ABC picked up American Idol for a 16th season this week and they are having a problem finding people from the Fox version to join their show.
The Voice announced in the last 2 days that they hired Oscar winner and American Idol season 3 contestant Jennifer Hudson and the original American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson as coaches for their upcoming seasons. That means those are two alumni that they cannot hire for Idol.
What about their most famous and loved judge Simon Cowell? He told Extra they asked him, but he told them “no”. They he explained why, “I have no interest. My memories are when we first started. It was a different time with Randy [Jackson], Ryan [Seacrest] and Paula [Abdul]. You can’t recreate that.” He also revealed to Terri Seymour that he left the show for a reason and has not regrets for doing so.
What about host Ryan Seacrest? He told Extra, “I would love to do it, but I got this job right now.” Of course that job is Live with Kelly and Ryan. My theory is he wants his old salary and ABC doesn’t want to pay him twice. Therefore, money not time is ABC’s biggest problem with him signing on for the reboot.
Who can Idol get? I am sure they can Randy Jackson, because what else is that dog doing? When it comes to the other possible Judges, I am sure they can get William Hung and Sanjaya Malakar, That is if they can find them.
Granted after having said all of this, I think that American Idol should start completely over. New faces would be a good thing.
https://youtu.be/LF33vrB7Psc?t=19m44s
Before Dule Hill was wowing us with his tap dance moves on Psych, he was the Tap Dance Kid. How talented was the 10 year on Jerry Lewis’ 1985 MDA Telethon?
Here he is talking about landing the role that changed his life forever on The Wendy Williams Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu2FpSlV94s
A year ago, when the networks announced their 2016-2017 schedules, time travel was a big theme. NBC had Timeless, The CW had Frequency, ABC had Time After Time and Fox had Making History. Now, a year later all four have them are no longer traveling through any more time time. That is because all of four were cancelled. Making the TV Execs wish they had a time machine, so they could come up with a more winning theme.
Ever since I was a kid and I saw the movie Time After Time, I fell in love with the concept of time traveling. Therefore, I looked forward to and watched all the shows.
Timeless was up first and it started out good. Then they focused more on the conspiracy theory then traveling through time. Causing me to lose interest in the show which had an occasional good episode.
Next up was Frequency and I loved the pilot. But, I stopped watching after 3 episodes and I honestly can’t remember why.
Time After Time was the one I looked most forward to because the movie was a huge part of my childhood. I am still obsessed with Jack the Ripper because of it. Anyways, I liked the show and where they were going with it, but ABC pulled it after just a few episodes. Which I think was a huge mistake even though the numbers weren’t there unfortunately.
Finally, there was Making History and Leighton Meester is absolutely brilliant on this show. She needs to work nonstop after this. But back to the show. I think they got lost somewhere in the writing because it is very scattered. Because of that it is one of TV’s lowest rated shows with barely over a million tuning in each week.
Having said all of that, I don’t foresee any time travel shows being announced next week at he upfronts. I do expect a lot of This Is Us knock offs and most of them failing.
Talking about failing, Making History wasn’t the only show cancelled at Fox today. Son of Zorn and APB also bit the dust. While Fox was giving us bad news, NBC picked up Blindspot and Blacklist for another season.
Stay tuned for more because we are still missing the fates for a lot of the ABC, CBS and Fox comedies. Which will be no laughing matter for me.
UPDATE: ABC and NBC picked up and cancelled a lot of shows.
ABC picked up the beloved comedy The Goldbergs for not one, but two more seasons! While American Housewife, Designated Survivor, Once Upon a Time and Agents of a Shield will back for another season. When it comes to who won’t be back, that list is longer. Going going gone are American Crime, Secrets & Lies, Imaginary Mary, The Real O’Neals, The Catch and Dr Ken.
Those are their scripted show, they also picked up Shark Tank, The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars. The latter got not one but two cycles which means that American Idol and Dancing with Stars will both air in the Spring. I think that will be a huge mistake. Too much for a reality for a network that has the least of it of the big 4.
Now what about NBC, Powerless lost its power and Great News got some great news. Oh and The Voice continues to mess with Idol because they announced that Kelly Clarkson joins the show as a coach in the Spring. Yesterday, they announced that Jennifer Hudson is joining the show in the Fall.
Betty White might be 95 years old, but she can still play a mean game of poker. Yesterday on The Late Late Show, she told James Corden that for years she has had regular poker game with some friends. Then the CBS asked Hollywood’s favorite actress to show off her best po-poker face and it is better than you can hope. It is a stare where you do not want to mess with that person and it is something you would never expect from the sweetie that everyone loves.
Do they play for money? Nope, she says they play for blood. Which is why that face totally works. Also we need to be happy that they don’t play Strip Poker. I love the Golden Girl, but that is an image I don’t need my head! Although if they were, good for them!
At the start of the season Steve Harvey reportedly wrote a letter to his talk show staff and you will never look at him the same way. The email was obtained and shared by Robert Feder and you know his staff couldn’t wait to share his below demands as soon as he was out of there and they were out of a job.
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back.
I’d like you all to review and adhere to the following notes and rules for Season 5 of my talk show.
There will be no meetings in my dressing room. No stopping by or popping in. NO ONE.
Do not come to my dressing room unless invited.
Do not open my dressing room door. IF YOU OPEN MY DOOR, EXPECT TO BE REMOVED.
My security team will stop everyone from standing at my door who have the intent to see or speak to me.
I want all the ambushing to stop now. That includes TV staff.
You must schedule an appointment.
I have been taken advantage of by my lenient policy in the past. This ends now. NO MORE.
Do not approach me while I’m in the makeup chair unless I ask to speak with you directly. Either knock or use the doorbell.
I am seeking more free time for me throughout the day.
Do not wait in any hallway to speak to me. I hate being ambushed. Please make an appointment.
I promise you I will not entertain you in the hallway, and do not attempt to walk with me.
If you’re reading this, yes, I mean you.
Everyone, do not take offense to the new way of doing business. It is for the good of my personal life and enjoyment.
Thank you all,
Steve Harvey
I get that Harvey works a lot, he has his radio show, Family Feud, the talk show, Little Big Shots, Celebrity Family Feud, screwing up the Miss Universe winner and Showtime at the Apollo, but his staff spends a lot of their time making sure he looks good on TV. Working on a talk show sucks big balls. Thus, for him to be so rude his staff is totally messed up.
If he cannot handle them trying to get a minute with him when they can, then he should quit the job. Which he technically did because he is moving his show from Chicago to Los Angeles next season. Do you think he offered to take his staff like Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon did when they switched shows and/or locations? According to Feder, he didn’t.
After hearing that and reading that letter, I am done with him. I am sick of them having a nice guy on camera persona only to find out they are d!cks in real life.
Now, the letter could be a forgery, but as of now he is yet to deny it. Until then, I will be boycotting his shows.
What do you think of his letter?
UPDATE: Steve Harvey confirms he wrote the letter and explained to Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Farzier why he wrote it. He said, “I just didn’t want to be in this prison anymore where I had to be in this little room, scared to go out and take a breath of fresh air without somebody approaching me, so I wrote the letter.” Then he added. “I don’t apologize about the letter, but it’s kind of crazy what people who took this thing and ran, man. I appreciate you asking me.”
What he doesn’t understand is they have a job to do and they needed to get a hold of him when they could. If they acted on their own without his approval, then imagine the emails those workers would have gotten. Something like the one his friend, 45, writes to the FBI Director.
