I have been hanging in there with \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d even though it has failed to grab me this season. \u00a0The announcers keep hyping, breathlessly, that \u201cthis is the best talent ever!\u201d but I have seen nothing to make me think so. \u00a0In fact, now that the show has winnowed the herd to the top 24, I was struck by how many I hadn\u2019t even seen before! \u00a0(I think I missed one audition show, so maybe they were all on that. But I also should have seen them on subsequent shows, hearing them try out on \u201cHollywood Week.\u201d \u00a0Or maybe I did see them, but they left absolutely no impression.) \u00a0If this is the case, that some of the top contestants were edited out of the auditions, presumably because the producers didn\u2019t think them interesting, that is a serious production fault. \u00a0(I wonder how far ahead these shows are taped. \u00a0You would think that if a contestant made it through another level of elimination, the producers could edit his or her performance into the previous week\u2019s episode.) \u00a0Of the ones I\u2019ve heard, the Aussie guy should be hard to beat.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been hanging in there with \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d even though it has failed to grab me this season. \u00a0The announcers keep hyping, breathlessly, that \u201cthis is the best talent ever!\u201d but I have seen nothing to make me think so. \u00a0In fact, now that the show has winnowed the herd to the top 24, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"yoast_head":"\n