I didn’t watch the show except for two seconds after 10 p.m. to watch the confetti fall on Pee Pee. Even then I turned back to Law & Order: SVU.

If it was up to me, I’d ban all instruments. Sorry, this isn’t a tryout to get into Julliard, this is allegedly a singing competition. Unfortunately, it’s a masquerade for a popularity contest.

Adjusted up THREE tenths!

 8:00PM
FOX
American Idol (8-10 PM)
6.4
18
21.490

ABC
The Middle
2.0
7
6.520

CBS
The Big Bang Theory -R
1.6
5
5.630

NBC
Betty White’s Off Their Rockers
1.5
5
5.390

CW
America’s Next Top Model -R
0.3
1
0.740

This is the problem: People like being surprised. There is no surprise left in idol. No one wants to tune into a show thats predictable. Same kinda of winners, same themes, same boring judges (tho i do love steven tyler to death). 

Idol needs to bring the surprise factor back. They need to somehow “fix” the voting system. Im not sure if they have a monetary deal with at&t or whatnot but a voting limit needs to be introduced. Dial Idol has really taken a lot out of idol’s surprise factor (without DI i probably would broken my tv had i not braced myself for adam to lose…but lets not go there…)

I also think that it would be awesome, and drastically improve the show if the kids got to sing whatever songs they wanted to sing each week. Those are always the best shows. FUCK NEIL DIAMOND WEEK!!!!!!!!!!

I also want to see more emphasis on the judging of the singers actual voice. There seems to be so much more emphasis on everything else but the voice.

And lastly….idol needs to get its credibility back. And the best way to do that next season is to have a non WGWG winner. Id love to see them say “No Instruments” next season. I dont think PP, chris, or lee would have won w/out a guitar. Its too much of a comfort blanket.

ok im done….for now…

Last year, DWTS had their shows on Monday and Tuesday.  They were competing against each other this time.  Big mistake to change days for the performance show.  Some may have lost interest.  These ratings are a bunch of hooey  what with DVR, tapings, Xfinity One, Internet viewing, etc. No need to panic just make some necessary changes.

I actually liked the show with the exception of the most current performer. When she appeared, I left to make a sandwich.

In reply to Penny Burcke: Exactly!
 
You make a point that I wanted to make earlier in this thread when I said I was miffed about Elise Testone not getting any featured spot on the show.  Colton, Deandre, Erica, Shannon, etc all should have played bigger roles in the finale production.  We spent the last 4 months getting invested in these kids and one-by-one our favorites were picked-off.  Okay I get that, it’s how the show works.  But then finale comes and they are invisible, used as no more than stage props.  Disgusting.
 
The tradition of only the top 5 getting duets was probably born out of necessity in seasons when the talent pool was not this deep.
 
For my money, it would have made for a far more meaningful culmination of Season 11 if the T12 contestants could have all celebrated with PP and JS by being allowed to perform in a more meaningful way (group numbers, duets, etc.).  I believe it would have drawn in a larger audience.  As far as I am concerned, any time given to JLo and Areosmith is a waste of good air-time (sorry, can’t convince me that S.Tyler can still sing, I don’t care how many times he duets with Carrie Underwood).
 
 

Season 10 wasn’t higher than 9 fir the entire season and it didn’t even get back to season 8 levels. Viewership is in constant erosion.And funny how the tour this year is already shorter and in smaller venues than season 9 started out as. Perception is a funny thing.

Indeed.

It is funny how for S9, people always just use the contestants as the excuse. But funny enough, S9 had much more interesting contestants then this season. People have a short memory, but the judging and judging panel in S9 where dreadful. They were constantly over negative, and it was hugely boring having to listen to 4 judges go on and on, there was less performances and more judges ramblings. Only Crystal and Lee mostly got good comments, go back and see how badly some contestants like Shiobhan and Casey were bussed, these last two years were childsplay in comparison. I think the judges broke a lot of contestant’s confidence. They had very lame old rehashed theme weeks, and some weeks where people could just choose from 12 songs. They didn’t have nice staging. The whole season was just focused around Simon leaving and also other side plots like Ellen being useless and Kara being a cougar and who the next judge will be.
And after Lee won, it just created more of a negative backlash. Sony also left the show, Ricky Minor left the show. Everything was just at the end of its cycle. And directly after the show all the focus just went to the new judging panel.

Not going to lie with my season finales of others shows  Modern Family to name one) on, I much rather tuned into those than the finale. I flipped back and forth during commercial break but really only caught the proposal and the winner reveal and a few other things here and there, but honestly I haven’t watched a finale in its entirety since Carrie and Bo…

Id love to see them say “No Instruments” next season. I dont think PP, chris, or lee would have won w/out a guitar. Its too much of a comfort blanket.

I don’t it really makes a difference whether they actually play an instrument on the show.  What really sets these and other contestants apart is the ability to rearrange a song to suit them as an artist and have some originality.  They can still work with the band to come up with the arrangements they want if they have the ability.  Daughtry was able to do this even though he actually didn’t play an instrument on the show during the competition.  And Adam Lambert was able to do do this without even playing an instrument at all.