Apprentice.-Biography:...

TV2 February 16, 2010
 Norway Kandidaten Inger Ellen Nicolaisen TVNORGE
TVNorge
TVNorge is a Norwegian television channel.TVNorge went on the air December 5, 1988 and was the first advertising-supported Norwegian channel. The channel was started with 50 000 NOK...

February 16, 2010 Du har sparken
 Russia Кандидат
Kandidat
Arkady Novikov
Vladimir Potanin
Vladimir Potanin
Vladimir Olegovich Potanin is a Russian businessman and oligarch. His partner has been for many years Mikhail Prokhorov...

TNT
Turner Network Television
Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

2005
2006
Вы уволены
 South Africa The Apprentice Tokyo Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale
Mosima Gabriel Sexwale , commonly known as Tokyo Sexwale , is the current Minister of Human Settlements of South Africa. A South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist, and former political prisoner. His nickname of "Tokyo" is derived from his involvement with the sport of...

SABC3 September 2009 You're dismissed!
 Spain El Aprendiz Lluís Bassat La Sexta
La Sexta
laSexta is the sixth nationwide broadcast television station in Spain. It is privately owned and began broadcasting in 2006.-Programming:....

September 2009
 Switzerland Traum Job Jürg Marquard SF1
SRG SSR idée suisse
SRG SSR is the Swiss public broadcasting organisation, founded in 1931 as SRG-SSR. Headquartered in Bern, SRG SSR is a non-profit organisation, funded mainly through radio and television licence fees and making the remaining income from advertising and sponsorship.Switzerland's system of direct...

April 2005 Sie sind raus!
 Turkey Çırak Tuncay Özilhan Kanal D
Kanal D
Kanal D is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey and part of Doğan Holding which is owned by the Turkish media tycoon Aydın Doğan.Kanal D also runs an international channel, Euro D which is available online....

April 2005 Seninle çalışmak istemiyorum!
 United Kingdom The Apprentice Lord
Lord
Lord is a title with various meanings. It can denote a prince or a feudal superior . The title today is mostly used in connection with the peerage of the United Kingdom or its predecessor countries, although some users of the title do not themselves hold peerages, and use it 'by courtesy'...

 Alan Sugar
Alan Sugar
Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar is a British entrepreneur, media personality and political advisor. From humble origins in the East End of London, Sugar now has an estimated fortune of £770m , and was ranked 89th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2011...

BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

February 16, 2005 You're fired
  United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

The Apprentice
The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)
The Apprentice is an American reality television show hosted by real estate magnate, businessman and television personality Donald Trump, created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on NBC...

NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...

January 8, 2004 You're fired!
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart is a spin-off from the American reality television series The Apprentice that ran in the fall of 2005. Broadcast on NBC, the show featured business tycoon Martha Stewart. Tasks were centered around Stewart's areas of expertise: media, culinary arts, entertaining,...

NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, magazine publisher, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, and merchandising...

September 21, 2005 You just don't fit in

The Bar
The Bar (TV Series)
The Bar was a popular Swedish reality television program, that was first seen in Sweden in 2000 and in other countries from 2001. For around two months, a number of contestants work in a bar and try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize...

Original name: Baren

Origin: Sweden

Date started: April 2000

Creator: Strix Television

First network to broadcast: TV3

First country to adapt: Norway
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
 Argentina El Bar América 2 Andy Kusnettzoff March 18, 2001
 Cambodia CTN Coffee Shop CTN August 2006
 Chile Guerra de Bares Mega
Red Televisiva Megavisión
MEGA, formerly known as Red Televisiva Megavisión, is the first private TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago on digital frequency channel 27 for HDTV.Among the many TV shows broadcast on MEGA are:...

Gonzalo Feito January, 2005
 Independent State of Croatia Bar Nova TV Marin Ivanović August 2, 2005
 Czech Republic Bar Prima TV
Prima TV
Prima TV is a Romanian commercial TV channel, famous mainly for the Cronica Cârcotaşilor show and various reality shows.-Start:Prima TV was launched as one of the first commercial television stations in Romania in December 1997...

Libor Bouček
Laďka Něrgešová
July 9, 2006
 Denmark Baren TV3
TV3 (Denmark)
TV3 Denmark is a Danish television station.TV3 is one of the channels owned by the Viasat Corporation. The sister channel is TV3+. The channels shows a lot of American and British shows, such as: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, NCIS, Las Vegas, Bones, Two And A Half Men, Prison Break, American Idol...

January 22, 2001
 Estonia Baar Kanal 2
Kanal 2
Kanal 2 is a privately owned Estonian television channel. Its literal name in English is "Channel 2".First broadcasts were aired on October 1, 1993.- Television series :Daytime* Victoria * Julia – Wege zum Glück ...

October 16, 2004
 Finland Baari SubTV Kirsi Salo
Silvia Modig
March 7, 2006
 Georgia (country) სპორტი
GeoBar
Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2
Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company , better known as Rustavi 2, is the most successful private television broadcasting company in Georgia. The Rustavi, based in Tbilisi, was founded in 1994 in the town of Rustavi. It is a privately owned free to air terrestrial broadcaster that currently reaches around...

Nino Khoshtaria October 10, 2005
 Greece The Bar Mega
Mega Channel
Mega Channel, also known as Mega TV or just Mega, is a major television network in Greece. Teletypos S.A. was founded in 1989 under the name Teletypos Television Programmes S.A...

Miltos Makridis March 3, 2002
 Hungary Bár Viasat3 Péter Novák
Péter Majoros
Lia Kustánczi
2001
 Latvia Bārs TV3
TV3 Latvia
TV3 Latvia is a television channel targeted at a Latvian language audience owned by Modern Times Group . It was launched in 1998, but did not receive a terrestrial license until 2001...

September 28, 2003
 Lithuania Baras TV3
TV3 Lithuania
TV3 is a television channel owned by Modern Times Group and targeted at a Lithuanian-speaking audience. It was founded on May 7, 1992 and launched on April 11, 1993 as "Tele-3" before being renamed "TV3" in 1996....

June 7, 2003
 Mexico El Bar Provoca Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

Roberto Palazuelos
Roxana Castellanos
August 2, 2006
 Netherlands The Bar Yorin
Yorin
Yorin was a Dutch television channel. Yorin disappeared and most programs of this channel went to RTL 5. The programs of RTL 5 moved to a new channel called RTL 7....

Matthias Scholten April 15, 2002
 Norway Baren TV3
TV3 (Norway)
TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...

Anders Høglund September 29, 2000
 Poland Bar Polsat
Polsat
Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...

Krzysztof Ibisz
Krzysztof Ibisz
Awantura o kasęKrzysztof Ibisz is a Polish game show host and television personality. He was a member of Polish Beer-Lovers' Party and deputy in Polish Sejm from 1991 to 1993...

March 2, 2002
 Portugal O Bar Da TV SIC
SIC (Portugal)
SIC - Sociedade Independente de Comunicação is a Portuguese television network and media company, which runs several television channels. Their flagship channel is the eponymous SIC, the third terrestrial television station in Portugal, launched on October 6, 1992...

Jorge Gabriel
Jorge Gabriel
Jorge Gabriel Mendes Fialho, simply referred to as Jorge Gabriel, is a Portuguese TV host. The TV shows presented by him included Quem Quer Ser Milionário? , Praça da Alegria, O Preço Certo em Euros , O Cofre and Sabe Mais do...

April 25, 2001
 Slovenia Bar POP TV
POP TV
POP TV is a Slovenian commercial television station operated by the multi-media company PRO PLUS d.o.o.It is a TV channel with the highest ratings in Slovenia , and at the same time the most popular and trustworthy...

