American Idol Auditions End This Week? (Schedule Change!)

By On 02/01/2012 · 36 Comments · In American Idol, American Idol 11

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Heads up. American Idol auditions from Portland air tonight. Tomorrow it’s St. Louis and then…that’s it people! The auditions are done!  At least, according to the FOX Schedule, the Hollywood rounds begin on February 8. YAY.

Originally, there was an 8th audition episode airing on the 8th, with Hollywood beginning on the 9th.  But, it appears that 8th episode has been  scrapped.  Hooray for Hollywood, I say!

According to Idol Maniac of The Idol Pad, the hastily scheduled cattle call,  in Rutherford New Jersey–which was to be the 8th city–stopped at the producer’s round.  Not sure what happened to those hopefuls. Perhaps they were farmed out to other cities to sing in front of the judges.   What didn’t happen for sure, according to IM, the judges  did not see hopefuls on location in NJ/NY.

They might have been planning to air a “best of the rest” episode next  Wednesday, but then decided to skip ahead to the next phase.  It’s not like the audition episodes have had stellar ratings.

Not sure what the elimination of the audition episode means for the next few weeks leading up to the live shows, but I’m sure we’ll find out soon.

 
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  • Anonymous

    Woohoo!  Can’t wait for Hollywood week!

  • Anonymous

    Ooh does that mean we get a Hollywood Week Commercial/Preview tomorrow to hold us through the weekend?! That would be all kinds of awesomeness! The HW commercial after the last audition episode gets me fired up for sure. I always think…”Oh no! My favorite just bombed on day one!” (flash back to Ace Young dramatically stopping the music during his performance, Brook White killing it on the piano, and who can forget…”I DON’T DO GROUPS!” from the twins)…The preview commercial is always so dramatic, lol. 

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    **happy dance**

  • Kesia Monteith

    At least I was hoping we can move on to Hollywood week tomorrow. I guess we can’t have everything *shrugs*

  • Anonymous

    woohooo!!! yes please.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, these audition shows have been a massive FAIL. And we still havn’t seen over half of the Top 24! Bring on Hollywood, I say

  • Anonymous

    Oh and fire Ken Warwick. Thank you.

  • Anonymous

    Last year’s Hollywood round seemed almost perfect. They seriously should cut the annoying people out of the episode, though. I’d rather have a boring group round of fuzzy rainbows and unicorns and cake for everybody than to see bitching from people who seem to want to be pushed down an up escalator.

    The drama in group round is usually really irritating. The announcement of the Top 24 episode is interesting though.

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    The thing is TPTB think the overly dramatic, manipulated situations bring on great ratings.  It also gives them a chance to “control” who they would like to see in the TOP 12.

  • Allison

    good call

  • Anonymous

    Finally, the auditions are over.   I hate the auditions, I am a “cut to the chase” type of person.   I usually start watching when we get to the top 24/36.   I’ try to watch the auditions, but can’t sit through them.   Hollwyood week is ok, but the audtions are just tedious.

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