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Simon Cowell To Leave American Idol Bring Another British Import To FOX by Steve Krakauer 5 28 pm January 11th 2010 This year it was Paula Abdul Next year it will be Simon Cowell FOX and Cowell announced today this season would be his last with mega hit American Idol and start in 2011 he would be bringing his very American Idol like X Factor across the pool and host the record for FOX as well THRFeed com reports on the announcement which was made at FOX rsquo s Television Critic rsquo s Association event this afternoon ldquo In my judgment it rsquo s like having a skillful player on a good football team rdquo Cowell told

the critics ldquo But when the player retires the team will proceed to be really successful I rsquo m confident lsquo Idol rsquo will remain to be the No 1 show I wish to leave lsquo Idol rsquo this year bigger and better than it rsquo s been before rdquo The U S version of ldquo X Factor rdquo will be a similar format to the UK version with Cowell acting as justice and executive producer The former judges will be announced shortly Cowell said The ldquo X Factor rdquo plan means Cowell will be off American television for more than a year It rsquo s interesting to see the live tweeting that took place during the announcement Here rsquo s a few from Forbes reporter Lacey Rose and now he rsquo s agreeing to and signing his contract on stage simon blast record labels ndash he says most are out of touch b c they dont recognize talents like susan boyle Boyle is a production of the U K X Factor ndash probably the most successful from the show but now that FOX will air both American Idol and X Factor will it be singing competition overkill And who becomes the genius of Idol There rsquo s a good chance the evidence could be reincarnated around Ellen Degeneres this season and beyond and X Factor becomes Cowell rsquo s baby Either way there rsquo s going to be a lot of telling and judging going on at FOX in 2011 Bigger question will there be Conan O rsquo Brien mdash ndash raquo Follow Steve Krakauer on Twitter share this post filed under American Idol fox Kevin Reilly Simon Cowell TCA The X Factor Click here to cancel reply If you would care to comment please login or register raquo Login raquo Register raquo Or link with your Facebook account