Platinum Hit

53
Metascore
2011-2011
1 season
Bravo Networks
Music, Reality

Bravo's music competition series "Platinum Hit" showcases emerging singer-songwriters on their quest to become the next big hitmaker. The series follows 12 musicians as they battle through innovative songwriting challenges that will test their creativity, patience and drive. From dance track to love ballad, every episode will feature a different theme that will require the contestants to write and perform lyrics from multiple genres. In the end, only one is crowned the ultimate hitmaker walking away with a $100,000 cash prize, publishing deal with Sony and with BMI Songwriters, The Writing Camp, and a recording deal with RCA/Jive.

53
Metascore
2011-2011
1 season
Bravo Networks
Music, Reality

NBC's The Sing-Off Adds Jewel as Judge

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Tue, Jul 2, 2013

Jewel to Play June Carter Cash in Lifetime Biopic

Jewel will play June Carter Cash in the upcoming Lifetime biopic, The June Carter Cash Story, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Many people know about the legendary love story of Johnny and June, but June Carter Cash has her own epic journey filled with triumphs, tragedies, loves and losses," Lifetime executive Rob Sharenow said. "This movie will explore all aspects of the woman behind the icon, and we're thrilled Jewel will be playing the role."

Fri, May 4, 2012

Jewel to Play June Carter Cash in Lifetime Biopic

Platinum Hit's Jes Hudak on Antagonist Nick: He Needs a Hug

Jes Hudak's ride to the Top 2 of Platinum Hit was rocky, to say the least. Underrated by her peers (and flat-out antagonized by Nick), she exhibited the effects of her stress at one point in what looked like a meltdown at judging. Despite it all, she bounced back to become the show's first runner-up. Below, Hudak tells us why being an underdog was to her advantage, why she shared something as personal as her past assault on national television and how, regardless of what you may think, she's a "diehard optimist"...

Wed, Aug 10, 2011

Platinum Hit's Jes Hudak on Antagonist Nick: He Needs a Hug

Jewel, Ty Murray Welcome a Son

It's a boy for Jewel.The singer and her husband, Ty Murray, welcomed son Kase Townes Monday in Texas, her rep confirms to TVGuide.com. The baby arrived at 7 p.m. and weighed in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces."Ty and I are so pleased to welcome our new baby boy into the world," Jewel said in a statement. "We are overcome with happiness — it really is as great as everyone ...

Tue, Jul 12, 2011

Platinum Hit's Jackie Tohn on Doing Idol Versus Hit

The topic of last week's challenge on Platinum Hit was risk, and the judges showed eliminated contestant Jackie Tohn just how dangerous it can be to take one:  after choosing country as her genre, she found herself kicked to the curb. Below the American Idol alum compares her two reality experiences, discusses Nick's antagonism and explains the thought process behind her much-maligned "Super Duper Rapper" hook...

Mon, Jul 11, 2011

Platinum Hit's Jackie Tohn on Doing Idol Versus Hit

Platinum Hit's Melissa Rapp on Reality TV's "Experiment in Human Behavior"

Once again, the contestant sent packing on this week's Platinum Hit (Mondays, 10/9c, Bravo) was the one who had contributed the least. At least that's what we were led to believe: according to Melissa Rapp, it was simply her time to go, and she couldn't hang on because she didn't bring the strategy that reality TV calls for. Below, she shares her naive involvement in the genre, and her surprise at the machinations that were taking place all around her (alleging that Nick's attitude is a pose and that Jes and Johnny's relationship is contrived). While the narrative that goes "hindsight is 20/20" is common, especially for those chewed up and spit out by reality TV, Rapp articulates her experience particularly well, especially for someone who left a show about writing so early...

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

Platinum Hit's Melissa Rapp on Reality TV's "Experiment in Human Behavior"

Platinum Hit's Amber Ojeda: I Have a Personality, I Swear to God

Amber Ojeda knew that this week's Platinum Hit rapping challenge would pose a problem for her, but given her emotional outpouring upon her elimination, she didn't know how much of a problem it would be. Criticized for not contributing enough and also for the supposedly small amount she did contribute (guest judge Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, for example hated her line that described "running rhymes through my head in my canopy bed") to Jackie's embarrassing rap about being white, Ojeda left the competition in tears and doubt. Below, she talks about getting her confidence back, how Kara DioGuardi offended her, Nick's lechery and why she thinks the warzone vibe of the show is counterproductive...

