American Idol Season 7: Starts Tonight

American Idol returns tonight for its seventh season with a revamped battle plan on Fox, CTV at 8pm.

A while ago it was reported that Two American Idol winners Taylor Hicks, who won the fifth season, and Ruben Studdard, who won the second season recently lost their record contracts. So let’s hope that this year’s show finds the right person that will take America by storm just like Leona Lewis did in the UK.

Simon Cowell who is one of the program’s three judges said the drop in audience could have been due to the relatively weak field of contestants. Among them was Sanjaya Malakar, who was the object of scorn as well as viewer attempts to keep him in the competition. I think last year it just wasn’t one of our better seasons, and you get that on all of these types of competition shows. The good news is what we’ve seen from the new audition shows. This is a much better season than last year. If it were worse, then I think we would have had a problem, but it’s altogether a better year.”

Already the 200 or so contestants who made it past the initial auditions and into the Hollywood round were allowed to play an instrument to accompany their singing if they desired.

Ryan Seacrest will be hosting this year’s show.

Do you think that this year they will find that someone special that will become a well known household name?

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