TV News: New series gets two-week jump on new season of ‘Idol’ — After years of playing off Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest on the “American Idol” stage, Paula Abdul will be in the smallscreen spotlight as the broadcast TV calendar turns to 2011 and a wave of premieres looks to find some January traction.

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Paula Abdul’s potential future as a judge on Simon Cowell’s relaunch of The X Factor is being held up by her contractual demands, which a new report says is still a possibility even though a previous report said her salary demand was too high so ABC dropped her from consideration.
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Paula Abdul has "unrealistic," "pricey demands" for X Factor, Star Search
Paula Abdul won’t host or judge ABC’s new Star Search after all, so she’s still free to judge The X Factor. Paula and ABC couldn’t come to terms because “Abdul was reluctant to take a lower salary” than what Fox offered and she rejected for American Idol ($5 million a year), “[a]nd ABC was, naturally, very reluctant to indulge in such high figures for launching a new, untested reality show into a marketplace crowded with…
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Paula Abdul won’t do Star Search after ABC offers less than Idol’s $5 million a year offer
Paula Abdul won’t host or judge ABC’s new Star Search after all, so she’s still free to judge The X Factor. Paula and ABC couldn’t come to terms because “Abdul was reluctant to take a lower salary” than what Fox offered and she rejected for American Idol … (source: Realityblurred.com) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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Paula Abdul won’t do Star Search after ABC offers less than Idol’s $5 million a year offer (source: Realityblurred.com)
Paula Abdul may host and judge ABC’s reboot of Star Search, but that may keep her off of The X Factor, which hasn’t itself been confirmed, although Simon Cowell has said he wants to work with her again.

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Paula Abdul may host, judge new Star Search, which would mean not judging X Factor (source: Realityblurred.com)
Paula Abdul has broken her deafening silence and given new American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres her endorsement, which means the world can now relax because not knowing what Paula thought has left everything in turmoil. The former judge posted on Twitter, “I think Ellen will b a gr8 judge on Idol. She is wildly funny, talented and I wish her the best of luck!” Meanwhile, Ellen says she’s not going to judge at all, sort..
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Paula Abdul thinks Ellen will be a "gr8 judge," while Ellen says "I don’t like to judge people"
Paula Abdul has broken her deafening silence and given new American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres her endorsement, which means the world can now relax because not knowing what Paula thought has left everything in turmoil. The former judge posted on Twitter, ‘…

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Paula Abdul thinks Ellen will be a ”gr8 judge,” while Ellen says ”I don’t like to judge people” (source: Realityblurred.com)
Paula Abdul has broken her post-quitting silence in a not-quite-coherent interview with TV Guide. After complimenting herself–”I feel like I have been such a big, huge part of the success of the show from day one”–Paula Abdul said, ”I had some really… (source: Realityblurred.com) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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Paula Abdul: ”I stand on principle where many people stand on money” (source: Realityblurred.com)
Paula Abdul has broken her post-quitting silence in a not-quite-coherent interview with TV Guide.
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Paula Abdul: "I stand on principle where many people stand on money"
Paula Abdul has found a post-American Idol job, and it’s as the host of VH1′s Divas, which will air live Sept. 17 at 9 p.m

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Paula Abdul will host VH1′s Divas (source: Realityblurred.com)