Apparently American Idol fans didn’t really care that their favorite show featured Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul, they were tuning in to watch the shows format and emerging singers, something they didn’t do for the premiere week of Cowell’s new singing competition show X-Factor.
According to TV ratings company Nielsen the US debut of the show took in just 12.4 viewers far less than the 26.1 million viewers who tuned in to catch the season 10 premiere of American Idol.
In fact the show couldn’t even win the night with three shows ahead in the ratings; Modern Family (14.3 Million) , Criminal Minds ( 14.1 million) and CSI (12.6 million).
Apparent the top prize of $5 million and the promise of Cowell and Adbul clashes simply weren’t enough for Idol fans to make the jump over to the new show.
Do you think X-Factor will pick up more fans based off the talent they demonstrated during the first week or is the show a big misstep for Simon Cowell who is reportedly making hundreds of millions from the series?