That's exactly what I expected. I figured they'd do another season to give it a 15 season run.Love2Lurk wrote:American Idol to End Next Season
By Michael Ausiello / May 11 2015, 5:00 AM PDT
Ladies and gentlemen, 2016 will go down as the year the pitchy music died on Fox — the network announced Monday that American Idol‘s upcoming 15th season will be its last.
Idol‘s farewell season — featuring returning judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. — will debut in January 2016 and “pay tribute to the past 14 seasons” of the reality juggernaut.
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Fox promises the final edition will be “a season-long celebratory event (that will) pay tribute to the past 14 seasons of amazingly talented contestants and the millions of fans who tweeted, texted and championed their Idols.”
It will be interesting to see how they play out the final season. Although it isn't unexpected it's kind of sad to see something that brought so much pleasure and fun to so many come to an end. Not to mention the careers it brought to so so many and the lives that were changed forever. And by the lives that were changed I don't just mean the contestants but all of us - I can't imagine what the last six years would have been like for me if Adam and his music hadn't been a part of them. All because of a choice he made to audition for a tv talent show!