May 25 2007
Fox Apologizes for Idol’s Overtime
Fox has apologized for Idol running over. It’s kind of weird, really, when you think about it, and TVGasm points out something I noticed also…
Fox has apologized for extending the American Idol finale by nine minutes, causing many DVR users to miss the announcement of the winner (though producers had no problem forcing viewers to sit through the show’s Golden Idol Awards presentations to some of the season’s weirder hopefuls, including modern minstrel Margaret Fowler. Incredibly, though the move was obviously some kind of ploy to pick up higher Nielsen numbers in the first minutes of the 10 o’clock hour, the network actually claimed it was out of their control, as if the tightly-plotted and heavily-padded two-hour show was some kind of sporting event.
They act like they had no control over it. How about next year, make the finale a 30 minute show, and devote the last 10 minutes to declaring the winner? That would be a good place to start if you ask me.
The finale was 2 hours of drivel followed by 10 minutes of declaring Jordin the winner. The show is about declaring Jordin the winner, and instead we had to sit through performances from Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, a poor-sounding singer that vaguely resembled Kelly Clarkson, and some big fat black guy named Ruben who I think won a few years ago and may have an album out. Then, we had to suffer through the Golden Idol awards where they get all kinds of rejects out for the purposes of humiliating them one last time.
Could they not have cut any of that out to bring the show in on time?
Could the not have cut Melinda Doolittle performing with BeBe and CeCe Wynans? I mean, what relevance did that have? She was voted off a week ago!
What about the Sgt. Pepper clusterfuck? 15 minutes of drivel. Couldn’t they have cut that?
The problem with the finale wasn’t that they couldn’t bring it in on time. The problem is they packed it with more shit than 90% of the Idol fans in this country care about.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Whine all you want. I watched nearly the whole 2 hours plus. I enjoyed it. But you must have realized that they would leave the announcing of the winner until the end. So you could have easily changed the channel.
Although, I do agree with you and TVGasm that they must have gone over on purpose. It’s kind of like an awards show, but they only have those three little segments of award speeches that couldn’t have extended the time that much.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
The Sgt. Pepper thing was really bizarre. And Bette Midler doing “Wind Beneath My Wings”? I’m pretty sure I’ve heard better renditions of that song sung by people who didn’t make it through to Hollywood.
Tony Bennett was pretty much the only spectacular performance of the night.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
The first thing on the chopping block should have been Bette Midler. I about vomited while she was singing. There were a few other numbers that could have been chopped off, too, including the self indulgent Golden Idols. That was pretty lame. But I did enjoy the Beatles medley, even if Reuben was in it.