TV Show Details
Air Date:October 6th, 2001
Last Air Date:December 20th, 2003
Network:ITV1
Status:Returning Series
Genres: Reality
Original Language:English
Production Companies:19 Entertainment
TV Show Tags:
singing competition
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Pop Idol (2001-2003)
ITV1
Reality
TV Series
Audience Score
Pop Idol is a British television music competition which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show was to decide the best new young pop singer in the UK based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-2002 and a second in 2003. Pop Idol was subsequently put on an indefinite hiatus after "Idol" judge Simon Cowell announced the launch of the The X Factor in the UK in April 2004.
The show has become an international TV franchise since, spawning multiples of Idol series worldwide. In the mean time a legal dispute arose with the makers of Popstars, which eventually led to the word "Pop" being excluded from the titles of all the spin-offs, such as American Idol, Australian Idol, Indonesian Idol, New Zealand Idol, Latin American Idol and Idols.
