| Popstars: Girls forever | |
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| Created by | Jonathan Dowling |
| Starring | Detlef "D!" Soost Marta Jandová Thomas Stein |
| Opening theme | "This Is Me" (episodes 1–16) "No Time for Sleeping" (final only) |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| No. of episodes | 17 |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 135 / 96 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ProSieben VIVA (re-run) |
| Release | 19 August – 9 December 2010 |
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Popstars: Girls forever is the ninth season of the German TV show Popstars, in which young aspiring female singers/dancers competed in order to claim their spots to make it into the next girl group. The contestants, who also lived together during the course of the series, were groomed and judged by choreographer Detlef D! Soost, and were judged on their vocal and dancing ability by manager Thomas Stein, who had previously been a judge on the first two seasons of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, and "Die Happy"-singer Marta Jandová, who is also about to write songs for the final band. This is the format for the ninth season of the Popstars series, focusing mostly on female dancers/singers, looking for fame in the music industry. This season's catch phrase is "Follow the Star". The season's promotional songs were Gabriella Cilmi's "On a Mission" redeemed by Monrose with "This Is Me", which also serves as the opening theme.
The show ran from Thursday, 19 August 2010, to 9 December 2010[1] on Pro7. The show will be repeated on VIVA on the following Friday, Sunday and Tuesday.[2] Auditions were held in 16 German cities, not involving the judges appearing on TV, and through Online-Casting. The last chance to audition were four audition-dates in Offenbach and Duisburg in front of the real judges.
A so-called "Talent Check" was held after the castings to see which girls were talented enough to be a popstar. The "Talent Check" was followed by four weeks of workshop in a band-house in Munich. The remaining girls were invited to Nashville, Tennessee, United States, for another kind of workshop in another luxurious band-house. Following those eight weeks of workshop were four weeks of live shows for the remaining girls. During the live shows the audience decided the name of the band and which four girls would form the new band (the members by televoting the name by voting on the official site). Throughout the live shows the girls were coached by stars and also performed with them on-stage.
- ^ "Mit neuer Jury, jeder Menge Star-Power und viermal live zum Abschluss geht POPSTARS ins Jubiläumsjahr".
- ^ "VIVA wird kommende "Popstars"-Staffel wiederholen". Quotenmeter.de. 26 July 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.