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| Channel 4 - Ten Alps / 6x60 minute episodes / First Episode Broadcast
Tuesday 27 March 2007 @ 9.00pm
Producer/Director:
Gabi Kent
legendary Live Aid and Live 8 promoter Harvey Goldsmith on a mission: to help revive the fortunes of six entertainment businesses in desperate need of a boost, and set them back on the path to the big time. How will the acts react to Harvey's unique approach to management? And in a world renowned for overblown egos, who will win the battle of the wills? |
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SAMANTHA MUMBA (27 March 2007) Five years ago she was a teenage pop phenomenon with six hit singles, a platinum album and US record sales in excess of one million under her belt before she turned 19.
Steven Spielberg cast her in the hit movie The Time Machine. She should have had the world at her feet, but instead it all came crashing down around her; she was dropped by her record label, and the film roles dried up. Five years later Harvey is keen to help put LA-based Mumba back on the road to showbiz glory, but it's not a smooth path. At their first meeting in her home town of Dublin she keeps him waiting but promises she's serious about her intentions and arranges to meet him again in LA to perform her new material for him. A month later in America, Samantha won't perform and when it looks like she's a no-show at the dinner Harvey is hosting for her, he threatens to quit the project. Finally she turns up, he likes what he hears and they're back on track but still Samantha won't commit to the management deals Harvey has put together. They are now locked in a battle of wills: she won't focus, and he won't give up. The programme culminates in a showcase in London with an audience of the industry's big hitters, with Samantha appearing in the UK for the first time in her career. Can Harvey figure out what's eating her before she blows her one chance of a comeback, and will Samantha overcome her fear of performing live? In fact, will she even turn up? |
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