Academy Fantasia

Academy Fantasia (or True Academy Fantasia, formerly UBC Academy Fantasia) is a reality show held in Thailand. It is a singing contest, judged through popular votes.

True Academy Fantasia has terminated its broadcast season with season 12.

Overview
Created by cable TV provider TrueVisions, formerly known as United Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), Academy Fantasia is a franchise of La Academia, a popular reality TV show from Mexico. The contestants are selected through nationwide auditions, as well as through online audition clips. The live auditions take place in major cities in every part of Thailand to search for those who dream about becoming superstars. Four judges will eliminate thousands of people down to top 100 then last twelve or more finalists into the Academy House for study.

The contestants live in the same house with hundreds of hidden cameras. Audiences can watch them 24 hours live on TV and online. Each week the contestants are assigned individual songs and sometimes group songs to perform on stage every Saturday until the last week of the show. The contestants attend voice class, dance class, and acting class to practice the songs that they perform.

The audiences can vote for their favorite contestants through cell phones and land phones. The show usually airs 24 hours on True Vision 20 (digital) and 16 (analog) and the concerts will be broadcast live on True Music Channel (Digital:26, Analog:30) and ModernNine TV (public channel 9) every Saturday night between 20:40-23:10 Thailand time.

After each performance the commentators will evaluate the performance. At the end of the concert, the contestant(s) who received the lowest percentage of audience votes will have to leave the show. The winners of the first five seasons were all male and was the first female in the season 6. The winners and the runners-up will automatically receive record deals with True Fantasia record label. After the end of each season, there is a nationwide concert tour starring the top 12 finalists.

Seasons

 * Male
 * Female

Season 1 (2004)
21 June - 21 August 2004 (9 Weeks)


 * Week 1 theme: Trainers' Choices
 * Week 2 theme: Trainers' Choices
 * Week 3 theme: Trainers' Choices
 * Week 4 theme: Trainers' Choices
 * Week 5 theme: Duets
 * Week 6 theme: Easy Listening
 * Week 7 theme: International Soundtracks
 * Week 8 theme: Rock n' Roll
 * Week 9 theme: Contestant's Favourites (Finale)

Season 1: Elimination chart
1None elimination week due to a failure of system supported the votes.

Season 2 (2005)
18 July - 8 October 2005 (12 Weeks)


 * Week 1 theme: Songs from Audition Round
 * Week 2 theme: 80's
 * Week 3 theme: Duets
 * Week 4 theme: #1 Hits
 * Week 5 theme: Rock n' Roll
 * Week 6 theme: Voting Back
 * Week 7 theme: World Musics
 * Week 8 theme: Songs of "The Soontaraporn"
 * Week 9 theme: Dance & Remixes
 * Week 10 theme: Thai Local Musics
 * Week 11 theme: Movie Hits Soundtracks
 * Week 12 theme: Contestant's Favourites (Finale)

Season 2: Elimination chart

 * 1Contestants were voted back and returned to competition once again. The ranking would be reset, but the rewards still were the same.

Season 3 (2006)
3 July - 9 September 2006 (10 Weeks)


 * Week 1 theme: His Majesty The King's Songs
 * Week 2 theme: Duets
 * Week 3 theme: Songs of Contestant's Idols
 * Week 4 theme: #1 Hits
 * Week 5 theme: Animals Songs
 * Week 6 theme: Songs for Mother
 * Week 7 theme: Dance n' Hip
 * Week 8 theme: Thai Country
 * Week 9 theme: Hits Soundtracks
 * Week 10 theme: Contestant's Favourites (Finale)

Season 3: Elimination chart
1Contestant had the most popular vote on the special week and get the special prize, a trip to Hong Kong with his mother for one week.

Season 4 (2007)
18 March - 15 October 2007 (12 Weeks & 1 Extra Week)


 * Week 1 theme: Semi-finals #1
 * Week 2 theme: Semi-finals #2
 * Week 3 theme: Thai Contemporary
 * Week 4 theme: Boy Band & Girl Group
 * Week 5 theme: Thai Country
 * Week 6 theme: Cover Hits
 * Week 7 theme: Superstars Superhits
 * Week 8 theme: Tele Songs
 * Week 9 theme: Cheer
 * Week 10 theme: Karaoke (Surprised)
 * Week 11 theme: Dance
 * Week 12 theme: Contestant's Favourites (Finale)
 * Week 13 theme: Contestant's The Best of AF4 & His Majesty The King's Songs (The Extra Week)

Season 4: Elimination chart

 * 1Contestant have the most popular vote of the week and can choose two contestants (within top12) back to the competition once again.
 * 2Contestants were selected by the most popular vote contestant of the week to come back into the competition once again, their ranking would be reset.
 * 3Contestant have the most popular vote of the week and receive a special prize, trip to any country in the world.

