American Idol, the trans-Atlantic, hybrid-cousin to the X Factor, Pop Idol and all other legitimate and illegitimate reality TV versions of Simon Cowell’s British brainchild, Pop Idol, is set to hit TV3 this 2010.
The show that brought us Kelly Clarkson as well as a host of outtakes and bloopers that have scourged YouTube and Internet society for almost a decade made this year’s TV debut in the US on the Fox network on January 12, 2010.
Hosting this year’s panel shall be king of harsh, Simon Cowell, along with gastric bypass buddy Randy Jackson and topped by bad dancing, loud-mouthed, over-opinionated and generally all-round irritating, Ellen DeGeneres as well as girl-power side kick, Kara DioGuardi who after a Wikipedia search is apparently famous and accredited as a ‘great song writer’ that has written for the likes of Britney, a woman whose last pop song proved her ability to count to the number three.
This year’s show, which included a rotating panel of guest judges for the auditions phase including fame-chasing WAG Posh Spice prior to her redundancy to Ellen, has already seen auditions hitting up the Internet with a vengeance, the most current and popular one being 62 year old, Larry Platts, singing iconic OAP classic: ‘Pants on the Ground’. In the event that American’s are anywhere near as fickle as I’m lead to believe, no doubt Platt’s take on this classic shall be preserved and immortalised in the annals of YouTube fame, possibly (but not really) in the same way Susan Boyle was over a year ago.
Of American Idol, Cowell has remarked that he wants series 9 ‘to find it’s own version of (cash-cow) Susan Boyle.’ – In which case, despite his stage-one elimination, Platts is probably the next best take on aging, unmarried, British odd ball, simple Susan.
American Idol will be shown on TV 3 on Wednesdays at 9.30 and will maintain the same top 24 semi-finalists format used in previous seasons.
