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| Country | TV Network(s) | Series Premiere | Weekly Schedule |
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 Canada | OutTV | ||
 Netherlands  Sweden  Belgium | OutTV | ||
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COVERguy is a six-part Canadian television series created and produced by Giant Productions, hosted by Mathieu Chantelois broadcast on OUTtv in 2005. Thirty aspiring male models compete for $1000 cash, a fashion photoshoot, a one-year membership to Goodlife Fitness Club and the front cover of abOUT magazine. Chantelois is accompanied by celebrity stylist Maha Rishi.
Series One and Two were shot on location at Lüb Lounge, owned by one of the show's creators, in downtown Toronto. The show was co-produced by Giant Productions.
Season Two premiered Sunday, October 1, 2006. The winner was Gerry King, a dancer who also won the Montreal-based Priape clothing model search in spring 2007.
In Season Three, the location was changed to the Gladstone Hotel in the Queen Street West neighbourhood in Toronto. The producers stated that they moved because the Gladstone was becoming a focal point for the young, chic demographic associated with Queen West. Lüb Lounge closed its doors the same summer. A one-year contract as a model for Ginch Gonch underwear, based in Vancouver, was added to the first prize package for this year. Judges for the third series were model/entertainment reporter John Nightingale, transsexual actress & writer Nina Arsenault, and photographer Jim Armstrong.
Season Four was shot in Montreal at Club Unity Montreal. Coverguy Montreal airs on OUTtv Judges for the Montreal edition were Francisco Randez, Jean-Paul Gaultier's Male model, Plastic Patrick, from Montreal's club scene, and Paul Pabello, a talent scout for several circuit parties. The first prize was a one-year contract as a model for 3G underwear.
In 2007, murderer Luka Magnotta auditioned for the show but was ultimately rejected. [1]
| Country | TV Network(s) | Series Premiere | Weekly Schedule |
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| Canada | OutTV | ||
| Netherlands Sweden Belgium | OutTV | ||
| United States | here! | ||
Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons. Elena Juatco assumed the role for season four, Dave Kerr had the role in season five and Jully Black in season six.
U8TV: The Lofters was the world's first completely online TV channel and Canada's first reality television series. It aired on the Life Network and online on the internet television channel U8TV.com, in 2001 and 2002. It was created by Zev Shalev, Lili Shalev-Shawn and Fiorella Grossi, its co-founders and executive producers. The show followed the lives of eight Canadians in their 20s who lived together in a Toronto loft for a one-year period, while at the same time producing and hosting their own television programs for Life Network or other cable TV networks, and for the website U8TV.com.
Mathieu Chantelois is a Canadian television personality, journalist, magazine editor, and marketing executive.
Woody's on Church is a gay bar located at 467 Church Street at the gay village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
So You Think You Can Dance is a franchise of reality television shows in which contestants compete in dance. The first series of the franchise, created by Idols producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe, premiered in July 2005 and has broadcast seventeen seasons since. Adaptations of the show began airing in other countries in late 2005 and to date 30 localized adaptations have been produced, representing 41 different countries and comprising more than ninety individual seasons.
So You Think You Can Dance Canada is a dance competition and reality show that aired on CTV.
OutTV is a Netherlands-based television channel which can be viewed via cable television/digital television as a premium channel in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Israel and Spain. OutTV was launched on 2 April 2008 by OUTtv Media B.V. and has been available on cable since 11 April 2008.
Brian Patrick Kehoe is an American male fashion model and former reality television show participant on Oxygen's program The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.
Michael Venus is a Canadian artist, actor and producer.
Model Latina was an American reality competition show in which aspiring models compete against one another in fashion and cultural challenges. They are judged by a panel of fashion experts and celebrities from the American Latino entertainment industry. Model Latina is the first modeling competition of its kind to feature Latinas from all over the United States. The show airs on the cable network NuvoTV.
Canada's Got Talent is a Canadian television reality talent show, which debuted on the Citytv network on March 4, 2012. It is part of the global Got Talent franchise.
Mega Model is a Nepalese reality television show in which a number of young Nepalese women compete against each other to win for the title of Mega Model and an opportunity to start their career in the modeling industry. The premiere is set to air on September 25, 2010 and the season finale in which the top 6 compete against each other on a stage is coming live on Image Channel.
The X Factor Philippines is a Philippine reality music competition, adapted from the original UK series as part of The X Factor franchise, to find new singing talent in the Philippines. The show was hosted by KC Concepcion while the judging panel consists of Charice, Gary Valenciano, Pilita Corrales, and Martin Nievera. It was the first franchise to be adapted in Southeast Asia.
The X Factor is an American reality television music competition show created by Simon Cowell and produced by FremantleMedia North America and SYCOtv, a partnership between Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment, which aired on Fox. Based on the original UK show, and an addition to The X Factor franchise, the series found new singing talent, drawn from public auditions, and they competed against each other for votes. The winner is determined by the show's viewers via telephone, the Internet, and SMS text voting, and is awarded a recording contract with Cowell's record label Syco Music, worth $5 million in seasons one and two, and $1 million in season three. America voted for the following winners: Melanie Amaro, Tate Stevens, and Alex & Sierra, respectively.
Signed by Katie Price is a British reality television show that aired on Sky Living. It featured 13 contestants who were competing for a contract with Blacksheep Management, a management company owned by model Katie Price. The winner was also promised a mentorship with Price, as well as yearly calendars, red carpet events, overseas job, magazine deals, a Range Rover for a year, and a spread in a fashion magazine which includes appearing on the front cover and a holiday in Maldives. Other benefits include a car, a vacation, or an apartment amongst other things.
Canada's Drag Race is a Canadian reality competition television series based on the American series RuPaul's Drag Race and is the Canadian edition of the Drag Race franchise, produced by Blue Ant Studios. In a similar format to the American version, the show features a crop of Canadian drag queens as they compete for a grand prize of $100,000 and the title of "Canada's Next Drag Superstar". The series airs on Crave in Canada, the United Kingdom's BBC Three, and worldwide on WOW Presents Plus.
The first season of Canada's Drag Race premiered on July 2, 2020. The cast was announced on May 14, 2020. The winner of the first season of Canada’s Drag Race was Priyanka, with Rita Baga and Scarlett BoBo as runners-up.
Call Me Mother is a Canadian reality television series, which premiered on OutTV in 2021. Hosted by Entertainment Tonight Canada reporter Dallas Dixon, the series is a drag competition which will see up-and-coming drag performers join one of three drag houses to compete in group challenges, with one drag artist eliminated each week until the winner of the competition is crowned the "First Child of Drag".
Barbada de Barbades is the stage name of Sébastien Potvin, a Canadian drag queen most noted as one of the drag house mothers in the reality competition series Call Me Mother.