Enough! These two rivaling supershows need to stop acting like children. Big news today: American Idol will intentionally run long on Tuesday night — seven minutes, in fact — just to mess with the elimination edition of Dancing With the Stars. So from 9 to 9:07, no one at home will know what to do! Give whatever contestant slated to sing last the time of day, or sit slack-jawed for seven minutes hoping to catch a closeup of Heather Mills (pictured, with Jonathan Roberts)?
Right now I’m picturing two toddlers in a colorful, plastic sandbox who refuse to share the "huge crowd of unconditionally smiling people" toy. Idol baby has a fun, generic, geometric patterns-okay-corporate-logos-BAD onesie on, whereas Dancing baby looks terrif (swathed in a giant pink ruffle exposing her sexy midsection), but is sadly drowning in a pit of glitter she dug herself. I don’t know why Idol toddler is being so selfish with the huge crowd of unconditionally smiling people toy, because his My First Ford pickup is just outside the sandbox, and he hasn’t ridden by the video camera in it for like seven minutes. Time is of the essence, Idol toddler! Let’s wrap this up!
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I hate when shows “run over”.
1-They don’t run over, they just add more commercials and that just pisses me off.
2-Don’t they know that we know they are just being jerks by running over.
3-I also know they are doing it for more ad revenue.
4-Running over screws up my TiVo when I watch a full night of tv.
So, I am fighting back and I urge everyone to join me!
I manually record show so they stop taping at the :00 and :30 and then start the other show!
Yes, I even stop recording Grey’s Anatomy on time!
Screw them! I can always catch what I missed on Youtube or similiar or read the recaps here on ew.com
I am tried on this “running over” crap and I am not going to take it anymore!
Yeah that’s pretty awful to do. I will be interested to see if there are any negative effects on the poor person performing last on Idol.
i was wondering when the sh*t was going to hit the fan. idol is my favorite show, but running over intentionally is a little silly, dont’cha think?
I don’t really care about either show, but it seems to me that switching over to ABC at 9 might be in order…7 minutes less of Sanjaya sounds OK to me…
Oh no they di-in’t!! I’m so glad I’m over both shows. Otherwise I’d be hot!
It is very annoying when this happens. I will be Tivo-ing Idol, and Video-ing Dancing(Yes I still use the VCR along with the Tivo). I set the Tivo for the extra minutes option, and set the VCR for a few minutes extra as well. I watch the shows and fast forward the commercials.
Anyone who watches either or both of these “competitions” deserves this stupid dilema. I guess this is just another example of the “dumbing down of America.”
Right, Abbey, because following a blog on an entertainment magazine is oh-so-intellectual. Fyi, just because a person likes one cheesy thing doesn’t mean they like everything like that. Way to generalize.
By the way–bashing a reality show’s fans is just as cliche following one. Not caring is the new cool.
They have done the exact same thing here in the UK, the British version of DWTS, Strictly Come Dancing is run at exactly the same time as Simon Cowell’s show X-Factor. Its nothing but petty one-upmanship and yeah, childish!!!!
Seven more minutes of Paula and those untalented losers on Idol cannot be a good thing…although if they shipped Idol shows over to torture prisoners at Abu Ghirab at least it wouldnt be a total waste…
Abbey, it’s ironic you write about the “dumbing down of America” while misspelling “dilemma”, don’t you think?
It is odd to intentionally run over. But what about this. Last week, there were 11 singers over 120 minutes. This week, we have 10 singers over 67 minutes. Are they going to sing for 30 seconds apiece? When there were 10 guys and 10 girls left in the semis, the show was on for 90 minutes for each. At least be consistent.
I know how to fix the problem for all the viewers…..GET A LIFE!!
Sorry, I’m w/Abbey. I can’t believe what the highest rated shows are, while smart, funny, and truly entertaining shows struggle and/or get cancelled.
People are crabby about this new-fangled reality TV, aren’t they???
Personally, I love to DVR Idol b/c you can skip through the 35 minutes of TV ads. One singer then cut to commercial, give me a break. Now it just makes 42 minutes of commercial.
Did FOX think of the ramifications of this for people watching the first new episode of HOUSE in weeks?? Where is our love and appreciation??
