Guest star

One calls guest star (of English guest: guest and star: high-speed motorboat ) a personality which appears in one (sometimes several) episode of a Televised series.

Presentation

The guest stars come from various fields: cinema generally, but also television, sport, song, media, etc Their appearance, intended for " to create the événement" , with for goal to support or start again the audience of the series. Contours of the definition of guest star are sometimes fuzzier, when the high-speed motorboat plays one whole season, or has an integral role (such as for example Heather Locklear in Melrose Place). Muppet Show received, as for him, a guest in guest different star with each new episode. The recourse to several guest stars is the sign for some of the beginning of the decline of the series.

Other fields

The concept of guest star took, with the wire time, an outgoing widened direction of the field of the series TV to gain other fields:

in the Cartoon, where Super-héros make appartions in the stories of other supermen
with the cinema, where celebrities hold occasionally a role of actor (example: Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Michael Schumacher and Tony Parker in the film Astérix with the Olympic Games)
in the musical world, where interpreters invite other interpreters on a concert or an album (see: Duet, Featuring).
in the cartoons, where a famous actor lends his voice, like Tony Curtis with the character of Stony Curtis in the Flinstones.

See too

List of the guest stars in Friends
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