It seems, of late, there have been more green-lighted singing competition copycats than anything else.
It's now regularly behind the NBC singing competition "The Voice" in the weekly ratings.
But when it comes to American Idol, Fox's breakout hit singing competition, there isn't much choice.
Meanwhile, the formerly unbeatable singing competition registered its lowest ratings since May 2004.
Asked why "Idol's" ratings have softened, Darnell agreed with TV analysts who point to the flood of singing competition shows.
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The singing competition, now in its ninth season, continues to average some 25 million viewers each week, according to the Nielsen Co.
One performance strikes some sparks, if only in spurts: Mandy Moore's Sally, a small-town girl who emerges as Omer's main singing competition on the show.
After the singing competition shed another 9% of its viewership last year, a slide often attributed to lackluster talent and a largely checked-out Cowell, the overhaul is necessary.
Come 2011 the Brit who TV fans love to loathe will add another potential cash machine when his latest singing competition show The X Factor (finally) crosses the pond.
Of course, whether the long-running singing competition can maintain that audience interest--and the commercial fees that accompany it--in the wake of superjudge Simon Cowell's departure next year remains to be seem.
Never mind that the ballots were cast for contestants in a televised singing competition, and that only those with the means to send text messages by mobile phone could take part.
While "The X Factor" played hardball in the ratings game last fall, fluctuating from 8.5 to 12.5 million viewers each week, the singing competition underwhelmed critics thanks to Simon Cowell's prediction that anything less than 20 million in viewers would be unacceptable.
What's more, even with sagging ratings--Idol averaged some 25 million viewers this season, down from 30 million three years ago--the singing competition continues to catapult its host network to No. 1 among viewers aged 18 to 49, a demographic advertisers pay a premium to reach.
Buckle up for beauty and some fresh pop tunes from the UK. British papers are reporting the UK sweetheart Cole is being offered a mega opportunity by the music svengali to join him in the U.S. on Fox as a judge on the panel of his new singing competition X Factor.
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Nor is it known how it might affect NBC's singing talent competition, "The Voice, " on which Armstrong had been slated to be a mentor to participants.
He's not interested in conforming to a mainstream standard and was hell-bent on avoiding what he called "the karaoke culture" of "American Idol, " "The X Factor" and other programs in which singing is a competition for the mass taste.
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