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American Idol is a hit American reality show for the search of young singing talent. As its full title in the first season was ‘American Idol-The Search for a Superstar’, the show is aimed at finding out the best singer in the country.

Nationwide auditions are arranged for the purpose. Judges give their judgment about contestants’ performances and even criticize very harshly sometimes. Once, judges told a female contestant to sue her music teacher whom she was learning from, for the last 3-4 years.

In later stages of the competition, the runners up and winners are chosen through public voting by phone. Eliminations in every round, too, are decided by public vote.

The four judges are Randy Jackson (Record Producer), Paula Abdul (Pop Singer and Choreographer), Simon Cowell (Music Executive and Music Manager) and Kara Dioguardi (Singer/ Song Writer and Record producer). Ryan Seacrest is the current host of the show, though comedian Brian Dunkleman co-hosted with Ryan during the first season. Rickey Minor, is the ‘American Idol Band’ leader.

The show has seen seven seasons till now and eighth season is set to air in 2009. The seventh season started on January 15, 2008 and the winner was announced in finale on May 21, 2008.

‘American Idol’ was basically started as the spin off of the ‘Pop Idol‘, the British reality show. It appears on Fox TV. Here is a very interesting story behind its selection on Fox TV. Initially, this show was rejected by Fox Broadcasting Network and other networks. But daughter of Rupert Murdoch (Head of Fox’s parent Company) was a huge fan of ‘Pop Idol’, so she cajoled her father to buy this show. Hence, this show got a host channel and debuted on June 11, 2002.