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[Blind Gossip] There is genuine panic behind the scenes at this formerly successful TV show. The reboot just isn’t going as well as planned.

Two of the biggest stars don’t know that they should get ready to a sing their swan songs… because producers are ready to let them go!

When you pay a premium price for talent, you expect a premium return. When you don’t get that, you have to be willing to cut the cord.

Would the stars take a huge pay cut to stay?

One might. I’m smelling a little desperation there. The other, no. To preserve everyone’s ego, if they do let them go, they won’t say “fired.” They will say that they couldn’t renew their contracts because they have too many other commitments or something like that.

By the way, one of the stars who may be getting the boot from the reboot is male and the other is female.

Similar: Firing Factors

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Male Star:

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[Optional] What should the producers do?

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  1. TV Show: American Idol

    Male Star: Lionel Richie or Ryan Seacrest

    Female Star: Katy Perry – she’s the only female that’s hosting, right?

    [Optional] What should the producers do? Stop beating a dead horse – just kill it already.

  4. american idol
    katy perry and ryan seacrest
    just cut the show all together.. who is even watching this?

  9. American Idol

    Ryan Seacrest

    Katy Perry

    The producers should chop those salaries for sure. The ratings are already low, so make some cuts.

  11. TV Show: American Idol

    Male Star: Luke Bryan

    Female Star: Katy Perry

    [Optional] What should the producers do? Let it go…I think people are just over AI, bad judges or not.

    • “Will & Grace” averaged a 0.9 rating in adults 18-49 and 3.6 million viewers, while ABC’s “American Idol” averaged a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49 and 7.7 million viewers. “Will & Grace” or “Roseanne” was my 1st guess too. I hope you’re right!

  13. Will and Grace. I don’t watch it so I’m not sure who will be cut. It seems like they are too old to act like they did the first time around.

    • Um, no. This show has been renewed for a third season and NBC has ordered extra episodes for season 2.

  15. Guessing American Idol.
    Male Star: Ryan Seacrest?
    Female Star: Katy Perry
    Haven’t seen an episode yet and I used to love that show. It’s an empty shell of what it used to be.

  21. “American Idol”. Katy Perry is getting way too much money, and she knows it. Lionel Ritchie and Luke Bryan, take your pick.

  22. TV Show: American Idol

    Male Star: Ryan Seacrest (second highest paid on the show, plus all of the drama swirling around him now)

    Female Star: Katy Perry (paid $25 million!!)

  23. TV Show: Once Upon A Time

    Male Star: Robert Carlyle

    Female Star: Lana Parrilla

    Kind of a shame – the original OUAT was a guilty pleasure of mine – the reboot is just meh .

    • Mine too but it’s not this, OUAT has already been canceled and most of the stars already have new gigs.

      American Idol is the likely answer.

    • Oh my word, that makes so much more sense than my guess! I saw one episode of the new AI and it was dreadful, with Katie Perry being the absolute worst and most insincere of the three judges! Truly awful and not even worth $25,000.

  27. TV Show: American Idol
    Female star: Katy Perry
    Male Star: Ryan Seacrest?
    Optional: I don’t care. I watched A.I. for a few years 10 years ago because my boyfriend liked it (I know). When they started drastically switching up judges and bringing in people who knew nothing about singing whatsoever I stopped caring. It was also incredibly scripted & fake. It seems like it just went off the air… why bring it back so soon?

  30. American Idol
    Katy Perty
    Either Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan or Ryan Seacrest. I don’t watch.

  34. American Idol is the tv show
    Male star is Ryan Seacrest, he may be the desperate one because of the harassment charges against him. No one wanted to talk to him at the Oscars.
    Female star is Katy Perry. The producers just should cancel the show. It should have never been re-booted in the first place.

  38. American idol. The one who will leave is katy perry and the one willing to stay will be lionel richie.

  40. American Idol
    Lionel Richie
    Katy Perry

    Katy Perry comes off as very much an obnoxious bratty mean girl- like getting catty w/a contestant’s girlfriend?! And I do not think she’d accept a lower pay to stay. Nor do I think the producers should offer her that option anyway.

    Lionel Richie is likable but boring and talks about himself too much- to Katy, who looks like she could care less haha… Plus he doesn’t have much versatility or star power with younger viewers.

  43. Oh God, is this the Roseanne reboot? It got a huge 1st audience but much fewer viewers on the second show. Would the producers panic that quickly?

    Show: Roseanne
    Roseanne Barr (Unwilling to negotiate her salary.)
    John Goodman ( Willing to negotiate his salary)

    What should the producers do? Keep the stars and pay them the money. They are worth it! Also, put a bit more of politics in the show but not too much.

