Cecile Frot-Coutaz, an executive producer for "American Idol," told The Associated Press on Thursday that Paula Abdul's job is safe.
"Why would we get rid of Paula?" she said when asked if Abdul's slip-up this week, in which she critiqued one of Jason Castro's songs before he'd sung it, had put the judge's future on the show in question. "She's great for the show.
"I love that everyone was talking about it," she continued. "It was so unexpected. It was something that took up two seconds of airtime. You'd think there was no other news on television."
Abdul has blamed the gaffe on a last-minute format switch, and Frot-Coutaz explained the reasoning behind it. "We thought it would be a good opportunity for the judges to give the contestants a good kick in the butt and tell them they were going to have to kick it up a notch for the second song," she said. "That decision happened during the live broadcast. It was at the very last minute, so Paula wasn't planning on doing any judging. It's not her fault."
Frot-Coutaz also told AP that Abdul is a "great team player," and said that there are no plans to replace any of the show's other judges or host Ryan Seacrest. "They're a great cast," she said. "They work very well together. If it's working, don't fix it."
The exec said she's not concerned about the show's recent drop in ratings. Viewership for the Tuesday performance show were reportedly the lowest for "Idol" in five years. According to Nielsen Media Research, more than 22 million viewers tuned in for Wednesday's show, in which Brooke White was eliminated. White called Abdul's mistake one of the show's "human moments."
"Nobody's alarmed by the ratings dip," Frot-Coutaz said. "We're still 7 million viewers ahead of the second-biggest show. And let's face it. TV has taken a huge decline this year. All the networks are down by quite a bit. I think the writers' strike really hurt. A lot of viewers haven't come back. You can't just look at an isolation in the environment."
Frot-Coutaz also said she feels the show has a strong future.
"If we're smart about it, there's no reason why 'Idol' wouldn't keep going. Just look at 'Price Is Right,' " she said, referring to the show produced by FreMantle Media, the company of which she is CEO. "It's been on for over 35 years."
Wednesday 28 May 2008
Monday 19 May 2008
Williams & Watts pay tribute to Ledger
Williams & Watts pay tribute to Ledger
Several of Heath Ledger's friends and former partners take paid tribute to the tardily worker by communion their memories of him with Interview magazine.
According to Amusement Tonight, actress Michelle Williams, wHO had a child with Daybook, said: "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which possibly mass have only if genuinely in full discovered in his end, is how vulnerable he was."
"You bottom pick up on it in his performances, just it's slowly to pretermit because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. Just in that respect was always that underlying sensitivity. That's world Health Organization he was."
Ted Williams too referred to Ledger's sleeping problems, expression: "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He had to a fault a great deal energy. His judgment was turning, turning, turning - always turning."
Actress Noemi Isaac Watts, wHO once dated Book, told the powder store: "I think he wanted to be someone wHO was doing the observing - not the i being observed."
"He hated not being able to go around his life in an ordinary way. But I think that, deep knock down, he enjoyed that he was existence recognised for his endowment."
"I reckon he was starting to have that and that's the deepest tragedy, in terms of his work. He was only start to possess it and bosom it," she said.
Video show host Ellen DeGeneres and thespian Philip Seymour-Hoffman also paid tribute to the doer in the magazine.
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Sunday 11 May 2008
Ledger's family write about heartbreak
Ledger's family write about heartbreak
Heathland Ledger's family have expressed their brokenheartedness at losing their word and brother in a series of death notices in an Aboriginal Australian newspaper.
In a message published in the Occident Aboriginal Australian, the actor's mother Sallying forth wrote: "Our favourite boy, special in so many shipway to totally of us. You knew you were so loved. You lived life with courage and dare and we are so grateful for the wonderful times we shared. We will be there for Matilda [Ledger's daughter]."
Ledger's older babe Kate wrote: "I can buoy hardly breathe when I try to write this. We were the ultimate in soul couple. I experience both my bosom and life throw been torn aside. I loved our special dialogue, our daily chats from where ever you were in the populace."
She also wrote: "I especially loved wholly the precious time we spent together. We were so fortunate to get you as long as we did. You were so many things to so many hoi polloi, but to me you were just my little buddy."
The actor's father Kim wrote: "My beautiful male child, so loving, so talented, so freelancer, so caring, so thomas Young... no more cheat games fellow... this is it, couldn't beat you in any case!"
"My body aches for the auditory sensation of your voice, our chats, our laughs and our life story and multiplication together."
A message from completely of the family say: "How do we describe our sudden and tragic loss?... You were the almost amazing individual "old soul" in a young man's physical structure."
"Your true legacy lives on in beautiful little Matilda, wHO will always remain in the greatest of tutelage. Our black Maria ar broken."
Daybook was ground dead in his Newly York apartment before this week. Law are investigating the possibility that he died from a drugs o.d..
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Friday 2 May 2008
Corrie's David just 'wants to be loved'
Corrie's David just 'wants to be loved'
'Coronation Street' actor Jack-tar P Shepherd has claimed that his graphic symbol St. David Platt is misunderstood and "just wants to be loved".
According to the show's functionary site, the actor told InsideSoap Annual: "Jacques Louis David tin can do or so malicious things merely I think he just wants to be loved. He craves a moment of warmness."
"He's never had much attention from his mum, Gail. She was always running play around after David's brother, Nick, and Sarah and and then she moved on to lovingness about Bethany, so David just feels like he was pushed to one side," he said.
"He's found that by being bad he gets lots of attention. That's the just time Gail genuinely notices him."
Sheepherder said: "David could go drink down a very dark route, simply thither ar different sides to him. Jacques Louis David is an emotional character and he hindquarters do comedy - he's quite a comedian sometimes."
"I recall he does make different dimensions to his fibre, which makes him so much fun to watch. Just likely his briny durability is being a nasty, evil, twisted little lowlife."
Thursday 1 May 2008
Cita Attieksme
Artist: Cita Attieksme
Genre(s):
Hardcore
Discography:
Cita Attieksme
Year: 2002
Tracks: 6
Katram No Mums
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Vicki Hansen
Phil Collins' model daughter lands TV job
Phil Collins' model daughter lands TV job
Phil Collins' 18-year-old daughter Lily has landed a job as a telly bestower for Nickelodeon.
The teen, wHO presently works as a framework, is poring over broadcast news media at the University of Southern Calif..
Tom Collins will act as a roving entertainment letter writer for the children's canal, reporting from the sets of Jukebox television receiver series, flick premieres, awards shows, concerts and other famous person events.
Last year the lester Willis Young example was a invitee pressman on the network's 'Slime Across America' turn.
She likewise helped come out with E! Entertainment's red carpet Oscars reporting last weekend.
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