American Idol

By Roger Catlin For real news there was Megan Hauserman, on TV for the first time in two months, since her show "Megan Wants a Millionaire" was abruptly pulled by VH1 after a contestant wanted for killing an ex-girlfriend and was later found dead of suicide.

By Roger Catlin Another former "American Idol" finalist, David Archulletta, was in stores today with a new Christmas album and he was in good company. New Christmas albums were also released by Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond and, oddest of all, Bob Dylan.

By Roger Catlin The big charity event that "American Idol did in 2007 and 2008 and skipped this year will be back next year. Fox announced it will hold its second "Idol Gives Back" telethon April 21, 2010, benefitting Malaria No More, Save... The big charity event that "American Idol did in 2007 and 2008 and ski...

By Roger Catlin Finally, she said, weirdly, "Carrie Ann, you and I should be making out," to the show's sole female judge,  Carrie Ann Inaba. Ah, just think of the sweet insanity we'll be missing when Abdul fails to return to the "American Idol" judging panel in January.

Paula Abdul became suddenly available to host "VH1 Divas" (VH1, 9 p.m.) which features a few singers she knew from "American Idol," Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks and Kelly Clarkson as well as Martina McBride, Melissa Etheridge, Kathy Griffin, Leona Lewis, Miley Cyrus, all performing ...

Be that as it may, Fox will jump aboard the bandwagon by showing its Michael Jackson tribute episode of "American Idol" that first aired March 10 again on Monday June 29 at 8 p.m. Nunez for his part said he was hindered by song choice. "I was not going to sing 'Bad' by Michael Jackson," he told th...

By Roger Catlin With everyone but Danny Gokey dressed in black, it was like getting stuck on a classic rock station, with Alison singing Janis Joplin's "Cry Baby," Danny Gokey doing Aerosmith's "Dream On" and Kris Allen doing a version of "Come Together" that was also more like Aerosmith's arrangement...

By Roger Catlin He was cool on Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta, doing a swingy "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Someone to Watch Over Me," respectively while Randy Jackson, Kara Dioguardi and Paula Abdul stumbled for words to describe their effusion ("Mad nice vocals" was a memorable phrase from Jackson).

It was music from the movies night on "American Idol" but it might have well have been scholocky love songs night as well. Anoop Desai got praise for doing Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" from "The Three Muskateers." Matt Giraud sat at a piano for a version of "Have You Really Loved a Wo...

By Roger Catlin Things cannot go wrong for Adam Lambert on "American Idol." Singing the pensive "Mad World," a Tears for Fears song almost entirely in falsetto, "Mad  five minutes after the show was supposed to end, the judges didn't have criticism for... Things cannot go wrong for Adam Lambert on "American...

Kanye West and first season winner Kelly Clarkson perform on Thursday's results show (the runner-up in her finals, Justin Guarini, had to sit in the audience, among celebrities that included foul mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay, called upon to give a review from the judges table, but nobody...

By Roger Catlin Presenting the second group of 12 on "American Idol" Wednesday, singers were supposed to have learned from the first week's peformances. Well, so did the producers: the clunky, uncomfortable parts where each singer had to climb up to the interview... Presenting the second group of 12 on "Am...

By Roger Catlin » Why during the interview with Ryan Seacrest ( during the Touch My Body promotion) and Perez Hilton, Mariah started to mess up the interview to not allow Perez to give away the details about her relationship with Mark? If they broke up why she would do this?