TV Scape

Well it had to happen sooner or later. U2 left NY. Is Get On Your Boots losing that new car smell already? Incredible concert at Fordham University for the Good Morning American audience…more incredible that I got up to watch it. I’m on a different shift for some reason. Sure where is Charlie Jade when you need him, or course maybe SciFi moved it to an even more obscure and insignificant time slot…maybe it only plays on DST at the moment you change your clocks back…very SciFi-ish, don’t you think?

So I had a very brief hiatus and have a list of TV notes to share. But I’ll move right on to the big news…last night was American Idol night, the first night for the 13 contestants, yes a baker’s dozen this time. And tonight is American Idol night where they vote off two and announce some other changes in the way American Idol works. If I didn’t know any better I’d start to think that Bernie Ecclestone from F1 racing was reorganizing the show. I digress, we all know if American Idol ran like F1 it would be under a 2 hr time constraint and this would be the only post I’d have to write a week.

I don’t know about the rest of you but I pretty much haven’t found the time to sit through the total American Idol experience in a couple of seasons. You know the one where you start the season with auditions, move to the Hollywood auditions, and then we finally get to the final 12 (13) where we view American Idol for a good couple hours two nights in a row, not to mention all the other TV news on the topic that you can follow ad infinitum until we have a winner and sometime in the summer you can watch a collection of audition highlights, as if the real thing wasn’t painful enough the first time around.

Anyway, it’s been awhile since I caught the show and I was pleased to watch the first episode and make my pick for which contestant I think the next American Idol should be…I’ll phrase it that way since there is no guarantee the rest of the American public will see it the same way as I, in good sense. Adam Lambert folks. Man should be a lead singer in a rock and roll band already. What is happening to America I ask? His friends must be too busy playing Guitar Hero to form a band.

If you want some American Idol news and you’ve found I’ve only shown up to see who got voted off in a couple weeks because I just don’t have all that time to cover American Idol, then please visit American Idol at Today for all the unvarnished American Idol news. That is where I’ll catch up if I miss something important. However, I really like that Adam Lambert. I might have to tune in each week and check it out.