AmericanIdol returns tonight. Find out how the show is going digital during lockdown
quarantine times by taking place for the first time in the homes of the show’s contestants, musicians, judges, mentors and host.
Kinane said the producers have sent iPhone cameras and lighting kits to all of the contestants, and have also been working with the singers on how and where to shoot their performances at home. Besides the 20 contestants, the show must also juggle Seacrest; mentor Bobby Bones; judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan; and Pooley’s band. An engineering control room in Kansas City is handling all of the incoming video, and then spitting it out again so that the judges and contestants can watch the proceedings on a split screen.
Kinane said she also took advantage of Fremantle’s global operations and how the company has been handling similar shows in other regions. “We make these big shows, ‘Idol’ and ‘X-Factor’ and ‘Got Talent,’ all around the world,” she said. “There’s a lot of experimentation going on in our different territories.
“Actually, it got quite exciting at one point we were talking about doing Disney night with an augmented reality audience full of Disney characters which would have been quite fun — having lions and mice in the audience,” she said. “But then things became clear that we weren’t going to be able to be in the studio at all for a while.”
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