Crystal Bowersox’s episode of Body of Proof airs at 10/9c ABC
Kelly Clarkson on the Today Show NBC 7-9 am
Get ready for a the first LIVE X Factor show tonight at 8 pm. Get yourself settled in, ’cause the episode is 2 1/2 hours long! The Top 17 will perform. Afterward, the judges will cut 5 contestants. The remaining Top 12 will advance to the voting rounds that begin next Wednesday.
James Durbin scheduled for the Q Jingle Jam December 10 at Hurrah’s in Tunica, MS
Adam Lambert tweets congratulations to Kelly Clarkson on her new album, “@kelly_clarkson the new album is awesome!! Such integrity! Fav songs: Honestly, Let Me Down and Alone. You sound amaaaazing! @kelly_clarkson oh and “don’t be a girl about it” great!”
Blake Shelton Records a Duet With Dia Frampton
The first season of ‘The Voice’ is long behind us, but Blake Shelton‘s work isn’t done. The ‘Honey Bee’ hitmaker has apparently been hard at work in the studio with last season’s runner-up, Dia Frampton, recording a duet that she spilled is called ‘I Will.’
Read more at Taste of Country
Is The X Factor missing just that?
Twitter comes alive weekly with heated debates on the merits and shortcomings of the show. There now seem to be two clear sides: Team Idol and Team X Factor. And no matter how fantastic the new voices are, battle lines have been drawn.
“I’m Team Idol, ” says MJ Santilli, editor of the popular mjsbigblog.com. She’s been covering reality competition shows for five years, and each new entry draws hundreds of enthusiastic viewers’ commentorscomments from all over the country.
Read more at Chron.com
Lauren Alaina Discusses Success of Freshmen Album ‘Wildflower’ [AUDIO]
Ryan Seacrest interview on his radio show.
Via RyanSeacrest.com
Kelly Clarkson on Her Dark Side, The Vanilla Factor, and 10 Years of Being Miss Independent
“I think a lot of singers get into this business for the wrong reasons, and people see through that, ” Kelly muses over the phone as she prepares to board a transatlantic flight to, ironically, an “X Factor U.K.” taping. “I think they want to be really famous, and it’s like, if you want to be in the music industry, that shouldn’t be your goal. Your goal should be to make music. I don’t want to be the most famous person in the world; I just want to make enough to pay my band, and to live, and then I’m good. I don’t have this desire to be this huge megastar. I just love singing, and that’s it. And I think a lot of other people get lost in the rest of it.”
Read more at Yahoo Music
Kelly Clarkson on Making Peace With Her Label, New Album: ‘It’s About Putting All That Crap in the Back’
“It’s so funny, anytime you give them a choice, my die-hard fans always pick something from My December, ” Clarkson says the following morning, still nursing a mild hangover. “But that song, it means a lot to me.”
As it should. It was that song from that album which pitted Clarkson against then RCA Music Group head Clive Davis and the entire major label system, a, er, sobering experience no doubt. At issue: the singer’s desire, perhaps even intrinsic need, to write her own material and not to feel like a pawn in the pop game. A ballsy move for any artist but especially so for an American Idol winner.
Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
Crystal Bowersox Makes Her Acting Debut on Body of Proof: “I Was Pretty Insecure”
For her acting debut on Body of Proof, Crystal Bowersox says fans will be surprised, but not necessarily because she’s playing a character with a rap sheet or acting opposite famous series star Dana Delany.
“I think the mug shot is the gnarliest of all, ” she tells TVGuide.com. “I took the mug shot myself in a hotel in New Jersey so I’m pretty proud of that.”
Fans will meet the rougher and tougher side of American Idol’s Season 9 runner-up when she guest-stars on Tuesday’s episode (airing at 10/9c on ABC) as Zoe Brant, a woman serving 4-7 years behind bars for assaulting her drug dealer. Zoe comes under some intense questioning by Megan Hunt (Delany) and Det. Bud Morris (John Carroll Lynch) because they suspect she may not be over her anger issues after the woman in charge of her therapy group is killed.
