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\"\"Three months before the official opening of the musical The Band<\/em>, the show had already raked in \u00a310 million in ticket sales. The anticipation is a testament to the continued popularity of the British pop act Take That, whose songs are featured in the musical. Naturally, the stage show required a boy band, so Take That\u2019s own Gary Barlow teamed with Guy Freeman, BBC Studios\u2019 editor for formats and special events, to conceive a new talent competition. Let It Shine<\/em>, which aired on BBC One earlier this year, auditioned thousands of aspiring singers, placing the most talented into boy bands that then competed for the audience\u2019s votes. BBC Worldwide is now shopping the concept to broadcasters across the globe eager for a new spin on the perennially popular talent-competition format. As Barlow tells TV Formats<\/em>, his firsthand experience as a member of a boy band played a major role in how the format was devised. And the pop icon is no stranger to talent competitions\u2014at age 15 he took part in a song contest hosted by the BBC One program Pebble Mill at One<\/em>, and he spent several seasons as the head judge on The X Factor<\/em> in the U.K.<\/p>\n

TV FORMATS:<\/strong> Where did the idea for Let It Shine<\/em> come from?
\nBARLOW:<\/strong> Well, me and Guy [Freeman] had worked together on quite a few TV shows over the years. I think we did our first show together in 1993. We\u2019ve known each other a long time! Guy paid me a visit at my studio, and we were chatting about TV and ideas for TV and what I wanted to do next, really. I was ready to go back into TV. I\u2019d done The X Factor<\/em> for three years, I enjoyed that, but I was ready to do something else. And at that time I was in the middle of trying to come up with a musical featuring all the music from Take That, and I knew I needed a band to be in this musical. So I just threw it in, right at the end of the conversation: \u201cJust so you know, I am looking for a band, wouldn\u2019t it be great if we could talent search it?\u201d And Guy said straightaway, let\u2019s try and come up with a format around that, a talent-search format that can put bands together, specifically designed for individual people to audition for us and to then form them into bands.<\/p>\n

TV FORMATS:<\/strong> What were you looking for as you put the panel of judges together?
\nBARLOW:<\/strong> For this particular project it was putting a band in a musical, so I wanted people who had musical experience but also had pop experience. That\u2019s not everybody, and those two worlds don\u2019t often meet. But this is a show featuring the music of Take That, so [Australian singer] Dannii Minogue fit perfectly in that world. She\u2019s been in musicals herself, she\u2019s been a pop artist herself, she\u2019d had the credentials of being involved in talent shows for many years. What that skill brings is the ability to look at and see people who have a small flame of potential. Spotting that potential is very important. Martin Kemp [from Spandau Ballet] was my boy band era. I wanted someone who had been part of that band formation and he worked great. Amber [Riley, of Glee <\/em>fame] was one of our early judges and she comes with TV and musicals experience, and she\u2019s an amazing singer. It\u2019s about that really\u2014people who aren\u2019t just talking about it, but people who\u2019ve done it, who\u2019ve been there and done it. So the audience can watch and go, actually, yes, they do know what they\u2019re talking about because we\u2019ve seen them do it.<\/p>\n

TV FORMATS:<\/strong> You took part in a talent competition yourself, didn\u2019t you?
\nBARLOW:<\/strong> I was in a few very early on. I got my first job through a talent competition in a local club. Honestly, every time you go on TV, whether it\u2019s singing or talking, people are judging you all the time. It\u2019s something that\u2019s continuous. I try to say this as these [Let It Shine<\/em> competitors] leave the show\u2014this doesn\u2019t end here, the judging doesn\u2019t end, it gets worse, actually. Be ready for that. That\u2019s what you do. That\u2019s part of the gamble of being in this business, but that\u2019s the thrill of it as well. The whole thing for me is about what happens when the competition ends, when the entertainment ends. What happens to the people from that point? That\u2019s why I feel very good about our show. We have unearthed brilliant talent. They have a job for the next year, and a skill that they can use, or not, for the rest of their lives. That makes me feel good about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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