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AMERICAN IDOL Season 12 Recap: Paul Jolly booted off the show, 8 left

By PETER BROWN 03/22/2013

Paul Jolly is eliminated on AMERICAN IDOL Season 12 | (c) 2013 Michael Becker/ FOX

Stars: Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Seacrest Network: Airs on Fox, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm Original Telecast: March 21, 2013 It is decision time once again on the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL. Who goes home and who is in trouble? Well, by now you know that Paul Jolly got the unceremonious boot from the show with Devin Velez and Amber Holcomb getting the second and third least amount of votes. I’ll spare you the filler on the results show such as a pretty terrible group performance, Casey Abrams (and beard) returning and […]Read On »

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AMERICAN IDOL Recap: Curtis Finch Jr. Kicked Off, 9 left

By PETER BROWN 03/15/2013

Curtis Finch Jr is eliminated on AMERICAN IDOL Season 12 | (c) 2013 Michael Becker/FOX

Stars: Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Seacrest Network: Airs on Fox, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm Original Telecast: March 14, 2013 It was decision time on the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL, as we get the first of the eliminations of the final contestants. Of course, by now you know that Curtis Finch Jr. was first to be kicked off with Devin Velez and Paul Jolly also in the bottom. Before we go there, however, there was a host of filler. I won’t bore you with the details of Phillip Phillips singing, or Bon […]Read On »

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TV Review: AMERICAN IDOL – Season 12 – “Top 10 Perform Live”

By PETER BROWN 03/14/2013

Amber Holcomb performs on AMERICAN IDOL | (c) 2013 Ray Mickshaw/Fox

Stars: Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Seacrest Network: Airs on Fox, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm Original Telecast: March 7, 2013 It was traffic that may have grabbed the headlines on the opening night of the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL, thanks to the tardiness of judge Nicki Minaj, but the real question is will the boys be able to keep up with what seems to be a very strong contingent of women singers this season. The opening competition of the Top 10 focused on songs that previous IDOL winners have done – whether […]Read On »

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TV Review: THE FOLLOWING – Season 1 – “Welcome Home”

By PETER BROWN 03/13/2013

Agent Weston (Shawn Ashmore) leaves for his hotel in THE FOLLOWING "Welcome Home" | (c) 2013 David Giesbrecht/FOX

Stars: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Natalie Zea, Shawn Ashmore, Annie Parisse, Billy Brown, Valorie Curry, Warren Kole Writers: Amanda Kate Shuman Director: Joshua Butler Network: Airs on Fox, Mondays @ 9 p.m. Original Telecast: March 11, 2013 This week’s episode of THE FOLLOWING was space filler while the pieces get set in place for whatever comes next on the show. Perhaps the biggest bit of information we received in “Welcome Home” was the reveal of Roderick (Warren Kole), a small town sheriff and right hand man to Joe Carroll (James Purefoy). While on the outside Roderick seems like a likeable […]Read On »

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WRECK-IT RALPH Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

By PETER BROWN 03/09/2013

WRECK IT RALPH | (c) 2013 Disney Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: WRECK-IT RALPH – Another winner from Disney and a pretty unique animated film about a bad guy in a video game called Fix-It Felix that yearns to be something more than the guy who just does damage to a bunch of 8-bit characters home and longs to […]Read On »

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TV Review: AMERICAN IDOL – SEASON 12 – “Finalists Announced”

By PETER BROWN 03/08/2013

Lazaro Arbos makes it into the Top 10 on AMERICAN IDOL | (c) 2013 Fox/Michael Becker

Stars: Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Seacrest Network: Airs on Fox, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm Original Telecast: March 7, 2013 It was decision time on the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL, as the Top 10 performers are chosen by America and the finals begin next week. In case you missed this week’s performances, I recapped the women and men. I loved the Seacrest opened the show trying to prove how “dynamic” this season was because they had more votes than they did last season at this point. Of course, this is out there […]Read On »

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TV Review: AMERICAN IDOL – Season 12 – “2nd 10 Semifinalists Perform”

By PETER BROWN 03/07/2013

Charlie Askew performs on AMERICAN IDOL | (c) 2013 Michael Becker/FOX

Stars: Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Seacrest Network: Airs on Fox, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm Original Telecast: March 6, 2013 After an up and down battle between the ladies in the first part of the Top 20 performing on the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL, the biggest question about tonight is will Keith Urban love every single performance and will Mariah Carey actually say anything worthwhile. It appears as if I might have been wrong about Nicki Minaj. If last night is any indication as to how things are going to be with […]Read On »

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TV Review: AMERICAN IDOL – Season 12 – “1st 10 Semifinalists Perform”

By PETER BROWN 03/05/2013

Breanna Steer performs on AMERICAN IDOL Season 12 | (c) 2013 Michael Becker/FOX

Stars: Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Seacrest Network: Airs on Fox, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm Original Telecast: Feb. 27, 2013 Finally, America gets involved on the world’ greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL, as we are down to the Top 10 chicks and Top 10 dudes that make up the finals. Does anyone care is a good question to ask given the bottoming out of the ratings but we’ll just put that on the back burner for the duration. First up is the ladies of the competition, the next night will be the dudes and […]Read On »

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