Sebastjan Kepic September 25, 2005
 Sweden Baren TV3
TV3 (Sweden)
TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded on 31 December 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3...

Robert Aschberg April 2000
 Switzerland Die Bar TV3 Yves Schifferle September 2, 2001


The Biggest Loser
The Biggest Loser
The Biggest Loser is an American reality game show that debuted on NBC October 19, 2004. The show features obese people competing to win a cash prize by losing the highest percentage of weight relative to their initial weight....

Original name: The Biggest Loser

Origin: United States

Date started: October 19, 2004

Creator: Dave Broome

First network to broadcast: NBC

First country to adapt: United Kingdom
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered Prize
Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

The Biggest Loser Asia Hallmark Channel Sarimah Ibrahim
Sarimah Ibrahim
Sarimah binti Ibrahim is a Malaysian television host, actress and singer.-Background:She is of Irish-Malay descent and was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her highest academic qualification is the O Levels and A Levels. She received her early education in Malaysia, Ireland, Abu Dhabi and at the Emirates...

November 24, 2009 US$100.000
 Argentina Cuestión de Peso Canal 13
Canal 13 (Argentina)
El Trece is an Argentine television network and the flagship station of the same network, located in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires.- Foundation :...

Andrea Politti (2006–2009)
Claribel Medina
Claribel Medina
Claribel Medina is a Puerto Rican actress who has acted for soap operas and movies filmed both in her native Puerto Rico and in Argentina.-Training:Medina graduated from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in 1983...

 (2010–2011)
2006 AR$50.000
Arab World
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

الرابح الأكبر
Ar Rabeh ElAkabar
The Biggest Winner
The Biggest Winner is an Arabic reality television show that began broadcasting on MBC 1 in 2006. Filming took place in Lebanon. The show is an adaptation of the American reality television show The Biggest Loser. The show features a host, personal trainers, and a dietitian who help the...

MBC1 Carolina de Oliveira April 29, 2006 250.000 SR
 Australia The Biggest Loser Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

Ajay Rochester
Hayley Lewis
Hayley Lewis
Hayley Jane Lewis is a retired Australian swimmer best known for winning five gold medals and one bronze at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as a 15-year-old....

February 13, 2006 AU$200.000
 Brazil O Grande Perdedor SBT Silvio Santos
Silvio Santos
-External links:*...

May 1, 2005 R$300.000
Quem Perde Ganha Lígia Mendes August 23, 2007 R$200.000
 Brunei The Biggest Loser Brunei
The Biggest Loser (Brunei TV series)
The Biggest Loser Brunei is a Bruneian reality television show that began broadcasting on BNC in 2010. The show is an adaptation of the American reality TV show The Biggest Loser. It features a host and personal trainers who help the contestants lose weight. In May 2010, the first season was aired...

BNC Stacy Sandra April, 2010 R260.000
 Chile Cuestión de Peso Canal 13
Canal 13 (Chile)
Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...

Jennifer Warner May 15, 2007 CL$5.000
 Dominican Republic Cuestión de Peso El Desafio Canal 11 Miralba Ruiz February 16, 2009 RD$300.000
 Germany The Biggest Loser Germany
The Biggest Loser Germany
The Biggest Loser Germany started in 2009 on ProSieben. The show wasn't renewed there and kabel eins made a new attempt to accomplish the series in 2010. After good ratings a third season was announced for 2011.-Season 1 on ProSieben:...

ProSieben Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt is a German figure skater and model. In Germany she was commonly called "Kati" in the past, but today her full name is used more often....

2009 100.000 €
Kabel Eins Regina Halmich
Regina Halmich
Regina Halmich is a popular female boxer from Germany. Halmich is among the most successful female boxers of all time, and helped popularize female boxing in Europe.-Amateur career:...

2010 25.000 €
 Hungary A Nagy Fogyás TV2
TV2 (Hungary)
TV2 is a Hungarian commercial television channel operating since 1997, providing a large variety of programming. It is owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG...

Gabriella Jakupcsek Autumn 2007
 India Biggest Loser Jeetega
Biggest Loser Jeetega
Biggest Loser Jeetega is an Indian reality series based on America's The Biggest Loser. It aired on the Sahara One channel and was very popular.-Synopsis:...

Sahara One
Sahara One
Sahara One is an Indian Hindi general entertainment channel based in Mumbai. It is operated by Sahara India Pariwar, a company formed by Subrato Roy Sahara who is a managing worker and chairman of the Sahara India Pariwar....

Suniel Shetty
Suniel Shetty
Sunil Shetty is an Indian film actor, producer, hotelier and liquor and fashion boutique owner. He is mainly active in Bollywood.-Career:Shetty made his acting debut in the 1992.His film Balwaan which was a moderate success. He gave 2 hit films in 1993 Pehchaan and Waqt Hamara Hai. His first...

May 2007
 Israel לרדת בגדול
Laredet Begadol
Channel 10 Tzipi Shavit March 7, 2006 ₪250.000
 Mexico ¿Cuánto quieres perder? Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

Galilea Montijo
Galilea Montijo
Galilea Montijo Torres is a Mexican actress, show host, and comedian. She currently hosts Hoy, a morning show of Televisa, and El gran show de los Peques...

May 18, 2008 MX$1.500.000
 Netherlands De Afvallers
The Biggest Loser (Netherlands TV series)
De Afvallers is a Dutch reality television series which first premiered on SBS 6. The series is a spin-off of the American reality television series The Biggest Loser and the SBS 6 weight-loss series Big Diet, which was canceled after two seasons due to low ratings.-Format:Over the course of three...

SBS 6 Marlayne Sahupala August 31, 2005 Vacation to a distant destination
 Philippines The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition
The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition
The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition is a weekday Philippine reality television currently airing on ABS-CBN. It is based on The Biggest Loser franchise that first became popular in the United States. The show is presented by Sharon Cuneta and game master Derek Ramsay...

ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

Sharon Cuneta
Sharon Cuneta
Sharon Cuneta-Pangilinan, better known as Sharon Cuneta, is a popular and multi-awarded Filipino singer, actress and TV host dubbed as Megastar of Philippine Entertainment, fondly called Mega by fans and people from the entertainment industry....

2010
 Poland Co masz do stracenia? TV Puls
TV Puls
TV Puls is a Polish commercial television channel, which was based on Telewizja Niepokalanów with the support of companies such as PKN Orlen, KGHM Polska Miedź, PZU Życie, Prokom and which started broadcasting in March 2001. Due to financial problems, ended broadcasting on April 1, 2003...

Małgorzata Ostrowska-Królikowska September 2008
 Sweden  Denmark  Norway
Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

Biggest Loser Kanal 5
Kanal 5 (Sweden)
Kanal 5 is a Swedish commercial television channel established in 1989. It is owned by the media corporation ProSiebenSat.1 Media.After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 launched new strategies in the early 2000s that established it as a popular entertainment channel targeting young people...

Martin Björk 2005 500.000 kr
 Slovakia SuperTelo STV Ivety Malachovské 1.000.000 Sk
 South Africa The Biggest Loser South Africa
The Biggest Loser South Africa
The Biggest Loser South Africa is a South African reality television show which first aired from January 7, 2008 to April 14, 2008 on e.tv. The show is a spin-off of the American reality television show The Biggest Loser. The South African version features Jasmyn Asvat as the host with trainers...

E.tv
E.tv
e.tv is the fifth terrestrial television channel in South Africa, following three channels operated by the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation and the privately owned subscription-funded M-Net, operated by Multichoice...

