A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
January 1, 2022
# of Seasons: 2
# of Episodes: 13
Finale:
April 20, 2023
Original Title:
Better Than Ever
Genres:
Reality
Production Companies:
Blue Circle Corporation
Countries:
NL
Old contestants from various music competitions in the Netherlands (such as Idols or The Voice) are given a second chance to proof their talent (and possible growth) after not becoming particularly succesful in the music industry. Every person has their own story as to why they have not been able to make it in the music world and some of their stories show a deeper and often emotional look in what life is like after departure from big reality shows surrounding music. At the end of this competition a winner is chosen, who will then be granted 25.000 euros to spend on recording new music, giving them a second chance at a music career.
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.