Country of origin Turkey Original network Kanal D First episode date 2004 Number of seasons 1 Program creators Kanal D, FremantleMedia | No. of seasons 1 Original release 2004 – 2004 Final episode date 2004 Language Turkish | |
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Created by Fremantle Media & Kanal D Starring Haldun Dormen
Gamze Özçelik
Zerrin Özer Genres Reality television, Game show, Interactive television Similar Popstar, Hrvatski Idol, Super Idol, New Zealand Idol, Geostar | ||
Turkstar was a 2004 Turkish reality television singing competition show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. It was hosted by Seray Sever, Gamze Özçelik and Haldun Dormen. It had extremely low ratings and only lasted one season.
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Turkstar is notable for being the only Idol franchise to have featured a singing duo (Meltem Denizci and Emrah Gökelma).
Auditions
The first series of Turkstar had 9 audition cities to find the best talent in all of Turkey, including:
Turkstar Jury
Contestants
Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma until now remain as the only duo to participate on an Idol show worldwide (auditioned, performed and got voted off together).
Two members of the top 3, Simge Bağdatlı and Sertaç Yanmaz, were born and raised in Germany. The latter was a semifinalist on the first season of Turkstars German equivalent Deutschland sucht den Superstar.
Semi Final Qualifyings
Top 30
Format: 4 out of 10 making it in each week + one Wildcard