Jasmyn Asvat January 7, 2008 R260.000
 Spain Cuestión de Peso Antena 3
Antena 3 (Spain)
Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....

Cristina Lasvignes April 13, 2009
 Sweden Biggest Loser Sverige TV4 Jessica Almenäs
Jessica Almenäs
Jessica Magdalena Therése Almenäs, born 16 November 1975, in Jokkmokk, Sweden, is a Swedish TV personality, former model, and basketball player.Almenäs has studied science in media and is a TV personality on the Swedish channel TV4...

summer 2010
 United Kingdom The Biggest Loser
The Biggest Loser (UK TV series)
The Biggest Loser is a British reality television show that began airing on LIVINGtv from 2005 to 2006, before moving to ITV in 2009. The show is a spin-off of the American reality television show of the same name. The show originally featured Angie Dowds and Mark Bailey as the personal trainers,...

 
Living TV Vicki Butler-Henderson
Vicki Butler-Henderson
Victoria "Vicki" Butler-Henderson is a racing driver and television presenter.-Biography:Butler-Henderson was born into a racing family. Her grandfather used to race a Frazer Nash at Brooklands, her father was in the British karting team and her brother Charlie is a racing driver. She has an older...

October 6, 2005 £25.000
ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

Kate Garraway
Kate Garraway
Kathryn Mary Garraway is an English journalist currently employed by ITV Breakfast.She has presented the UK version of The Biggest Loser.-Early life:...

£10.000
 United States The Biggest Loser NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

Caroline Rhea
Caroline Rhea
Caroline Gilchrist Rhea is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actress who was the original host of the reality television show The Biggest Loser on NBC until she was replaced by Alison Sweeney after the end of the third season...


Alison Sweeney
Alison Sweeney
Alison Sweeney is an American dramatic actress and reality show host. Sweeney is best known for her portrayal of Samantha "Sami" Gene Brady on NBC's long running Days of our Lives, a role she has played under contract with the show since January 6, 1993...

October 19, 2004 US$250.000


The Farm
The Farm (TV series)
The Farm is a reality TV show created by Swedish producer Strix. Sold to more than 40 countries, The Farm is one of their most popular formats, including Survivor, The Bar or Fame Factory. In some countries the series is produced by Endemol, in association with Strix.Like Big Brother format, The...

Original name: Farmen

Origin: Sweden

Creator: Strix

First network to broadcast: TV4

First country to adapt: Sweden
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
Arab world
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

الوادي
Al Wadi
LBC
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...

Karen Dirkalostian 2005
     
Baltic States
Baltic states
The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...

A Farm TV3
TV3 (Viasat)
TV3 is the brand name used by Viasat's flagship channels in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Slovenia. Viasat is part of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group...

2003
   
Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

-Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

De Farm   vtm
VTM
The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...


  Yorin
Yorin
Yorin was a Dutch television channel. Yorin disappeared and most programs of this channel went to RTL 5. The programs of RTL 5 moved to a new channel called RTL 7....

2005
 Brazil A Fazenda
A Fazenda
A Fazenda is the current Brazilian version of the The Farm reality television show based on the Swedish television series of the same name that was originally created in 2001 by Strix and produced in association with Sony Entertainment and Endemol.The show is based on a group of celebrities living...

Rede Record
Rede Record
Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

Brito Jr. May 27, 2009
 Chile La Granja
La Granja (TV series)
La Granja was a Chilean reality television show based on The Farm. It was aired from January 4, 2005 to April 19, 2005 by Canal 13 and was produced by Promofilm. It was hosted by Sergio Lagos.-Finishing order:- Nominations :...


La Granja VIP
Granjeras
Canal 13
Canal 13 (Chile)
Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...

Sergio Lagos 2005
 Colombia La Granja Tolima Caracol TV
Caracol TV
Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...

Alejandro Martínez
Paula Jaramillo
2004
 Independent State of Croatia Farma Nova TV Mia Kovačić March 9, 2008
 Denmark Farmen TV 2
TV 2 (Denmark)
TV 2 is a publicly owned television station in Denmark based in Odense. The station began broadcasting on 1 October 1988, thereby ending the television monopoly previously exercised by the Danmarks Radio ....

Sonny Rønne Pedersen
Jakob Kjeldbjerg
2004
 Dominican Republic La Finca
La Finca
La Finca is the Dominican adaptation of reality television series The Farm. The show is a co-production between Tania Báez and company MediaWorld Dominicana.The series debuted on May 23, 2010, and ran until August 29, 2010...

Antena Latina Tania Báez 2010
 Early Modern France La Ferme Célébrités
La Ferme Célébrités
La Ferme Célébrités is the French version of the international TV show The Farm, produced in France by Endemol and broadcast on TF1. A certain number of B-List celebrities appearing on it. The show was running in 2004 and 2005, then in 2010. It was hosted by Christophe Dechavanne and Patrice...

TF1
TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

Christophe Dechavane
Patrice Carmouze
Benjamin Castaldi
Benjamin Castaldi
Benjamin Castaldi is a French television personality of Italian origin and current host of Secret Story, the spinoff of Loft Story. And, La Ferme Célébrités....


Jean-Pierre Foucault
Jean-Pierre Foucault
Jean-Pierre Foucault is a French television and radio host.He is the host of Qui Veut Gagner des Millions ?, the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? He has been hosting the Miss France pageant since 1996.Foucault played himself in the 2006 film Mon Meilleur Ami directed by Patrice...

2004
 Germany Die Farm
Die Farm
Die Farm was the first season of the german local show of The Farm. Showered on RTL. The show was started on January 31, 2010 and finished on April 4, 2010. The show was host by Inka Bause. Die Farm was filmed in Norway. The winner Markus was recibed €50,000 from the prize.- Contestants...

RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

Inka Bause
Inka Bause
Inka Bause is a Schlager singer, TV presenter and actress.- External links :...

January 24, 2010
 Greece Φάρμα
Farma
Mega TV
Mega Channel
Mega Channel, also known as Mega TV or just Mega, is a major television network in Greece. Teletypos S.A. was founded in 1989 under the name Teletypos Television Programmes S.A...

Grigroris Arnaoutoglou 2002
Φάρμα VIP
Farma VIP
2003
 Hungary A Farm Viasat 3
Viasat 3
Viasat 3 is a Hungarian TV channel. It was originally named Alfa TV, but when in 2000 the station was bought by Swedish MTG its name was changed. It began broadcasting as Viasat 3 in October 2000....

2002
 Italy La Fattoria Italia 1
Italia 1
Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...


Canale 5
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....

Daniele Bossari
Barbara D'Urso
2004
 Republic of Ireland Celebrity Farm
Celebrity Farm
Celebrity Farm was a 2003 Radio Telefís Éireann reality television show, based on the international TV format The Farm, produced by Strix. Held along similar lines as I'm a Celebrity.....

RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...

Mairead McGuinness
Mairead McGuinness
Mairead McGuinness is an Irish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East constituency. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.-Education and media career:...

2004
 Norway Farmen TV 2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

Sarah Natasha Melbye
Frithjof Wilborn
Gaute Grøtta Grav
2001
 Portugal Quinta das Celebridades TVI
TVI (Portugal)
Televisão Independente is Portugal's fourth terrestrial television channel, launched in 1993. It has been leading audience ratings since 2005. It competes directly with SIC and RTP1.-History:...

Júlia Pinheiro 2004
 Slovenia Kmetija POP TV
POP TV
POP TV is a Slovenian commercial television station operated by the multi-media company PRO PLUS d.o.o.It is a TV channel with the highest ratings in Slovenia , and at the same time the most popular and trustworthy...

