Fabryka Zirok

This article is about the Ukrainian TV show. For other topics, see Star Factory.
Fabryka Zirok
Fabryka Zirok title card
UkrainianФабрика зірок
Created byJohn de Mol
Presented byAndriy Domansky (season 1)
Dmitry Shepelev (season 2)
Andriy Domansky & Masha Efrosinina (season 3 & Superfinal)
Erika (season 4)
Oleksandr Pedan (season 4)
Country of originUkraine
Production
Production locationsKyiv, Ukraine
Camera setupMultiple-camera setup
Running timeVaries
Original release
NetworkNovyi Kanal
Release7 October 2007 (2007-10-07) –
23 May 2010 (2010-05-23)

Fabryka Zirok (Ukrainian: Фабрика зірок – Star Factory), is a Ukrainian televised talent show, which began in 2007 that features a group of young male and female candidates, aged 16 or older, across the country.

The show became a huge success and a must-watch event for its fans. It is the Ukrainian adaptation of the French television show Star Academy, which is produced by Endemol. Fabryka Zirok is produced by Dutch company Endemol and Ukrainian Novyi Kanal. The show is based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo.

The show basically revolves over 16 contestants that go live in an isolated penthouse apartment, with one of the contestants getting eliminated every week. The contestants get to showcase their talents in a weekly concert in which the contestants get to perform on stage with various designs, dancers, solo performances, a cappella on piano and sharing the stage with the most popular singers in Ukraine and the CIS. The contestants were required to be aged 16 or older at the time of the contest.

Teachers

  • Vocals: Olena Grebenyok[1]
  • Choreography: Olena Kolyadenko
  • Acting Instructor: Roman Viktyok
  • Fitness: Lilya Podkopayeva
  • Stylist: Angela Litsiya, Volodimir Tarasyok
  • Psychiatrist: Vadim Kolesnikov

Series overview

Series Year Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place Fifth place Sixth place Host Headmaster
1 2007 Olga Tsybulska
Oleksandr Bodyanskiy 		Kristina Kim Vitaliy Bondarenko Yuliya Borzaya Dasha Astafieva Evhen Tolochnyi Andriy Domanskiy
Vasilisa Frolova 		Yuriy Nikitin
2 2008 Volodymyr Dantes
Vadim Oleynik 		Alisa Tarabarova Boris Aprel Vlad Darwin Regina Todorenko Max Barskih Dmitriy Shepelev Natalia Mohylevska[2]
3 2009 Stas Shurin Oleksiy Matias Kolya Serga Borisenko Brothers Eva Bushmina Anastasiya Kochetova Andriy Domanskiy[3]
Maria Efrosinina 		Konstantin Meladze
All stars 2010 Oleksiy Matias Anastasiya Kochetova Dmytro Kadnay Stas Shurins Volodymyr Dantes Borisenko Brothers —
4 2011 Yuliya Rudneva Evhen Belozerov Sonya Sukhorukova Dasha Doris Serhiy Klementiev Anton Klimik Anastasiya Kochetova
Oleksandr Pedan 		Serhiy Kuzin
  • Winners
  • Olga Tsybulska (1st season)[4]
    Olga Tsybulska (1st season)[4]
  • Volodymyr Dantes (2nd season)
    Volodymyr Dantes (2nd season)
  • Vadim Oleynik (2nd season)
    Vadim Oleynik (2nd season)
  • Stas Shurin (3rd season)
    Stas Shurin (3rd season)

Seasons & Contestants

Fabryka Zirok 1 (2007-2008) [5]

  • Olga Tsibulska Winner[4]
  • Katya Velaskes
  • Sasha Ilchyshyn
  • Vitaliy Yarouviy
  • Elizabeth Anum-Dorkhuso
  • Christina Kim
  • Jeka Milkovskiy
  • Yulia Borza
  • Vitaliy Bondarenko
  • Dasha Astafieva[6]
  • Arina Domsky
  • Taras Chernyenko
  • Dima Kadnay
  • Evgen Tolochniy
  • Oleksander Bodyanckiy
  • Dasha Kolomiets

Fabryka Zirok 2 (2008)[7][8]

  • Duet Vladimir Dantes - Vadim Oleynik Winner
  • Anastasia Vostokova
  • Kira Shaytanova
  • Regina Todorenko
  • Alisa Tarabarova
  • Mark Savin[9]
  • Ganna Mukhina[10]
  • Lina Mytsuky
  • Olena Vinogradova
  • Boris Aprel
  • Kara Kay[9]
  • Denis Dekanin
  • Vlad Darvin
  • Max Barskih
  • Gurgen

Fabryka Zirok 3 (2009)

Fabryka Zirok 3 title card
Fabryka Zirok 3 title card
  1. Stas Shurins[11][12]
  2. Oleksiy Matias
  3. Mykolai Serga [uk][13]
  4. Borysenko Brothers [uk]
  5. Eva Bushmina
  6. Erika[14]
  7. Sabrina Abdullah
  8. Iryna Kristinina
  9. Tetyana Vorzheva
  10. Vasil Nahirnyak
  11. Artem Mekh [uk]
  12. Anastasia Plis
  13. Vitaliy Chirva
  14. Santa Dimopulos
  15. Andriy Philipov
  16. Alina Astrovska [uk]
  17. Pavlo Lee
  18. Lybov Yunak [uk]

