Wednesday, May 23, 2012
PHILLIP PHILLIPS IS CROWNED THE "AMERICAN IDOL"
World Record 132 Million Votes Cast
Two-Hour Season Finale Featured Performances by
Aerosmith, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Neil Diamond and Chaka Khan;
Plus Special Duets by John Fogerty and Phillip Phillips;
Jennifer Holliday and Jessica Sanchez; Fantasia and Joshua Ledet;
Jordin Sparks and Hollie Cavanagh; Reba McEntire and Skylar Laine
Auditions for Season 12 Held This Summer in Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Newark, NJ; New Orleans, LA; Oklahoma City, OK and San Antonio, TX
Visit www.americanidol.com for Season Finale Performances
The 11th season of AMERICAN IDOL came to a sensational conclusion tonight as Phillip Phillips was crowned the winner during the live two-hour season finale on FOX. Phillips, 21, from Leesburg, GA, received the most of America's world record-shattering 132 million votes – the highest number in the show's history.
PHILLIP PHILLIPS IS CROWNED THE "AMERICAN IDOL"
World Record 132 Million Votes Cast
Two-Hour Season Finale Featured Performances by
Aerosmith, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Neil Diamond and Chaka Khan;
Plus Special Duets by John Fogerty and Phillip Phillips;
Jennifer Holliday and Jessica Sanchez; Fantasia and Joshua Ledet;
Jordin Sparks and Hollie Cavanagh; Reba McEntire and Skylar Laine
Auditions for Season 12 Held This Summer in Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Newark, NJ; New Orleans, LA; Oklahoma City, OK and San Antonio, TX
Visit www.americanidol.com for Season Finale Performances
The 11th season of AMERICAN IDOL came to a sensational conclusion tonight as Phillip Phillips was crowned the winner during the live two-hour season finale on FOX. Phillips, 21, from Leesburg, GA, received the most of America's world record-shattering 132 million votes – the highest number in the show's history.
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is an advertising firm. So we know from the outset that they deal in popular consumerism. They try their hardest to make money off of what people desire. Only, the people who work at the firm aren't getting what they desire the most. The most obvious example of this mindset has been Pete throughout the season, but he has a small role in this episode. No, the unfulfilled desire comes from other places and other characters, including one, Paul Kinsey, who hasn't been seen in two seasons. This causes plenty of frustration, which is only beginning to bubble to the surface in some cases while bursting at the seams in others. It has been a really dark season so far (even by "Mad Men" standards) and I don't think this is the last we're going to see of it.
This season has been a little more up and down in quality than I expected it to be, but I still think that the recent hiccups are going to be the exceptions to the rule. "Worse Case Scenario" may be a bit of an average installment, but it's loaded with the typical "Eureka" fun, and also offers up some satisfying developments in the myth-arc department. The season is still lacking a clear sense of direction, and is mostly concerned with continuing to deal with the fallout from the Matrix incident, but considering the usual length of "Eureka" seasons, we're still fairly early into this one.
As American Idol enters its two-night season finale, producer Nigel Lythgoe made time to speak with a few journalists and shared his thoughts on the final showdown between Jessica Sanchez and and Phillip Phillips. 
Syfy's hit documentary-reality series, Hollywood Treasure, returns tonight for a second season of all new hour long episodes. Collectibles expert and owner of Profiles in History, Joe Maddalena, stars. Each week he and his crew will travel the world searching for rare Hollywood memorabilia to sell at auction.
It's all been leading up to something. Last season ended with a violent regime change and the outbreak of war. Season 2 has delivered a similar slow boil approach, likely saving the most dramatic events for the final two episodes of the season. So here we are, in the calm before the storm. But what form will that storm take? Will it be the climactic siege of King's Landing that I'm so eagerly hoping for? Or will the final two episodes unveil something far more unexpected? Perhaps both?
This well-named and well-made episode is just the kind of thing "Lost Girl" needs after a rocky opening to the second season. There's no flashback wigs and bad accents, and no lazy use of old storytelling devices: instead, "Better to Burn Out Than Fae Away" puts the emphasis on the characters, on prodding and probing at the world of the Fae and on providing a solid hour of fun television.
Considering that the entire season has been leading to a confrontation between Nick, his Grimm status, and key figures in his professional and personal lives, it's been an open prediction that all of it would come crashing together in the season finale. In fact, it was so telegraphed that anything less would be disappointing. So how did the writers manage to wrap up this uneven first season?
Coming into this season finale, I had two expectations: first, that the Leviathan plot arc would be resolved, and second, that Bobby would be shuffled off into the great beyond once and for all. Both took place in this episode, but I can't say that the execution was up to the usual level of "Supernatural" excellence.