Here we go again. Ryan Seacrest hyping “the journey that defines a nation,” Randy Jackson settling in as the “resident dawg” as if nothing had ever changed. But change is the new constant in the overly cluttered world of TV singing competitions, and as the first and most successful of the genre, Fox’s American Idol, returns for its 12^th season with back-to-back nights of two-hour audition episodes Wednesday and Thursday (8/7c), a mostly new panel of celebrity judges settles in for their first public judgment.

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