Television producers in this karaoke-crazy country are hoping to have a smash with ``Vietnam Idol,'' the newest version of the singing contest that is a major hit in the West.
A Vietnamese advertising company purchased the rights to ``American Idol'' for an undisclosed sum from FremantleMedia, which produced the first ``Idol'' show in Britain, according to Nguyen Chi Tan, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Television network, or HTV.
The show, to be produced by HTV, will be broadcast on eight channels nationwide.
Following the same format as the U.S. show, a parade of would-be pop stars will audition before a three-judge panel and try to win the votes of television viewers across this nation of 84 million people.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Vietnam gets its own American Idol spin-off
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Wow! That's really interesting.
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