Špela Močnik 2007
Kmetija Slavnih Anja Križnik Tomažin
 Spain La Granja de los famosos Antena 3
Antena 3 (Spain)
Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....

Terelu Campos 2004
 Sweden Farmen TV4 Hans Fahlén
Linda Isacsson
Filippa Lagerback
2001
 Turkey Ünlüler Çiftliği ATV Seray Sever 2005
 United Kingdom The Farm
The Farm (UK TV series)
The Farm is Five's version of the international TV format The Farm, produced by Strix. It had a number of celebrities appearing on it.-Series one:Series one aired in 2004 and was presented and narrated by Ed Hall...

Five Ed Hall
Ed Hall (television presenter)
Ed Hall is a British television presenter best known for being a co-presenter on BBC daytime television show To Buy or Not to Buy. He began his broadcast career as a reporter for The Sunday Show. He has also presented the Channel 4 paintball show XFire and acted as an interviewer for the first two...


Colin McAllister
Justin Ryan
2004
     
Western Balkans
Фарма
Farma
RTV Pink
RTV Pink
RTV Pink or Radio-Television Pink is a popular, privately-owned, national TV network in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. TV Pink has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming...

Aleksandra Jeftanović
Ognjen Amidžić
2009

The Surreal Life
The Surreal Life
The Surreal Life is a reality television series that sets a select group of past-their-prime celebrities and records them as they live together in Glen Campbell's former mansion in the Hollywood Hills for two weeks...

Original name: The Surreal Life

Origin: USA

Date started: January 9, 2003

Creators: Cris Abrego
Cris Abrego
Cris Abrego is an American television producer and writer.-Early life:Abrego grew up in El Monte, California. He was a wrestler at California State University, Fullerton before graduating and moving to Los Angeles to work on reality television shows....

, Mark Cronin
Mark Cronin
-Biography:Cronin graduated from Upper Darby High School and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a degree in Chemical Engineering. He spent five years working as an engineer in research and marketing...

, Rick Telles

First network to broadcast: The WB

Related series: Flavor of Love
Flavor of Love
Flavor of Love is an American reality television dating game show parody starring Flavor Flav of the rap group Public Enemy.While not a direct spin-off, the show was a result of Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav's failed relationship on Strange Love, as well as The Surreal Life...

, Strange Love, My Fair Brady
My Fair Brady
My Fair Brady is a celebrity reality television show on VH1 that follows Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch, and Adrianne Curry, who won the first season of America's Next Top Model, a year after they met and fell in love on the reality show The Surreal Life.The show...

, The Salt-N-Pepa Show
The Salt-N-Pepa Show
The Salt-N-Pepa Show, which premiered on October 14, 2007 on VH1, is a reality show documenting the events from the life of Salt-n-Pepa, several years after their breakup.-Season one:...

, Rock of Love, For the Love of Ray J
For the Love of Ray J
For the Love of Ray J is a dating show on VH1 featuring hip hop singer Ray J. The program has a format similar to Flavor of Love, I Love New York, and Rock of Love. One source notes that it "will be produced by the same geniuses" as those shows, 51 Minds...

, Charm School
Charm School (TV series)
Charm School is a reality television series airing on VH1; a spin-off of Flavor of Love created by executive producers Cris Abrego and Mark Cronin. The first season, called Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School, is hosted by comedian Mo'Nique and features thirteen contestants from the first two...

, I Love Money
I Love Money
I Love Money is an American reality television series airing on VH1, and is a spin-off of Flavor of Love, Charm School, I Love New York, Rock of Love, Real Chance of Love, For the Love of Ray J, Daisy of Love and Megan Wants a Millionaire. Former contestants on these shows compete in physical and...

, I Love New York
I Love New York (TV series)
I Love New York is a reality television series, which first aired on VH1. It features Tiffany Pollard in a quest to find her true love. The series is a spin off of another relationship competition series, Flavor of Love, which featured Pollard as a finalist in two consecutive seasons...

, Real Chance of Love
Real Chance of Love
Real Chance of Love is an American reality television dating game show featuring two brothers Ahmad Givens and Kamal Givens , of the rap group The Stallionares, and former contestants on I Love New York, who are looking for love....

, Daisy of Love
Daisy of Love
thumb|right|Daisy de la Hoya attending the premiere of VH1's "Daisy of Love" at My House, Hollywood, CA on April 26, 2009Daisy of Love is a reality television dating show which stars Daisy de la Hoya, the runner-up of the VH1 reality dating show Rock of Love 2...

, Megan Wants a Millionaire, Frank the Entertainer... in a Basement Affair, New York Goes to Hollywood
New York Goes To Hollywood
New York Goes to Hollywood is a reality VH1 series that consists of eight, 30-minute-episodes. New York Goes to Hollywood premiered on August 4, 2008. This spin-off of the I Love New York series, features Tiffany "New York" Pollard as she tries to find an acting job in Hollywood, California...

, New York Goes to Work
New York Goes to Work
New York Goes to Work is a reality VH1 series that first premiered on May 4, 2009. This follow-up of New York Goes to Hollywood stars Tiffany "New York" Pollard as she tries to find a regular job. The jobs are selected by fans from a list of three possible jobs for each individual episode...

, Real and Chance: The Legend Hunters
Real and Chance: The Legend Hunters
Real and Chance: The Legend Hunters is an American reality television that follows brothers Ahmad Givens and Kamal Givens , from VH1's Real Chance of Love, as they hunt for mythical creatures such as: The Mega Shark, Bigfoot, and Hogzilla...

, Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It
Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It
Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It is a follow-up to the reality series Rock of Love. The reality docu-series is about Bret Michaels and his family. Filming of the series began before Michaels' health troubles, and filming was suspended after his hospitalization...

, Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business
Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business
Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business is an American reality series airing on VH1, and starring Brandy and her younger brother Ray J. The series premiered on April 11, 2010.- Overview :...

, The Surreal Life: Fame Games
The Surreal Life: Fame Games
The Surreal Life: Fame Games is a reality television series that was originally broadcast on the VH1 cable network. A spin-off of the VH1 show, The Surreal Life, the show assembles ten alumni of the show's 6 prior seasons to compete in a ten-week competition that takes place in Las Vegas, with the...



The Voice
The Voice (TV series)
The Voice is a multinational singing competition television franchise. The series started in the Netherlands as The Voice of Holland in 2010, followed by an American debut series called The Voice in April to June 2011...

Original name: The Voice of Holland
The Voice of Holland
The Voice of Holland is a Dutch reality singing competition, created by media tycoon John de Mol, and currently airing on RTL4 in the Netherlands. Hosted by Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk it is currently the number 1 show in the Netherlands, with increasing ratings from 1.6 to 3.0 million viewers...



Origin: The Netherlands

Date started: September 17, 2010

Creator: John de Mol

First network to broadcast: RTL4

First country to adapt: United States

Related series: Star Academy
Region/country Local title Television Network Series and winners Judges Presenters
 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

The Voice (Australia)
The Voice (Australia)
The Voice is an upcoming Australian reality talent show that will premiere on the Nine Network in 2012. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol.- Overview :...

Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

Season 1, 2012: upcoming season TBA TBA
 Belgium Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 
 Flanders Flanders
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

De Stem van Vlaanderen
(The Voice of Flanders)
vtm
VTM
The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...

