Let It Shine (2017 TV series)
| Let It Shine | |
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| Created by | Gary Barlow |
| Presented by |
Graham Norton Mel Giedroyc |
| Judges |
Gary Barlow Dannii Minogue Martin Kemp Amber Riley (guest) Lulu (guest) Ricki Lake (guest) Ashley Roberts (guest) Robbie Williams (guest) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Andrew Cartmell |
| Producer(s) | Gary Barlow |
| Editor(s) | Guy Freeman |
| Running time | 30–105 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 7 January 2017 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Let It Shine is a British reality television music competition to find young men to star in The Band, a stage musical based on the songs of Take That. It began airing on 7 January 2017 on BBC One. The show is presented by Graham Norton and Mel Giedroyc, with Gary Barlow, Dannii Minogue and Martin Kemp serving as judges throughout the series.Amber Riley was the guest judge for the auditions, followed by Lulu for the group round.Ricki Lake was the guest judge for the first live show and Ashley Roberts for the semi-final.
The show's title comes from Take That's 2007 single "Shine".Amber Riley and Lulu will act as guest judges for the first and second rounds of the competition, respectively.Busted, Beverley Knight, Melanie C, Olly Murs and Kaiser Chiefs will perform with the contestants split into groups as part of the second round of the competition, which was filmed at MediaCityUK, Salford in November 2016.
There are three stages to the competition:
The judges each have 5 stars and each contestant is scored out of 20 stars; in order to proceed onto the next round they needed 15 stars.
After the episode, a clip was made available on BBC iPlayer which revealed the new names of the bands. Group 1 was named Five to Five, Group 2 was named Iron Sun, Group 3 was named Neon Panda, Group 4 was named Drive and Group 5 was named Nightfall.
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