We’ll do it again tomorrow night in Miami…

Come one, come all! The Live Blogging experiment continues tomorrow night at 8pm EST/7pm CST/5pm PST. Just click here and join the fun! I make lots of irreverent comments, take polls, show videos, and everyone can add their own POV to the proceedings. What better way to watch IDOL than [...]

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Let’s try something a little different…

…since I can’t seem to get my act together to post my recaps in a timely manner (noticed that I skipped last week?). I’m going to attempt to Live Blog tomorrow night’s Omaha auditions so now YOU can get in on the action AS IT HAPPENS instead of just reading what I have to [...]

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AI7 – Another Openin’ Another Season

“Yo, Adrianne…!” Idol is back and if the first two shows are any indication, it’s a leaner and less meaner edition of what we’ve come to know and love over the last six seasons.  A balanced package of good and bad auditions, more heart wrenching background stories from the get-go and Simon grows a sympathetic [...]

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If YOU could direct IDOL for Season 7…?

Howdy!
With the 7th Season of American Idol looming the distance, the Rewind of Season 2 just about to premiere, and other Idol competitions going on continually around the globe, I’ve been doing some thinking about the franchise in general and our version in particular. From what I’ve read, not all Idol competitions are [...]

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Simon Cowell producing Idol-themed film Star Struck, a “musical version of Rocky”

By Andy Dehnart (Reality Blurred)
 
Simon Cowell plans to make a film based upon American Idol, which he says will use real people in the leads and be “the musical version of ‘Rocky’ — an underdog story, a feel-good film.”
Star Struck “is set behind the scenes of a TV singing competition in the vein of ‘Idol’ [...]

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‘Idol’ Producer: ‘We Made Mistakes’

Found this in my Google alerts today – nice to know they are FINALLY admitting it!  Read on, McDuffs!
 

At TV’s summer press tour, Nigel Lythgoe admits that last season suffered by focusing more on famous mentors than on contestants — and says the show can learn from ”So You Think You Can [...]

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Idol 7 audition dates announced!

My hope is that they find better talent in the heartland but I still think they need to audition more folks in Boston. Here’s what we’ve got so far:
July 30 – San Diego, California (Qualcomm Stadium)
Aug. 6 – Dallas, Texas (Texas Stadium)
Aug. 10 – Omaha, Nebraska (Qwest Center)
Aug. 14 – Atlanta, Georgia [...]

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