Let It Shine
Created by	Gary Barlow
Presented by	Graham Norton Mel Giedroyc
Judges	Gary Barlow Dannii Minogue Martin Kemp Amber Riley (guest) Lulu (guest) Ricki Lake (guest) Ashley Roberts (guest) Peter Kay (guest)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producer	Andrew Cartmell
Producer	Gary Barlow
Production location	Dock10[1]
Editor	Guy Freeman
Running time	30–105 minutes
Production company	BBC Studios
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	7 January (2017-01-07) – 25 February 2017 (2017-02-25)

Let It Shine was a British reality television music competition to find young men to star in The Band, a new stage musical featuring the songs of Take That.^[2] It aired in January and February 2017 on BBC One.^[3] In 2018, the BBC announced that Let It Shine has been cancelled after one series.

The show was presented by Graham Norton and Mel Giedroyc, with Gary Barlow, Dannii Minogue and Martin Kemp serving as judges throughout the series.^[4] Amber Riley was the guest judge for the auditions,^[5] followed by Lulu for the group round.^[6] Ricki Lake was the guest judge for the first live show,^{[citation needed]} Ashley Roberts for the semi-final^[7] and Peter Kay for the final.

The show was won by the band Five to Five, who won the part as the band in the new musical The Band, which began touring in September 2017.

Production

The show's title comes from Take That's 2007 single "Shine".^[8] Amber Riley, Lulu, Ricki Lake, Ashley Roberts and Peter Kay acted as guest judges of the competition, respectively.^[9] Busted, Beverley Knight, Melanie C, Olly Murs and Kaiser Chiefs performed with the contestants split into groups as part of the second round of the competition, which was filmed at Dock10, MediaCityUK in November 2016.^[10]

Format

There are three stages to the competition:^[11]

• "The Starway" (auditions)
• "The Collaborations" (group stage)
• "The Battle of the Bands" (live shows)

The Starway

The judges each have 5 stars and each contestant is scored out of 20 stars; in order to proceed onto the next round they needed 15 stars.

Episode 1 (7 January)

Act[12]	Order	Age	Song	Stars
Clinton Elvis	1	23	"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"		16
Deaglan Arthurs	2	18	"New York, New York"		18
Jamie-Ryan Taylor	3	21	"Last Request"		11
Jazzie Mattis	4	24	"Uptown Funk"		17
Tyler Jack Smith	5	19	"You Are So Beautiful"		17
Hector Mitchell-Turner	6	21	"You Get What You Give"		11
Zak Robinson	7	17	"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"		14
Bobby Foord	8	16	"7 Days"		11
Nicky Price	9	17	"Say Something"		20
Nick Carsberg	10	17	"Dance with Me Tonight"		16
Wayne Thurtell	11	25	"My Girl"		11
Jason Brock	12	30	"Run to You"		20

Episode 2 (14 January)

Act[13]	Order	Age	Song	Stars
Jonnie Halliwell	1	25	"Reet Petite"		20
Dylan Reid	2	20	"Roar"		16
Lee Stinchcombe	3	35	"The Power of Love"		8
Samm Hewitt	4	23	"Dear Darlin'"		12
Keith Branic	5	16	"Treasure"		15
Ciaran O'Brien	6	16	"Dancing On My Own"		15
Craig Webb	7	27	"Jealous"		18
Damien Kivlehan	8	26	"You Give Love a Bad Name"		16
Curtis T Johns	9	23	"Put Your Records On"		19
Julius Wright	10	20	"All Night Long (All Night)"		16
Jamie Corner	11	24	"Johnny B. Goode"		17
Scott Sutcliffe	12	23	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"		14
Huw Roberts	13	16	"Don't Look Back in Anger"		16
Harry Neale	14	26	"Beggin'"		16

Episode 3 (21 January)

Act[14]	Order	Age	Song	Stars
Jordan Harvey	1	24	"Blame It on Me"		18
AJ Bentley	2	21	"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"		18
Dion Magrath	3	23	"All About You"		13
Matt Thorpe	4	30	"If I Ain't Got You"		20
Dan Budd	5	27	"No Regrets"		16
Elijah Holloway	6	18	"Greased Lightnin'"		11
Mark Angels	7	21	"Mirrors"		17
Harry Brown	8	17	"Love Yourself"		17
Jordan Charles	9	24	"Pompeii"		15
Danny Colligan	10	23	"Stitches"		15
Kyle Passmore	11	27	"You Give Me Something		19
Josh Bailey	12	17	"Jealous"		19
Matt Knight	13	27	"Wake Me Up"		16
Tayler Davis	14	21	"Faith"		14
Hercules Smith	15	33	"Iris"		16

