Quote:American Idol' Exec Producer Per Blankes Exits Show (Exclusive)
American Idol executive producer Per Blankens is leaving the Fox show after two years on the job, a representative for FremantleMedia, the show's production partner, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/am...ens-795770
Among all the
Idol and
Voice announcements, finales, and chatter, this announcement seemed to slip through the cracks here -- or, perhaps, seemed so insignificant that it wasn't worth mention?
Personally, I'm relieved to know that he's gone. If next year -- AI's final year -- is
truly to be a celebration, primarily of it's prior groundbreaking achievement, "Uncle PB" (as MindyDoo labeled him in his first year) was definitely
not the right person to lead that charge.
Here's another perspective from MJsBigBlog:
http://www.mjsbigblog.com/executive-prod...n-idol.htm
Quote:Bring back Nigel Lythgoe! No seriously. If we’re doing the Nostalgia Tour for Idol’s last season, why not bring back Nigel? Interesting that he was invited to the finale and happily sat in the audience. Last season he tweeted that he could not even handle watching. Hm.
Oddly, before I'd seen MJs perspective, I thought of bringing back Nigel. Although many of you may despise Nigel, his history with the show during it's heydey suggests that he would know how to draw out the best. And, I think, he has "grand idea" of celebration. Given that Michael Slezak and Melinda Doolittle can, at best, provide suggestions/ideas that will (unfortunately)
never be heeded, it makes a weird sort of sense to bring Nigel back.
