American Idol Season 10 Rules Changes
The American Idol Season 10 approaches with the first show airing on Wednesday December 19, 2011. With Simon, Ellen and (Who Cares) Kara, gone from the Idol Critical judges spots, the execs at Idol needed to come up with some changes.
Who will be Voted Off American Idol Season 10?
Here the the rules changes that are being put into place for the 10th addition of our love hate relationship show know as American Idol
One sudden death Top 20 round.
Instead of a three-week top 24 round in which America votes, 60 contestants were flown to Las Vegas to sing Beatles songs on the same stage at the Las Vegas Mirage that Cirque du Soleil performs LOVE. “I think a few [contestants] knew ‘Hello Goodbye’ because it was used on a Target commercial,” chuckles exec producer Nigel Lythgoe, “which is frightening.” But that round only knocked the talent pool down to 40 wannabes. Yet another round in Hollywood will narrow the contestants down to 20 singers, and only then will America vote in a single sudden death round that will select the Idol finalists from among two groups of ten.
A Top 12…or a top 10.
While some reports speculate the final group could be as high as 15 contestants, the Idol producers tell EW the finalists will either be a top 12 or a top 10. “It’s one of those situations where we’ll see what the talent’s like,” says Warwick. “We’ll see what cross-section of kids we end up with in that final elimination round. It will be up to the talent that’s there as to whether we go with 10 or 12.”
No gender parity.
Say goodbye to Idol‘s often rigid practice of maintaining the same number of female and male contestants in their final group. Explains Warwick: “If I’ve got six fantastic boys and four average girls, I’m certainly not going to throw out a fantastic boy to put in another average girl, or vise versa.”
One sudden death Top 20 round.
Instead of a three-week top 24 round in which America votes, 60 contestants were flown to Las Vegas to sing Beatles songs on the same stage at the Las Vegas Mirage that Cirque du Soleil performs LOVE. “I think a few [contestants] knew ‘Hello Goodbye’ because it was used on a Target commercial,” chuckles exec producer Nigel Lythgoe, “which is frightening.” But that round only knocked the talent pool down to 40 wannabes. Yet another round in Hollywood will narrow the contestants down to 20 singers, and only then will America vote in a single sudden death round that will select the Idol finalists from among two groups of ten.
A Top 12…or a top 10.
While some reports speculate the final group could be as high as 15 contestants, the Idol producers tell EW the finalists will either be a top 12 or a top 10. “It’s one of those situations where we’ll see what the talent’s like,” says Warwick. “We’ll see what cross-section of kids we end up with in that final elimination round. It will be up to the talent that’s there as to whether we go with 10 or 12.”
No gender parity.
Say goodbye to Idol‘s often rigid practice of maintaining the same number of female and male contestants in their final group. Explains Warwick: “If I’ve got six fantastic boys and four average girls, I’m certainly not going to throw out a fantastic boy to put in another average girl, or vise versa.”
Will this season spur enough interest for an 11th season? Will the changes be enough? Will we miss Simon? Will we like Jo-lo and Steven Tyler?
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1 Robin // Jan 21, 2011 at 10:55 am
Hi,
I interviewed Richard Rushfield for his new book American Idol: The Untold Story which will air Tuesday, Jan. 25 and then remain in the archives after that.
Feel free to post this link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/robin-milling/2011/01/25/milling-about-with-american-idolthe-untold-story-author-richard-rushfield
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