Kara DioGuardi To Write American Idol Memoir: A Helluva High Note

By: Matthew Boyer | December 5, 2010 at 8:48 AM EDT 4 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, Kara DioGuardi, news

Letting go of the American Idol experience can be tough for any contestant who tried but failed to make it. It seems to be even harder for Idol judges cut loose from the show (or did she quit?). Kara DioGuardi is now hard at work writing her memoirs for the [...]

American Idol 2011 Early Spoilers Leaking Out

By: Matthew Boyer | November 30, 2010 at 9:57 PM EDT 23 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2011, American Idol spoilers, news

Are you ready for American Idol 2011? Well it’s just six weeks away now and as you’d expect we’re starting to get even more spoilers than just who is going to Hollywood this season. So far the big spoilerish rumor news is that there will be online voting this time [...]

Lee DeWyze Album Debut Sales Are Worst Ever For Idol

By: Matthew Boyer | November 28, 2010 at 8:00 AM EDT 32 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2010, Lee Dewyze, news

The other week Lee DeWyze, the winner of last season’s American Idol, debuted his contract-awarded album, “Live It Up.” If you missed that news then you wouldn’t be alone because according to the results, DeWyze had the absolute worst sales numbers ever. Ever! “Live It Up” sold a measly 39,000 [...]

American Idol Moves To New Nights For 2011 Season

By: Matthew Boyer | November 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM EDT 25 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2011, news

Sheesh, American Idol. What’s going on over there? You’ve changed your judges, changed out the production team, eliminated the Top 24, and now you’ve even changed when we get to watch you. Today FOX announced that despite a long standing schedule of Tuesdays and Wednesdays that this season we’ll instead [...]

American Idol 2011 Eliminates Top 24 and More Changes

By: Matthew Boyer | November 18, 2010 at 9:38 PM EDT 24 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2011, news

Nigel Lythgoe continues to be an everlasting fountain of news for the upcoming American Idol season which premieres in January 2011. The latest word from the returning executive producer is that he’s doing away with the Top 24 this season after finding them dull in past seasons: The producers have [...]

American Idol 2011 Judges Not Replacing Simon

By: Matthew Boyer | October 25, 2010 at 5:54 PM EDT 14 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2011, news

Nigel Lythgoe, American Idol exec-producer, may have previously stated that he expected Jennifer Lopez to rule the judges panel next season but he doesn’t want anyone to expect a Simon-like replacement. Now if you were hoping for Randy Jackson to be transformed in to something more “elder”, oh, and he’ll [...]

Lythgoe Says American Idol More Diverse Without Simon Cowell

By: Matthew Boyer | October 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM EDT 33 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2011, news

While JLo may have had her “Randy who?” moment. It’s American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe’s turn with “Simon who?” Lythgoe told US that not only has Simon’s exit allowed for a more diverse crowd of American Idol hopefuls, but the emotional level of the show has been raised. Yikes. [...]

Crystal Bowersox To Marry Brian Walker

By: Matthew Boyer | September 25, 2010 at 11:24 AM EDT 20 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2010, Crystal Bowersox, news

Congratulations go out to American Idol’s Crystal Bowersox on the news of her engagement to fellow musician Brian Walker. People reports the news which was relayed to them by Bowersox’s own publicity, making rather well confirmed: Crystal Bowersox, the American Idol runner-up, is engaged to musician Brian Walker and they [...]

American Idol Exec Producer Details Changes For 2011

By: Matthew Boyer | September 23, 2010 at 5:37 PM EDT 7 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2010, news

It won’t be just the judges changing for American Idol 2011, says Nigel Lythgoe, the returning Executive Producer for Idol. Lythgoe detailed the addition of a music industry giant, Jimmy Iovine, and something I’m very excited about, the end of jamming the square peg through the round hole theme weeks. [...]

American Idol Judges for 2011 Announced Live – Watch It Here

By: Matthew Boyer | September 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM EDT 56 Comments »
Tagged: American Idol, American Idol 2011, news

Today at 1PM ET (10AM PT) Ryan Seacrest will announce live who will be our American Idol 2011 judges! You can watch the event right here in the live stream video below with the American Idol “Meet the Judges” press conference. While we wait for the news, do you think [...]