So it’s all over for another year: the American public voted Kris Allen as their winner (that’s him on the left, looking a little bit surprised by the outcome). I don’t really want to get into the argument of whether the right guy won or not, because there’s already more than sufficient wank about that [...]
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Blogging about the American Idol finale by the time it comes onto British TV while maintaining an element of surprise always feels a bit of a futile endeavour – after all, surely most people with more than a passing interest will have been on the internet first thing this morning to find out the result. [...]
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Any reality show judge worth his or her salt has probably had someone shout something along the lines of “if you know so much, why don’t you get up there and do it?” at them at some point. It looks like American Idol‘s Paula Abdul has taken this to heart, because in tonight’s Top 4 [...]
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AMERICAN IDOL, SEASON 8: THE lowculture GUIDE So, after three fairly underwhelming Top 36 heats, a hugely disappointing wildcard round, and a SHOCK TWIST that I’m fairly sure most of us saw coming a mile off, American Idol has a Top 13 this year rather than a Top 12. And apparently that wasn’t even the [...]
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Bugger The X Factor; as soon as January rolls around, it’s all about American Idol as far as I’m concerned. In honour of esteemed fourth judge Kara DioGuardi joining the panel and generally being amazing, for one night only (because, to be perfectly honest, that’s about the longest this incredibly thin idea is going to [...]
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FINALE! American Idol, ITV2, 9.00pm The alleged “most talented season ever” finally draws to a close, and all that remains is to declare the name of the winner. In all honesty, anyone who gives the faintest toss about this show will have already looked it up on the internet by now since the finale aired [...]
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CHARITY! American Idol, ITV2, 9.00 & 11.00pm It seemed like an odd idea last year: for a show like American Idol that’s always felt to be unashamedly about generating extra sources of revenue for record companies to suddenly develop a conscience – especially after foisting Taylor Hicks on an unsuspecting universe the year before – [...]
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NEW SET! American Idol, ITV2, 8.00pm How peculiar – we’d assumed that the Idol-on-Thursdays thing was temporary, for the auditions, at first. Then we assumed it would be just while the semi-finals were on, to save trying to screen everything until the wee hours of Saturday morning. And yet, what fuckery is this? ITV2 are [...]
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WARBLE! American Idol, ITV2, 9.00pm, 10.00pm This week American Idol moves from the audition stages to the ‘final 24′ stage. We realise this stage actually started last night, but the front page was pretty chocka yesterday. The ‘final 24′ stage of this show always strikes us as a bit bizarre: it’s not the official public [...]
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TALENT? American Idol, ITV2, 9.00/11.00pm Finally. Let’s banish the unpleasant spectre of The X Factor and that whimpering chap who won it for good (or at the very least, until the end of August) and get back to where it’s really at: the granddaddy of them all, American Idol. No groups. No over-30s. No judges [...]
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