{"id":5614,"date":"2011-09-21T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2011-09-21T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:36:18","slug":"simon-cowell-wants-x-factor-usa-to-take-down-american-idol-in-the-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5614\/simon-cowell-wants-x-factor-usa-to-take-down-american-idol-in-the-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell wants X Factor USA to Take Down American Idol in the Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Simon cowell X Factor USA\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/simon02.JPG\" alt=\"Simon cowell X Factor USA\" width=\"263\" height=\"186\" \/>Simon Cowell has said that he hopes <em>The X Factor<\/em> USA will be successful enough to overtake <em>American Idol<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The music mogul discussed the show&#8217;s potential for success in a new interview on <em>Piers Morgan Tonight<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to predict. Of course I do want to take <em>Idol<\/em> down. You don&#8217;t do anything for the silver or bronze medal, do you? I put my heart and soul into this show and I believe in this show,&#8221; Cowell explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the fact that there is isn&#8217;t an age limit. You get to see a different type of contestant. So, knowing what I know now, you know what? Even if it didn&#8217;t work, I still would have no regrets because you&#8217;ve got to take risks and bad things happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he feels strange about <em>American Idol<\/em> since leaving the programme, Cowell responded: &#8220;Yeah, I mean, right from the get go when I saw the trailers and it was saying, &#8216;Every voice deserved to be heard&#8217; &#8211; dig. &#8216;A warmer, kinder person&#8217; &#8211; dig. I thought, okay, you really don&#8217;t want me on the show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of Cheryl Cole\u2019s departure from the show, Cowell said \u00a0that he takes &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for the decision to replace Cole with Scherzinger on the judges panel.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Simon Cowell has said that he hopes The X Factor USA will be successful enough to overtake American Idol. The music mogul discussed \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5614\/simon-cowell-wants-x-factor-usa-to-take-down-american-idol-in-the-ratings\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xfactorusa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5618,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}