A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
July 18, 2008
# of Seasons: 6
# of Episodes: 13
Finale:
September 22, 2013
Original Title:
The Next Star
Production Companies:
Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
Tricon Films & Television
Countries:
CA
It takes more than pitch perfect pipes to be a superstar. That's why The Next Star is not your typical talent search. The Next Star scours the nation for six young hopefuls 15 and under with the talent and the determination to make it through superstar boot camp! Host Carlos Bustamante will put take these six talented finalists through the paces alongside the cream of the music industry crop: expert star maker Mark Spicoluk, Country sensation Tara Oram, and Juno Award winning R+B icon Keshia Chante!
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.