Next Action Star | |
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Genre | Reality |
Directed by | Omid Kahangi Glenn GT Taylor |
Presented by | Tina Malave |
Judges | Scot Boland Victoria Burrows Marki Costello |
Composers | Dan Radlauer Adam Zelkind |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Cris Abrego Gary R. Benz Joel Silver Rick Telles |
Producers | Fernando Mills Alan Schechter |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 24 mins. |
Production companies | Silver Pictures Television Brass Ring Entertainment Warner Bros. Television NBC Studios GRB Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | June 14 – July 28, 2004 |
Next Action Star is an American reality television program shown on NBC from June to July 2004. [1] [2]
The series featured 14 finalists (7 women and 7 men) vying for 2 spots as the Next Action Star in their own feature film. Each week, the contestants participated in screen tests that determined who got a callback and who goes home. [3] The two winners starred in their own made-for-TV movie, the Louis Morneau-directed Bet Your Life which was aired on NBC on August 4, 2004. [4]
The 14 contestants were:
The episodes of the show are filmed in U.S. cities such as Atlanta, Georgia, Dallas, Texas, Miami, Florida, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Los Angeles, California and New York City. [2]
Reruns of the show was aired on the Game Show Network (GSN) in 2004. [5]
As of 2024 [update] , the show is made available for streaming online on FilmRise (who acquired the digital distribution rights to some shows from GRB Studios in 2023) and its partners, the Fox Corporation-owned AVOD service Tubi, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video and its sister AVOD service,Amazon Freevee. [6] [7] [8]
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