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Australian Idol is returning to Live shows

Good news for true Idol fans. Plus first tix are available for two upcoming events this year, ahead of Live shows in 2023.

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Good news.

Australian Idol is returning to Live shows at Seven.

Unlike a lot of other pre-recorded reality shows, producers have always been aware that the Live factor is integral to the Idol brand.

Idol and X Factor were iconic Live events. We all remember those shows with young singers nervous in the Live glare, with no safety net and frenzied fans in the seats it was far more dangerous than the many shows which abandoned the idea.

Live shows are also a big part of the reason that Seven held off the show’s return during the pandemic ….it needed big crowds, big auditions, to work.

There’s no word yet if the Final will return to the Sydney Opera House, but I’d be putting money on it….

Of course the combination of Live shows and judge Kyle Sandilands is also rife for headlines, doubtless a key reason he has been cast, along with his surmountable radio following.

Meanwhile first tickets are available for the two public recordings ahead of 2023 shows: Saturday Oct 8 is a Red Carpet shoot with judges (standing room only) at Aware Super Theatre Darling Harbour, then the Top 50 performers on October 26 at Coliseum Theatre, Rooty Hill.

Conditions apply, tix are available here.

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  1. The live factor is also integral to Big Brother, as well as Dancing with the Stars and Australia’s Got Talent, but that didn’t stop them pre-recording.

    Also crucial is momentum – and you can’t build that over a couple of weeks. Idol contenders being on live TV week in week out for 2-3 months was crucial in making the grand final an event and giving them a genuine shot of stardom. Rush that and you’ve basically got another Voice.

    1. Yeah with Idol you got to know and become attached to contestants over the weeks. Same with x factor until the last season or so where they rushed it.

      So if they try and rush idol like they do with the voice it’s not going to work.

  2. This is the problem with having these ‘stars’ as judges. There is no way they are going to commit to 12 weeks of live shows – and 7’s budget will not stretch that far. I’m assuming it’ll be like The Voice use to be. The last 2/3 weeks will prob be live.

  3. The question now is how many live shows? Will it be 12 (or thereabouts) like it used to be? Or will they go down the route that the last couple of seasons that X Factor and The Voice (Prior to the pandemic when it actually did live shows) have done and only do 3 or 4 with mass eliminations each week?

    1. Unfortunately, I can see it being a mass elimination every week. That Top 12 weekly eliminations era are behind us. Too costly to have those international stars here for almost three months

  5. I never used to care much for live tv, pre-recorded and tightly edited formats have their merit. But now that we have been starved of it for so long, it will be a welcomed return.

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