A new season of American Idol returns January 26 on ABC, with Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie back at the judges’ table and Ryan Seacrest hosting. Season 24 kicks off with fresh voices ...

Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan and Carrie Underwood are taking in some American Idol nostalgia. In a clip premiering exclusively with PEOPLE on Wednesday, Dec. 31, the singing competition show judges are ...

Last spring, a month and a half into American Idol’s 23rd season, the reality singing competition did something it had never done before. It aired a three-hour special on Easter Sunday, themed around ...

The suspect in the July 2025 murders of American Idol music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca will not stand trial, according to ABC 7. 22-year-old Raymond Boodarian, who was ...

American Idol was unquestionably the biggest TV talent contest of the 2000's, and while it went off the air in 2016, its influence looms large in popular talent shows like The Voice. AI's success was ...

Pensacola gospel singer Keyla Richardson has auditioned for Season 24 of "American Idol." Richardson previously reached the final four on BET's gospel competition show "Sunday Best." She has also ...

Simon Cowell shaded his former “American Idol” co-star Ryan Seacrest by admitting he doesn’t follow the latter’s career. On Saturday’s episode of the New York Times podcast, “The Interview,” the TV ...

It may be a few years too late, America, but Simon Cowell really is sorry. In a new interview with The New York Times, Cowell offers an apology for his infamously mean treatment of auditioning singers ...

Simon Cowell is well aware that he gained a reputation for harsh, cutting criticism as a judge on “American Idol.” The record exec and TV personality apologized for some of his comments on the show in ...

Fans who were around for the early days of the reality television explosion in the early 2000s may recall a much more aggressive, dare we even say mean tone to some of what made it on the air. There ...

Simon Cowell has a few regrets. During an appearance on The New York Times' "The Interview" podcast, Cowell apologized for his famously harsh comments toward contestants when he was a judge on ...