Rock School is a British reality television series starring Gene Simmons, at which he has a small amount of time to show a class of school children in to a fully fledged rock band, at the end of which they have to play in a supporting slot for a top rock band. Rock School was created by British production company RDF Media and has been shown on Channel 4 in the UK, RTL 7 at Holland, Channel Ten and Channel V in Australia, TVNZ's TV2 in New Zealand, VH-1 at the United States and Latin America, TV2 Zebra at Norway, Nelonen at Finland, TV4 in Sweden, Much Music from Canada, Vitaya at Belgium and ORF1 at Austria. A comedy film with a similar theme, starring Jack Black, called School of Rock, was released in 2003, before the first series began though the ingenious team and Gene Simmons insist that it was not due to the achievement of this picture they made it, and mention it was at the works since 2002. Since series 2, Simmons seems never to be planning any show yet.