    • Nope, s11 is already approved for 13 episodes this fall/next spring/TBD.
      They only lost 3M from first double ep (18+M) to second week/3d ep (15M).

      and it’s FOUR leads with Sara (who helped launch this reboot with John after the Talk appearance skit) and Laurie (now an Oscar winner, so she would be more likely to ask for more $$ this fall.)

      If anything, the biggest hurdles among these four is schedules with other projects.

  45. American Idol, Ryan Seacrest and Katy Perry!
    Let them go-show business is like any other business, it’s out to make money.

  47. American Idol
    Katy Perry
    Hopefully Ryan Seacrest, but most likely Luke Bryan
    Just cancel, only way I would watch is with original judges. These judges are just not a draw or exciting to me

  51. American Idol
    Katy Perry
    Idk but probably Luke Bryan..they were hoping to cash in on the appeal of Blake Shelton on the Voice but just can’t compete. But idk could be Lionel Richie..I don’t watch so don’t know who sucks more. I’m sure they are getting rid of Ryan Seacrest too so maybe he’s the guy.

  52. American Idol
    Ryan Seacrest
    Katy Perry

    Seacrest might take a pay cut because he has so many other projects going on. Katy I think would be offended if her pay dropped.

  53. Tv show: American Idols
    Male star: Ryan Seacrest
    Female star: Katy Perry

    Optional: I really don’t know

  54. Will & Grace I imagine has a big paycheck and all 4 principles think they EACH are the reason for the success. Roseanne got huge ratings. Don’t think anyone on FULLER HOUSE makes a major paycheck. No clue.

  55. Show – Roseanne

    Female Star – Roseanne Barr

    Male Star – John Goodman

    Cancel the entire show. Give writers a chance to do something new instead of rebooting everything. That show wasn’t great to begin with IMO.

  56. I read Roseanne is doing great, so Will & Grace?

    You can’t have W&G without W&G, so it has to be Jack and Karen, who were actually more entertaining than the leads, at least in the original run

  58. Will & Grace. McCormack and Messing. As much as everyone loves Karen and Jack? I just don’t know if a spin-off would work.

  59. Wild guess: American Idol. Seacrest and Perry. No idea what they should do- except call it quits for good after this season!

  61. American Idol. Katy Perry for sure is overpaid, and I’m going to say Ryan Seacrest as the male star, who may take a pay cut to stay on-air. It’s past it’s prime, if I were a producer, I’d see it until the end of this season and then pull the plug AGAIN.

  62. Megan Mullally
    Sean Hayes
    Will and Grace…I haven’t heard much buzz about it since it came back.Must be a dud

  63. I’m assuming the show is Will & Grace? No clue on which two out of the four they’d turf though.

  64. Oh wait, definitely American Idol.
    Probably thinking of booting Katy Perry and Lionel Ritchie?

  67. American Idol.
    Katy Perry. So pathetic and desperate. Her flirting with the male contestants is gross. Lionel Richie because his music has not been relevant since the 80s.

  77. American Idol
    Ryan Seacrest
    Katy Perry

    Optional: They should admit the show is played. Unless they get something drastically different it will just become worse.

  79. Katy Perry for sure. One of the other two. I only watched about two minutes, but Lionel Richie is better than whoever that other guy is

  83. American Idol
    Lionel Ritchie
    Katy Perry

    Optional: cut their losses and try to get performers who fit the formula that worked the first time?

  84. Roseanne reboot…. I didn’t care for it the 1st time so didn’t watch….heard the ratings tanked with 2nd episode

  87. oooh is this will & grace? i never find the show that funny. it was just okay but not something i especially look out for.

  90. Oh no! Please don’t tell me it’s Will and Grace. All 4 characters are relevant in the show.

  92. Idol. Perry and seacrest

    Keep Ryan with a pay decrease and find someone is likeable. Katy lost her star power

  94. American Idol
    Katy Perry (would probably accept less money)
    The 3rd judge who is not Lionel Richie (Keith Urban? / Harry Connick Jr.?)

  96. American idol
    Ryan Seacrest
    Katy Parry
    I’m thinking Ryan would take the pay cut.
    They waaaaay overpaid for Katy to be a judge. The producers were trying to create a Voice type show assuming viewers would tune in to watch the judges. AI has always really been about watching the talent, for me anyway. And they just can’t come to grips with the fact that America is over Idol. And the show’s copycats do a better job of connecting to the 13-24 crowd. AI is stuck in 2004.

  99. Ryan and Katie, American Idol reboot. Lionel and Luke don’t make that much, and they’re likable.

    My guess is Katie is willing to take the pay cut, Ryan not so much.

    This show should be taken to the vet and humanely put down at the end of this season.

  100. The Will and Grace reboot. Ratings have fallen considerably since the debut.

    Eric McCormack

    Debra Messing