Tue, Jun 21, 2011

Platinum Hit's Amber Ojeda: I Have a Personality, I Swear to God

Kara DioGuardi Takes on Roxie Hart in Chicago

Kara DioGuardi will join the ranks of Marilu Henner, Brooke Shields and Michelle Williams: All women who've portrayed Roxie Hart in Chicago. VIDEO: Kara DioGuardi on dishing it out and taking it in Beginning Sept. 5, DioGuardi will make her Broadway debut as...

Fri, Jun 17, 2011

Kara DioGuardi Takes on Roxie Hart in Chicago

VIDEO: Kara DioGuardi on Dishing It Out and Taking It In

Kara DioGuardi stopped by our studio to discuss her current stint judging on Platinum Hit (Mondays, 10/9c, Bravo) and, inevitably, how it compares to her work on American Idol...

Thu, Jun 16, 2011

VIDEO: Kara DioGuardi on Dishing It Out and Taking It In

Platinum Hit's Karen Waldrup: I Did Not Expect To Be Cut at All

After writing about the road on this week's Platinum Hit (Sundays, 10/9c, Bravo), Nashville-based songwriter Karen Waldrup was told to hit it. She was blasted for her lyrics, although ironically the couplet that received the most flak — "I was put here for a reason / And I want the world to see it" — could be the battle cry for reality stars everywhere. Not that Waldrup would know. As she gears up for a tour of the South this summer and an industry showcase at Nashville's 12th & Porter, she tells us that before she was cast, she never watched a reality show. Also discussed: her hunger, her team and her letting go of the idea that her songs are her children...

Tue, Jun 14, 2011

Platinum Hit's Karen Waldrup: I Did Not Expect To Be Cut at All

Kara DioGuardi on Platinum Hit's Bad Singing Problem, Plans for More Post-Idol TV

So far, watching Bravo's songwriting competition Platinum Hit hasn't been easy on the ears — and judge Kara DioGuardi knows it. Sure, viewers sit through season after season of God-awful warbling on DioGuardi's old show American Idol, but on Platinum Hit, contestants are not only shaky singers, they're all performing their own half-baked, unproven material. In the first episode, one hopeful, Sonyae, screamed her hook for an original song about Los Angeles — refrain: "LOVE IT OR HATE IT! LOVE IT OR HATE IT! LOVE IT OR HATE IT I LOVE LAAAAA!" -- and it was pretty much a train wreck until DioGuardi named it the challenge winner! "When I saw it as a viewer, I thought, 'Oh yeah, people are going to think we're out of our minds,'" DioGuardi says...

Tue, Jun 14, 2011

Kara DioGuardi on Platinum Hit's Bad Singing Problem, Plans for More Post-Idol TV

Matt's TV Week in Review

A quick rundown of highs and lows from the first week of what's going to be a busy summer season. TV didn't even take Memorial Day weekend off — to the delight of fans of Sunday's two top cable dramas. High point of the week: HBO's Game of Thrones, which has been pretty magnificent from the start and is truly hitting its stride now. Good news for the loyal viewer and fan of epic fantasy, but bad news for noble Ned Stark, who loses his patron when Fat King Robert is gutted by a boar ("murdered by a pig," he scoffs, although suspicion is now falling on the squire who ladled him with booze on the hunt). Poor solemn Ned isn't much of one for bluffing against his dastardly enemies, especially the evil Queen Cersei, who lays out the series' theme (and title) as she warns him, "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."

Fri, Jun 3, 2011

Matt's Picks: May 30-June 2

Gettysburg (History, 9/8c, Monday)Launching a four-year project to commemorate the Civil War, which is marking its 150th anniversary this year, History has commissioned action producers Tony and Ridley Scott to produce a two-hour feature documentary about one of the war's most legendary and costly battles. Airing on the night of Memorial Day, Gettysburg fuses CGI and action footage designed to render the conflict as real as...

Sun, May 29, 2011

Bravo Working on Another Reality Series for Kara DioGuardi

Bravo just can't get enough of Kara DioGuardi. Mere days before the Memorial Day premiere of her new reality competition show, Platinum Hit, the network announced that they're developing a docu-series revolving around her life. Kara (working title) will follow the former American Idol judge as she gives insight into her life as music producer and publisher, multi-platinum songwriter and record executive. No word if there will be bikinis involved.

Thu, May 26, 2011

Bravo Working on Another Reality Series for Kara DioGuardi