Simon Cowell News

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.

NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT and its producers have again collaborated with YouTube, and for the first time, show sponsor Snapple, to allow talented acts from across the country the opportunity to audition online for their shot at stardom and a million-dollar prize.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT will premiere with two two-hour episodes on Monday, May 14 (8-10 p.m. ET) and Tuesday, May 15 (8-10 p.m. ET). The show's return will feature the first appearance of new judge Howard Stern, who joins fellow judges Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne. The series then resumes in its regular day and time on Monday, May 21 (8-9 p.m. ET) and on Tuesday, May 22 (9-10 p.m. ET).

E! News is confirming 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. According to the report, both have offers in place and have agreed to the terms.

According to The Huffington Post, Demi Lovato has signed on to be a judge for THE X FACTOR Season 2 on when the show returns to the FOX network this fall.

As first reported in The Hollywood Reporter, Demi Lovato is in final negotiations to appear as the fourth judge on the upcoming season of Fox's THE X FACTOR. The former Disney star would join Britney Spears as a judge on the singing competition.

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 on 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!

On Thursday night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, American Idol alum Adam Lambert played a five-song set in front of more than 1,000 fans gathered in the parking lot behind the famous El Capitan theater.

The Annenberg Theatre will present Upright Cabaret's RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT tonight April 27 at 8:00 pm. RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT is the third installment of Upright Cabaret's "American Icon" Series and will star Olivier Award-Winner Lesli Margherita, Lexi Lawson (Rent, In The Heights)) and Rogelio Douglas Jr. (In The Heights, The Little Mermaid)). This high energy, multi-media Cabaret celebrates the music of Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan and Santana and features pop favorites such as Livin' La Vida Loca, Shake Your Bon-Bon, Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, Anything for You, Smooth, Let It Shine, and more, performed live with the Upright Cabaret band!

Drew Cameron performs his first ever Brighton Fringe show at The Temple Bar, Western Road, on Monday May 7th, 8th and 9th at 10.45pm.