Simon Cowell News

Columbia Records and Syco Music are pleased to announce the release of Rachel Crow's self-titled EP on June 26 via all digital service providers.

Elton John, Stephen Daldry and Lee Hall last night (30 May 2012) joined a special Gala audience at the Victoria Palace Theatre to celebrate 3000 performances and seven years since the world premiere of the award-wining British hit, Billy Elliot the Musical. Scroll down for photos of the event and to find out what happens to that cake.

I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Musical...I've slept on it and sat for a while now trying to pick fault with this production, but it is proving impossible.

NBC's top-rated summer series AMERICA'S GOT TALENT will kick off its highly-anticipated Las Vegas audition shows on Monday, June 25th at 9 p.m. ET and includes a third night of Vegas performances for the first time in the show's history.

Pop sensation One Direction is on the road for their first-ever headlining North American tour in support of their debut album UP ALL NIGHT. The tour kicked off on May 24th in Fairfax, Va., and the group just played a concert May 26 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. See photos of One Direction's Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson on stage below!

According to a report on Deadline.com, newly hired X FACTOR judge Britney Spears walked off the set of the FOX singing competition during the very first taping of the show's Season 2. According to the report, the dramatic exit was the result of a contestant 'butchering' one of the pop singer's songs.

The New York Post reports that UK pop star Cheryl Cole has been approached by Fremantle and 19 Entertainment executives, the producers behind FOX's AMERICAN IDOL, to either sit beside or possibly replace current IDOL judge Jennifer Lopez.

Recording artists Demi Lovato and Britney Spears will join Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid at the judge's table for the next season of THE X FACTOR USA. A new promo for the upcoming season of the singing competition featuring the new judges has just been released. Check it out below!

On last night's episode of AMERICA'S GOT TALENT, controversial radio host and new judge Howard Stern caused a 7-year-old contestant to cry. View the segment below!

TEEN CHOICE 2012 will once again celebrate the hottest teen icons in television, music, film, sports, fashion, comedy and the web in the choicest, star-studded two-hour event airing live Sunday, July 22 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. Among the nominees are GLEE star Lea Michele and 'How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris.

TEEN CHOICE 2012 will once again celebrate the hottest teen icons in television, music, film, sports, fashion, comedy and the web in the choicest, star-studded two-hour event airing live Sunday, July 22 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. 'The Vampire Diaries' leads the TEEN CHOICE 2012 nominees with six nominations, while AMERICAN IDOL and Justin Bieber each garnered five nominations. In addition, new categories added this year include Choice Book and Choice Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Artist.

The actor Henry Winkler, best known as the Fonz from Happy Days, may star opposite Cheyenne Jackson as an ageing porn star in THE PERFORMERS, a new comedy about the porn industry by David West Read.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT, NBC's top rated summer series from producers FremantleMedia North America and Simon Cowell's SYCO Television, returned last night with the hottest performers from across the country ready to compete in the blockbuster reality show's seventh season. Watch the Elements Dance Crew, who performed on last night's season premiere, below!

Following their feature on Britain's Got Talent last year, Out of the Blue is putting on the largest professional show run entirely by students in the history of university a cappella in the UK. The concert will run on the 11-12th of June at 7:30 PM in the New Theatre, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AG.

THE X FACTOR Upfronts have just confirmed that Demi Lovato and Britney Spears will join Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid at the judge's table for the next season of THE X FACTOR. Watch a video of the announcement below!

For the first time in nearly 10 seasons on the air, 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will travel to the east coast. From October 29 - November 2, 'JKL' will broadcast from the host's birthplace, Brooklyn, NY.

Peter Rice, Chairman, Entertainment, Fox Networks Group; and Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, today unveiled the FOX primetime schedule for the 2012-2013 television season to the national advertising community during its annual Programming Presentation at the Beacon Theatre.

Howard Stern, American radio personality, television host and author, will serve as the new judge on the top-rated summer alternative series AMERICA'S GOT TALENT. The season premieres tonight, May 14 at 8:00 pm/ET on the NBC network. Get a first look at Stern as a judge on the upcoming talent competition below!

Shock jock Howard Stern joins the judge's table on the seventh season of NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT. The series returns tonight with the hottest performers from across the country ready to compete in the blockbuster reality show.

"Prom-asaurus" proved that GLEE can still pack a powerful pop culture punch when required to do so; and when it wants to - and spike it with some effervescence and make it pop, too. Even those among us who don't partake in drinking the GLEE Kool-Aid, all must agree that there was more than one episode's fair share of fun, frivolity, twists and tunes, with some very fitting dramatic and musicals moments that we have by now come to anticipate from the genre-hopping musical dramedy enterprise - all of it integrated effectively into the stream-lined storyline, as well. Prom. It's all about prom this time of year and GLEE always makes a point to pay tribute to the month of May in this way. It is in pop culture melding mega-moments like last night's One Direction cover by way of GLEE - "What You Makes You Beautiful" - that we are again reminded of the special place GLEE holds in the American pop pantheon of the 21st century - using real, of-the-moment pop songs and utilizing them to comment on current events while musicalizing and dramatizing the lives of high school students. The classic cuts that come along are a bonus, really, when one considers GLEE from this viewpoint, though the contemporary covers have become the bread and butter of song sales for the mega-music-selling series - "Teenage Dream" by Blaine & The Warblers, as well as the Troubletones's Adele "Someone Like You/Rumor Has It" mash-up sold nearly as many copies as their predecessors - the originals - as far as iTunes sales go. Though FOX channel-mate Simon Cowell of course discovered and shepherds the international pop smash super group One Direction, their musical appearance on GLEE this season marks the continued exposure of the of-the-moment boy band phenomena we have not seen the likes of in over a decade - not since the days of N*SYNC and the Backstreet Boys - after the New Directions success with The Wanted's "Glad You Came" a few episodes back and their upcoming continued presence, no doubt, in addition. What makes GLEE must-see-TV week after week is more often than not the try-anything approach of the creators and cast - some sequences shockingly come off brilliantly and hit all-too-squarely their intended targets, while others fall far short and flop completely, even embarrassingly so. To crib a phrase from One Direction's hit single, what makes GLEE beautiful is that GLEE does not always know what makes it beautiful - experiencing drama coming to us delivered from that rocky, risky-to-mount precipice is sometimes frustrating, sometimes rewarding, but almost always somehow more than merely satisfying.