Gone Country (TV series)

Gone Country
Judges	John Rich of Big & Rich
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	16
Production
Running time	1 hour including commercials
Original release
Network	CMT
Release	January 25, 2008 (2008-01-25) – March 7, 2009 (2009-03-07)
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Gone Country is an American celebrity reality television show in which contestants compete to become a country music singer.^[1] The winner gets a country single produced by host John Rich, one-half of the country duo Big & Rich.^[2] It aired on CMT, with reruns on TV Land, and VH1. On the first-season finale, Julio Iglesias Jr. was named the winner.^[3]

Gone Country uproots these seven musical celebrities and moves them into a Nashville mansion together to embark on a two-week adventure, hosted by singer-songwriter John Rich. Each celebrity will be paired up with some of Nashville's finest songwriters in an attempt to prepare them for a career in country music. In each episode, the cast competes against each other in challenges that will test them musically and physically to adapt to a country music lifestyle, both on and off the stage. At the end of the two weeks, the artist who is most prepared to impress a country audience, as determined by Rich, will record and release a song.^[4]