American Idol producers unconcerned about competition

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- "

American Idol

" producers and judges pronounced on Sunday they were unmotivated about foe from new existence singing shows "The Voice" and "The

X Factor

," as they prepared to go into their 11th season, while horde

Ryan Seacrest

's destiny with a uncover was left unanswered.

"Idol" executive writer

Ken Warwick

called a uncover a "gold standard" in a latest stand of existence singing talent shows on radio and that it was still a trail to stardom for singers.

"Leona Lewis (winner of UK's 'X Factor') was a one and a half strike star for 10 minutes, though there's no Kelly Clarksons, Carrie Underwoods,

Jennifer Hudsons

- they are genuine stars and nothing of these other shows are producing these," pronounced Warwick during a Television Critics Association row in Los Angeles on Sunday.

"Idol" is still America's many watched uncover notwithstanding predictions by "X Factor" creator

Simon Cowell

a US chronicle would disintegrate it from a perch. "X Factor" audiences have been about half those of "Idol."

Aerosmith rocker

Steven Tyler

and cocktail star

Jennifer Lopez

were brought in to reinstate Cowell as a decider on "Idol" final year while Cowell went on to helm a U.S. chronicle of "The X Factor," holding associate decider

Paula Abdul

to a judging row with him.

"Simon and Paula are dear friends of ours and they started this whole "Idol" tradition with us. we consider "Idol" is still a best TV uncover of a kind anywhere, we're a original, we invented this diversion that everyone's now copying," pronounced decider Randy Jackson.

Host Ryan Seacrest, whose agreement with "Idol" is adult for renovation amid reports in a media that his other agreement with NBC Universal might see him replacing Matt Lauer on a "Today" show, emphasized intentions to stay with "Idol."

"I adore this show, I've been a partial of it for so many years, we can't suppose life though American Idol," pronounced Seacrest, adding that he didn't see himself hosting any other talent uncover for now, though refused to criticism further.

"He's an huge partial of a show, a expectancy is that he is going to be on a uncover for as prolonged as we can get him to be on it," pronounced Mike Darnell, boss of choice party during Fox.

For a judges, a advantages of being concerned with "Idol" has paid off in their personal careers.

Rocker Steven Tyler pronounced that while his associate Aerosmith bandmates weren't as usurpation of his new gig during first, a uncover spurned sales of Aerosmith annals adult by 260 percent. Tyler is also operative on a new manuscript with a band.

Fellow decider Jennifer Lopez also saw a boost in her strain career final year after creation a quip with a new album, and was awaiting to keep adult a gait in a new deteriorate of "Idol."

As a uncover enters a 11th season, a producers pronounced changes to a uncover will impact a center apportionment of a contest, where those contestants will have to take a opening plea involving a strain from a 1950s, among other changes.

"American Idol" will lapse on Fox on Jan 18 with a two-night premiere.

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