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uk bbci sky - Fame Academy on Sky Digital |
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 BBCi have taken a truly multi-platform approach with their new show Fame Academy.
The show is supported by round-the-clock news updates, highlights packages, profiles and pictures available across all three digital interactive TV platforms, the internet, broadband, SMS, WAP and PDA.
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The interactive application featured here is available to Sky Digital homes and allows UK viewers to access the latest news in text form, see a live video link from the Fame Academy mansion (even when the programme isn't on air), watch BBC One plus the live feed simultaneously, see video profiles of all the participants (teachers and students) as well as check out the schedule of forthcoming Fame Academy programmes which are stripped throughout the schedules of BBC One, BBC Choice and CBeebies.
Outside regular broadcasts the video feed can be accessed through the BBCi-bar, accessible by pressing the "Text" key on BBC channels.
Each week, three students who have not made the grade are put on probation, where they will have to sing for survival. Viewers hold the fate of one of the students in their hands by voting for who they want to save. Viewers can do this via telephone voting (costing 10p), by voting via the interactive TV application (costing 25p) or via SMS (Costing 12p). The remaining students in the house choose to keep one of the other two probationers.
In addition to satellite, Digital Terrestrial viewers can choose between two additional video streams during live Fame Academy broadcasts - a live-link of what's happening there and then and a continuously updated half hour highlights package. There is also a text service available (Press Text) outside of broadcast hours with exclusive student and teacher diaries, plus Fame Academy secrets revealed.
On Digital Cable, viewers can look up more information on the students and teachers personal profiles and learn all about them through their journals, diary columns and photo galleries. There's also the hottest news snippets, upcoming events and 24-hour viewer voting.
The website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/fameacademy provides further background info on the programme, news updates plus on-demand video clips of all the best Academy action. Viewers can also email in questions to the students who will appear live online, chat to other fans on the message board.
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