No, with heavy-hitter judge Simon Cowell departing and FOX comfortable with its Thursday tandem of “Bones” and “Fringe,” the long-rumored but risky “American Idol” move to Thursdays was not announced today. What FOX did announce, however, is a change to the “American Idol” format that will likely be welcomed by the show’s massive fanbase.<\/p>\n
The network confirmed Monday that come time for the performance portion of the competition, the Tuesday performance show will be bumped up to an hour-and-a-half, airing from 8:00PM into the 9:30PM lead-out of new fall\/winter comedy “Running Wilde” and spring comedy “Mixed Signals.”<\/p>\n
On Wednesdays, the results show will revert back to a half hour, airing at 8:30PM between episodes of “Raising Hope” and “Glee.”<\/p>\n
Over the past two seasons, “American Idol” has run into trouble fitting its late-round performance shows into a single hour. Several years ago, contestants in the top five and four rounds used to each receive two performances; those in the top three got three chances to impress. In seasons eight and nine, those numbers were reduced to one, one plus a duet and two, respectively–and it was not always certain that the show would exit the air exactly at 9PM. The additional half-hour should give fans the performances they crave without so much overrun bleed.<\/p>\n
As for the results shows, while the show has been utilizing more celebrity performances to fill the hour, the format still naturally works best as a 30 minute offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n