FOX needs to kill American Idol. That show has gotten long in the tooth.
Please let Piers Morgan be next!
no big surprise to me,
the show was not a novelty; the same folks were doing “American Idol” here before they brought X-factor here, and in spite of some stylistic differences, it was like “different dance but same song”,
then, it didn’t help that Simon Cowell wears on a lot of people and none of the other judges had a big positive following either - many were viewed negatively by many TV viewers
x-factor did so badly that a competing production in the same genre but done in a very different style and with judges prone to less hyperbole and less outrageousnous than either x-factor or Am Idol was able to enter the American market and has done fairly well - “The Voice”, and its not being conceled for next season, so the genre has not itself worn out
and guess what, if there is any big mass audition process in the 1,000s, for a season of “the voice” - as there is for Am Idol and X-factor - with all the crazy unqualified entrants, and with the long elimination process, it is NOT part of “the voice” production as far as what they provide to the TV audience (to me that’s a good thing), and the contestants they start with on their firts live show, to my mind, always seem to be an overall more talented group than what an Am Idol or x-factor show starts what they call their “live” shows with (they call them “live” but TV viewers have already been watching during the lead up to that); maybe, away from the TV cameras and any attempt to please an audience, the professionals working with the producers of “the voice” are doing a better job of screening and elminating those they see in auditions
frankly, I think, the judges on “the vooice” do a better job of rating the contestants, than is done by the TV viewers when the voting is turned over to them, on either one of the three shows - in the end, staying on TV is about being “popular” enough to have your show renewed and it is a popularity pitch to tell viewers to watch and vote for themselves who a winner ought to be