Comments on: FOX Adds More Hours of Idol — Lots More

By: melirose89

melirose89 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:44:09 +0000

God, the judges are just gonna keep talking for an extra 5 minutes and STILL go over. They’re not gonna give the contestants more time to sing, thats crazy talk. they probably couldnt get ellen from controlling herself by rambling on about nothing and telling jokes in the middle of critiques. its gonna be horrible. anyone would have to be crazy to think this is gonna be a contestant year. its gonna be ALL about the judges. the contestants this year must not be that good or exciting or anything either way it would’ve still be a judges year since paula left, simon is leaving and ellen has come in.

By: cookbunny

cookbunny — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:41:51 +0000

Ugh…is it time for me to join the modern world and get a DVR? Fine…any inexpensive recommendations not involving a TiVo subscription? (and MJ, I argue this is on-topic because DVRs are very important when juggling Idol viewing schedules!)

By: J9BT

J9BT — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:24:22 +0000

Well, it was nice knowing you Idol.

Sorry, but there’s a chance Idol will be back next year…I’m not missing Lost’s last hurrah!

LOL – I won’t be either, but will be using the DVR to watch both! No voting on LOST, so that can wait a day!

By: cookbunny

cookbunny — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:40:06 +0000

Well, it was nice knowing you Idol.

Sorry, but there’s a chance Idol will be back next year…I’m not missing Lost’s last hurrah!

By: bananafish

bananafish — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:43:21 +0000

I like the change to 2 hours, I just hope they give some of the extra time to the contestants so they don’t have to try to whittle classic songs down to 90 seconds. Also if timing is such an issue, they could edit down (or out) the introduction videos before each contestant sings. Sometime it seems the video gets more time than the performance.

By: itsalleternal

itsalleternal — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:55:41 +0000

I do agree that the judges need to shut up, since the show should be about the IDOLS and not them.

By: koshka

koshka — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:13:24 +0000

Unless they are going to allow the idols to sing for a longer time.. I’ll probably be tuning in elsewhere…. just like I’m doing for these crappy auditions.

By: sunny2

sunny2 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:24:10 +0000

MJ i like stfu solution, but at least they won’t be rushing at the end which was so unfair to the contestants.

Looking at the schedule there’s good news and bad news.
The good is there is only one more audition episode.
The bad is Posh is a judge again. Ug!!

By: tinawina

tinawina — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:20:35 +0000

Eh. No way am I sitting through 2 hours for that long… DVR to the rescue!

By: ibhde10

ibhde10 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:18:23 +0000

I’m fine with long shows- I DVR and don’t start watching until it is 30 minutes in so I skip commercials- a two hour show takes an hour and fifteen minutes to watch. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t rather see longer singing segments and abbreviated comments, but AI is what it is.

And Lost is recording on another set so I’m good there, too.

By: druzilla

druzilla — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:33:29 +0000

Too much Idol. The judges should just control themselves and Ryan should cut the worthless rambling.

By: Mateja

Mateja — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:14:04 +0000

Well, it was pretty obvious that they would have to extend the performance shows. So I’m not surprised. And two hours is not a lot, especially because commercials take 1/3 of the episode.

By: lucy

lucy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:01:14 +0000

I’m fine with two hours just wish they would substitute NPH for Kara or Randy.

How about substituting him for Kara *and* Randy? …. And I could also buy substituting Katy Perry for Simon. lol.

By: JudyL

JudyL — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:55:09 +0000

Not so sure. This is a lot of time to devote to watching Idol. If this is designed to give the judges more air time, definitely not. To me, four judges was a bad idea and keeping Kara was a worse idea. Randy is useless as always. It’s up to Simon and Ellen and if Ellen doesn’t bring it, the show is in trouble. Some of the guest judges were surprising good and made me think they probably could have found a better fit than Ellen.

By: jersey

jersey — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:42:52 +0000

Lost has moved to Tuesdays at 9 this year. Beginning next week. There is a summary episode at 8 and then the 2 hour premier at 9. It will be interesting to see if American Idol has a drop off in ratings during the second hour.