I would love to see ABC, NBC and CBS put their high rated shows.. Grey’s, Desperate, Hereos, C.S.I.,Lost, Survivor, etc..up against American Idol. Fox is coming off like real idiots with this latest gimmick. The Big 3 networks have all stayed away from A.I., and now just because DWTS did so well, Fox has to throw a little temper tantrum!
I say go with DWTS and check the internet the next day to see who got booted out of Idol. I hate the Idol results shows. I just want to know who didn’t make it. They could wrap it up in 5 minutes. Plus FOX needs a dose of strong medicine. Boycott the results show for a few weeks and I guarantee they’ll learn their lesson.
I love that people were all dissing on TIvo and DVRs forever, when it’s now clear the impact these are having on TV viewing habits. Thanks to Tivo, I can watch one show and record the other, but if a show starts 7 minutes late will my tivo record it?
Rather than try to fight us consumers with DVRs, the networks need to figure out how to work WITH us. 30Rock, My Boys and Idol all use product placement to get ad revenue now that no one watches ad. Why can’t folks be creative like that?
Ending shows (or starting them) five minutes late is MTV’s gig and it’s irksome how they do that (all my Rob&Big episodes are missing huge chunks at the beginning or end as a result of mtv’s policy)…
I agree with Ep. TiVo is the greatest invention, and Fox is only going to alienate people with this stunt.
Bit of historical clarification for you guys. Did you know that in the late 70’s/early 80’s, TBS was the first network to run their shows five minutes late/early?
Granted, there was no TiVo back then, but I think they had the same general idea about hijacking viewing habits. Didn’t really work then either…
David, please shut the hell up. Second to ‘jumped the shark’, ‘get a life’ is the most hypocritical and overused phrase here. Quit using it, because it doesn’t make you clever and superior over everyone else. It just makes you look more stupid than the people you’re trashing.
I don’t care for either show myself, but just don’t post if all you’re going to do is bash the fans.
To David…..seems the only life you have is telling people to get a life when in fact you come in here to read the comments so therefore…..you need to get a life.
To Abbey…What’s the big deal? You come in here to bash people for their right to say what they want. You did that too. If you don’t like the shows, then why are you commenting at all? Is is just to tick the people off that do make comments?
Most of the idol contenders sing better than pros…Diana Ross, Noone, et al. Idol is not a contest for thee best singers, it come down to the best looking, a visual contest..check out the losers,…fat, beards, long stringy greasy hair, and baldies that look like the elf in Lord of the Rings are nada no matter how good they sing.
Oh, did American Idol run over seven minutes? I’d no idea. I was too wrapped up in Dancing With The Stars.
FIRST OF ALL DANCING WITH THE STARTS HAD TWO HOURS LAST NIGHT. THAT INTERFERED WITH AMERICAN IDOL. ALL THE BIG SHOWS RUN 1-3 OVER SO YOU DON’T WANT TO CHANGE THE CHANNEL, THANK G-D FOR DVR’S, TIVO AND VCR’S. THAT WAY YOU DON’T MISS ANYTHING PEOPLE. DON’T GET SO EXCITED. GET ONE OF THESE DIVCES.
Yall so crazy!! Do you have a life at all to sit and go back and forth on EW.COM. Let me sum things up for you NO Lifes. I love American Idol- but this year is the worst. I have no favorites. Sanjaya really needs to go home. Melinda seems to have the edge. I was pulling for Lakisha – but I don’t know now- Kisha seemed to have formed some type of attitude alreaday. Jordan is precious and she is doing great! Haley is a little whorer. Don’t mention Kelly Clarkson name ever again. That ungrateful…… and I LOVE SIMON. Without Simon the show will be nothing at all especially this year. NOW!!! Shut the ………UP.
What a terrible shame – Sanjaya has no talent, cannot sing and is being used to get rid of American Idol. “They” have succeeded. I’ve watched now since the beginning, but this is it, I won’t waste my time watching very talented people being voted off and keeping such a non-talent on.
RE: ‘get a life’ is the most hypocritical and overused phrase here.
Wow, I’m glad to see someone else say that besides me. Like the people saying it AREN’T wasting their time reading and commenting like the rest of us.
I got so worked up over someone telling someone else to “get a life” yesterday that I went into a rant that I think got me banned from posting for the day.
I hate it. It’s just stupid. “Get a life” simply because someone has a different opinion? How freaking annoying.
Just goes to show you how dicked up most people are!