The American Idol judges looked…awkward. Fox tried desperately to genereate some interest in the aging show and it appears they…tried? When the judges were all revealed and standing together, it looked like comedy.

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More pictures of Jennifer, Steven and Randy after the hiccup…

I hope they all have short contracts. I don’t know who had more frizzzy styled hair, Jennifer Lopez or Steven Tyler. Then there’s the awful pantsuit again. Why?

Once a dizzyingly dominant small-screen force, Fox’s American Idol has been shedding viewers in recent years — some 9% last season alone, many of them in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49 demographic.

The much-predicted announcement Wednesday that actress/singer J. Lo and Aerosmith frontman Tyler would join holdover Randy Jackson on judges’ row for Season 10 is aimed at both rekindling viewers’ interest and refocusing the contest on the show’s hopefuls.

But questions abound.

Is the best way to de-emphasize the judges really to replace Ellen DeGeneres, Kara DioGuardi and Simon Cowell with two entertainment industry icons?

I guess we’ll all have to wait and see what the chemistry does. From the surface, it doesn’t look like these three will have awesome chemistry, but whatever. Are you excited for the show to start?

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