Rock Rivals
Encyclopedia
Rock Rivals is a British television drama series following the lives of two celebrity judges on an X Factor
style show as their marriage
falls apart. It was produced by Shed Productions
, the company behind Footballers' Wives
, Bad Girls
and Waterloo Road
. The series began on 5 March 2008 on ITV
and finished on 23 April 2008.
on 4 July that it would be filmed over a 4 month schedule and would probably air in January or February 2008.
On 2 July 2007 it was announced that former EastEnders actress Michelle Collins
and former Coronation Street
actor Sean Gallagher had both been cast for the lead roles of characters Karina Faith (Collins) and her husband Mal (Gallagher).
Rock Rivals finally wrapped on Stage B of Ardmore Studios in Bray on Friday 16 November. Two alternative endings were filmed for the final episode. The viewing public were to get to vote for their favourite finalist and the appropriate version was to be aired.
style show as their marriage
falls apart. Simon Cowell
joined forces with Shed Media to produce the show.
.
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...
style show as their marriage
Marriage
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...
falls apart. It was produced by Shed Productions
Shed Productions
Shed Productions, part of the Shed Media Group, is an independent UK television production company, specialising in contemporary, original drama programming and content...
, the company behind Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...
, Bad Girls
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
and Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
. The series began on 5 March 2008 on 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...
and finished on 23 April 2008.
Filming
The 8-part first series was filmed from summer to autumn 2007 and delivered to ITV in Spring 2008. Michelle Collins said on Loose WomenLoose Women
Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip...
on 4 July that it would be filmed over a 4 month schedule and would probably air in January or February 2008.
On 2 July 2007 it was announced that former EastEnders actress Michelle Collins
Michelle Collins
Michelle Danielle Collins is a British actress best known for her roles on television in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as Cindy Beale, Coronation Street as Stella Price, and BBC dramas Sunburn and Two Thousand Acres of Sky...
and former Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
actor Sean Gallagher had both been cast for the lead roles of characters Karina Faith (Collins) and her husband Mal (Gallagher).
Rock Rivals finally wrapped on Stage B of Ardmore Studios in Bray on Friday 16 November. Two alternative endings were filmed for the final episode. The viewing public were to get to vote for their favourite finalist and the appropriate version was to be aired.
Cast
| Character | Actor |
| Dana Bigglesworth | Sammy Glenn Sammy Glenn Samantha "Sammy" Glenn is an English film and television actress. She trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. Her sister, Wendy Glenn, is also an actress.... |
| Caleb Coombs | Kumar Kanesworth (Kumar Kaneswaran) |
| Carson Coombs | Siva Kanesworth (Siva Kaneswaran) |
| Darren | James Carlton James Carlton (actor) James Carlton is an English actor best known for playing Jason Kirk in Emmerdale and PC Steve Crane in the Heartbeat... |
| Luke Ellis | Sol Heras |
| Karina Faith | Michelle Collins Michelle Collins Michelle Danielle Collins is a British actress best known for her roles on television in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as Cindy Beale, Coronation Street as Stella Price, and BBC dramas Sunburn and Two Thousand Acres of Sky... |
| Mal Faith | Sean Gallagher |
| Ocean Faith | Alice Henley Alice Henley Alice Sarah Henley is an English television and theatre actress.Alice Henley began acting at a young age, her first professional performance being at 13 playing Phyllis in a stage adaptation of The Railway Children.... |
| Vernon Fentor | Gary Cooke Gary Cooke Gary Cooke is an Irish actor, satirist and writer who is one of the stars, on screen, of Après Match and, on stage, I, Keano and MacBecks... |
| Sundae Gorgeous | Nicola Hughes Nicola Hughes Nicola Hughes is an English dancer, singer and actress of Antiguan descent.Hughes’ first principal theatre role was in The Who's Tommy, playing the Acid Queen at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1996... |
| Bethany Hopkins | Holly Quin-Ankrah |
| Lynette Hopkins | Alison Newman Alison Newman Alison Newman is a British actress, best known for her role in the hit ITV1 television series Footballers' Wives as Hazel Bailey.- Biography :... |
| Angel Islington | Lisa Dwan Lisa Dwan Lisa Dwan is an Irish actress, from Coosan, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland.-Early life:Dwan originally wanted to be a ballet dancer. She was chosen to dance with Rudolf Nureyev in the Ballet San Jose's production of "Coppélia" in Dublin when she was 12... |
| Jinx Jones | Sophie Dawney |
| Felix McGowan | Adam Leese |
| Declan O'Brien | Shane McDaid |
| Sasha Reed | Helen Modern Helen Modern Helen Modern is an English actress best known for her recurring role as Naomi in British sitcom, Respectable on Five. In 2006 she also starred in the eighth series of ITV1 drama Bad Girls as inmate Stella Gough, the daughter of Governing Governor Joy Masterton... |
| Pete Shepherd | James Anderson James Anderson - Arts :*James K Anderson , American actor*James Anderson , British actor*James Arthur Anderson , American writer*James Anderson , American television writer... |
| Lucy Stone | Amy Garcia |
| Addison Teller | Robert Sheehan |
| Jez Willard | Marcus O'Donovan |
| Sam Winwood | Gerry McCann |
Series 1 (2008)
Rock Rivals follows the lives of two celebrity judges on a X FactorThe 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...
style show as their marriage
Marriage
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...
falls apart. 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...
joined forces with Shed Media to produce the show.
