News Source: Gulfnews.com
| 2 months ago
The sudden departure of Paula Abdul from her American Idol judging job on August 4, three days before auditions were beginning, left Fox, FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment scrambling for a replacement. As they frenetically booked guest judges,...
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| 2 months ago
America's best-known openly gay woman will be a regular on America's top-rated TV show...Viewers offended by this development can, of course, turn the show off...But we doubt many will. "American Idol," like DeGeneres' daytime talk show, is a ratings...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 2 months ago
Fox president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell tells Entertainment Weekly that signing Ellen DeGeneres to replace Paula Abdul as a judge on "American Idol" was a piece of cake. "We made a call," Darnell told ew.com, "and she was incredibly...
News Source: Tech Dirt
| 2 months ago
New Infringement Defense? 'We Don't Roll That Way' from the well,-there's-that... dept A bunch of folks have been sending in the story of how some of the major record labels are suing the Ellen DeGeneres show for not paying for clips of music that...
News Source: The New York Times
| 2 months ago
Speaking roughly 12 hours after she and Fox Broadcasting announced that she would take the place of Paula Abdul as the fourth judge on the most popular series on television, Ms...Abdul’s role as the nice one while also offering the perspective of...
News Source: USA Today
| 2 months ago
She isn't even in the American Idol hot seat yet, but already her appointment as the show's new judge is generating a tiff worthy of a Paula Abdul-Simon Cowell smackdown. On one side are fans such as Beth Jones of Newark, Ohio, who already feel that...