Fox Has 'Simple' Solution as 'Idol' Rules Wednesday
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LOS ANGELES  - Fox was hot to trot  Wednesday with "American Idol," and the return of Paris Hilton  and Nicole Richie in "The Simple Life: Interns."
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Fox Broadcasting Co. is  set to announce Thursday that it will make select primetime  series available for download-to-own on the Web sites of more  than 200 of its affiliated stations during the next few months.
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Television viewers gave a collective shrug to Fox's attempt to turn a daughter's search for her birth father into a game show.
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The San Diego auditions of âAmerican Idol,â with the usual mixture of the talented and the cringe-worthy, attracted 29.1 million viewers on Tuesday, lifting Fox with ease into first place in the nightâs ratings, Nielsen estimated. Although the showâs third installment is down 4.6 million from the same night a year ago, it still had more than double the audience of any other network broadcast. Foxâs rerun of âHouseâ came closest, leading the 9 oâclock hour after âAmerican Idolâ with 14 million viewers. NBCâs âBiggest Loser,â meanwhile, trailed both programs as runner-up during 8 to 10 p.m. among adults 18 to 49, averaging a modest 8.9 million viewers. NBC ranked second for the night, leading at 10 with âLaw & Order: Special Victims Unitâ (13 million). CBS was third, and ABC finished fourth.
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It was a huge week for Fox in the TV ratings Â with one asterisk.
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"American Idol" returns this week with a two-night, four-hour season premiere. (Michael Becker/Fox) Is âAmerican Idol,â televisionâs top-rated show, still as strong as ever? Last springâs season of the Fox reality juggernaut marked the first time that overall viewership declined from the previous year, Edward Wyatt noted in Mondayâs New York Times. But the singing competition [...].
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LOS ANGELES  - Fox Broadcasting Co. is set to announce Thursday that it will make select primetime series available for download-to-own on the Web sites of more than 200 of its affiliated stations during the next few months.
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Fox and "American Idol"  continued their rampage through primetime Wednesday, logging  another nightly win in all the major demographics.
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A new sex scandal has hit "American Idol," U.S. TV's most popular program --- but it all could be over on Thursday night if a contestant purportedly shown in some X-rated Internet photos is voted off the show.
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Fox's "American Idol" returned as the nation's most popular TV series, but with 4 million fewer viewers than the 2007 season premiere. Tuesday's debut was seen by 33.4 million viewers, down 11 percent from the 37.4 million who watched the first show, according to preliminary ratings by Nielsen Media Research.
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It's hard to imagine that the  producers of "American Idol" would want to tinker with the  show's formula following last season. After all, the hit  reality program -- a talent search for music's Next Big Thing  -- was 2006's top-rated TV series by a wide margin. But when  the "A.I." juggernaut returns for its sixth season January 16,  that's just what they'll be doing.
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Quality over quantity may become the new mantra at Fox. What, no more reality shows?
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For three seasons, American Idol has put in a bravura performance as a pop-culture phenomenon. Entering its fourth season tonight (8 ET/PT), Idol brings a few changes to boost interest and ratings. "We're tweaking the middle section because we felt it was a bit imperfect," says executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz. But "that's pretty much it. The formula works. It's a simple and clean show."
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If you want American Idol exposure, you have to pay the   price.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - "American Idol" is poised to set ratings records when Fox's talent show returns to the airwaves with a four-hour season premiere on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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There are certain axioms of pop culture. "American Idol" judges will be mean. Prince will rock. Super Bowl ads will be more violent than the Super Bowl itself.
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Fox will post episodes this week of returning series such as 'âPrison Breakâ' and 'âBones,â' along with new shows such as 'âK-Ville.â'