Fame Academy: David's Story
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- To mark 20 years since the broadcast of the first series of Fame Academy, here is the official VHS charting the story of David Sneddon's win.
In my view, Fame Academy was a severely underrated format, and it's a crying shame that it never really took off in the UK (not helped by a pretty dire second series, where almost all of the unique points of the format were stripped away).
It's also a strange quirk of the period of its broadcast that very few clips exist online of the show (with the exception of some superb long-form videos here on RUclips, recorded from the red button feed of the house). 2002 was just a few years before broadcasters put official clips up on RUclips, so there's nothing from the BBC on here (unlike some of their later talent show efforts). This upload is an attempt to rectify the lack of footage from this unfairly-forgotten show.
Apologies that some of this video is missing (it's supposed to be a 90 minute feature) including the moment that David's victory is actually announced! This is owing to some encoding errors when I digitised this VHS some years ago.
Original release: January 2003
All copyright remains BBC/Endemol
Simply the best talent show. Insightful and honest. Better by a mile than the horrible stuff now. There was a freshness and realism about those students that is so lacking these days. David’s journey was open and visible to us all. His improvement was no fluke. Twenty two years on, I rather doubt that this type of production could be replicated. A very positive memory for us all.
Funny for saying the show was panned at the time
Really enjoyed this!
David was one of my early teen crushes. Loved his album and I remember buying this DVD too. ❤
So proud of you David. Best wishes Derek
So talented! I really enjoyed this video. Thanks.
Welcome Back. Wish I had some interaction with you
I love this