Former Spice Girls’ manager bids for American Idol rights

June 1, 2010

Simon Fuller is rumoured to be working alongside ex-Barclays Capital banker to bid for the popular TV show America Idol. Mr Fuller, former manager of the Spice Girls, previously owned the Idol franchise through his company, but later sold it to CKX Inc back in 2005. Now, the media mogul is ...

Britain’s Got Talent auditions kick-off full swing

April 22, 2010

Back for another season, Britain's Got Talent premiered to high ratings this last week. Hopefuls auditioned this week for the notorious three-judge panel, but Simon Cowell told viewers that the best acts, by far, were held back for the upcoming episode on Saturday. Cowell added that the show's producers held back ...

Simon Cowell announces song for Haiti

January 22, 2010

Following a request by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Simon Cowell make a record to raise money to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake it has been announced that the song will be a cover version of the REM classic Everybody Hurts. The band has said that they are ...

Second earthquake strikes Haiti

January 21, 2010

A second earthquake has hit the already destroyed Caribbean island of Haiti causing panic and screams from those who are already almost at breaking point. Although a number of aftershocks have been felt since the January 12th earthquake the most recent tremor hit 6.1 on the Richter scale. Anything above ...

Panel for American X Factor still to be confirmed

January 20, 2010

As America comes to terms with the fact that Simon Cowell will no longer be delivering his barbed comments to those desperately making a bid for singing stardom on American Idol, the chatter has turned to who will be his co-hosts on American X Factor. Cowell turned down a very ...

Rage Against The Machine are Christmas number one

December 21, 2009

Rage Against The Machine have managed to scoop the U.K. single's chart number one position for Christmas. The internet based battle to keep X Factor winner Joe McElderry from walking away with the prize has worked, much to the shock of many in the music industry. Spokesman for HMV, Gennaro Castaldo ...

Cheryl Cole complains about Christmas number one campaign

December 18, 2009

Cheryl Cole has spoken out against the campaign to keep X Factor winner Joe McElderry off the number one spot in the Christmas charts. She said that the attempts being made to get the Rage Against The Machine track Killing In The Name to number one were mean. Cole, who ...

Christmas number one not yet guaranteed for X Factor winner

December 16, 2009

Although X Factor winner Joe McElderry has hit the number one position on iTunes with his new single The Climb, his fiercest competition for the Christmas number one spot, Rage Against The Machine, also seem to be putting in a strong performance and could be an upset for the eighteen-year-old ...

X Factor to return next year

December 15, 2009

It has been confirmed that X Factor will be back next year after speculation that Simon Cowell would put the show on hold unless ITV could come up with the cash to make it bigger and better. Cheryl Cole is also said to be returning to the programme's judging panel ...

Simon Cowell threatens to pull X Factor

December 14, 2009

Simon Cowell has threatened to take X Factor off air if bosses at ITV cannot come up with an extra £300,000 per week so that he can make improvements. Amongst those improvements it is rumoured that Cowell wants to see the show run for an extra month by increasing the ...

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