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Future Starz is an American reality show music competition created by Kelly Gabriel and produced by KGMedia and a UniversalGroup partnership between Kelly and Sony Music Entertainment, on NBC. The series finds new singing talent (solo artists and groups ages 12 and over), drawn from judges auditions, and they compete against each other for votes. The winner is determined by the show's viewers via telephone, Internet, and SMS text voting, and is awarded a recording contract with Kelly Gabriel's record label KGmusic, and a money prize of $3 million dollars.The show began airing on April 21, 2008 and has since aired annually from April through July. The series employs a panel of judges who critique the contestants' performances and gives them a rate from a scale of 1-10. The original judging consisted of Kelly, Paula Abdul, Micheal Buble and Ricardo Gonzalez with host Miguel Iglesias. On the season finale for season 5, Spanish music producer Ricardo Gonzalez announced he would be departing from the show to concentrate on his music label. On February 4, 2013 it was announced that Justin Timberlake would take substitute Ricardo Gonzalez and share the panel alongside Kelly Gabriel and Micheal Buble. Later on the season Buble announced he would be departing the show due to the awaiting of his new baby boy that was born on September of 2013 and Justin as well would depart due to his upcoming tour which would begin in 2014. On November 11, 2013 it was announced that Bruno Mars would join the panel for season 7. Finally on December 2, 2013 it was announced that Hilary Duff would as well join the panel completing the panel for Season 7.Though many rumors broke out about a fourth judge joining the panel it was terminated when in an interview Kelly Gabriel stated, "Nope the panel is complete" In 2009, Future Starz was named the highest revenue earning show, in terms of ratings.