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How ‘American Idol’ changed everything

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How 'American Idol' changed everything

Kelly Clarkson, in the beginning. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
Kelly Clarkson, in the beginning. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
(Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

When Fox started the American version of a British singing competition 14 years ago, the success of "American Idol" was so big, so immediate and so utterly unexpected that it essentially broke television.

Pretty much everything that's happened since, from "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" to "Transparent," from Sundance Channel's artisanal content to Netflix's binge model, is, at least in part, a product of the "American Idol" aftershock.

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