In the 4th season, AF had 20 contestants go into the Academy house. However, this was still considered the Semi-finals, since there are normally only 12 final contestants in each season. Thus, by the end of the week, 8 of the contestants were supposed to be eliminated, leaving with only 12 people as the real finalists. After the 1st week's performance, the voting results showed that only 3 girls survived to the next round if they really eliminated 8 people. However, this could not happen according to the show's "bible" because in every season, there needs to be 5-7 men & 5-7 women (roughly equal number of men and women among the 12 contestants). Therefore, this week, instead of eliminating the bottom 8, they eliminated only the bottom 4, who were all female. It was also announced that in the following week, 4 male contestants would have to be eliminated, while the female contestants would be safe. In the 2nd week, the bottom 4 male contestants were eliminated by the end of the show.

Season 5 (2008)
12 May - 2 August 2008 (12 Weeks)


 * Week 1 Theme: Semi-finals #1
 * Week 2 Theme: Semi-finals #2
 * Week 3 Theme: Not My Style
 * Week 4 Theme: Dance Group
 * Week 5 Theme: Thai Contemporary Duets
 * Week 6 Theme: Songs of "Asanee-Wasan"
 * Week 7 Theme: Indy Music
 * Week 8 Theme: Thai Country
 * Week 9 Theme: My Favorite Song
 * Week 10 Theme: Korean Songs
 * Week 11 Theme: The Battle
 * Week 12 Theme: Contestant's Favourites (Finale)


 * 1Contestants from online auditions.

Season 5: Elimination chart

 * 1Contestants from online auditions.
 * 2Contestant was the 2nd place popular vote of the week and received the Immunity Idol which could help her save herself from an elimination.
 * 3None eliminated because a contestant decided to use the Immunity Idol to save herself from elimination.
 * 4Contestants were given a chance to return into the Academy house just one week. There would be only 1 contestant can return to the competition again.
 * 5Contestant got the most popular vote in the voting back week, and can return into the competition once again.

In the 5th season, 16 contestants were admitted to the Academy house, so in the first week 4 contestants were supposed to be eliminated (one male and one female from the online auditions, and one male and one female from live auditions.) At the actual concert, though, the audience and the contestants were surprised when only 2 female contestants were eliminated (one from online auditions and one from live auditions), so 2 male contestants (one from the clip auditions and one from the live auditions) would be eliminated in week 2.

Season 6 (2009)
28 June - 19 September 2009 (12 Weeks)


 * Week 1 Theme: My Style
 * Week 2 Theme: Party & Radio Hits
 * Week 3 Theme: Tributed to King of Pop "Michael Jackson"
 * Week 4 Theme: Hard Rock
 * Week 5 Theme: Dance
 * Week 6 Theme: Show Power
 * Week 7 Theme: Mother's Choice
 * Week 8 Theme: The Battle
 * Week 9 Theme: Featuring with Our Friend
 * Week 10 Theme: Thai Country
 * Week 11 Theme: The Musical
 * Week 12 Theme: My Dream with My Songs (Finale)

Season 7 (2010)
27 June - 18 September 2010 (12 Weeks)


 * Week 1 Theme: Top 100 Semi-final Audition
 * Week 2 Theme: Rock
 * Week 3 Theme: Hot Debut (During years contestants were born, 1988–1995)
 * Week 4 Theme: Korean Songs
 * Week 5 Theme: Single Show (Contestant's Choice)
 * Week 6 Theme: Songs for Mother
 * Week 7 Theme: Music Festival (International Hits)
 * Week 8 Theme: Tag Teams (Duet & Battle Songs)
 * Week 9 Theme: Songs of Thongchai McIntyre (Musical Part I)
 * Week 10 Theme: Thai Contemporary & Country (Musical Part II)
 * Week 11 Theme: Variety Dance
 * Week 12 Theme: Grand Finale

1Ton (V13) replaced Mark (V11), who retired the show at the end of concert week 3.

