Fox Cancelled 'American Idol' Show

Ratings juggernaut and discoverer of Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood will date "season-long celebratory event" in 2016

After one of the a lot of ascendant runs in television history, American Idol will not acknowledgment afterwards its 15th division this January, Fox appear Monday. Host Ryan Seacrest – the alone on-screen aptitude that has been with the appearance back its 2002 admission – and the accepted judges' table of Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban will be forth for Idol's endure ride.

Fox added that the singing antagonism alternation that unearthed Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry and Adam Lambert would date a "season-long celebratory event" in its endure division alongside their seek for "the final Idol superstar." Idol winners accept accumulated for a absolute of 13 Grammys, led by Underwood's seven. However, the alternation hasn't apparent an accolade champ in about a decade.

After the actualization of Clarkson and Underwood, the appearance hit its ratings aiguille in its fifth division in 2006 with a account boilerplate of 31.1 actor viewers. However, ratings boring beneath in consecutive years afterwards connected shakeups at the judges' table – Paula Abdul's avenue confused the show's chemistry, as did Ellen DeGeneres' one-season adornment – and an disability to luck aloft addition platinum-selling brilliant (Remember Lee DeWyze?).

The show's accurate abatement began in 2010, though, afterwards its capital adversary Simon Cowell ancient to accompany battling Fox singing antagonism The X Factor. Although that alternation lasted alone three seasons in the U.S., Cowell never alternate to Idol. The actualization of added music antagonism shows like The X Factor and NBC's acknowledged The Voice aswell oversaturated the market, arch to a abatement in Idol viewership.

Although Idol begin some adherence in contempo years with their Lopez/Connick Jr./Urban panel, viewership connected to plummet, averaging a low of alone 11 actor admirers for their accepted 14th season. While that amount would still accomplish for a acknowledged arrangement sitcom, the costs and salaries that went into Idol were acutely big-ticket to accumulate the appearance on-air (even though, as Billboard noted, the board took a slight bacon cut to acknowledgment for Division 15).

Idol's appropriate two-nights-a-week, three-hour authority on the agenda aswell abandoned Fox from abacus shows that could abound viewership instead of cat-and-mouse for Idol to eventually basal out. This accomplished year, Fox begin reliable audiences with scripted programs like Empire and Gotham, which added alone their assurance on athletic Idol. Despite its abatement in contempo years, Idol will be remembered for breeding dozens of copycats in the absoluteness TV acreage as able-bodied as the accomplished singers it helped discover.