I’m not sure if anyone else noticed, but Ryan Seacrest showed his cultural sensitivity last night on American Idol during the guys’ show when he gave a sterotypical Asian bow to the only Asian guy in the competition, John Park. Right after the judges were finished with their critique, Ryan had some trivial comments, then [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
While I know that we’ve been watching American Idol for almost two months now, if you ask me the show really just started last night. I personally hate all the filler that leads up to the Top 24. The fact that the auditions themselves take at least four weeks is horrible, but I know there [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Well it all started tonight. The biggest TV show in the world is back, American Idol. It was a little strange watching this first audition show in the wake of yesterdays carefully timed announcement about Simon Cowell leaving after the season is over. Of course all the auditions were filmed months ago, back before even [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
We’ve spoken about it here before, and now on the eve of American Idol coming back Simon Cowell had made it official, he not coming back to American Idol. Instead he’s bringing his world wide hit show X-Factor to FOX. Of course the real winner here is FOX. After all they will be the ones [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 26, 2009
FOX is prepared to go ahead with American Idol with or without it’s star judge Simon Cowell. FOX is currently in negotiations with Idol producer 19 Entertainment and Freemantle Media to extend it’s contract for 3 more seasons past the already scheduled 2011 season.Of course no word yet on whether or not Simon Cowell will [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 18, 2009
There are reports out this week that American Idol judge Simon Cowell could leave the hit show after this season to import his hit U.K. show X-Factor to US audiences. Many experts are saying that American Idol couldn’t continue on without Cowell. I for one agree that it wouldn’t be the same show and I [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 13, 2009
We’re less than a month now from the January 12, 2010, premiere of American Idol on Fox. Here’s what we know so far: Judges: Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi, Ellen DeGeneres* (*We’re sure you heard Ellen was replacing Paula Abdul this year, unless you’ve been living under a giant rock.) Auditions: Auditions were held in June [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 7, 2009
After taking a year off, American Idol’s charity show, “Idol Gives Back” is returning for the 9th season. The charity show will take place on April 21st. The charities that will benefit this year will be: Children’s Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save the Children and the United Nations Foundation. Of course this is always [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
This is not the official American Idol recap for JoeOnTheTube, you can find it below. But, I couldn’t keep myself from commenting on the biggest TV event of the season. First things first, I’m glad Kris Allen won. Of all the finalists, he’s the one I’d be most likely to buy an album from. As [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Last night just for fun I tried calling to vote fro Kris Allen two and a half hours after the curtain went down on last night American Idol performance show and the number was still busy. I didn’t try Adam Lambert’s line but I’m sure it was busy as well. I obviously don’t think that [...]
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