We cross our fingers and gasp in amazement. We laugh, we cry. Eleven thousand contestants are narrowed down to eleven. And those eleven eventually become just one. Idol, the competition we love and hate, is back. And this time, it’s bigger and better than ever.
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"We'll be broadcasting 40 hours of Idol this year — in other words: an entire working week," says Magnus Karlsson Lamm, executive producer of Idol 2009 (Sweden's American Idol). "That's more than ever before. The series is now in its seventh season, and it seems that it's not only the viewers who enjoy the show — the critics do, too. Of course, the viewers are our top priority."
