Today in show business news: Not many people watched the American Idol finale, The Voice is still going strong, and Pete Campbell takes to the stage.
Justin's girl will be putting on a catsuit of some kind and kicking but with Wolverine. Or be kicking Wolverine's butt. It's unclear. Also today: Dianna Agron snags a plum role and Ken Jeong moves up in the world.
The rumors you've heard are true. Ryan Seacrest has confirmed via Twitter, because that's how people do things now, that Jennifer Lopez will not be returning to American Idol.
Another judge is leaving America's favorite singing contest. Is anyone going to be back next season?? Also today: Taylor Swift is very rich and Will Smith contemplates a career change.
Today in the world of entertainment: American Idol might put a former contestant behind the judges' table, Philip Seymour Hoffman heads off to kill some children, and Michael Fassbender, well, heads off to kill some people, too.
Today: ScarJo returns to the White Way, Randy Jackson gives us a gift, and Phil Phillips is a success.
American Idol's juggernaut status is dwindling to such a degree that the production company that owns it is changing its name to distance itself from its once-great television property and vowing to tweak the show to restore it to its former glory. We have some ideas how.
Today: America's favorite singing competition isn't its favorite anymore, a comedy actor gets serious, and Bradley Cooper joins the SEALs.
Well, dear friends, we have finally reached the end. Another season of hoax game show American Idol has reached its confetti conclusion and we are all the richer for it. Or we are at least not poorer. We are hopefully financially the same.
Today: Paramount pushes a big flick back nine months, no one watches Idol anymore, but everyone loves Adam Lambert.
Last night was American Idol's sneak attack Tuesday night Finale Part One, a brisk and efficient hour that wasted very little time.
Today: Natalie Portman heads west, Bobby Cannavale does too, and one of the X-Men is gay.
Fitting of the Top Three elimination night, exactly three things happened on American Idol last night. Let's discuss them and then go about the rest of our days, content in the knowledge that we have almost made it to the end of this life-changing journey.
Top 3! Home visits! Judges' Choice! Boy, we have almost reached the rickety end of this thing, haven't we? But we're not there yet. We're close, but we've no cigars. While we wait for the glorious, glitter-stained end, let's talk a little about what happened last night.
Today: J.Lo might be voting herself off the show, Morgan Freeman heads to Vegas to get drunk, and the sad tale of Johnny Bananas.
We are now two short weeks away from the end of this Idol madcappery, as the fourth place finisher was named last night and now only three remain.
As has been said before, democracy just doesn't work. It just doesn't.
Last night's American Tune Bag was a strangely dark episode, one full of angry songs and pained singing, a blast from the turbulent past that overcame our brave, noble tributes and reduced them to the small quivering children that they are at heart. Well, mostly. There was some good singing! But it all felt tinged with a bit of madness, didn't it?
Well, we are now down to the top 5! Which means we are so close I can almost taste the confetti.
Last night's Top Six episode of American Singing Competition began what I fear are the two or three most languid weeks of the season (other than auditions, naturally): The Top Six Creep really doesn't end until there are about three people left and the show starts to get exciting again.
Clearly, we've found someone who didn't vote for American Idol's Colton Dixon last night.
Last night was, truly, the most shocking rose ceremony in Idol history.
What exactly was happening on American Idol last night? Didn't things seem off and strange?
OK, that was some hot chicanery on American Idol last night, was it not? That was some straight up flimflammery, a scam and a cheat and an ol' run-around. That was a scheme faker than a Jennifer Lopez song. We've been had, America. Hoodwinked and bamboozled.
There was nothing terribly adventurous about any of the singtestants' endeavors last night, but, you know, this really isn't a bad group. There are no true clunkers, which is a rare thing on American Idol these days. So thank god at least for that.
Another day, another Idol kid sent to the dustbin of pop culture history.
Last night was the 1980s music-themed episode of American Tune Farm, a vaguely depressing night always.
Another one bit the glorious glitter dust last night, amid all the usual pomp and questionable circumstance. It was actually a somewhat scary bottom three, which will be a more and more frequent occurrence as the weeks wear on and our tributes begin to suffer from exposure. It's a grim business!
Last night was a very emotional night at the ol' Idol song hut, with more than one tribute reduced to tears and everyone singing very intensely. They are starting to feel it, aren't they? The sharp potential for crushing defeat, the ever-brightening hope victory.
It was Billy Joel night at the song factory.
Another night, another one gone. After Wednesday's CRIME ELIMINATION and all that, last night's just regular old elimination felt a bit staid and boring. It was just what it was, ho hum, oh well. Even if, yeah, it was a little vindicating.
Nickelodeon has an odd dynamo on its hands, an American Idol contestant gets the boot, and Jenna Elfman is headed to Washington
Ah, our first elimination episode here in the finals, and it was a satisfying one. It wasn't terribly surprising, perhaps, but it still needed to happen. Well done, Idol jerks. But before we get to all that! There's a whole episode to be discussed.
The top 13! How did we get here already? It seems like just yesterday the judges were sitting on an aircraft carrier listening to that girl in the bikini or whatever she was wearing wail away.
Finally, American Idol is real! Gone are the hideous pre-taped auditions and Hollywood Week hysterics. We have arrived at the live shows that we, America, get to vote on.
Last night was the intermediary, the strange middleman, the thing hanging between here and there. And what better place to host such an event than Las Vegas, American purgatory, desert ruin not yet ruined. So, yeah, they went to Las Vegas.
We will all eventually come to dread the two-hour-long episodes of American Idol, but last night's Double Stuf episode, early-ish along in the season, was entirely welcome. We got to see a lot — a lot of singing, a lot of satisfying judging — that we just could not have seen in an hour. So, oddly, thank you for that, Idol dreammakers!
Last night the hell of Group Night began.
Last night began Hollywood Week, sending some people tumbling down.
Last night's Portland auditions failed to inspire.
Last night on Idol we met a man born without ears, a girl who likes hunting, and an old contestant came back from the dead.
Last night's American Idol took us away from the busy, bleating cities, out of the smog and smoke to a crisp and clean and, most importantly of all, monied place that the locals call Aspen.
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A teeny bikini, a man named Wolf, and Jim Carrey's daughter all awaited us in the third audition episode.
Recapping night two (of a thousand) of American Idol.
Carrie Bradshaw is young again, American Idol hits a low note, and Katherine Heigl misses Grey's.
Let the recapping of American Idol season 11 begin.
Tonight the 723rd 11th season of Fox's gargantuan competition show American Idol begins, and though many have abandoned the show over the years some of us are still soldiering on in the war march, destination unknown, tired and broken down, but still dedicated to the cause.
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