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Chikezie, We Hardly Knew Ye!
By Jeremy BlacklowManaging Editor
Ahhh, another spring week,
another booted "Idol!"
Laura's on vacation this week, so
I'm pinch-hitting in her absence.
This week we lost Chikezie – the
man who dropped his last name WAY too soon before he became famous. C'mon
Chikezie, even Fantasia waited until she WON "American Idol."
I'll miss his personality and his
name, but his singing… not so much.
Last night's "Idol" was
more of the same – I was surprised to see Syesha in the Bottom 3, but I was
happy that Carly escaped the same fate. Jason Castro is starting to bury all
goodwill that he built up with "Hallelujah" three weeks ago.
Oh, and David Cook is kinda officially the "Idol" front-runner now. He's definitely gained serious momentum. In fact, our friends at TV Guide have him with 50 percent of the winning vote, compared now with David Archuleta's 2nd place 16 percent. I seriously never saw this coming in the first couple of weeks. At the start of the competition phase, this would have been the reverse.
Country week with Dolly next week
should certainly be interesting though.
Expect Kristy Lee Cook to coast
through at least another week, and watch Ramiele or Syesha bite the dust.
Comedy
Central has given the green light to two new interesting-enough-looking shows: "David Alan Grier's Chocolate News," and
"Reality Bites." The former is an urban take on pop culture news
topics and sounds like it could be another home run by a former "In Living
Color" alumnus. The latter is a spoof on the reality genre that could
probably go either way. More info in today's Hollywood Reporter.
By the way, there is NOTHING
compelling on network television tonight, for the first Thursday in quite
awhile. Well, the exception being NCAA basketball on CBS, but that's sports.
Seriously…. Nothing.
Sorry ABC, "Miss Guided"
doesn't cut it for me… sorry. I am on "Lost" withdrawals, and I'm
actually even thinking about buying the "Lost" video game.
Tonight it's "South
Park" and "Randy Jackson Presents: America's Best Dance Crew"
for me!
Go
Jabbawockeez!
WELLL I DONT WANT TO SEE
THE sushi girl OR country girl ANYMORE
ON IDOL (THEY WERE MUCH MUCH WORSE
THAN dAVID h AND chakizzee
Love the sushi girl! She just doesn't know how to pick a song.