New 'American Idol' Judge Promises Honesty, Awaits Unique Singers
By most empirical standards, FOX's American Idol isn't actually broken, but new judge Kara DioGuardi is already being asked how she'd fix it. It's a difficult chore for a woman who has yet to put in a single day on the job.
Chatting with reporters on Monday (Aug. 25) afternoon, just hours after being formally added to the FOX reality behemoth, DioGuardi was asked about bad theme nights, ineffectual mentors and episodes that already ran long even with only three judges and she gave the verbal equivalent of a shrug. She couldn't even tell the press where she's going to be seated on the judging panel.
"I'm literally in the dark," she says. "I have no idea. Tomorrow's like the first day at preschool for me. I am just happy to be on the panel and I'll sit wherever they put me."
How will she be introduced? And how will the show handle the fact that by the time DioGuardi takes her place tomorrow, many of the season's auditions have already taken place.
"Anything to do with the show in terms of the format and the sitting and all those things, I really am not privy to," DioGuardi adds. "I just know that I'm on the judging panel and that I'm supposed to have my makeup done by 11 a.m. tomorrow. That's pretty much all I know. Beyond that, I leave it to the brains behind the show to answer those questions."
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American Idol in the past couple seasons seemed to have lost some of the excitement and luster it had starting out.
The last season as has been all along had contestants with publisized outside problems.
Not that we all don't have problems at one time or another, and for some viewers it may be a good thing as it shows charisma and strength to achieve a lifelong dream. For others not so as they view it as airing their dirty laundry.
I do feel however it will be great to have an even gender balance on the panel as many viewers felt that Paula may have been partial at times to choice contestants.
I look forward to what this next season holds with the panel addition and quite sure I am not alone in the quest for a much better season.
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I think the reason why American Idol is getting boring is because they keep letting just average singers in. There's no one who really blows you away anymore. They're so focused on getting really bad singers in through the first tryouts for tv so America can laugh at them, that they don't really care about the good singers. They're doing it here in Canada too :/ last year they picked someone from my town who made it to top 3 and at first I thought it was just cool that my town got picked, but when I heard him he was just.. plain and off key a lot. As were most of the whole thing, usually I like at least ONE person but they usually get booted off in tryouts because one of the judges is 'in a bad mood'