SIMON & PAULA: TOGETHER AGAIN
May 9, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Simon Cowell will have two familiar figures sitting next to him when the U.S. version of his The X Factor debuts in the fall — Cheryl Cole, who sat at the judge’s table with him on the British version of the show, and Paul Abdul, who sat at the judge’s table with him on American […]
CBS REGAINS FIRST PLACE
February 16, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
It was a week that saw CBS’s Grammy Awards telecast draw its biggest audience in eleven years but the finale of CBS’s Live to Dance with Paula Abdul flatline with just 4.6 million. Four shows attracted more than 20 million viewers, the Grammy Awards with 26.7 million; Wednesday’s American Idol on Fox with 24.1 million; […]
LIVE TO DANCE DIES
February 10, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Relatively few viewers showed any interest in finding out who would turn out to be the winners in the finale of CBS’s dance competition Live to Dance Wednesday night. Just 4.5 million tuned in to see the final season installment of Paula Abdul’s first series since leaving American Idol, whereas 10.5 million watched the first […]
IDOL UNTARNISHED BY LOSS OF COWELL
February 3, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Ratings for Fox’s American Idol continued to hold up well in its third week Wednesday night. They were virtually flat against last week and also against the third week of last season, when the first show of the week aired on Tuesdays. All of which seemed to confirm that the loss of Simon Cowell and […]