Season 1, 2012: upcoming season TBA TBA
 Brazil Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

A Voz (TBC)
(The Voice)
Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

Season 1, 2012: upcoming season TBA TBA
 Finland Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

The Voice of Finland Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

Season 1, 2012: upcoming season TBA TBA
 Germany Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

The Voice of Germany
The Voice of Germany
The Voice of Germany is a german reality talent show that premiered on November 24, 2011 on ProSieben and Sat.1. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol...

ProSieben Season 1, 2011: upcoming season TBA TBA
 Netherlands Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

The Voice of Holland
The Voice of Holland
The Voice of Holland is a Dutch reality singing competition, created by media tycoon John de Mol, and currently airing on RTL4 in the Netherlands. Hosted by Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk it is currently the number 1 show in the Netherlands, with increasing ratings from 1.6 to 3.0 million viewers...

RTL 4
RTL 4
RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. The station has three sister tv channels: RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8...


Season 1, 2010-2011: Ben Saunders
Ben Saunders (singer)
Ben Saunders is a Dutch singer who won the first-ever title of the Dutch singing competition series The Voice of Holland broadcast on RTL 4. The final of 2010-2011 season was held live on 21 January 2011. Saunders is also a tattoo artist and a Mixed martial arts fighter. He is popularly known as...



Season 2, 2011-2012: upcoming season
Roel van Velzen (seasons 1-present)
Angela Groothuizen
Angela Groothuizen
Angela Groothuizen is a Dutch singer, artist and television personality.-Biography:Groothuizen rose to fame as a member of the Dutch Dance/Pop girl group Dolly Dots, which achieved popularity inside and outside the Netherlands, and scored hits between 1979 and 1988...

 (seasons 1-present)
Nick & Simon
Nick & Simon
Nick & Simon is a Dutch singer-songwriter duo composed of: Simon Keizer and Nick Schilder . They gained lots of succes in their home country the Netherlands in 2006. Their latest album "Luister" went double platinum in 4 months...

 (seasons 1-present)
(Nick Schilder
Nick Schilder
Nicolaas 'Nick' Maria Schilder is a Dutch singer-songwriter. Together with Simon Keizer, he forms a duo called Nick & Simon.-Career:...

 & Simon Keizer
Simon Keizer
Simon Nicolaas Keizer is a Dutch singer-songwriter. Together with Nick Schilder, he forms a duo called Nick & Simon.-Biography:...

)

Jeroen van der Boom
Jeroen van der Boom
Jeroen van der Boom is a Dutch singer who rose to fame in 2007 with his #1 hit single Jij bent zo.-Biography:...

 (season 1)
Marco Borsato
Marco Borsato
Marco Borsato is a Dutch singer. He started performing in Italian before switching to Dutch in 1994. He is married to Leontine Ruiters and has three children.-Biography:...

 (season 2 - present)

Wendy van Dijk
Wendy van Dijk
Wendy van Dijk is a Dutch actress and presenter.In 2006 she was candidate in Dancing On Ice.In the 2006/2007 season she presented X Factor...

 
Martijn Krabbé
Martijn Krabbé
Martijn Joop Krabbé is a Dutch radio- and TV-presenter.- Biography :As son of actor, director, painter and writer Jeroen Krabbé, he started his career in Dutch media as 19 year old in the Dutch TV-programme "Popformule"...

 
Winston Gerschtanowitz 
(Backstage)
 Ukraine Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

Holos krajiny
(Голос країни)
1+1
1+1
- History :TV channel "1+1" was founded in August 1995, headed by its original President Alexander Rodnyansky who also was its general director from 1996 to 2002...

Season 1, 2011: upcoming season Ruslana
Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko is a World Music Award winning and MTV Europe Music Award nominated artist, and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004....

 
Oleksandr Ponomaryov
Oleksandr Ponomaryov
Oleksandr Ponomaryov born, August 9, 1973, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) is one of the most famous singers of Ukraine. He has been awarded the country’s "Singer of the Year" seven times.One of Oleksandr's early passions was boxing...

 
Diana Arbienina
TBA
  United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

The Voice (U.S.) NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...


Season 1, 2011: ongoing season
Adam Levine
Adam Levine
Adam Noah Levine is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the front man and guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5. He is also a coach on the American talent show The Voice.-Early life:...

 
Cee Lo Green 
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

 
Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton
Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music artist. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin". Released as the lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" went on to spend five weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...

Carson Daly
Carson Daly
Carson Jones Daly is an American television host. He is the host of NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly, a late-night talk show that began airing on January 7, 2002. Before his role as host of that program, Daly was a VJ on MTV's TRL, and a DJ for the Southern California based radio station KROQ-FM...

 
Alison Haislip
Alison Haislip
Alison Fesq Haislip is an American actress and former TV correspondent for Attack of the Show! on G4 and NBC's The Voice. She resides in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...

  (Backstage)
  Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

O Ses Turkiye Show TV
Show TV
SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...


Season 1, 2011: ongoing season
Mustafa Sandal
Mustafa Sandal
Mustafa Sandal, commonly known as Musti, is a famous Turkish pop singer. He is fluent in English, Turkish, Italian and French. He emerged in the early 1990s with the revival of Turkish pop music and is one of the most successful pop singers in Turkey with overall sales of 13 million copies...

 
Murat Boz
Murat Boz
Murat Boz was born on March 7, 1980 in Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey, currently resides in Istanbul is a Turkish pop singer.-Early life:"Murat Boz" completed his primary and secondary education in Karadeniz Ereğli, Zonguldak, then in 1995-1996 he attended a fine art oriented high school in İstanbul...

 
Hulya Avsar
Hülya Avsar
Hülya Avşar is a Turkish actress, talk show host, and pop folk singer. Her father is Kurdish and her mother is Turkish.-Career:...

 
Hadise
Hadise
Hadise Açıkgöz , is a Belgian born Turkish singer of Circassian descent. Hadise's career began in 2004 with the release of her debut single "Sweat", which peaked at 19 on the Flanders chart. Hadise continued to release more successful singles, most notably the single "Milk Chocolate Girl"...

Acun Ilicali
Acun Ilicali
Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish television personality, producer and sport journalist. He is also the founder and head of Acun Medya.- Biography :...

 
 Canada Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

The Voice (Canada) CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

TBA

The X Factor
The X Factor (TV series)
The X Factor is a television talent show franchise originating in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for Pop Idol. It is a singing competition, now held in various countries, which pits contestants against each other. These contestants are aspiring pop singers drawn from...

Original name: The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...



Origin: United Kingdom

Date started: September 4, 2004

Creator: Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...



First network to broadcast: ITV

First country to adapt: Morocco
Region/country Local title Network Presenters Date premiered
Arab World
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

سير النجاح X
The X Factor, XSeer Al Najah
The X Factor, XSeer Al Najah
The X Factor is the Arabic version of the The X Factor. Its first Arabic series started on March 26, 2006. The 14-episode first series was broadcast in 22 Arabic-speaking countries. It was known to be in its debut, one of the most watched programs on TV and it is produced and supported by Rotana,...

Rotana TV
Rotana (television)
Rotana is a series of free television channels broadcast terrestrially in Saudi Arabia and on satellite television for the Arab World and the Arab Diaspora. The channels are part of the Rotana Group a big pan-Arab entertainment group.-General:...

Joelle Rahme 2006
 Armenia ԻՔՍ-ՖԱԿՏՈՐ (Iks-Factor) Shant TV
Shant TV
Shant TV is a private television broadcasting company in Armenia. Shant TV was founded by Arthur Yezekyan in Gyumri, the second largest city of Armenia, in 1994. In 2001 Shant TV moved to Yerevan, capital, and within 3 years gained high popularity and trust...

