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Reboot Boot

[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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[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?

  7. I hope this is American Idol
    Ryan Seacrest
    Katy Perry- She’s not worth $24 million

  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.

  35. 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.

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

  41. 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.

  44. 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.

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

  48. 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