Next Action Star is an American reality television program shown on NBC from June to July 2004.[1][2]
| Next Action Star | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Synopsis
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]
Contestants
The 14 contestants were:
Female
- Corinne Van Ryck de Groot (winner)
- Jeanne Bauer (runner up)
- Melisande Amos (third place)
- Mae Moreno (fourth place)
- Linda Borini (fifth place)
- Somere Sanders (sixth place)
- Viviana Londono (seventh place)
Male
- Sean Carrigan (winner)
- Jared Elliott (second place)
- John Keyser (third place)
- Mark Nilsson (fourth place)
- Harold "House" Moore (fifth place)
- Greg Cirulnick (sixth place)
- Santino Sloan (seventh place)
Production
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]
Episode status
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]