Aram MP3 2010
 Australia The X Factor
The X Factor (Australian TV series)
The X Factor is an Australian television reality music competition, adapted from the original UK series to find new singing talent. The first season began in 2005 and was originally broadcast on Network Ten, until the show got cancelled due to poor ratings...

Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 (2005)
Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

 (2010-present)
Daniel MacPherson
Daniel MacPherson
Daniel Donald MacPherson is an Australian actor and television presenter, best known for his roles as; Joel Samuels on Neighbours, PC Cameron Tait on British police drama The Bill, and Detective Senior Constable Simon Joyner in City Homicide...


Matthew Newton
Matthew Newton
Matthew Newton is an Australian stage and screen actor. Born in Melbourne, he is the son of television personalities, Bert and Patti Newton, brother of Lauren Newton, brother-in-law of Matt Welsh and uncle to Sam Albert and Eva Eunice Newton Welsh.-Acting:Newton has performed in Australia and...

2005
 Belgium X Factor
X Factor (Belgium)
X Factor, the Belgian version of the British show The X Factor that was created by Simon Cowell. The new X Factor series was a postcursor to Idool 2003 / 2004 which features contestants & jury members from both seasons.-Series summary:...

VTM
VTM
The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...

Koen Wauters
Koen Wauters
Koen Maria Gaston Wauters is a Flemish singer, active with the band Clouseau, television presenter, and occasionally actor and race car driver.-Biography:...

 
Hadise
Hadise
Hadise Açıkgöz , is a Belgian born Turkish singer of Circassian descent. Hadise's career began in 2004 with the release of her debut single "Sweat", which peaked at 19 on the Flanders chart. Hadise continued to release more successful singles, most notably the single "Milk Chocolate Girl"...

2005
 Kingdom of Bulgaria X Factor
X Factor (Bulgaria)
X Factor is the Bulgarian version of The X Factor, a show originating from the United Kingdom. It is a television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions....

PRO.BG TBA 2009
 Canada Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

The X Factor Yasmin Analiza Colonel 2010
 Chile Factor X
Factor X (Chile)
Factor X Chile is a television show, adapted from the original UK show as part of The X Factor franchise. The auditions were in January 2011. The first season of the Chilean version was premiered on television in March 3, 2011...

TVN
Televisión Nacional de Chile
TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...

Julián Elfenbein
Julián Elfenbein
Eduardo Julián Elfenbein Kaufmann better known as Julián Elfenbein is a Chilean journalist, radio broadcaster and television presenter.-Career:...

2011
 Colombia El Factor X
El Factor X (Colombia)
El factor X is the Colombian television music competition to find new singing talent. It is the based on the original British competition The X Factor, created by Simon Cowell. It is the first version produced in Latin America. The show started screening in September 2005 and ended in December...

RCN TV
RCN TV
RCN Televisión , is a Colombian private television network. It started as a production company in 1967...

Andrea Serna
Andrea Serna
Andrea Serna is a famous Colombian model, TV presenter , reporter, TV show hostess, radio DJ and TV producer.She was born in Caldas, but she was raised in Santiago de Cali and currently lives in Bogotá with her husband, Colombian TV producer Frank Scheuermann...

2005
 Czech Republic X Factor
X Factor (Czech Republic)
The X Factor is a television music talent show franchise originating in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for the massively successful Pop Idol .-Series summary: "Under 25 boys" or "Under 25s" category...

TV Nova Leoš Mareš 2008
 Denmark X Factor
X Factor (Denmark)
X Factor is the Danish version of The X Factor, a show originating in the United Kingdom and is created by talent show judge and record and TV producer Simon Cowell.-Series summary: "Under 25 boys" or "Under 25s" category "Under 25 girls" category...

DR
Danmarks Radio
DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...

Lise Rønne 2008
 Finland X Factor
X Factor (Finland)
X Factor is the Finnish version of X Factor, a show originating from the United Kingdom. It is a television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions...

MTV3
MTV3
MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

Heikki Paasonen
Jukka Rossi
2010
 Early Modern France X Factor
X Factor (France)
X Factor is a French television music talent show to find new singing talent after public auditions, intermediate tests, and live shows.The first series was broadcast on Mondays, from September to December 2009, on W9 and RTL-TVI ....

W9 Alexandre Devoise 2009
 Germany X Factor VOX 
Kick-off and finale on RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

Jochen Schropp 2010
 Greece
 Cyprus
The X Factor
The X Factor (Greece)
The X Factor is the Greek version of The X Factor, a show originating in the United Kingdom. It is a television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions....

ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

Sakis Rouvas
Sakis Rouvas
Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas II , often referred to mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek musician, television and film artist, businessman, and former pole vaulter who is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time in Greece and Cyprus...

2008
 Hungary X-faktor
X-Faktor
X-Faktor is the Hungarian version of The X Factor, a show originating from the United Kingdom. It is a television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions....

RTL Klub
RTL Klub
RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...

Ördög Nóra
Sebestyén Balázs
Sebestyén Balázs
Sebestyén Balázs is a Hungarian television presenter and winner of multiple "Story Ötcsillag" prizes.- Shows :Sebestyén Balázs began his career as presenter of a music request program...

2010
 Iceland The X Factor
The X Factor (Iceland)
X Factor, the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor premiered Reykjavik on November 17, 2006. The host is actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir and the judges are talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Paul Oscar...

Stöð 2
Stöð 2
Stöð 2 is an Icelandic television channel, owned and operated by 365. Founded in 1986, It was the first privately owned television station in Iceland following the lifting of the state monopoly on television broadcasting...

Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir 2006
 Indonesia The X Factor Indonesia SCTV
SCTV (Indonesia)
Surya Citra Televisi is an Indonesian television station. Its headquarters are in South Jakarta. It began broadcasting on 24 August 1990 in Surabaya, East Java, broadcasting only to the city and surrounding area. At this point the programming was similar to that of RCTI and used some of their news...

Adi Nugroho 2010
 Italy X Factor
X Factor (Italy)
X Factor is a successful TV show airing on prime time in Italy. The singing competition is the Italian version of The X Factor franchise...

Rai Due
Rai Due
Rai 2 is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai 1 and Rai 3. Rai 2 first started transmissions on November 4, 1961...

Francesco Facchinetti 2008
 Kazakhstan The X Factor
X Factor (Kazakhstan)
X Factor is a television music talent show in Kazakhstan contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is the Kazakh version of the international The X Factor series and is broadcast on the Perviy Kanal Evraziya channel in Kazakhstan....

2006
 Morocco Le Facteur X 2M TV
2M TV
2M TV is a Moroccan television service. It was established by the largest Moroccan economic conglomerate, ONA, before being sold to the Moroccan state. It is based in Casablanca...

2006
Studio 2M Imad Ntifi 2004
 Netherlands X Factor
X Factor (Netherlands)
X Factor is a Dutch television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is shown Friday evenings on the RTL4 Network in the Netherlands. The first series of the show aired from October 2006 through to February 2007, while the second series of the show...

RTL 4
RTL 4
RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. The station has three sister tv channels: RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8...

Wendy van Dijk
Martijn Krabbe
2006
 New Zealand X Factor TV3
TV3 (New Zealand)
TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...

Wendy van Dijk
Martijn Krabbe
2006
 Norway X Factor
X Factor (Norway)
X Factor is a Norwegian television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is broadcast on Friday evenings on the TV 2 Network in Norway.- Series 1 :...

TV2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

Charlotte Thorstvedt
Ravi
Ravi (Ivar Johansen)
Ivar Christian Johansen is a Norwegian popular musician under the pseudonym Ravi . He writes songs with Anders Løvlie under the name Ravi og DJ Løv....


