What is "idols"

n. (plural of idol English)

colspan=2 style="background:#0000FF; color:white; text-align:center;"| Idols Netherlands

colspan=2 style="text-align:center;"| Idols Netherlands Finalists

colspan=2 style="background:#00CCFF; text-align:center;"| Season 1 (2003)

Jamai Loman

Jim Bakkum

Hind Laroussi

Dewi Pechler

David Gonçalves

Marieke Van Ginneken

Bas Nibbelke

Joël De Tombe

Yuli Minguel

Zosja El Rhazi

colspan=2 style="background:#00CCFF; text-align:center;"| Season 2 (2004)

Boris Titulaer

Maud Mulder

JK

Marlies Schuitenmaker

Irma Van Pamelen

Eric Bouwman

Alice Hoes

Ron Link

Robin Zijlstra

Meike Hurts

colspan=2 style="background:#00CCFF; text-align:center;"| Season 3 (2006)

Raffaëla Paton

Floortje Smit

Ellen Eeftink

Angelique Koorndijk

Harm Jacobs

Serge Gulikers

Aäron Ayal

Marescha van der Stelt

Christon Kloosterboer

I-Jay Cairo

Charissa van Veldt

Ariël Sietses

Renske van der Veer

colspan=2 style="background:#00CCFF; text-align:center;"| Season 4 (2008)

Nikki Kerkhof

Nathalie Makoma

Charlene Meulenberg

Nigel Brown

Neil Hendriks

Pauline Zurlohe

Tiffany Maes

Bas van Rijckevorsel

Mirjam de Jager

Asnat Ferdinandus

Ollie Du Croix

Sandy Goeree

colspan=2 style="background:#00CCFF; text-align:center;"| Season 5 (2016)

Nina den Hartog

Kimberley Fransens

Steve Langreder

Tom de Visser

Thijs Roseboom

Jeffrey Saabeel

Amber Thijssen

Rowen Aida Ben Rabaa

Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idols series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands.

The show is divided in two sections, the first being the audition round, an open audition where everyone who wants to try is allowed to sing. The first couple of shows usually show the worst and the best contenders in these auditions. Once the best are selected, the theater round starts. Here the singers who survived the auditions have to prove they really have what it takes to become an idol. In a couple of shows these performers are narrowed down to just 10 finalists, with each contestant performing live.

In the first 2 seasons there were four judges, but starting with season 3 there are just three. The judges provide critiques of each competitor's performance and determine nine of the ten people who enter the final shows. In the final shows they just comment, but don't have any power anymore. After the first part of the show viewers have around one hour to vote by telephone and text messages to vote for their favorite contestant, later in the night the results of 'Idols' starts in which the results are presented and the contestant with the least votes is sent home.

On 5 November the Dutch broadcaster RTL announced a fifth season which will be broadcast on RTL 5 in 2016.

Idols (also known as SuperStar in other countries) is a reality television- music competition format created by British television producer Simon Fuller and developed by FremantleMedia. The format began in 2001 with the British television series Pop Idol; its first adaptation was as the Polish series Idol in 2002. It has since become the world's most widely watched television franchise, as well as one of the most successful entertainment formats, adapted in over 46 regions around the world, with its various versions broadcast to 150 countries. An estimated 6.5 billion viewers around the world have watched variants of the show.

Each season, the series aims to find the most outstanding unsigned solo recording artist (or "idol") in a region. Originally aimed for pop singers (or "pop idol"), the series have since evolved to accept singers from different genres of music, such as rock, R&B, and country. Through a series of mass auditions, a group of finalists were selected by a panel of judges (which may consist of artists and record producers) who will offer their critiques on their performances. The finalists then advance to the weekly live shows where the finalist who receives the least amount of votes by television audience get eliminated. A grand finale occurs when two or three finalists were left where the winner is declared based on the largest percentage of votes. The winner (and sometimes the runner(s)-up) receives a recording contract, monetary prizes, and a title as their nation's Idol, SuperStar or Star.

The various series have launched the careers of a number of highly successful recording artists around the world, including Idols winners Will Young of the United Kingdom, Kelly Clarkson of the United States, Kurt Nilsen of Norway, and Guy Sebastian of Australia. Contestants who did not win but have still gone on to prominence include Jacob Hoggard and Carly Rae Jepsen of Canada and Chris Daughtry of the United States. Some Idols contestants have also achieved success in acting and musical theater, most notably Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson.

