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15 March 2012 11:14 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

Wednesday’s installment of American Idol was supposed to focus on Songs From the Year the Contestants Were Born, but in some cases, it felt more like Opposites Day: Steven Tyler woke up from a very long nap and started doling out crotchety critiques. Jennifer Lopez tried to give songwriting lessons (¡ay dios mio!) to Bonnie Raitt. And more than half of this week’s contestants picked songs that were not intially released in the years of their birth. Why the face?

In other news, Ryan Seacrest tried to make a pun about dreadlocks, while failing to recognize that’s »

- Michael Slezak

14 March 2012 7:31 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

I sure hope everyone enjoyed “Oldies That Happened to Be Covered in the Year the Season 11 Finalists Were Born” Night on American Idol! Yes indeed, more than half of this week’s selected songs made their way into the world long before the finalists who covered ‘em.

But who’s counting? Not Uncle Nigel! Then again, in our executive producer’s defense, he was tied up with the process of disqualifying Jermaine Jones from the competition for not disclosing that there were (allegedly) four active warrants out for his arrest. Ryan Seacrest waited more than halfway through the evening to »

- Michael Slezak

14 March 2012 5:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

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A ticket price of £42 to see an untested 2010 X Factor runner-up? Amazingly, that's what is being charged for a seat in the stalls at Rebecca Ferguson's first major London show. Unjustified as it seems – by contrast, it's just £26 to see 2010 winner Matt Cardle, who is also touring now – it suggests the Liverpool-born singer is being marketed as a luxury product. Clearly, Simon Cowell's Syco label would like her to be filed alongside, say, Sade rather than cheap and cheerful Little Mix – to emphasise her classicism, the gig even begins with the sound of a needle crackling on a vinyl record.

Ferguson's main attributes are her sweet disposition and an elegant, vintage-soul voice; mixed together, though, they produce an austere one-hour set that shows her to be still finding her way as a live performer. She has quite a bit going for her: despite »

- Caroline Sullivan

26 January 2012 10:58 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »

HollywoodNews.com:Nominations were announced today for the 47th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards­, a star-studded event produced for television by dick clark productions broadcast Live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 8:00 Pm live Et/delayed Pt on the CBS Television Network.

Nominees were announced online via the first-ever Acm digital press conference this morning on the Academy?s Facebook and Twitter pages. Awards co-host Reba participated with a video message to kick things off and entertainment superstars Lionel Richie, who will be honored during a special taping of Acm Presents: Lionel Richie and Friends In Concert in April (to air at a later date on CBS), Beth Behrs (2 Broke Girls), Nancy O?Dell (Entertainment Tonight), Michael Ausiello (TVLine.com) announced batches of nominations in video postings during the approximately 20 minute online event which culminated in music fans announcing the nominees for the Academy? »

- Josh Abraham

4 items from 2012