Episodes
| # | Episode | Writer | Director | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode One | Liz Lake | Syd Macartney | 5 March 2008 | |
| Husband and wife team Mal and Karina Faith are judges on a top-rated TV talent show, but when news about Mal's affairs is broadcast to the show's contestants at an after show party, Karina calls it a day and their relationship publicly implodes. As their vicious divorce battle rages off-screen, the show's contestants are made to bear the brunt of their animosity when the cameras roll, causing one hopeful to break down during the live show. | |||||
| 2 | Episode Two | Syd Macartney | 12 March 2008 | ||
| When Mal drops the bombshell that Karina may not be entitled to anything in the divorce, Karina takes drastic measures to win back her advantage. Luke's estranged mother comes back into his life, but she attracts negative publicity for Luke when some shocking truths about her are revealed. Mal tries some underhand tactics to get Dana off the show, but will his plan succeed? Felix gets ever closer to the object of his affection. | |||||
| 3 | Episode Three | Farren Blackburn | 19 March 2008 | ||
| Mal and Karina have a lawyers' meeting to decide who owns the format of the show after she contends that she is the creator. They are forced to agree to a display of false harmony until after the show has aired in order not to damage the brand. Luke and Dana arrange to marry in secret, but he has cold feet at the last minute and jilts her - to Felix's joy. Karina finds that there's a chemistry between her and one of the contestants, Jez. But Mal thinks she is having an affair with her lawyer. | |||||
| 4 | Episode Four | Farren Blackburn | 26 March 2008 | ||
| Mal and Karina's daughter Ocean returns, just as her parents are due to fly to the US to pitch their show to TV stations. While they are away, Ocean decides to throw a party in hopes of seducing Luke. Lynette turns up at the contestants' house and, when Bethany confronts her, decides to take her down by selling a story about her daughter to the papers. Mal and Karina arrive in New York, but are told that Karina will not be needed if the show is commissioned. | |||||
| 5 | Episode Five | Ian Bevitt | 2 April 2008 | ||
| Luke and Bethany bond over the damages involved in taking part in the show, but while Bethany is excelling in the competition, Luke has gone off the rails. Mal goes on the offensive and tries to sabotage some of the other acts. Felix's relationship with Latex Luke is jeopardised when his photo of Luke is found, but will that be enough to cure his obsession? Angel shows her true colours during a promotional push, and Mal has a surprise for Karina during the live show. | |||||
| 6 | Episode Six | Ian Bevitt | 9 April 2008 | ||
| Mal fires Pete and reinstates Bethany, who once again shuns her mother; but Lynette digs out an old secret in an envelope and prepares to bring her daughter down. Vernon invites Fade Up to his house, but when he makes a private offer to Addison, Caleb and Carson set about plotting Addison's downfall. Felix returns to work in the house, but the signals Luke is giving off only confuse him more. | |||||
| 7 | Episode Seven | James Erskine | 16 April 2008 | ||
| Mal and Karina prepare to renew their vows in an elaborate and expensive ceremony, but Jinx tries to make Mal take responsibility for the baby. They day of the live final arrives, but Mal and Karina raise the stakes and agree that whoever's protege wins the competition gets everything. But with an increasingly unstable Felix trying to confront Luke, and a frustrated Lynette preparing to stop her daughter competing at whatever cost, will the live final go ahead as planned? | |||||
| 8 | Episode Eight | James Erskine | 23 April 2008 | ||
| Jinx finally realises that Mal has been using her to get to Karina, and that he doesn't want her to have the baby. An unconscious Luke is whisked away to the basement by Felix. Mal prepares to win the contract from Karina, but is furious when he learns that Luke is missing. As the live final is stalled, Bethany becomes unwilling to win by default as she continues to struggle with her mother's revelation. Bethany is revealed as the winner of the competition. As Felix realises his mistakes by admitting it to his dead mother who is in a coffin in his home. | |||||
DVD release
The 3-disc DVD box set of Rock Rivals was released in the UK on the 28 April 2009, distributed by UniversalUniversal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
.
External links
- Rock Rivals at Shed-Media.com
- Shed Insider, fan-site of Shed Media' programs.