Guri Solberg
Guri Solberg
Guri Solberg is television host at the Norwegian TV station TV 2She was host of Absolutt Underholdning in 2004-2005, Skal vi danse? three times in 2006, 2007 and 2008 , and award ceremonies Amanda Award in 2008 and Gullfisken in 2007 and 2008.Solberg is a journalist educated at Volda University...

2009
 Poland X Factor
X Factor (Poland)
X Factor is a Polish talent show based on a british show The X Factor and broadcast on TVN. The first series premiered on 6 March 2011. On 27 November 2010 during the final of the third series of Poland's Got Talent Marcin Prokop confirmed that the auditions would be held in January 2011...

TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

Jarosław Kuźniar 2011
 Russia Секрет Успеха
Sekret Uspekha
Sekret Uspekha
Sekret Uspekha was a Russian popular music talent show, broadcast on Saturdays on RTR. It was similar in format to Narodniy Artist, and was the Russian version of the British show The X Factor, created by Simon Cowell. The Секрет Успеха of the title refers to the secret and undefinable...

RTR Aleksey Chumakov
Elena Vorobey
Tutti Larsen
2005
 Spain Factor X
Factor X (Spain)
Factor X is the Spanish version of the British television music competition The X Factor, created by Simon Cowell. The show, which airs on Cuatro, follows series 2-3 of the British format, with three categories, mentored by one judge each, whom choose the acts to represent the category in the live...

Cuatro Núria Roca 2007
 United Kingdom The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...

ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...


ITV2
ITV2
ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...


STV
UTV
UTV
UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...


TV3 Ireland
TV3 Ireland
TV3 is a free-to-air commercial television network in the Republic of Ireland. Launched on 20 September 1998 it was Ireland's first commercial broadcaster. The channel is owned by TV3 Group a subsidiary of Doughty Hanson & Co.-The TV3 Group:...

Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary is an English television and radio presenter. He established himself as a presenter of Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4 before moving on to The X Factor on ITV. O'Leary has also presented on the BBC and has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2...

 
Holly Willoughby
Holly Willoughby
Holly Marie Willoughby is an English television presenter and model, known for her work in presenting children's TV and entertainment shows. In her early career she modelled underwear and went on to present CD:UK...


Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton is an English journalist and television presenter. Early in her career, she was notable for her articles at the Daily Mirror and for her role as editor of Smash Hits magazine...


Ben Shephard
Ben Shephard
Benjamin Peter "Ben" Shephard, also known as "Sheps" is an English television presenter who currently works for Sky Sports, as well as ITV.-Personal life:...


Fearne Cotton
Fearne Cotton
Fearne Cotton is an English television and radio presenter who is known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon. In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of BBC Radio 1's Chart Show...


Konnie Huq
Konnie Huq
Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq is a British television presenter, who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008...

2004
 United States The X Factor
The X Factor (U.S.)
The X Factor is an American television music competition to find new singing talent. The show is produced by creator Simon Cowell's company SYCOtv. It premiered on September 21, 2011 on Fox....

FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

Steve Jones
Steve Jones (presenter)
Stephen Ashton "Steve" Jones is a Welsh television presenter. Jones is primarily known in the UK as presenter of T4. Internationally, he is known as the host of The X Factor USA.-Early life:...


Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, model, and actress. Scherzinger is perhaps best known for being the lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls....

2011

Top Model

Original name: America's Next Top Model

Origin: United States

Date started: May 20, 2003

Country with most series: United States

Creator: Tyra Banks

First network to broadcast: UPN

First country to adapt: Russia
Region/Country Local name Network Main presenter Date premiered
 Australia Australia's Next Top Model
Australia's Next Top Model
Australia's Next Top Model is an Australian reality television series, based on a franchise that was created by Tyra Banks with America's Next Top Model...

Fox8
FOX8
Fox8 is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms...

Erika Heynatz
Erika Heynatz
Erika Heynatz is an Australian model, actress, singer and television personality.-Career:...


Jodhi Meares
Jodhi Meares
Jodhi Meares is an Australian fashion designer, former glamour model, and television personality.-Early life:...


Sarah Murdoch
Sarah Murdoch
Sarah Murdoch is an Australian model and actress.-Career:Brought up in Sydney, Australia, Murdoch attended The McDonald College of the Performing Arts, a performing arts school in Sydney, where she studied ballet...

January 11, 2005
 Austria Austria's Next Topmodel
Austria's Next Topmodel
Austria's Next Topmodel is an Austrian reality documentary based on Tyra Banks America's Next Top Model that pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win title of Austria's Next Topmodel, with prizes including the cover of a magazine, a contract with a...

PULS4 Lena Gercke
Lena Gercke
Lena Johanna Gercke, better known as Lena Gercke , is a German fashion model and television host. She was winner of the first cycle of Germany's Next Top Model.-Modelling career:...

January 9, 2009
 Belgium Topmodel
Topmodel
Topmodel is a Flemish reality television show which pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contract with Dominique Models...

KanaalTwee Ingrid Seynhaeve October 2, 2007
 Brazil Brazil's Next Top Model
Brazil's Next Top Model
Brazil's Next Top Model, sometimes abbreviated as BrNTM, is a Brazilian reality show, based on the United States original America's Next Top Model and produced by the Brazilian branch of the Latin American cable channel Sony Entertainment Television, in association with producer Moonshot Pictures...

Canal Sony Fernanda Motta October 3, 2007
 Canada Canada's Next Top Model
Canada's Next Top Model
Canada's Next Top Model is a Canadian reality show in which female contestants compete for the title "Canada's Next Top Model" and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry...

CityTV, CTV (Canada) Jay Manuel May 31, 2006
         

 

Central America
Super Model Centroamérica
Super Model Centroamérica
Super Model Centroamérica is a reality documentary that features contestants from the participating countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama that are living in a villa in Heredia, Costa Rica and do a variety of model-business-based competitions to determine who...

Various Leonora Jiménez
Leonora Jiménez
Leonora Jiménez Monge is a Costa Rican beauty pageant titleholder and the original winner of 2005 Miss Asia Pacific International. She was dethroned because of her participation in Miss World 2005 and the Miss Asia Pacific title was passed to the 1st runner up, Evgeniya Lapova of Russia. Monge did...

2007
 Mainland China China's Next Top Model
China's Next Top Model
China's Next Top Model is a Chinese reality TV series, based on the international version and spin-off to the original, America's Next Top Model....

Dragon TV Li ai January 18, 2008
 Denmark Denmark's Next Top Model
Denmark's Next Top Model
Danmarks Næste Topmodel , or simply Topmodel, is a Danish reality television show and local version of America's Next Top Model, created by Tyra Banks....

TV3
TV3 (Denmark)
TV3 Denmark is a Danish television station.TV3 is one of the channels owned by the Viasat Corporation. The sister channel is TV3+. The channels shows a lot of American and British shows, such as: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, NCIS, Las Vegas, Bones, Two And A Half Men, Prison Break, American Idol...

Anne P. 2004
 Finland Suomen Huippumalli Haussa
Suomen huippumalli haussa
Suomen huippumalli haussa is a Finnish television reality show based on America's Next Top Model. The show first aired on Sunday, 6 April 2008 from 20.00 to 21.00 on the Finnish channel Nelonen. The show is produced by FremantleMedia...

Nelonen Anne Kukkohovi 2008
 Early Modern France France's Next Top Model
France's Next Top Model
France's Next Top Model is a reality television programmebased upon America's Next Top Model.The first cycle ended with Alizée Sorel as the winner of the competition, while the second cycle saw victory for seventeen year old Karen Pillet from Maintenon, France.-The challenge:The challenge usually...

