It was only one year ago that Fox was closing the door on “American Idol” with an epic farewell season, but even still, the folks over at NBC are considering bringing the show back. As first reported by Variety, the network is considering a pitch from Fremantle Media in order to revive the long-running singing […]
While “American Idol” was never much of an Emmy darling during the time in which the show was on the air, it managed to score a little bit of love while at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday. Not only that, but original series creator Simon Fuller jumped at the opportunity to discuss a potential return […]
Matt Carter American Idol, Match Game, Scandal
In this edition of our TV Quick Hits series, we are effectively talking about anything and everything that has to do with the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour over the past couple of days. We’ll start over with ABC before getting over to Fox. “Scandal” season 6 hype – Clearly, programming head Channing Dungey really […]
Today may feel a little weird to many TV fans out there, and understandably so. After all, this is the first time in well over a decade that we’re sitting around in April without a new episode of “American Idol” to talk about. The celebrated Fox series ended last week, and with that we’re going to […]
Matt Carter American Idol, The Catch
Going into last night’s series finale for “American Idol,” it was almost a given that we were going to see larger ratings as a result of it. However, there was still some element of mystery as to just how high some of these ratings would go. Well, we’re now pleased to have an answer: A […]
Yes, the “American Idol” finale was emotional, amazing, and one of the biggest celebrations of music in vocal history. However, we don’t want to lose sight of the fact that at some point in the night, there were also results to read, and one last winner to be crowned. Ultimately, it’s easy to say that […]
Going into Thursday night’s “American Idol” series finale, we were seriously hoping that we would get to see Simon Cowell again. However, the music mogul was extremely cagey as to whether or not he was actually going to be showing up in the episode, claiming that there was a major scheduling conflict that could get […]
Who knew that we’d have such a good time seeing Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman together again on TV? There were many reunions and drama expected during the “American Idol” series finale, but this one to us was especially fun. Fairly early on in the show the two men embraced, and Dunkleman joked to him […]
The series finale of “American Idol” is now a mere amount of hours away from happening, and that’s great for those of you feeling super-nostalgic about the end of things. Also, it’s great to really get a sense of everyone who will be attending … including David Archuleta. The season 7 runner-up was one of […]
We know that there will be a lot of time (understandably) spent tonight discussing the “American Idol” series finale through the lens of the returning alumni and the overall legacy of the series, so we do think the timing is right to spend at least a few minutes discussing the actual results that are going […]
