Tonight, Dancing with The Stars crowns a new winner! Join Franky for his last live blog of the season at 9/8c pm ABC. On The Voice, two more singers head home at 9/8c pm. I’ll be liveblogging! The competition continues on The Biggest Loser at 8/7c pm NBC.
Kelly Clarkson appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at 11:35/10:35c PM. Kellie Pickler performs on The View at 11 am ABC
According to a tweet from Carson Daly, Kelly Clarkson will perform on The Voice next week.
Lauren Alaina releasing Christmas single, singing on NBC special Dec. 4 – Christmas will come early for Lauren Alaina fans when she releases her version of the holiday classic “Grown Up Christmas List” on iTunes on Dec. 10. The digital track, produced by Nathan Chapman, is released in conjunction with the 26th anniversary of Special Olympics’ “A Very Special Christmas” holiday music series. Alaina is set to perform “Grown Up Christmas List” and “Jingle Bells” during NBC’s “Christmas In Rockefeller Center,” which will air Dec. 4. The Rossville singer will also perform “Grown Up Christmas List” as part of the first holiday edition of CMT’s “Live @ CMT” series. – Read more at Times Free Press
On Oprah’s Next Chapter, Babyface Explains Why Young Artists Can’t Survive Our ‘American Idol’ Culture – “They’re on a crash course,” Babyface says about reality show contestants. “And so there’s no way in that crash course, with most people, that they’re going to survive it.” Shows like “American Idol” throw singers immediately in front of the world, he explains. “And our pop culture today is so wishy washy. I’m into you. Now I’m not. You get beat up a lot quicker and a lot harder, and everybody’s not strong enough to go through that,” Babyface says. “‘American Idol’ kids on those kind of shows, they don’t get the chance to really work their craft,” he says. “Most of them haven’t been tested and will never really get that shot. There are those that kind of get through it, but most of them won’t. And there are kids that really have good voices, and some that might have a shot.””Oprah’s Next Chapter” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on OWN. – Via Huffington Post
Adam Lambert New Look
Adam Lambert is in the middle of shooting the “Frenemies” Glee episode airing in February, and in the midst of it all he gets a haircut! “Hair Kut. Cinnamon Spice,” he instagrammed. In fact, he tweeted last night that he’s due on set today.
Chris Daughtry Talks About His Band’s New Album Baptized, And His Songwriting – Chris Daughtry’s traditional approach to songwriting is doing the music first and then putting lyrics to it—but when he started writing “Baptized,” the opening title track to his newly released fourth album, with new collaborator Claude Kelly, he says the words, “Take me down by the water” poured out immediately and the concept of the song took shape very quickly. – Read more at Songwriter Universe
Watch Daughtry Rock Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’: Candid Covers Video Series – Daughtry began 2013 on a mission to create a new batch of music and just last week that work came to fruition with the release of the band’s new album, “Baptized.” As frontman Chris Daughtry and the band prepared for its release, he visited the Billboard studios to apply his rich, emotional voice to a famous song by another musical Chris — Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.” It’s a track that Daughtry says has always meant a lot to him. – Watch the videos at Billboard. – Chris also performs “Waiting for Superman” and “Life After You”
Favorite things get a twist in new U.S. TV version of ‘Sound of Music’ – (Reuters) – Producers of a new version of the Oscar-winning musical “The Sound of Music,” set for U.S. television next week, knew it would be a sacrilege to try and re-make the beloved 1965 movie classic starring Julie Andrews. And American country singer Carrie Underwood, who will star as the aspiring nun who brings song into the home of a strict Austrian widower, says she cringes when she hears the word “re-make.” So when the lights go up on the live, televised version of “The Sound of Music” on NBC on December 5, audiences will see a few twists to some of their favorite things, and a lonely goatherd or two in an unusual place. That’s because producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have gone back to the stage show first seen in 1959 for their unique version that will be seen in a format, live television, not used for about 50 years. – Read more at Reuters
Hills Coming Alive With ‘The Sound of Music Live!’ – Consider: Moyer with castmates Laura Benanti (as Baroness Elsa Schrader) and Christian Borle (as Max Detweiler) are rehearsing a couple of weeks later a saucy song titled “How Can Love Survive?” This song will be brand-new to most viewers of the telecast — it was dropped from the movie. It is for this soaring finish that Audra McDonald reprises “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” the breathtaking anthem that Mother Abbess introduces as she sends Maria into the world and into the von Trapp household. “In that scene, Mother Abbess is giving Maria tough love, kicking her out of the abbey,” says McDonald. “But Carrie is so moving and so sweet, my challenge is to not cry when I sing it.” “Carrie is one of the bravest artists we’ve ever worked with,” says Meron, who notes that she arrived two weeks before the production’s six-week rehearsal began with her lines fully memorized, to get a head start. – Read more at ABC News
Dancing With The Stars Final Four Talk Competing For The Mirrorball – ‘Dancing With the Stars’ host Tom Bergeron talks season 17 – Ahead of Dancing With the Stars‘ two-night finale (Monday at 8 p.m. ET, Tuesday at 9 on ABC), host and eternal gem of the ballroom Tom Bergeron spoke to EW about the different feel of season 17, missing Len, welcoming back Maks, and the merits of the Glitter Pit vs. the Celebriquarium (may it rest in peace). You know, important stuff. Keep reading! – Read more at Entertainment Weekly
Will.i.am, Kylie Minogue Join ‘The Voice Australia’ – SYDNEY — The Voice Australia is changing things up for its third season as the show’s original coaches, Seal and Delta Goodrem, won’t be returning in 2014, announced the Nine Network Nine Network on Tuesday. Instead The Voice UK coaches, Will.i.am and Kylie Minogue, are coming down under to take their seats alongside returning judges Joel Madden and Ricky Martin. The announcement leaves Madden as the only original coach on the show, with Martin this year successfully replacing Keith Urban. – Read more at Hollywood Reporter
Amber Riley and Derek Hough After last Night’s DWTS
Says Chris Colfer tweets the most support. (He came up with really imaginative ideas to spread the word.)
