The BEST episodes of Instant Star
Every episode of Instant Star ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Instant Star!
In this Teen Drama with a bit of a musical twist, Instant Star is about a 15 year old girl, named Jude Harrison, who won a singer/songwriter contest and a guaranteed recording contract. The "Feisty" and "Punk" singer Jude Harrison is unprepared for the world of fame. Jude learns that managing her career, and her personal life, is harder than it seems. She's wading through a world bigger than her wildest rock 'n' roll dreams - parties and publicity, groupies and paparazzi, managers, producers, release dates, and concerts. Jude's desperate to prove she belongs there, but she's not even old enough to drive.
#1 - Unsweet Sixteen
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2005
G Major is planning Jude the sweet sixteen birthday party of a lifetime – but Jude's even more pleased Shay's coming back from tour…and that she and Tommy Q are actually getting along for a change. But when Jude overhears someone's startling love confession, her big night is thrown into turmoil.
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#2 - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2005
Jude's finally starting to feel comfortable at G Major -- and more than comfortable with Tommy -- when her world and her producer are yanked out from under her, thanks to the arrival of seventeen year-old hip-hop sensation Shay. But Jude's determined not to give up her musical territory without a fight. When Jude goes too far and is forced to apologize at Shay's big concert, she's shocked when her would-be enemy serenades her with a love song. After all, she'd NEVER fall for such a spoiled, arrogant jerk…would she?!
#3 - All Apologies
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/10/2005
Jude's thrilled to be playing the big music charity do she grew up watching on television, until informed that she'll be dueting with Eden - the Instant Star runner-up, and bleached blond shedevil who stole Shay. Unusually Zen-like Tommy implores Jude to bury the hatchet – that is, until his own nemesis - and former bandmate - shows up pushing a Boyz Attack reunion. With Tommy desperately trying to shake his past, and Jude trying to control her future, this is one charity event that'll be lucky to end in peace…
#4 - All I Want Is You
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/18/2007
Tommy and Jamie both want Jude, and she is forced to make a decision between them.
#5 - Won't Get Fooled Again
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/2005
After having her heart broken by two different guys in one night, Jude's decided to stay close to home. Too bad home isn't quite how she remembers it. Sadie and her Dad seem totally at odds, and Jude isn't quite sure why. Meanwhile, her personal and professional relationship with Tommy is rapidly disintegrating. Just when Jude's sure she's reached the boiling point...a new, devastating betrayal is revealed.
#6 - Kiss Me Deadly
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2005
Jude's great at a lot of things, but dancing ain't one of them…which is unfortunate since that's the general theme of her first video -- the one that's going to showcase her hot hot duet with Shay. Too bad the one thing that's not quite hot hot enough for Jude is her relationship with her co- star. Still, she's floored when he breaks up with her…the day before their scheduled on-screen kiss. How's a girl to make nice onscreen with the boy that just broke her heart off camera?
#7 - Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/25/2008
While the G Major team is out building morale at a spa retreat, Jude is left alone with a very disturbed Megan.
#8 - Hey Sister
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2005
The record company freaks out when Jude plays her new song for the radio powers-that-be and gets some very negative reactions. Tommy's so disappointed in himself that he even threatens to quit. Desperate to keep her number one producer (and crush) in the picture, Jude hatches the perfect plan –insisting that she and Tommy just need to ""get away"" with nothing but a guitar and four-track to perfect Jude's sound. Things get complicated when the isolated mentor and his student find themselves connecting over more than just the music…and things get downright messy when Jude's hot sister Sadie shows up.
#9 - Your Time Is Gonna Come
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/2/2008
Jude has everything she wants but when she realizes how many have come before her, will she be enough for Tommy?
#10 - The Long and Winding Road
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/2007
Tommy and Jude go on a road trip to find new places to record. Will this allow their current platonic relationship to change?
#11 - Hallelujah
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/14/2006
Jude is focused on having a normal birthday this year,but somehow ends up locked in an abandoned club with Tommy.
#12 - Start Me Up
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2007
Jude finds out that not only will Karma will be doing a cover of her song Tommy will be producing Karma's album. So she decides to produce a song all on her own.
#13 - Personality Crisis
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/7/2006
When Jude gets nominated for a Peoples Picks, Spiederman isn't exactly boyfriend of the year.
#14 - Let It Be
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/2007
When Patsy dies it is up to Jude to honor her memory and protect her from G-major vultures and even...Jamie.
#15 - Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2005
Jude is suddenly given a first-class ticket to popularity central when her publicist arranges for Jude to perform her first single in front of the entire school. Jude allows herself to get swept up in all the attention until hit with two unexpected and painful truths: some of the students are planning anti-Jude walkout during the televised concert, and more importantly, her best friend Jamie HATES her new song.
#16 - She Drives Me Crazy
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/2008
With the reality TV cameras rolling, Karma's desire for fame grows as Karma and Spiederman's wedding approaches.
#17 - We Belong
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/10/2008
When Tommy is called out of town, Jude wonders why he's being so mysterious. Is their relationship on the rocks?
#18 - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2005
Jude's landed her first official boyfriend…and it doesn't hurt that he's an uber-famous rapper! But she can't keep him separate from the rest of her world forever. So Jude invites Shay to the school dance…and dinner with the family. As if that wasn't awkward enough, Tommy shows up, determined to prove to Jude that Shay is NOT the guy she thinks he is. Jude wants to defend her boyfriend, but she has doubts…especially when he starts flirting with her high school nemesis…
#19 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2004
Charming, punk underdog Jude Harrison shocks everyone by winning the first ""Instant Star"" songwriting contest, landing a prestigious record contract and a life that will never again just be ""normal"". Will she resist her new record company's attempts to ""change"" her – or realize that she's capable, with a little help from her hot new producer, of making music that blows even her own mind?
#20 - Lose Yourself
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/2007
The Instant Star is chosen just as Jude is dealing with a personal crisis. The pictures that were taken at Barry's have resurfaced and he wants 50,000 dollars or they go to the press.
#21 - 18: Part 1
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/6/2007
Things between Tommy and Jude are getting hot, and now that Jude's turning eighteen, everything seems totally fine... but when something from Tommy's past shows up to haunt him, nothing will be the same.
#22 - 18: Part 2
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/13/2007
After Jude approaches Tommy after she's done singing to him, he publicly turns her down. Later she decides to go talk with him, but why is he kissing Sadie? And why is Hunter back bringing up the past?
#23 - London Calling
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/26/2008
In this dramatic Series finale gets the excitement of her life when a big record label in london offers her a signing contract, the dramatic part is at the same time tommy just proposed to her and going to london would mean leaving everything that she loves behind.
#24 - Come As You Are
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2004
Jude loses the cover of a major music magazine to Eden, the snotty push-up-bra’d runner-up in the Instant Star songwriting contest. So Tommy Q. takes Jude -- and her increasingly resentful older sister Sadie -- to a wild hip- hop party being thrown by the magazine’s publisher -- someone with whom Tommy has a very complicated history. Jude tries to “play the game†and one-up Eden with disastrous results. Ultimately it’s Jude’s genuine connection with someone unexpected that saves the day…
#25 - No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2006
Jude is back from a summer tour with her band SME and comes home to find a very different G Major. The record label is now run by media mogul Darius Mills and the fur flies when Jude doesn't play by his rules at a music showcase. Meanwhile, Tommy is busy trying to appease Darius and has no time for Sadie when she returns from Europe.