Season eight premiered on January 13, 2009. Mike Darnell, the president of alternative programming for Fox, stated that the season would focus more on the contestants' personal life. Much early attention on the show was therefore focused on the widowhood of Danny Gokey.[citation needed]
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): What month did American Idol begin airing its eighth season?
January