Idol Producer: No Major Changes For Completely New Season

First Launched: November 24, 2011 3:27 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Nigel Lythgoe chats with Access inside a BritWeek event in La on April 26, 2011NY, N.Y. -- The The American Idol Show Show executive producer Nigel Lythgoe states dont expect any major changes when the hit Fox Tv program returns within the month of the month of january after dealing with an extensive transformation last season. Lythgoe, who aided transform Britains Pop Idol to the American TV juggernaut in2002, returned as executive producer last season to usher inside the publish-Simon Cowell era. That ended a couple-year hiatus that allowed him to give consideration to And That Means You Think You'll Be Able To Dance, they produces helping judge. For your tenth The The American Idol Show Show season, Lythgoe introduced new idol idol judges, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, to participate holdover Randy Jackson. Veteran music producer Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M, has been around since becoming an in-house mentor for your participants. Each one is back for Season 11, Lythgoe mentioned. In my opinion we made plenty of tweaks a year ago, Lythgoe mentioned. I'm not certain you need to make lots of more tweaks this year. Lythgoe mentioned the most crucial change introduced a year ago had nothing associated with the idol idol judges: It absolutely was an option to avoid people sea food-out-of-water moments that forced very gifted entertainers to sing in styles that didnt suit them. The finest change we made a year ago wound up being to express, OK, if you're a rustic singer you'll be able to sing these genres within your country style, Lythgoe mentioned. Were not prone to pressure you to definitely certainly do rock or anything you no more can perform. You'll be able to possess a Michael Jackson song and change it country. That brought to entertainers for instance Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart changing so much much deeper to the competition in comparison as to the they might have previously years. The Two teenage runners up, Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina, were country entertainers. McCreery, the initial pure country Idol champion since Barbara Underwood in 2005, saw his October release, Apparent As Day, cause him to the initial country act to debut at No. 1 having its first studio album round the Billboard 200 chart. At 18, he increased being the youngest guy to start near the top of the chart along with his debut release. More youthful crowd was the initial Idol champion to start his publish-Idol career getting a No. 1 album since Ruben Studdard in 2003. Lythgoe mentioned a year ago the show found some incredible talent, plus it am diverse. We have got this phenomenal jazz singer in Casey, we have got a soft jazz singer in Haley, as well as the two country kids (inside the finals) probably previously years wouldnt are actually as effective since they might have been asked for to sing inside the versions that individuals used to then, he mentioned the other day. Lythgoe needs similar results in Season 11. The kids that have auditioned this year that might be taking to Hollywood in December are again really gifted and very diverse, he mentioned. Hopefully theyll deal with one of the most difficult auditions, the Hollywood week, and acquire themselves to the top 20. Lythgoe mentioned he thinks Idol needs to be totally in regards to the talent as well as the recent changes promote that. Personally, he mentioned, its really showing the talent that's here and not trying to consider somebody whos gifted, beat them across the bucket and turn them out. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.