Read more at TV Guide
2011 American Idol Semi Finalist Kendra Chantelle to Release Debut Album
After finishing as one of the top female contestants for American Idol 2011, singing sensation Kendra Chantelle is about to put her original music out to the rest of the country. Having recently spent time in the studio with producers Elvis “Blacelvis” Williams (Beyonce, Ludacris, Ciara, Kelly Rowland, Fergie, Jamie Foxx) and Grammy Award winning producer Harold Lilly (Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia) at Upstairs Studios in Atlanta, GA, Kendra will be releasing her debut album “Unthinkable” November 7, 2011.
“This recording process has been so comfortable and almost effortless, ” states Kendra about the recording process. “Elvis, Harold and I all just do what comes naturally to us and it works so well together…to me, that’s a sign that it’s the right combo. I’ve heard if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life and I finally understand that. We have spent long days and late nights in the studio but it has yet to feel like ‘work.'”
Read more at PR Newswire
Simone Battle (of X Factor) – “He Likes Boys”
Pre-X Factor video from Simone
The X Factor DYK of the Day: Simon Cowell’s Girls
Welcome to our new feature we like to call “The X Factor DYK of the Day.” As each of The X Factor’s Top 17 contestants prepare to take to the stage LIVE to sing for their lives and the opportunity to move on to the next round of performances, we thought it would be nice to catch up with each of the ladies in Simon’s category aka “The Girls” (Drew, Melanie, Rachel, Simone, and Tiah) and share a few little facts that we think are interesting – check it out
See the videos at FOX All Access
From ‘Boss’ to ‘Glee, ‘ Do Any of This Season’s TV Shows Get Politics Right?
A number of old series have delved into campaigning this fall, as has Kelsey Grammer’s new drama. Only occasionally do they rise above broad parody, though.
Perhaps to brace us for what promises to be an exceptionally brutal 2012 presidential election, scripted television has taken on politics in a major way this fall. Campaigns are everywhere on TV, from established sitcoms (Glee, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation) to newcomer prestige dramas (Boss).
Read more at the Atlantic
‘Glee’ Star Darren Criss Surprise Serenades Oscar-Winning Composer Alan Menken at Conference
Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, who wrote the music for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and many more, once handed a hundred dollar tip to a college kid doing an acoustic medley of his songs at a coffee shop.
These days that “kid” is better known as Darren Criss from Glee, and at the Billboard / Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference on Monday, he made a surprise appearance before participants — with his acoustic guitar in hand — and serenaded Menken once again.
Read more at the Hollywood Reporter
Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Comments: ‘I Didn’t Mean it in a Selfish Way’
After Monday’s Dancing With the Stars, two Maksim Chmerkovskiys appeared backstage.
Having publicly called out the judges for what he deemed was unfair criticism, one Maks seemed to regret possibly offending his fellow pros. The other Maks was clearly reveling in the raucous his comments caused.
“I pride myself on the fact that I’ve never changed, ” he says. “I think I got smarter… but the integrity is still there. I’m very clear in what I stand for.”
Read more at the Hollywood Reporter
Chris Colfer is gifted, says Janney
Chris Colfer is “a gifted man” according to Allison Janney, who stars in his debut film.
The 21-year-old actor, who plays Kurt Hummel in Glee, has written a film called Struck By Lightening, in which he also stars.
Speaking at the Hollywood Film Awards in Los Angeles, The Help actress Allison said: “He’s such a gifted man, Chris Colfer, and he wrote this beautiful film called Struck By Lightning.
“I play his mother, not a very happy mum, not a very glamorous role for me. I’m not going to lie to you, I don’t look anything like I look tonight. But what a very, very fulfilling movie to get to do with him.”
Read more at The Press Association
