Clash of the Choirs

Teams and results

Format

Choir members were selected in open auditions held in each city with the celebrity officiating. After the top twenty singers from each city were selected, they were sent to New York for rehearsals before the live performances began on 17 December 2007. Each choir performs, under the direction of their celebrity, and then receives comments from the other competing celebrities. The series has been criticized for not having any real tension or the reality show bite of actual judges. The elimination decision is a public vote by phone and online. The choir with the lowest vote total is eliminated the following night. (In 2007, only the first two nights had eliminations, leading to a "final three.")

As noted, the top prize was a $250,000 donation to the hometown charity.

Season 1

Song list

Each choir performed as part of a multi-choir medley format as well as songs for the finale night of the show (20 December). Of the songs listed below only those performed the first three nights were considered towards the final vote. On the third show (19 December), choirs performed three songs each: one as selected by the producers, then a Christmas carol, then a song in which the celebrity became the lead singer.

• Team Rowland
  • 17 December: "Freedom"
  • 18 December: ELIMINATED
• Team Bolton
  • 17 December: "Living on a Prayer"
  • 18 December: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
  • 19 December: ELIMINATED
• Team Shelton
  • 17 December: "Life is a Highway"
  • 18 December: "Takin' It to the Streets"
  • 19 December: "Home," "Joy to the World" (medley of traditional carol and Three Dog Night version), "This Can't Be Good"
• Team LaBelle
  • 17 December: "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
  • 18 December: "I'll Stand By You"
  • 19 December: "Jesus Take the Wheel," "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
  • 20 December: "No More Drama," "We Are The Champions"
• Team Lachey
  • 17 December: "Unwritten"
  • 18 December: "Friends in Low Places"
  • 19 December: "Flight of the Bumblebee" (only a cappella song in entire competition), "All I Want for Christmas Is You," "What's Left of Me"
  • 20 December: "What A Wonderful World", "Sing a Song"

Reception

Clash was the top rated show on 19 December and had a viewership of 8.3 million (2.4/7) and "remained steady in adults 18-49" according to Nielsen Media Research. The title sequence created by Framework Studio won a Telly Award

U.S. Nielsen Ratings

International versions

Production

Clash of the Choirs was produced by BBC Worldwide America, also responsible for the ABC hit series Dancing with the Stars. The format is distributed by Friday TV, which is owned by the Scandinavian production company Metronome Film & Television.

The first and third episodes were two hours in length. The second was one hour long, and the finale was also initially scheduled to be an hour. However, on 20 December 2007, NBC announced it would expand the finale from one to two hours.

Clash of the Choirs now airs on The Gospel Music Channel (GMC).

Sponsors

On the first episode, GE pledged $250,000 to the Disabled American Veterans. This was announced just before the performance of the Shelton choir, which features two soldiers from the Army base at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. T-Mobile was another sponsor of the miniseries.

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