Ex- 'Idol' judge spins off new music contest show, 'The X Factor'

Simon Cowell admits he is thinking a bit as these lyrics in the 1981 tune "Under Pressure."

He is getting ready to launch Britain's No. 1 Television series "The X Factor" to some U.S. viewers in September, with he and his to-be-named judge team are charged with searching an artist gifted sufficient to win a file $5 million ostentatious prize. That is appropriate, $5 million.

"The cause we made the decision to complete it was to present the people who're auditioning for the present that, like I said during my press announcement, occasionally you've got to put your cash where the mouth area is," said Cowell, who can serve as executive producer and a judge on the new sequence. "By putting up that type of prize funds, it is a substantial, substantial risk, but it is also an incredible incentive. I believe it puts everyone, rightly, below an enormous quantity of strain because I didn't need to go into this show without feeling a specific strain.

"With strain, you've to find a star. I also do it since I think I can find a star," mentioned Cowell, the roughly honest previous "American Idol" judge to get a decade as well as creator from the "X Factor" and "Got Talent" franchises airing in much more than 70 countries, inside a current interview.

To become apparent, he announces the "life-changing" award as "not a dressed-up $5 million."

The champ will obtain the total amount compensated $1 million a year for 5 years with all recording, advertising and video clip costs dealt with individually from the prize, he mentioned within a recent teleconference. The winner may also indicator with the Sony label and Cowell's very own U.K.-based Syco Tv production firm and can receive financial support in caring for the winnings.