Season 8 (2011)
26 June - 17 September 2011 (12 week)


 * Week 1 Theme: Semi-final #1
 * Week 2 Theme: Semi-final #2 - Duo Song
 * Week 3 Theme: Semi-final #3 - Thanks & Gives
 * Week 4 Theme: Tata Young & Jirasak Parnpum
 * Week 5 Theme: Hearthbroken
 * Week 6 Theme: In Love
 * Week 7 Theme: Variety Dance
 * Week 8 Theme: Killer Song
 * Week 9 Theme: The King's Songs, Thai Contemporary & Thai Country
 * Week 10 Theme: Musical
 * Week 11 Theme: Songs of 'Ohm Chatri' & 'Dee Nitipong'
 * Week 12 Theme: Grand Final

Season 9 (2012)
2 June - 15 September 2012 (15 Weeks)


 * Week 1 Theme: My Chosen Song #1
 * Week 2 Theme: My Chosen Song #2
 * Week 3 Theme: My Chosen Song #3
 * Week 4 Theme: 12 Dream 12 Style
 * Week 5 Theme: Re-stage: Friend's song
 * Week 6 Theme: Thai's life
 * Week 7 Theme: First Love
 * Week 8 Theme: Killer Songs
 * Week 9 Theme: The Battle: Senior's Song
 * Week 10 Theme: Mothers' Generation Songs
 * Week 11 Theme: Dance City
 * Week 12 Theme: Duets
 * Week 13 Theme: Musical
 * Week 14 Theme: Settha Sirachaya
 * Week 15 Theme: Grand Final

Season 10 (2013)
24 June - 14 September 2013 (12 Weeks)


 * Week 1 Theme: My Style
 * Week 2 Theme: My Steps
 * Week 3 Theme: My Scenes
 * Week 4 Theme: My Minute
 * Week 5 Theme: My Duet
 * Week 6 Theme: My Weakness
 * Week 7 Theme: My Buddy
 * Week 8 Theme: My Beat
 * Week 9 Theme: My Thai Thai
 * Week 10 Theme: My Stage (AF10 The Musical)
 * Week 11 Theme: My Voice My Music
 * Week 12 Theme: My Dream

Team
ทีม ฝันและใฝ่ ทีม ฝากรัก
 * Week 1-6
 * V1 Ten
 * V3 Fluke
 * V4 Mook
 * V5 Lisa
 * V7 Aee
 * V9 Benz
 * V10 Tangtai
 * V12 Mangpor
 * V13 Thung
 * V15 Beam
 * V22 CoNan
 * V24 Belle
 * V2 Taengmo
 * V6 Tayme
 * V8 Tong
 * V11 Nan
 * V14 Hernfah
 * V16 Ton
 * V17 Ryu
 * V18 Nene
 * V19 Prim
 * V20 Tungbeer
 * V21 Tuey
 * V23 Hongyok

ทีม ฝันและใฝ่ ทีม ฝากรัก
 * Week 7
 * V1 Ten
 * V3 Fluke
 * V4 Mook
 * V9 Benz
 * V13 Thung
 * V15 Beam
 * V22 CoNan
 * V24 Belle
 * V2 Taengmo
 * V6 Tayme
 * V8 Tong
 * V10 Tangtai
 * V11 Nan
 * V14 Hernfah
 * V18 Nene
 * V20 Tungbeer
 * V21 Tuey
 * V23 Hongyok

ทีม ฝันและใฝ่ ทีม ฝากรัก
 * Week 8-9
 * V3 Fluke
 * V4 Mook
 * V10 Tangtai
 * V13 Thung
 * V15 Beam
 * V20 Tungbeer
 * V22 CoNan
 * V24 Belle
 * V2 Taengmo
 * V6 Tayme
 * V8 Tong
 * V11 Nan
 * V14 Hernfah
 * V18 Nene
 * V21 Tuey
 * V23 Hongyok

Season 11 (2014)
20 July - 4 October 2014 (11 Weeks)


 * Week 1 Theme: My Style
 * Week 2 Theme: Boy Band & Girl Group
 * Week 3 Theme: Mother's Choice
 * Week 4 Theme: Duets
 * Week 5 Theme: Thai Country
 * Week 6 Theme: Midterm
 * Week 7 Theme: The Battle
 * Week 8 Theme: Solo Dance
 * Week 9 Theme: Musical
 * Week 10 Theme: Producers Choices
 * Week 11 Theme: Grand Final

Season 12 (2015)
28 June - 19 September 2015 (12 Weeks)


 * Week 1 Theme: Trainers Choices
 * Week 2 Theme: Trainers Choices
 * Week 3 Theme: Trainers Choices
 * Week 4 Theme: Entertain & Emotional
 * Week 5 Theme: Duets
 * Week 6 Theme: Songs For Mom
 * Week 7 Theme: The Battle
 * Week 8 Theme: Thai Country & Thai Contemporary
 * Week 9 Theme: Party Dance
 * Week 10 Theme: Musical
 * Week 11 Theme: Tribute Carabao
 * Week 12 Theme: Grand Finale