Looking forward to this ninth season after two major Emmy nominations, Nigel Lythgoe accentuated the positive after he’d announced at the start of the year that Fox would not be airing the results show this season.

“We’ll have to have a lot of changes,” he explained. “We’ll have to put the results into our main show. So we’ve now got a two-hour show where we’ll have to get results from the previous week. That’s exciting for me, that changes things up.”

The new schedule also means that “the contestants will be working for an extra week that are in the bottom three,” Lythgoe explained. “We can now judge them by the previous week’s performance, America’s vote and what they’ve done [that night]. It’s our decision who goes home, America votes in the positive. We don’t want to lose the group routine, ‘dance for your life’ or exponents of styles we haven’t seen before. It’s going to be a jam-packed show. If we can get people to watch that, we get seasons 10, 11 and 12.”

-CNN NewSource