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Tuesday, June 17
9pm

The wait is over. The 2008 Top 22 are revealed following a roller-coaster week in Toronto.

Monday, June 23
8pm

Live performance shows begin this evening with the first group of singers from the Top 22. Viewers vote following the show and results are revealed on Tuesday night.

Tuesday, June 24
8pm

The second group from the Top 22 hit the stage for live performances in hopes of making it back for one more week.

Wednesday, June 25
7.30pm

The first live results show of the season reveals Canada’s vote, when the first group of competitors with the fewest votes from this week’s performance shows will be sent home.

Monday, June 30
8pm

Live performance shows continue as Canada continues to vote their way to this season’s Top 10.

There’s just six days to go before the premiere of Canadian Idol on Tuesday, June 3 at 9 p.m. ET on CTV.

The day after Canadian Idol’s 2008 cross-country audition tour wrapped up in Toronto, CTV announced that the search for Canada’s next Idol is heading into cyberspace, allowing singers in any part of the country with access to a computer to audition for this year’s competition. It’s only the second time in the history of the Idol franchise that competitors have had the opportunity to audition online, marking yet another North American first for Canadian Idol. By extending the breadth of the national search, producers are now offering every eligible Canadian the opportunity for exposure and a chance to start a professional music career, no matter where they live. Beginning today and lasting until Friday, April 25 at 5 p.m. ET, online Idol competitors simply need to upload video tryouts to the Canadian Idol website, idol.CTV.ca.

February 14, 2008

The Canadian Idol audition tour continues! With the first three audition stops complete and as Winnipeg prepares to receive the show at St. Vital Centre on February 23-24, CTV now announces the final venue details for the cross-the-country tour through mid-April.

Auditions will be held in the upcoming seven cities of the 10 city tour on the dates listed below. Please note the date changes for St. John’s and Toronto stops (all information subject to change).

City Dates Venues
Winnipeg, MB February 23/24 St. Vital Centre
Hamilton, ON March 1/2 Eastgate Square
Ottawa, ON March 8/9 St-Laurent Centre
Montréal, QC March 15/16 Forum Pepsi
Halifax, NS March 29/30 Cunard Centre
St. John’s, NL April 8 Avalon Mall
Toronto, ON April 12-13 Yonge-Dundas Square

CTV Announces Canadian Idol Season 6 Audition Tour Stops
– Instruments again allowed for Auditions –
– Canadian Idol “Easy Access” Auditions return –

CTV has announced details of the sixth cross-country audition tour for Canada’s #1 Summer Series, beginning this month, as the 2008 Audition Tour gets set to kick off Saturday, January 26 at the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton. As announced last night on eTalk, the 10-city tour will cross the country, hitting malls in nine more cities through mid-April. In a Canadian Idol first, the hometown of reigning Idol Brian Melo – Hamilton, Ontario – has been added as a stop on the 2008 Audition Tour.

Unleash Your Inner Idol: Canadian Idol Audition Tour Begins Jan. 26

CTV announced today that Canada’s favourite summertime obsession and #1 summer series will return for a sixth season in 2008. Canadian Idol is getting ready to hit the road beginning Saturday, January 26, 2008 on the first stop of the series’ sixth cross-country audition tour. The 2008 Canadian Idol Audition Tour will visit 10 cities in seven provinces from coast to coast, including a brand-new city never visited before.

The Season Five audition tour earlier this year saw 10,000 Canadian singers audition in a competition that ultimately saw SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) Inc. recording artist Brian Melo named the 2007 Champion.

When Hamilton's Brian Melo's name was revealed as the 2007 Canadian Idol champion in the final minutes of last night's star-studded season finale, a remarkable 2.75 million Canadians were watching, CTV confirmed today. In all, the unforgettable, two-hour Canadian Idol finale ended with an average audience of 2.25 million viewers, the single biggest audience of the season and once again the No. 1 program of the night in Canada.

In addition, Canadian Idol:

- Saw nearly 5 million Canadians tune in to some or all of the broadcast.
- More than doubled the audience of Big Brother (CBS/Global; 983,000) nationally, during the 9-10 p.m. hour.
- Was the most-watched show in Toronto by 25 per cent compared to the second-ranked show (CTV National News). With 428,000 viewers, Canadian Idol saw its Toronto audience jump 21 per cent compared to last year's finale.

With the latest season now concluded, Canadian Idol finishes for the
fifth season in a row as the most-watched program of the summer on Canadian television. The non-simulcast Idol drew 23 per cent more viewers than the second most-ranked series on Canadian TV this summer, America's Got Talent (CTV/NBC).

Brian Melo has been crowned the 5th Canadian Idol edging out Jaydee Bixby in this year's season finale of the hit TV show.
Brian's debut single, All I Ever Wanted, will no doubt top the charts in the coming weeks as the debut singles of previous Canadian Idols Ryan Malcolm, Kalan Porter, Melissa O'Neil and Eva Avila did.

It's the final performance show of Canadian Idol 2007. It's the battle between Brian Melo and Jaydee Bixby. Who will be the next Canadian Idol?

Both Brian and Jaydee spent the week in New York with Bon Jovi who have sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and are topping the charts with their new album Lost Highway. Tonight they will each sing three songs.

Here are the lyrics to Brian Melo's winner's single from Canadian Idol 2007

All I Ever Wanted

Slow Down
Make it last
I'm having the time of my life
And take a photograph
I don't want to leave this behind
what seems so out of reach
we're holding it right in our hands
Let's give up everything
Let's jump in and never look back
Let's jump in and never look back

This is all I ever wanted
but life got in my way
You're all I ever wanted
I didn't see how it could change