Rockstar: Season Two!

[Ceeje]

Encore for 'Rock Star'
Burnett-produced skein gets second season

By JOSEF ADALIAN
"Rock Star""Rock Star" will rock on.
CBS has greenlit production on a second season of the Mark Burnett-produced talent hunt, which got off to a slow start last summer but ended up a sleeper sleeper success for the net. Skein will return this summer, with Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke back as hosts.

Burnett and exec producer David Goffin are keeping a tight lid on details about the new season, saying some key deals have yet to be hammered out.

Original skein was designed to find a new lead singer for Aussie rockers INXS. It's unclear whether the new season will be devoted to finding a lead singer for another headless band or go in a completely different direction, such as creating a new band.

Details on the creative direction could be finalized as soon as this week. Casting is expected to begin soon, with applications being accepted via CBS.com and Rockstar.msn.com.

Whatever changes are made, "At the end of the day, the show will always be about finding a rock star," Goffin said.

Burnett said that even he was surprised by the cult following "Rock Star" built last summer. " 'Survivor's' huge, but wherever I go now, people tell me 'Rock Star' is their favorite show. I'm glad it's back," he told Daily Variety. "We know we're going to get the same audience back next summer. Now it's about growing that audience."

Burnett credited CBS Corp. prexy-CEO Leslie Moonves for sticking by "Rock Star." "Leslie helped in figuring out the content. He really got involved," producer said, noting it was Moonves' idea to have early results in the voting announced on the skein's Tuesday edition.

Burnett said it's likely "Rock Star" will stick with its twice-weekly format on CBS.

Goffin said proof of the show's season-one success is in the sales data for the new INXS album and upcoming tour, which he said is sold out in North America.

A few weeks ago, he said, he was INXS, and there was "Rock Star" winner J.D. Fortune, "who a year ago was sleeping in his car. Now he's in a bed filming a musicvideo with Estella Warren."

In addition to Fortune, runner-up Marty Casey has an album coming out on Burnett's Sony-based imprint, while contestant Mig Ayesa has just signed with Universal Music, Burnett said.

"Rock Star" averaged a 3.1/8 in adults 18-49 for its Tuesday performance show, with ratings increasing throughout the summer and reaching a season high with its finale.

Burnett, Goffin and Lisa Hennessey are exec producers, while Conrad RiggsConrad Riggs serves as co-exec producer.

Date in print: Tue., Jan. 17, 2006, Los Angeles

from: www.variety.com/article/VR1117936245?categoryid=14&cs=1

[Ceeje]

So...who's going to be the band this go around? Any guesses? The article said that they could be creating a new band...

[Ayesa86]

haha^^ Just the phrase "headless band" struck me funny

[chk]

ayesa86 said:

haha^^ Just the phrase "headless band" struck me funny

lol

[wade]

If the new band can't better the season of the HOUSE BAND I hope they could give justice just by equalling them.

[greeneyes]

Maybe INXS will be ready for a new lead singer by next summer.

[RayneDove]

faden2u said:

Maybe INXS will be ready for a new lead singer by next summer.

LMAO

[Ceeje]

wade said:

If the new band can't better the season of the HOUSE BAND I hope they could give justice just by equalling them.

Maybe they'll find a lead singer for the house band.

[Ceeje]

faden2u said:

Maybe INXS will be ready for a new lead singer by next summer.

Actually, I've heard that mentioned before. lol I've thought about doing a poll: How long do you think INXS will keep JD around?

The reviews of the concerts that I've read so far are not very good, for JD. Marty & Lh's reviews are really good.

[Ceeje]

I just thought of something. If they find a lead singer for the house band or create a new band, they can open for the Lovehammers when they headline their own tour. You know they'll be headining before long!

[chk]

the whole season two thing will be so interesting -- not just in terms of what, if any band, they are using, but also in terms of audience. After all most people, myself included, did not tune into RS:INXS right away and even after I did, I didn't get voting til Marty sang HMBOT. I wonder if I would have voted for anyone for the first few episodes had I seen them -- and how the dynamic will change next season with a presumably larger audience for the outset.

[natasha]

Thats awesome. I am definately going to be watching

[Ceeje]

Here's what Dave said in his blog on Jan. 18:

[news article] "Death doesn't just sell records; it can also spark a series. Banking on the success of the first season, Variety says that CBS is ready for more "Rock Star." Sadly, Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke will return as the hosts. Expect a whole lot of kissing ass and cue cards."

[Dave] Hahahaha. OK. So it looks like CBS has picked up the show again. You know, last season I kind of took a lot of heat for being too "supportive" with my comments. (How can you be too supportive, anyway?) Well, here is the thing. The band looking for the singer was INXS, and obviously, I am not in INXS. My comments were in line with my role. Co-host and nothing more. If I was to hammer the contestants, whom I also had to see every week during the clinics to work with, it would make no sense. I was there to help them. Anything I might say to them of a critical nature would have been inappropriate as after all, it wasn't my band. I am not at liberty to say how, but this season will be much more interesting and different.


www.6767.com/archives/2006/01/index.html

[Ceeje]

Oh, and here's the link for audition info:

rockstar.msn.com/Season2

[chk]

thanks ceeje,
and I thought Dave was great, actually. He was a big reason the show worked. We don't need anymore Simon whathisnames.
c

[afranjes]

Ugh…Brooke again? Let’s hope she has been given some intensive voice training over the past 6 months. Maybe they sent her to hostess boot camp.

[Ceeje]

I just wonder how they're having auditions when they've not announced a band. They said that in your audition you had to sing 3 songs, and one had to be an original. How would you know what kind of song to sing?

[gutless]

From Dave Navarro's website www.6767.c0m on March 3 -

As for Rockstar, there is a new plan in place, but I cannot address it until the press release comes out this weekend. I can tell you this, it's not what you would expect. It's not Van Halen. It's not Queen. It's not Journey. In fact, all I will say is that you have never heard of this band before. Should be a fun summer.

[DG]

Thanks for the info!

[forestanswers]

gutless said:

From Dave Navarro's website www.6767.c0m on March 3 -

As for Rockstar, there is a new plan in place, but I cannot address it until the press release comes out this weekend. I can tell you this, it's not what you would expect. It's not Van Halen. It's not Queen. It's not Journey. In fact, all I will say is that you have never heard of this band before. Should be a fun summer.

Sounds to me like maybe they will be creating a new band.