New “American Idol” Season Will Combine Performance, Results in One Night

Michael Becker /FOX(NEW YORK) — For years, American Idol viewers have complained that the results shows are just a lot of filler that they have to sit through in order to learn who’s going home that week.

Well, there’s good news: when the show starts up again in January, you won’t have to sit through them any more — for at least part of the season. Just as ABC’s Dancing with the Stars did, the long-running Fox show is downsizing from two nights to just one.

“One of the things I’m actually looking forward to this year which is totally different: We’re going to do the performance show and the results in the same show,” American Idol host Ryan Seacrest told reporters Friday night in New York City. “So there won’t be a ‘Wait ‘til tomorrow night.’ There won’t be a ‘Coming up, coming up, coming up.’ We’re going to have to put it into one formatted night. So that’ll be exciting.”

Seacrest said, however, that the combined shows won’t happen until later in the competition.

“When we get to the final stage, y’know, the top ten, there’ll be one night of performance and results all in one,” he explained.

Seacrest also spoke enthusiastically about the new face who’ll be joining the Idol team come January: Scott Borchetta, the head of Taylor Swift’s record label, Big Machine. Borchetta’s replacing longtime Idol fixture Randy Jackson as the show’s in-house mentor.

Seacrest said, “I think it’ll be great for the show. Clearly,when you look at Scott’s track record, look at all the people he’s worked with, including one Taylor Swift, and I think he’ll be the perfect fit for our show.”

American Idol’s fourteenth season will begin Jan. 7 on Fox.

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