End Of An Era? Fox To Pull Plug On ‘American Idol’ After 15 Seasons

After 15 seasons, Fox is bringing it’s genre-creating hit American Idol to an end. At network upfronts, Fox announced that this season would be the last for the series, focusing this year on its alumni as well as the last crop of contestants.

Original judges, Randy Jackson (who left in Season 12) and Simon Cowell (who left in Season 7) commented about the end of the show on Twitter.

 

Still not all are sad that the show which spawned a generation of copycats (from NBC’s The Voice to Cowell’s own clone X Factor) is calling it quits. Mediaite.com wrote that “Fox Finally Takes American Idol Behind the Shed) to “put it down” presumably. US Weekly proclaimed that Fox has “finally” cancelled the show.

What do you think? Are you sad to see it go? Or did American Idol wear out it’s welcome?