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At Variety: Will ‘Idol’ be upstaged again at the Emmys? The Amazing Race has beat out American Idol for an Emmy award for four years in a row now, even though AI stomps TAR in the ratings. This article looks at that phenomenon, and at the likelihood of that changing this year.

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Thursday’s upfronts are a double-dose of blah. Both the CW and FOX made their announcements today, and I’m finding it hard to even find anything to say about them.
American Idol and House are both coming back, of course. There was no doubt since they’re FOX’s two biggest shows. And also the only two I watch. [...]

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I didn’t think it would actually happen. I was hoping, but I didn’t have any faith in America. I didn’t think Blake was going to make it all the way to the final two on American Idol, because American Idol is a karaoke contest and Blake is anything but karaoke. But I was proved wrong, [...]

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I know I spend a lot of time talking about the bad stuff that’s on TV. Charla and Mirna, Sanjaya, Donald Trump. And it’s not very often that I bring up the good stuff, of which there is a lot. And one of the best, right now, is Blake Lewis.

Blake is probably the best thing [...]

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See what you’ve done, America? You made Sanjaya cry.

You bastards.

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You know, my wife has hit on the best way to watch American Idol. Just keep your finger on the TiVo’s Fast Forward button at all times, and don’t be afraid to use it. Like when Martina McSomebody goes on and on about anything having to do with country music? [Beep boop]. If you don’t [...]

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Do you see what Sanjaya’s doing to America? Do you?

These are weird times.

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So Chris Sligh is gone. Eh. Won’t miss him. That’s not something I would have thought I’d ever hear myself saying even a month ago, but it’s true now. He started out pretty fantastic, in fact his first audition was the best out of all of them. But then he started slipping by degrees, each [...]

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I have made my peace with Sanjaya. There is plenty of outrage and confusion over his continued reign on American Idol. People are blaming Vote For The Worst and Howard Stern, although previous Vote For The Worst picks were Sundance and Antonella, and you see how well the site help them stick around. And Howard? [...]

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The American public constantly fascinates me. I find it singularly amazing that American Idol viewers grew tired of Sundace and Antonella’s crap almost as quickly as I did. I mean, sure the both of them should have been gone the very first week, and I can think of at least four of the departed contestants [...]

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