American Juniors is an American
reality television singing competition series that was broadcast for one season, in 2003, on the
Fox Network. The series was a
spin-off of
American Idol, but with younger contestants, and had the same production team as
American Idol: it was created by
Simon Fuller and
19 Entertainment, along with
FremantleMedia, and directed by
Bruce Gowers, and produced by
Nigel Lythgoe and
Ken Warwick. However, unlike
American Idol, the goal of the competition was not to find a single winner, but rather to create a singing group of five of the contestants. In this way,
American Juniors more closely resembled the
British series
S Club Search, which had produced the group
S Club Juniors.