American Idol
I wrote most of my "American Idol" preview column before yesterday's announcement that this will be Simon's last "Idol" season. But if anything, the basic thesis - that the show needs to focus less on the judges and more on the contestants
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As the day went along and I gave more thought to the Simon Cowell situation, it occurred to me that it has a few parallels to the Jay/Conan mess at NBC. So I wrote another blog post at NJ.com about that.
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The biggest news of the day at press tour - unless you count Bradley Whitford's Ron Swanson mustache - was Simon Cowell announcing his departure from "American Idol" after this season to launch "The X Factor" in America.
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At NJ.com, my take on the big TV news of the day/night/week: Ellen DeGeneres is replacing Paula Abdul as the permanent fourth judge on "American Idol."
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Over at NJ.com, I have some Paula Abdul news from the Fox exec session: specifically, that while Fox is more than ready to move on without her, they seem to think "American Idol" will be better of with a fourth judge. Sigh...
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Over at NJ.com, I have my quick take on what appears to be Paula Abdul's departure from "American Idol." Short version: as easy as it was to pick on Pauler, Randy and/or Kara should have been shown the door first.
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The two-hour-plus "American Idol" finale is tonight at 8. Due to the deadline to get my column into tomorrow's newspaper in time, I'm basically going to have to be writing throughout the show, so I won't be able to live-blog the finale
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As I warned yesterday when I linked to my "American Idol" finale preview, I wasn't sure if I was going to get to watch the final performance show live. I couldn't, so The Star-Ledger's Vicki Hyman filled in for me on "
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Like an episode of "Early Edition," you're getting tomorrow's newspaper story today, as I preview the "American Idol" finale and look back on what went right and, mostly, wrong this season: There have been tweaks aplenty, virtually all of them blowing up
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I was too busy watching "Lost" last night to so much as glance at "American Idol," but I know who was eliminated, and who's in the final two. If you want a recap of what happened, go read Fienberg, but after the jump, I&
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Spoilers for the "American Idol" Top 3 performance show coming up just as soon as I note again how pathetic the show is, in that they needed to schedule a 64-minute episode to fit in six performances (in a week when they used to be able to do
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Song-by-song thoughts on tonight's "American Idol" -- and on the idiotic, but not unentertaining, decision to have the contestants perform duets -- coming right up... Once again, I have to rail against the bumbling on this show. Once upon a time, they were able to squeeze