Fabryka Superfinal (2010)[15]

Fabryka Superfinal title card
Fabryka Superfinal title card

Selected contestants from the past 3 seasons compete to become the top superstar:

Fabryka Zirok 4 (2011) [17][18]

Producer

Jury

Contestants

  • Anna Voloshina
  • Pavel Voronets
  • Snezhana Firsova
  • Sonya
  • Denis Lyubimov
  • Anton Klimik
  • Misha Sokolovskiy
  • Paulina
  • Sergey Klimentyev[20]
  • Kseniya Lanova
  • Dasha Doris
  • Yuriy Klyuchnik
  • Yulia Rudnyeva Winner
  • Yevgeniy Belozerov
  • Masha Goya
  • Dima Kaminskiy[21]

Criticism, incidents and scandals

The Novyi Kanal (Ukrainian: Новий Канал) TV channel and Konstantin Meladze consider the appearance of a foreign performer at the Star Factory to be a miracle, and have appropriated the artist who miraculously appeared from Riga at the casting in Kyiv.[22] Despite the resonance of the case, none of the organisers and producers of the Ukrainian Star Factory project confirmed the theft of Stas Shurin from the global talent agency TUARON and its Swedish talent manager Anton Sova.[11] According to the Ukrainian music publication Muzvar, the case of the artist and the manager was included in the TOP-5 most famous cases of breakdowns in the Ukrainian music industry.[12]

Acknowledging that the artist had a manager would have meant that the artist would have lost his place in the contest and would have had legal consequences for all parties. The artist himself denied any business relationship with the Swedish talent manager Anton Sova and the global talent agency TUARON in order to keep his place in the "Star Factory-3" competition, which he eventually won.[23]

Notes

  1. ^ "Олена Гребенюк ⋆ Київська Опера". Головна (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  2. ^ "Від "Фабрики-2" у Могилевської лишилися дівчата, а у переможців - опіки". ТаблоID (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  3. ^ "Андрей Доманский: "Перешел на другой канал, потому что буду продюсером"". www.segodnya.ua (in Russian). 2022-07-11. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  4. ^ a b ДУСЯ (2009-04-09). "Ольга Цибульська. Хто це?". detector.media (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  5. ^ Вікка (2010-06-07). "«Фабрика зірок-1» у суперфіналі". ВІККА (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  6. ^ Рожок, Ярослава (2010-03-03). "Астаф'єва: Мене підкосила «Фабрика зірок»". Tochka.net (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  7. ^ "Новый канал запустит украинскую Фабрику звезд-2". korrespondent.net (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  8. ^ Цыбульская, Люба (2008-09-17). "«Фабрика зірок». Відстій-2". detector.media (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  9. ^ a b ""Фабрика зірок-2": Звездный дом покинули Кара Кай и Марк Савин". glavred.info (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  10. ^ ""Фабрика зiрок". Экс - фабрикантка Аня Мухина: "Теперь, я - АnnА ZеnkovA!"". dp.vgorode.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  11. ^ a b "Фабрика Тайн | почувствуй вкус правды | Стас Шурин. Триумф лицемерия". fabrikatayn.narod.ru. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  12. ^ a b muzvarua (2023-10-29). "У TUARON запевняють, що Wellboy, Козловський, Шурiн - це тільки початок затяжної кризи". МУЗВАР (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  13. ^ "Коля Серга поддерживает связь с космосом". МедиаНяня - таблоид для и про медиа. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  14. ^ "«Фабрикантка» Еріка: Мені не вистачає людей, з якими можна говорити українською". umoloda.kyiv.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  15. ^ Contestants do not live in a penthouse apartment during Fabryka Superfinal
  16. ^ "Победитель «Фабрики зiрок. Суперфiнал» Алексей Матиас: «Когда назвали мою фамилию, ком стал в горле, а перед глазами пролетела вся жизнь»". fakty.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  17. ^ "«Фабрика зірок-4» закончилась. Квартира - девочке, машина - мальчику, Новому - облегчение". МедиаНяня - таблоид для и про медиа. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  18. ^ "«Фабрика зірок – 4» закінчилася з низькими показниками". detector.media (in Ukrainian). 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  19. ^ "Алена Мозговая: Победа в талант-шоу – это начало конца". МедиаНяня - таблоид для и про медиа. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  20. ^ "Участник проекта "Фабрика зірок - 4" Сергей Климентьев: "Я похудел на три килограмма!"". dp.vgorode.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  21. ^ "Фабрика звезд 4 - белоруса выгнали из-за влюбленности Билык?". МедиаНяня - таблоид для и про медиа. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  22. ^ "Меладзе в Сети словил певца из Риги". Gorod.lv (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  23. ^ Малива, Ольга (2010-04-20). "Стас Шурин в Украину – Татьяна Ширко в Латвию". 7JA.net - мир шоу-бизнеса (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-04.