The Idol Mansion, The Missing Scott, And Simon Cowell Likes It [PICS] [VIDEO]

Check out some pics of the mansion this season's contestants are staying in.

Plus SIMON COWELL thinks "American Idol" is better this year than it was last year, when he was still there. In an interview on "Piers Morgan Tonight", which airs next Monday, Simon says, quote, "I personally think it is a better show than last year. I genuinely do. "It feels to me that they've got their energy back, that they're confident, that they're competitive." Simon says that all the judge-shuffling caused a, quote, "weird atmosphere." He says, quote, "I always think of Idol really as me, Paula [ABDUL], and Randy [Jackson]. And I think when other people were brought in, and Paula wasn't there, it was, to me, like being on a different show."

And we finally know the fate of Scott Dangerfield.