This week, Idol makes one of its cruelest cuts of the season. Perhaps it’s second-cruelest, after the cut to get down to the 10 singers who make the American Idol summer tour. The singers who survive this week get one of those coveted trips home over the weekend. There will be parades, visits to old…
For a while earlier this year, it looked like The Voice might challenge American Idol for singing show supremacy. Then interest faded and the ratings trailed off. And The Voice has no one but itself to blame. The show took a major step backward in Season 2, continuing and expanding a flawed format designed to…
Update: Wow. Jermaine Paul? Really? I’m not even sure what to write. I mean, if I were ordering the contestants in order of worthiness, I would have had him fourth. Instead, he wins Season 2 of The Voice, followed by Juliet Simms, Tony Lucca and Chris Mann, in that order. Congrats to Jermaine. He overcame…
