TV Review: American Idol (week 4), ITV2, Friday 3 April, 9pm
I missed out on reviewing last week’s AI with being on holiday, but I did catch it, I did mentally divide the group into “good,” “bad” and “indifferent,” and I did get two of the bottom three correct....
View ArticleTV Review: American Idol (week 5), ITV2, Friday 10 April, 9pm
Eight contestants remaining and the theme for the week: “songs from the year of my birth.” Another huge choice for each singer, even though several of them were apparently born in 1985, yet still the...
View ArticleTV Review: American Idol (week 6), ITV2, Friday 17 April, 9pm
With only a couple of weeks left when they could use the “Judges’ Save” this week was the (surprise!) week they elected to use it, in a last-minute scramble that saw Simon Cowell declare “we’ve made a...
View ArticleTV Review: American Idol (week 7), ITV2, Friday 24 April, 9pm
Tough week on Idol this week – not only was it “disco week” but the final seven had the threat of TWO dismissals hanging over them, following last week’s save of Matt Giraud. Would the judges’ faith...
View ArticleTV Review: American Idol (week 8), ITV2, Friday 1 May, 9pm
With so much cracking snooker to watch I’m a little late reviewing this as I’ve had to squeeze it in between sessions, so apologies for that. Five singers left and this week’s theme was “standards...
View ArticleSet The Video: American Idol, ITV2, Thursday 7 May, 8pm
Mixing it up tonight – with four contestants left – to decide who makes the semi-finals the idol hopefuls will sing twice. Once on their own and once in duet. And after a freak accident on stage...
View ArticleTV Review: American Idol (week 9), ITV2, Friday 8 May, 9pm
Rock week, and after some seriously rocky performances (haha!) on an – apparently – rocky stage, and after being coached by the inimitable rock legend Slash, reality bites. While all four of the...
View ArticleTV Review: American Idol (week 10), ITV2, Friday 15 May, 9pm
Three guys remaining and they would each have only two chances to impress the American public before finding out if they’d made it to the finale or, as Ryan Seacrest has it, the “fuhnnallie.” In these...
View ArticleTV Review: American Idol (Series 8 finale), ITV2, Thursday 21 May, 8pm
You might think last night’s was the biggest event in the American Idol calendar, but at “only” an hour long, actually it was only about the singing. For Fox and the AI team, the much bigger event is...
View ArticleRIP James Gandolfini. The giant actor who played Tony Soprano dies of heart...
Simon Poulter of WWDB pays tribute to James Gandolfini, a great actor best known for his role as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. Talk to any actor famous for a particular part and they will, more than...
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