"This show is like a house that was built to start a neighborhood, but it needed to be remodeled," Harry Connick Jr. said. "They needed to redo the wiring, repaint it, put a new roof on, and while other houses are sprouting up, this is the best house on the block again. Everything needs renovation, but it feels fresh and new. From what we've seen, it will be the best year the show's ever had."
As we get ready for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) opening of Season 13 of American Idol, it’s a wonder that this moment has come to pass. After all, the show has been sinking fast in viewer ratings the past several seasons and Season 12 took on plenty of water.
No need to get into the entire season’s schedule now. Why? It might change and you aren’t going to put a copy on your fridge door anyway. Starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday (2-hour show with 200 commercials!) and throughout January we get five audition shows and then a “The Road [...]
There’s just something about Opening Day. In baseball it’s the smell of grass, the sound of a bat smacking against a wooden bat, the thought of a pennant flapping in the wind at the end of 162 games, the voice of Vin Scully. In politics it’s THE announcement that a [...]
For a kid who never was able to see his baseball field of dreams come true, Scotty MCreery is certainly getting to at least step on to those fields of dreams. Sunday it was Petco Park in San Diego. He had never been there before as hetrotted out mid-game to [...]
DEL MAR – On my Facebook page, where my likeness is supposed to be shining bright for all the world to see I have a picture of Adam Lambert. I took it in Oakland four summers ago when he was part of the American Idol Summer Tour. Now comes the [...]
So how does 12 minus 9 equal 31? Only on American Idol, that’s how. Idol had its lowest ratings in just about forever this past season – Season 12. So, when ticket sale dropped like a lead balloon for the annual Idol Summer Tour something had to give and it [...]
When June Gloom fades away hereabouts it just doesn’t get much better. Sit on a seawall, soak up the sun and the cool breezes off that blue ocean, watch the brown pelicans soar overhead and have a phone conversation with James Durbin. Do what? Yes, talk to James Durbin. The [...]
The American Idol executives didn’t wait long to replace their former top two executive producers of the show. Over the weekend they summarily dismissed Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick and on Monday morning th0ey announced that Per Blakens is the new executive producer of AI. For a little over five [...]
Remember this past American Idol season as each of the Top 10 finalists were eliminated the execs cued the song “Gone, Gone, Gone” and off the contestants went into oblivion. Well, now Idol’s top two executive producers – Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick – are just that, gone, gone, gone. [...]
So, who says Baby Boomers, 62-year olds can’t have an interest in American Idol? As we recover from the latest season and await the next one, Press Democrat Assistant Sport Editor and official Baby Boomer Bill Pinella will break down the show and look into “all things local” on the Idol front via this blog. Stay tuned.