A female football coach will replace Glee's Coach Ken Tanaka and SYTYCD EP and judge Nigel Lythgoe may return to Idol to get rid of the current judges...this isn't just wishful thinking, this is today's news...

Tags: American Idol, Common, Dot Jones, Glee, Hell on Wheels, Hellcats, Jason Priestley, Jeff Hephner, Jersey Shore, Leah Remini, Luke Perry, Nigel Lythgoe, Patrick Gallagher, Susan Sarandon, The Miraculous Year

Save for Breaking Bad's sorely disappointing hiatus from our screens, Adventures in Reality Television is the pervading theme of today's news roundup -- most notably the planning of a convention for reality show fans to congregate and obsess in all things fame-whorish and brain-damaging. I'm totally reserving tickets.

Tags: American Idol, Breaking Bad, Mary Hart, Nigel Lythgoe, Tony Robbins

Ex-American Idol executive producer and SYTYCD judge Nigel Lythgoe may be the next American Idol judge (is Fox really that lazy?), and TV news gets a blast from the past with Carol Burnett, Lou Ferrigno and Ryan O'Neal. Can you figure which one of these three we'd rather not see in today's news?...

Tags: American Idol, Bret Michaels, Carol Burnett, Chuck, Glee, Jeff Goldblum, Kristen Chenoweth, Law and Order: CI, Lou Ferrigno, Miss Universe, Modern Family, Nigel Lythgoe, Ryan Murphy, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal

Don't get me wrong. I love So You Think You Can Dance. I aspire to be on America's Best Dance Crew (despite the fact that I can't hip-hop dance AT ALL). I kinda secretly adore the chaos of Dancing With the Stars. But I'm not sure I really needed another dance show. And yet, the adorable Nigel Lythgoe (and producing partner Simon Fuller) are unleashing Superstar Dancers of the World (which is thankfully listed as a working title and needs to be changed ASAP) on America sometime early next year.

Tags: Dancing With the Stars, Michael Flatley, Nigel Lythgoe, Simon Fuller, So You Think You Can Dance, Superstar Dancers of the World

All summer long I've been thinking that So You Think You Can Dance is better than American Idol, and clearly I'm not the only one. Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe is ditching his post behind-the-scenes on Idol in order to focus more on his gig exec. producing and judging the summer-long dance competition. One might think the man is crazy for leaving his presumably well-paying job on the insanely highly rated singing show, but maybe he'd just had enough of Seacrest. Plus, this is the guy who willingly sits next to scream queen Mary Murphy on a regular basis so he's got to be more than a little nuts.

Tags: american idol, Nigel Lythgoe, so you think you can dance

How the hell have I never seen this show before? I mean, I don't watch all of the shows on Fox Reality, but I love all things Nigel Lythgoe related (I worship him on So You Think You Can Dance), so I can't fathom how this one slipped past my radar. Lythgoe and Ken Warwick (Idol executive producers) have a series that follows their purchase of a Vineyard (which apparently has been a dream for the best friends and former dancers). The series has the best name, Corkscrewed: The Wrath of Grapes, and shows the trials and tribulations of the rich and famous, and also features some other familiar faces, Simon, Randy and Ryan. It's basically insane and big on hyping all their other shows. It starts a little slow, but damn, I'm working my way though the episodes now and I'm hooked. I've so got other stuff to be doing... but I can't help myself.

Tags: Corkscrewed, hulu, Ken Warwick, Nigel Lythgoe