January 24, 2012
For those of you who didn't bother staying up until 11 on Sunday night to catch the San Diego American Idol auditions (damn football overtime), Fox is rerunning the show on Tuesday at 8 p.m. CTV Two is following suit, also re-airing the show at 8.
I won't be watching it over again, but you can find my original recap...
January 23, 2012
Welcome to American Idol, the Top Gun edition.
Perhaps somebody on the production team figured the best way to...
January 20, 2012
Well hello, Pittsburgh.
The so-called City of Champions produced some contenders on Thursday's episode of American Idol, but it also piqued my interest in Season 11 in a way that Wednesday's episode did not.
For one thing, it was only an hour long, so there was a minimum of filler and one good audition after another: not a stinker in the bunch. Only one of the 10 singers we watched didn't get a ticket to Hollywood, not so much...
January 19, 2012
Season 11 of American Idol got off to a somewhat rocky start as the two-hour premiere failed to live up to last year’s debut.
According to Nielsen live-plus-same day data, the season opener averaged 21.9 million viewers, down 17 percent from the 26.3 million live-plus-same-day viewers who tuned in to last season’s premiere. The show took an even bigger hit in the...
Nothing broken and nothing to fix on American Idol was the message as Season 11 kicked off on Wednesday night.
There were new contestants and a new city, Savannah, Georgia, but the format was the same: show successful auditions, a few train wrecks, a few back stories. Toss in some humorous moments involving judges Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson, and host Ryan Seacrest (Steven and Randy getting their butts grabbed by an...
October 25, 2011
A year and a half ago, I joked in a satirical post that American Idol would accept votes via Twitter. But that's exactly what will happen starting next week, when voting begins on Fox's The X Factor.
Fox announced late Tuesday that it will "allow fans -- for the first time in television -- to cast votes for their favorite finalists" on Twitter, which...
October 24, 2011
A report about commercials on broadcast TV reveals how much advertisers are likely to pay for 30-second ads on reality shows that are airing this fall and next spring.
Ad Week reports on the ad prices "using data from as many as six different media-buying agencies and other sources, found that some spots in 'Idol' were going for as much as $640,000," but notes that "prices should...
September 13, 2011
(Jordan Clark, the last So You Think You Can Dance Canada champion in a CTV photo.)I had word today that So You Think You Can Dance Canada is...
August 15, 2011
The Voice coach and Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine has criticized American Idol for refusing to do what his series did easily and without difficultly: letting gay contestants be open about their sexual orientations.
In...
August 11, 2011
(The top four on So You Think You Can Dance, from right, Tadd Gadduang, Sasha Mallory, Marko Germar and Melanie Moore in a Fox photo by Adam Rose.)It was...