SOURCE: FORBES.COM
The second season of a Simon Cowell-free American Idol started this week. Cowell ditched the popular talent show last year to launch a U.S. version of his British music competition The X Factor, which he vowed would attract 20 million viewers. It fell short, topping out at 12 million. Now there’s word that the new American Idol judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez, had been joking backstage that they would be “devastated” if they didn’t get 20 million viewers. (They did for the season premiere, but just barely.)
