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Country singer Kevin Skinner wins America’s Got Talent 4 during highest-rated episode ever

For the fourth season in a row, viewers have voted for a singing act to win America’s Got Talent 4. Chicken farmer and country singer Kevin Skinner won $1 million and his own Las Vegas show. Here’s his final performance. Ugh. Who wants to go to Vegas to see karaoke? He beat opera singer Barbara …

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America’s Got Talent beats Hell’s Kitchen, which beat Big Brother, which is losing viewers

In their first Tuesday evening showdown, Gordon Ramsay and his crew of dumbass Hell’s Kitchen chefs easily won more viewers than Big Brother‘s crew of dumbasses. But America’s Got Talent drew more viewers than the other two shows combined. The three reality series faced off at 9 p.m., when 6.966 million people watched Hell’s Kitchen …

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Susan Boyle on America’s Got Talent moves Obama’s press conference, which Fox ignores for SYTYCD

Prime-time broadcast TV is going to be rearranged Wednesday night thanks in part to both Susan Boyle and Barack Obama. The president’s prime-time press conference will occupy the 8 p.m. ET hour on all networks except Fox, which will keep its scheduled two-hour So You Think You Can Dance, which is its 99th episode. Obama’s …

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America’s Got Talent is summer’s most-watched show again as scripted shows have more viewers than Wipeout, SYTYCD

The return of America’s Got Talent has given NBC summer’s top-rated series, a familiar place for the show and an unfamiliar place for NBC, which has been in the ratings toilet for some time now. Last week, the debut was the most-watched show, with Wipeout coming in 10th place and So You Think You Can …

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David Johnson sings to David Hasselhoff, “What must I do to proclaim my love to you?”

America’s Got Talent 4 debuted last night, and unlike the dreadfully boring and pretty incredibly awful The Superstars on ABC, offered lots of entertainment in its auditions, even if it does make me feel like an old person for complaining about how just obnoxiously loud it is (audience screaming/booing plus loud music plus judges plus …

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