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Timi Dakolo

Omawumi Megbele

Temitayo George

Eric Arubayi

Jerrilyn Mulbah

Jodie Odiete

Mercy Nwanko

Uche Ume

Joan Ekpai

Omodele Fatoki

Idols West Africa is the West African version of the Idol series franchise. Based in Nigeria, it is a talent contest to find a recording artiste, and aired on M-Net in 2007. Like the Pan-Arab entry to the series, the show incorporated countries throughout the West African region.

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Season 1

Christian Mendoza

Mirza Radonjica

Kasper Ehlers

Dorthe K. Hansen

Thomas Kunak Andersen

Lærke Blendstrup

Michael Christensen

Michael Friis Holm

Emil Uldahl

Claus Kruuse

Season 2-6

Rikke Emma Niebuhr

Louise Baltzer Jensen

Simon Søndergaard

Søren Fruergaard

Julia

Theis Andersen

Jacob

Nadia Malm Hansen

Idols: Ærlig Jagt. Ægte Talent. was the Danish version of the worldwide TV format Pop Idol which was broadcast on TV3 Danmark. There were only two seasons for the show. The winners were Christian Mendoza in 2003 and Rikke Emma Niebuhr in 2004. The program was canceled due to weak viewership.

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Eric Moyo

Nicolette Kiiga

Trinah Chisanga

Adiona Maboreke

Ammara Brown

Mkhululi Bhebhe

Cynthia Kuto

Samantha Tirivacho

Faycal Birinkuzila

Christine Adda

Idols East Africa was a singing competition, serving as the second season of the pan-African franchise of the Idol series after Idols West Africa. It premiered on April 2008 and ended on July 27, 2008.

Participating countries are located on the eastern and southern parts of Africa such as Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Audition venues will be held in each of these countries. The competition is also open to citizens of Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, and Swaziland, but would have to meet the requirements before auditioning in one of the seven audition venues.

Afrikaanse Idols was a special season of South African reality interactive show Idols South Africa based on the British talent show Pop Idol. In difference to the rest of the series this season was held entirely in Afrikaans as the host, judges and contestants did not speak English on the show and every song was performed in Afrikaans.
Although the set and stage design remained the same, the entire judging panel was formed new consisting of Afrikaans-speaking singers Mynie Grové, Taliep Petersen, who was murdered just a few weeks after the competition ended and media personality Deon Maas. The show also switched channels to KykNET, an Afrikaans sisters station of MNet and was hosted by boyband member Sean Else (Eden). The Afrikaans season was aired between the third and fourth English seasons of the show. Dewald Louw from Bloemfontein won the show. Before that he was also a contestant on the second English season of the show where he made the top 24. He also auditioned for season three but failed to progress from the first round. Next to a recording contract with Sony BMG, winner Dewald Louw also won a Peugeot 206, R50,000 from the ATKV, a Shure microphone, R3200 worth of prizes from Look &Listen, a laptop computer and a gift pack from Truworths valued at R10,000.

Auditions took place in Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and for the first time auditions took place internationally in Windhoek, Namibia.

During the Live Galas one guest judge was introduced to the audience each week. They were Jennifer Jones (30 July), Amanda Luyt (6 August), Coenie de Villiers (13 August), Chris Chameleon (20 August) and Kurt Darren (27 August).

The fifth season of Finnish Idol premiered on February 3, 2011 on MTV3. Nina Tapio and Jone Nikula returned as judges, and Sami Pitkämö replaced Patric Sarin as a judge. Heikki Paasonen returned as the show's host, but his co-hosts from the previous season did not return as they were replaced by Niina Herala.

Idols tekee hyvää, a Finnish version of the hugely acclaimed American Idol Gives Back program, was held for the first time on April 24, 2011. The concert was hosted by Heikki Paasonen and Idols' original hostess Ellen Jokikunnas, who replaced Niina Herala for that one episode.

This season also includes a new show called Idols Studio, which replaces Idols Extra. Hosted by Idols Extra's earlier host Janne Kataja, the show includes conversations with varying guests. The show is aired on Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm (earlier 6:30 pm) EET on MTV3.

Idols'' (Spanish:Ídolos'') is a 1943 Spanish romantic comedy film directed by Florián Rey and starring Conchita Montenegro and Ismael Merlo. A French actress meets a Spanish bullfighter. It was made by CIFESA, Spain's largest film studio at the time.