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Fox will keep on dancin’ this summer. The network has handed a Season 17 renewal to So You Think You Can Dance hosted by Cat Deeley. Auditions for the new season of hoofing begin in March (see below). From those tryouts, the dancers selected will be invited to Los Angeles to perform for judges Nigel Lythgoe, Mary…

Vanessa Hudgens, who showed her dance moves in Disney’s High School Musical telepics a decade ago and Grease Live! last year, now will be criticizing other people’s skills. Fox today officially announced the Powerless alum was is set as a judge for the 14th cycle of So You Think You Can Dance, which premieres June…

Exclusive: Choreographer, producer and reality dance judge Nigel Lythgoe (So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol) has signed on to executive produce the dance feature Tackling Romeo, which will be introduced during this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Aimed at fans of films like Pitch Perfect, Tackling Romeo follows…

The parade of returning American Idol alums for the reality series’ upcoming 15th and final season will include original executive producer Nigel Lythgoe who is set to reprise his duties for the series finale. The news comes as Fox is going down to the wire deciding the fate of Lythgoe’s series So You Think You Can Dan…

Pop has ordered 20 episodes of pop culture, trivia-based game show Easiest Game Show Ever for premiere in early 2016, with Michael Ian Black (The Jim Gaffigan Show, Wet Hot American Summer) set as host. Nigel Lythgoe (American Idol) and Gail Berman (Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life) executive produce with…

The $250 million lawsuit from 10 former American Idol contestants charging Fox, producers FreemantleMedia, former executive producers Nigel Lythgoe, various sponsors and others with racial discrimination looks to be over. And that’s mainly about timing, or rather time running out for most of the plaintiffs…

CBS is entering the music competition reality series space with In the Spotlight, executive produced by Nigel Lythgoe, the original executive producer of the first big US hit in the genre, Fox’s American Idol. Also executive producing In the Spotlight, which has received a pilot order, is former CBS head of…

Fox confirms what Nigel Lythgoe revealed during the dance competition’s live season finale: The network has greenlighted an 11th go-round for So You Think You Can Dance. Last week’s final performance show drew a 1.3/4 among adults 18-49, even with the previous week's show but a slight 2% improvement in viewers to 4.1…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline's TCA coverage. Nigel Lythgoe, ousted in June as an EP of American Idol, did not offer comment about that show during this morning's TCA panel on So You Think You Can Dance, where Lythgoe serves as a judge. But at the panel (held on the SYTYCD stage at CBS Television City) he did…

UPDATE, 10:55 AM: Nigel Lythgoe just released a statement following Fox’s naming of Per Blankens as his replacement as American Idol‘s new executive producer. In it, Lythgoe called his tenure on Idol “one of the highlights of my entire career” and a “a great ride,” adding that “if the executives that are now in charge…

UPDATE: Veteran American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe tweeted the news of his dismissal today. He’s departing Fox’s long-running competition show, heading into its 13th season, but will stay aboard the network’s dance program So You Think You Can Dance, which he co-created, exec produces and serves as judge on. ” Just…

David Bloom is a contributor to Deadline. American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said tonight he gets "sick to some degree of the (product) integration because (other) people have a different idea of what integration means. For me, it's a smooth, organic process, whereas for other people, it's, 'Hi! This is a…