Métropole 6 Odile Sarron 2005
 Germany Germany's Next Topmodel ProSieben Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...

January 25, 2006
 Ghana Top Model Ghana
Top Model Ghana
Top Model Ghana, was a weekly one-hour reality television series produced by 702 Productions, Ltd., and was aired on GTV. Inspired by but not licensed by ANTM, the objective of this program was to raise the caliber of young models in the country and enhancing the international perception of...

GTV Abenaa August 26, 2006
 Greece Next Top Model ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

Vicky Kagia 12 October 2009
 Honduras Amiga Top Model
 Hungary Hungary's Next Top Model
Hungary's Next Top Model
Hungary's Next Top Model was a Hungarian reality television show that was based on American model Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model...

Viasat 3 Viktória Vámosi, later Panni Epres September 21, 2006
 Republic of Ireland The Model Agent
The Model Agent
The Model Scouts, called The Model Agent in its first season in 2009, is an Irish reality documentary on RTÉ Two that follows twelve girls competing for a lucrative modelling contract....

RTE 2 Fiona Ellis April 20, 2009
 Israel Israel's Next Top Model
Israel's Next Top Model
HaDugmaniyot is a reality documentary based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model and is aired on Channel 10...

Channel 10 Galit Gutman
 Italy Italia's Next Top Model
Italia's Next Top Model
Italia's Next Top Model is an Italian reality television show hosted by Natasha Stefanenko and based on the American program of the same name. It is broadcast on SKY Uno, a channel of the Italian Pay Television SKY Italia...

SKY Vivo Natasha Stefanenko December 4, 2007
 Kazakhstan Kazakhstan's Next Top Model
Kazakhstan's Next Top Model
I'm Beautiful was a Kazakh reality television show competition of non-professional aspiring models broadcast on Hit TV for a contract with the international model agency. Its first cycle premiered and finished in 2005....

Hit TV 2005
 Malaysia Malaysian Dreamgirl
Malaysian Dreamgirl
Malaysian Dreamgirl was an online reality television show in which a number of young women competed for the title of Malaysian Dreamgirl and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry...

[www.malaysiandreamgirl.tv] Sazzy Falak March 6, 2008
 Mexico Mexico's Next Top Model
Mexico's Next Top Model
Mexico's Next Top Model, sometimes abbreviated as MxNTM, is a Mexican reality television series, based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model...

Sony Entertainment Television Elsa Benítez October 1, 2009
 Netherlands Holland's Next Top Model
Holland's Next Top Model
Holland's Next Top Model is a Dutch reality television show hosted by writer and former model Daphne Deckers, who also serves as the lead judge...

RTL5 Daphne Deckers September 4, 2006
 New Zealand New Zealand's Next Top Model
New Zealand's Next Top Model
New Zealand's Next Top Model is a New Zealand reality television series in which a number of young women compete for the title of New Zealand's Next Top Model and the chance to start their career in the modeling industry....

TV3
TV3 (New Zealand)
TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...

Sara Tetro March 13, 2009
 Nigeria Nigeria's Next Top Model
Nigeria's Next Top Model
Nigeria’s Top Model 2007 was a television event in Nigeria. It took place on April 27, 2007. After Top Model Ghana it was the second African Top Model show and the first that included one episode only...

Hi TV Agbani Darego September 2007
 Norway Top Model Norge
Norway's Next Top Model
Norway's Next Top Model is a Norwegian reality television show based on the original American version, airing on TV3. The first cycle aired in 2006, after part years of participating in Scandinavia's Next Top Model along with Sweden and Denmark...

TV3
TV3 (Norway)
TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...

Vendela Kirsebom September 2, 2006
 Philippines Philippines' Next Top Model
Philippines' Next Top Model
Philippines’ Next Top Model was a Filipino reality competition broadcast by the Radio Philippines Network where a number of women competed for the title of the country's "next top model". The series was a local version of America's Next Top Model...

RPN
Radio Philippines Network
Radio Philippines Network, Inc. is a broadcast television network in the Philippines co-owned by the Government Communications Group, Solar Entertainment Corporation, Far East Managers and Investors Inc., and private sectors. This station studios are located at Broadcast City, Old Balara, Capitol...

Ruffa Gutierrez March 6, 2007
 Poland Top Model. Zostań modelką
Top Model. Zostań modelką
Top Model. Zostań modelką is an ongoing reality documentary based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model that pits contestants from Poland against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win the title of the next Polish Top Model and a lucrative modeling contract with NEXT...

TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

Joanna Krupa
Joanna Krupa
Joanna Krupa is a Polish-American model and actress. Krupa was born in Warsaw, Poland. She has a younger sister, Marta Krupa, also a model. Joanna Krupa moved to India, Delhi, Illinois, with her family at the age of five...

September ?, 2010
 Russia Ty - supermodel
You are a Supermodel
You are a Supermodel was a Russian reality show on the STS TV channel, a competition of non-professional aspiring models for a contract with the international model agency Point Models and prize money of 250,000 dollars. The anchor of the show for the first two cycles was Fyodor Bondarchuk . Then...

STS Svetlana Bondarchuk January 2004
     

Scandinavian peninsula
Scandinavia's Next Top Model
Scandinavia's Next Top Model
Scandinavia's Next Top Model was a Scandinavian reality television show, based on the original concept from America's Next Top Model. It is broadcast on TV3 in Denmark, Norway and Sweden by Viasat....

TV3
TV3 (Viasat)
TV3 is the brand name used by Viasat's flagship channels in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Slovenia. Viasat is part of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group...

Various presenters 2004
 Slovakia H'lada sa Supermodelka TV JOJ January 12, 2007
 Spain Supermodelo
Supermodelo
Supermodelo was a Spanish reality television show based on the American TV series America's Next Top Model which is broadcast on the Spanish television station Cuatro. Two seasons have already gone to air, and a third one began in April 2008...

Channel Cuatro Judith Mascó 2006
 Sweden Sweden's Next Top Model
Sweden's Next Top Model
Sweden's Next Top Model or Top Model Sverige was a Swedish reality television show based on America's Next Top Model. It was broadcast on TV3 in Sweden. In Top Model Sverige, the 9 contestants are competing for a top 3 spots to compete in Scandinavia's Next Top Model. These final 3 girls then join...

TV3
TV3 (Sweden)
TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded on 31 December 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3...

Vendela Kirsebom September 12, 2007
 Switzerland Switzerland's Next Top Model 3+ TV Nadja Schildknecht November, 2007
 Thailand Thailand's Next Top Model
Thailand's Next Top Model
Thailand's Next Top Model was a local franchised version of the reality television show America's Next Top Model that aired in 2005. The show was hosted by Thai supermodel Sonia Couling. The prize for winning Thailand's Next Top Model included a contract with Elite Model Management, Bangkok...

ThaiTV3 Sonia Couling October 25, 2005
 Turkey Deniz Akkaya ile Top Model
Turkey's Next Top Model
Top Model Türkiye was a reality competition produced by D Productions, broadcast by Star TV and part of the Top Model series created by Tyra Banks. The show was cancelled after the first season due to low ratings. It was won by Selda Car...

StarTV Deniz Akkaya 2005
 United Kingdom Britain's Next Top Model
Britain's Next Top Model
Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model is a British reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of Britain's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modelling industry...

Living Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, actress, and businesswoman nicknamed "The Body". She is perhaps best known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s...

September 21, 2005
 United States America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....

UPN/The CW Tyra Banks May 20, 2003
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