Episode 4 (28 January)

Act[15]	Order	Age	Song	Stars
Callum Howells	1	17	"You'll Be Back"		16
Scott Macaulay	2	18	"Laura"		19
Luke Stanley	3	27	"All of Me"		15
Travis Kerry	4	19	"Feel So Close"		11
Alexis Gerred	5	27	"Come Together"		18
Robert Evans	6	20	"Can You Feel the Love Tonight"		12
Andrew Mott	7	22	"More Than Words"		12
Kieran McManus	8	18	"Little Things"		12
Sam Glen	9	23	"Torn"		16
Connor Cunningham	10	21	"Brown Eyed Girl"		15
Ryan Butterworth	11	21	"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For		16
Sario Solomon	12	19	"Tainted Love"		16
Anthony Sahota	13	22	"Ordinary People"		16
Liam Holmes	14	27	"Let's Get It On"		13
Conor McLoughlin	15	20	"Your Song"		17
Yazdan Qafouri	16	17	"Ain't No Sunshine"		15
Jimmy Haggar	17	19	"That's Life"		13
Veeraj Lutchman	18	37	"Take Me to Church"		16
Jack Hinton	19	22	"Viva Forever"		15
Bradley Johnson	20	19	"Bring Him Home"		20

The Collaborations

After the episode, a clip was made available on BBC iPlayer which revealed the new names of the bands. Group 1 was named Five to Five, Group 2 was named Iron Sun, Group 3 was named Neon Panda, Group 4 was named Drive and Group 5 was named Nightfall.

Episode 5 (4 February)

• Guest judge: Lulu
• Group performance: "Kidz"/ "Hangin' Tough"/ "When Will I Be Famous?"/ "Sing"

Group 1

• Collaboration with Olly Murs

Group 2

• Collaboration with Beverley Knight

Group 3

• Collaboration with Busted

Group 4

• Collaboration with Kaiser Chiefs

• Originally Callum Howells & Harry Neale were part of Group 4 but decided to withdraw from the competition, they were replaced by reserves Keith Branic & Jordan Charles.

Group 5

• Collaboration with Melanie C

The Battle of the Bands

Live show details

Results summary

Result's colour key

  Artist was part of the Band in bottom two

  Artist was eliminated

  Artist qualified for the band

Week 1: Quarter final (11 February)

• Guest judge: Ricki Lake
• Group performance: "This Is How We Do It"/ "Hot in Herre"/ "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty"/ "Eye of the Tiger"/ "What Makes You Beautiful"/ "Treasure"/ "Hey Ya!"/ "No Diggity"
• Guest performance: Jersey Boys ("Sherry"/ "Big Girls Don't Cry"/ "Walk Like a Man"/ "Beggin'"/ "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)")

• Mark Angels, Jazzie Mattis, Matt Thorpe, Jonnie Halliwell & Conor McLoughlin were saved by the judges and through to Semi-final. As Drive had 3 of the 5 members saved and Neon Panda only had 2 of the 5 the saved artist would continue as Drive.
• Anthony Sahota, Craig Webb, Jamie Corner, Josh Bailey & Ryan Butterworth were not saved and therefore were eliminated from the competition.

Week 2: Semi-final (18 February)

• Guest judge: Ashley Roberts
• Group performance: "It Only Takes a Minute"/ "Could It Be Magic"/ "Relight My Fire"/ "Pray"/ "Shine" (with Take That)
• Guest performance: Motown: The Musical: ("Do You Love Me"/ "Dancing in the Street")

• Mark Angels, Matt Thorpe, Jonnie Halliwell, Conor McLoughlin & Jazzie Mattis were saved by the judges and through to Final and continue as Drive.
• Alexis Gerred, Clinton Elvis, Harry Brown, Jordan Harvey and Matt Knight were not saved and therefore were eliminated from the competition.

Week 3: Final (25 February)

• Guest judge: Peter Kay
• Theme: Musical classic & pop number
• Guest performance: Michael Ball & Alfie Boe: ("Les Misérables Medley") and Take That with Robbie Williams: ("The Flood")

• Winning group: Five To Five (Yazdan Qafouri, Curtis T Johns, Nick Carsberg, Sario Solomon, AJ Bentley)

Promotion

During an appearance on Alan Carr: Chatty Man in December, Barlow, Minogue and Kemp confirmed the show's launch date as 7 January 2017, the same date as The Voice UK's sixth series' premiere on ITV;^[16] and also showed a sneak-peek of one of the auditionees, and revealed the series' format and stages.

Broadcast

Internationally, the series began airing in Australia on BBC UKTV from 22 January 2017.^[17]

Ratings

All ratings are sourced from BARB.^[18]