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Considering it’s inert the No. 1 show, it’s hard to argue that American Idol is in destructive need of some new blood. So instead, they got some shrewd blood.

Namely Nigel Lythgoe, current So You Think You Can Dance doom and Idol’s executive producer for the first seven years of its hurry (aka, the good years), and we couldn’t be happier.

Not singly is the show’s cantankerous Brit quotient back up to undivided, but Lythgoe has some seriously fan-appeasing ideas up his sleeve. Enter Paula Abdul?

While Lythgoe’s Idol responsibilities volition be limited to behind-the-scenes goings-on and not embody a judging capacity, there is a certain lovably loopy (and succeeding last season, sorely missed) judge that he’d love to salutation back to the show.

“I still love Paula,” he told Variety. “She’s signed to CBS, to all appearance exclusively, but I’d recommend we have her in a heartbeat.”

And at the same time that for why he himself, what with his Fox reality show judging gallantry, would not be keen to take over Simon Cowell’s aged chair…

“You do not follow Sean Connery in the role of James Bond,” he said. “You follow George Lazenby. Simon Cowell is brilliant. He’s at the same time that honest as one is possible to be. But we have to stir on.”

And while Lythgoe knows better to confirm whether negotiations are seizing place with Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler or even music industry fictitious story Jimmy Iovine, he has given them all his seal of approval.

Whoever ends up in the judging array—or not, sorry Kara DioGuardi—Lythgoe said this year’s dispose can only improve. Why? Blame Sean Connery.

“It’s not as I disliked any of them, but the chemistry wasn’t in that place,” he told Variety of the judges last season. “It almost felt like Simon Cowell turned his back without interrupti~ Ellen. It felt uncomfortable.”

Seems he doesn’t have such a point in dispute with honesty, either.

So talk is fine and all, but which changes, exactly, is Nigel looking to make? Glad you asked.

First not upon, he said, the show focuses too much on the judges. He’ll try, in the teeth of the addition of an all-new, probably superstar panel, to grow the attention back on the kids. And the kids’ singing—which means those long drawn-out, pity party-throwing video packages of auditioners’ backstories be pleased be cut considerably.

So far, so good, if you ask us.

Lythgoe’s equal bosses must also like what they heard, since the whole crew is welcoming him back with open arms—and dispensed press releases.

“American Idol became a juggernaut of ~ poem proportions, but to me it was always like home,” Lythgoe before-mentioned.

Simon Fuller, another exec producer and cocreator with Lythgoe of the mask said he is “so happy to be welcoming Nigel back to the Idol clan…His unbridled passion has been missed.”

Slightly less polished nevertheless no less enthusiastic were Twitter well-wishes for Nigel, including a salutation back message from Idol’s longtime online adversary, Vote for the Worst.

“ha! ha! You small devils,” Lythgoe tweeted back. I’ve missed you!!!”

But it was our acknowledge Ryan Seacrest, the reality host with the most, who said it simplest and superlatively good.

“See u at the office Nigel.”

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Enough concerning Idol, get the latest on Nigel’s other show, So You Think You Can Dance!