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With a little less than a week to go until ABC's 19th season of American Idol formally premieres, the first round of auditions from Los Angeles, California; San Diego, California; and Ojai, California, is already making news- and not in a way many saw coming During Monday night's edition of the Bachelor, the network revealed[...]

The American Idol winner turned songstress superstar, hosts the daytime talk show as it currently progresses through a second season The newly named NBCUniversal Syndication Studios is to thank for the recent news The hope is to continue this show based on how it has proven to the studios to bring people together during a difficult[...]

Brent Bozell III in 1995, the PTC's website states the group "promotes and restores responsibility and decency to the entertainment industry in answer to America's demand for positive, family-oriented television programming." The PTC claims they accomplish this goal "by fostering changes in TV programming to make the early hours of prime time family-friendly and suitable[...]

Credit: ABC Looks like America voted, ABC, and you have… a winner on your hands! The network announced on Friday that singing competition series American Idol would be returning for a second season, with Ryan Seacrest and judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie also set to return According to Deadline Hollywood, the announcement comes as a[...]

The newest season of American Idol starts tonight, March 11th, and judge Katy Perry can't wait On a recent trip to Disney World, Perry offered some insight on why she's excited for the upcoming revival, as well as how it reminded her of her own excitement when she first started out in her career. https://youtu.be/IFvlLLka__0Video can't[...]

When American Idol debuts on March 11th, it goes back to a schedule the show was used to during its early run at Fox, with Sunday and Monday airings April sees the premiere of an all-athlete themed season for the popular dance competition series Dancing with the Stars. Here's an overview of ABC's midseason premiere dates: Sunday,[...]

With American Idol's judging drama now behind them and national auditions well underway, the only thing left for ABC to do was announce a launch date for their revival of the long-running singing competition Returning host Ryan Seacrest was kind enough to take care of that for them, announcing this morning on both Live with[...]

With American Idol moving on to what it hopes will be greener pastures over at ABC this spring and NBC's The Voice still a ratings juggernaut, Fox was looking for a singing-competition series that would set it apart from those other shows: The Four Created by Armoza Formats for an early 2018 debut, the series[...]

Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! The Weekly Static! The Weekly Static! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Db7Ym2-lIkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Eddie Capra Mysteries – Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Db7Ym2-lIk) As I've mantra'd for the past six episodes, The Weekly Static is my righteously desperate-yet-endearing attempt at finding the lighter side and an interesting perspective on[...]

Though it's safe to assume that the network would've preferred to save the nail-biting, down-to-the-wire melodrama for the singing competition series' finale, American Idol has secured its panel of judges only days before the show was set to begin live auditions After weeks of on-again/off-again negotiations, legendary R&B musician Lionel Richie has finalized a deal[...]

One of the "charms" of the old American Idol was the way they would stretch out the big winner reveals, usually with host Ryan Seacrest throwing it to commercial just before the reveal Over the years, it even became a running joke among the contestants and judges. Here's hoping that the creative forces behind ABC's American[...]

Less than two seasons since cancelling their long-running franchise American Idol, Variety reports that Fox isn't waiting for the body to get cold and is getting back into the "singing competition" business with a new take on the format from Israeli producer and distributor Armoza Formats Although a deal for a final series order is[...]

American Idol singer/artist Chris Daughtry is doing a variant cover for Batman #50 and showed it off along with two color variants Daughty who is no stranger to working on comics stepped in on a cover that was originally supposed to be done by Jim Lee Daughtry drew the cover with Lee's guidance and then Lee's[...]

The series premiered after American Idol but only managed to retain half of its lead-in audience, coming in at a 1.2 rating The second episode dropped even further to a 1.0 rating With the third episode airing January 27th after the season finale of Master Chef Junior, the odds the raitings will pick up are slim…[...]