Despite lower-than-expected ratings, Fox’s music competition series were the top two money-making series on television last year. In 2011, American Idol made $6.64 million per half hour, while X Factor made $5.55 million per half hour, according to a Forbes report that used estimates from Kantar Media. The only other reality show in the top …
Twilight star Nikki Reed and American Idol 10 finalist Paul McDonald married a few months ago, having met at the premiere of Red Riding Hood, a moment broadcast on the show. But the romantic narrative of meeting as part of one of the Fox show’s egregious and time-wasting product-placement segments is being challenged by Twilight …
American Idol 10 winner Scotty McCreery has done something no country singer has ever done and no winner of the show has done since season two: topping the Billboard 200 chart with his debut album in its first week of release. He also sold more copies than the combined first-week sales totals of both Lee …
American Idol 10 semi-finalist Tim Halperin will lock himself in a fake jail cell for the final 28 hours of the restriction placed on him by the show’s contract that prevented him from releasing music. A press release hilariously declares that Tim “has been sentenced to prison — American Idol prison” because “of the contract …
American Idol 10 has finally ended, and the reaction to the season seems to be a resounding “eh.” However, more people watched this season than last. How is that possible? And how did we go from a strong but familiar start to such a mediocre finale? The answer is simple: American Idol decided it was …
A minor controversy arose today when Nigel Lythgoe slammed American Idol 9 winner Lee DeWyze for not presenting the trophy to Scotty McCreery on last night’s finale, but Lee has responded by calling out Nigel on his lousy producing of the show’s final moments, saying that Nigel only decided at the last second to ask …
The best moment of the American Idol 10 finale came at the end, when newly crowned winner Scotty McCreery basically stopped singing to hug his family members; dissed Jack Black, who wanted a hug; and then finished his song in a shower of confetti by collapsing dramatically on the stage and, when he stood up, …