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Idol To Bring Back the Top 24? Mike Darnell and Ellen Degeneres say Yes

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Recent remarks made by Mike Darnell and Ellen Degeneres, hint strongly that the producers of American Idol will bring back the Top 24 format for Season 9 of American Idol. When Ken Warwick took over

Idol Headlines for 09/13/09

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Fans in a fever as hot talents make concert stop What do Denise Mathieu, 43, of Lewiston and Kaelainn Costello, 14, of Yarmouth have in common? An infatuation with Adam Lambert so powerful they would

American Idol Wins 3 Creative Arts Emmys

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The Creative Arts Emmy’s were handed out tonight and American Idol won 3 technical awards, despite last season’s reputation for glitchy technical problems (including a couple of time overruns) Amazing! Nevertheless, congratulations to the folks

American Idols Live – Portland, ME – 09/12/09

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Your thread for tonight’s American Idols Live! Tour in Portland, ME. Here’s the drill’you guys chat in comments, I’ll be posting links, videos and photos out front and in my brand-new live blog, posted after

Kris Allen Set to Perform in Portland ME Tonight!

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Kris Allen twittered earlier today: KrisAllen4Real Just to let everyone know (especially you in Portland ME) that I will be performing tonight and I plan to give you guys a great show. Kris had to

FanGirlIdol’s American Idol Tour 2009 Recap

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Warning: this recap is a little Adam-heavy in the beginning. So, I just turned 40 & have been a casual fan of AI since the beginning. Didn’t always agree with who America chose as their

RowZee824’s American Idol Tour 2009 Bridgeport CT Recap

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Background: I’m a 51-yr old working mom of 3 boys (23, 20 & 6’â€yes, that’s 6, not a typo and yes, he was a surprise). I enjoy all types of music except for

Simon Cowell on Ellen Degeneres. Oh Wait…

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Anybody else find it strange that while Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi have offered their enthusiastic thumbs up, Simon Cowell has yet to publicly welcome his new panel-mate Ellen Degeneres to the judges table? He

Idol Headlines for 09/12/09

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Billboard singles reviews: Underwood, Kingston NEW YORK (Billboard) – Country radio programmers have been eager for new Carrie Underwood music, and the singer doesn’t disappoint on this feisty admonition to avoid Mr. Wrong. The highly

Site Outage Tonight at 2AM ET

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UPDATE: The work was completed last night…faster than expected! If there are any problems tonight, the techs will be on hand to do some server optimization. But other than that, it looks like we are