Now that Simon Cowell has left American Idol behind, he’s ready to move onto bigger things, much bigger things. Five million dollar things. The British import and his new show for Fox that’s supposed to blow Idol out of the water, The X Factor, hasn’t even started auditions yet but their ads were all over the Super Bowl last night and now, we find that the winner will get a $5 million record contract. According to Fox, they’re the first to offer a prize of this size and I’m pretty sure I believe them. That’s crazy, especially since they can’t be positive that the show will stick here the same way it stuck across the pond. From what I know of the show, it’s a lot like American Idol, so what’s the big deal? Yes, the UK version launched Leona Lewis, but there’s no way they know that they’ll find the next Lewis on the U.S. version. This sounds like quite a gamble for Syco, the music label formed by Sony Music and Cowell and the label that will carry The X Factor’s winner.
Then again, if Idol keeps trying to silence the only interesting part of the show (Steven Tyler), Cowell’s venture may very well kill the long-lived series stone dead. Then again, we don’t know who the other judges are quite yet. It’s my personal opinion that Cowell’s only interesting when he’s book-ended by crazy and overly nice people. We shall see when the show hits TV this fall, folks. We shall see.
Source: ABC News
