Mariah Carey spent her entire tenure as an American Idol judge trying to make the catchphrase "Hashtag Pow" happen. (Spoiler alert: It never happened.) Tonight,…
Read MoreDancing With the Stars stumbled this week, hitting an all-time demo low for a Monday telecast -- with a 1.7 rating -- while dipping 9…
Read MorePrediction: Tuesday night's installment of The Voice will be as painful as cardboard paper cut, as unpopular as the words "Paris Hilton's pop-culture comeback" and…
Read MoreThe Voice might well be starting a new trend(ing topic). NBC's singing competition series is bringing the vote to Twitter on Tuesday, Nov. 12, with…
Read MoreIn the spirit of total honesty, I have to make a confession: Whenever Cee Lo Green serves up his usual blend of word salad on…
Read MoreTurns out Paulina Rubio's string of verbal gaffes weren't the biggest disasters on Wednesday night's installment of The X Factor. RELATED | The X Factor…
Read MoreLike that expensive cheese in your fridge that unexpectedly presents with a patch of furry blue mold, The X Factor is the reality competition that…
Read MoreDid you ever get so excited by a primetime network broadcast that you wanted to pick up your TV set and hurl it against a…
Read MoreWe've now reached that awkward phase in The Voice's trajectory where the coaches' feedback is like a shot of novocaine -- numbing in its bland…
Read MoreAnother round of individual and team dances may have rocked the ballroom floor, but Week 8 of Dancing With the Stars can only be summed…
Read MoreOn a purely surface level -- which is most likely Simon Cowell's ideal criteria for critique -- The X Factor got plenty of things right…
Read MoreI could kick off this recap of The Voice's final set of Knockout Rounds complaining about Carson Daly's "coming up on..." teases -- and how…
Read MoreWith all apologies to God, the Seventh Commandment just went the way of Crystal Pepsi, the personal pager and NBC's Smash. I mean, seriously, who can…
Read MoreA dynamic combo of individual and team dances highlighted Week 7 of Dancing With the Stars, which launched with a show-opening (and eyebrow-raising) announcement that…
Read MoreWe interrupt your regularly scheduled The Voice recap with a Public Service Announcement about Adam Levine's Battle Rounds Rehearsal Beard™: Dude, you can put on…
Read MoreIt was "Switch-Up Challenge" night -- aka "Hot mess in the ballroom!" -- on Week 6 of Dancing With the Stars, a meaningless term which, translated…
Read MoreGood news for NBC: If Blake Shelton ever decides he needs to sit out a season of The Voice -- and heaven knows, at some…
Read MoreThis just in...a deficit of Blind Audition screen time is not an automatic death sentence in the Battle Rounds on Season 5 of The Voice.…
Read MorePass the tissues, because it was "The Most Memorable Year" night on Week 5 of Dancing With the Stars. That, of course, meant Season 17's glittering…
Read MoreThe Voice has wrapped its Season 5 Blind Auditions. The X Factor's Four-Chair Challenge is in the books. But it's not over till Reality Check…
Read MoreThe X Factor's great Season 3 experiment -- the "Four-Chair Challenge" -- is over, Simon Cowell's category being the last to complete the Thunderdome-esque "Ten…
Read MorePaulina Rubio (Code name: "Still No Idea Who That Is") finally got her Big Moment on The X Factor tonight. The occupant of the Britney…
Read MoreThe Voice's Tuesday-night "Best of the Blinds" episode was comprised mostly of recycled footage from the last three weeks of auditions. But a few quickie…
Read MoreChristina Aguilera probably gets the toughest blogosphere feedback of any coach on The Voice -- she's too mean! she makes it all about herself! she sometimes…
Read MoreAn emotional farewell and a mix of ballroom styles highlighted Week 4 of Dancing With the Stars, but the real buzz-factor centered around beloved ex-pro…
Read MoreWith 17 different singers advancing to The Voice's Season 5 Battle Rounds this week, it's not a huge surprise that my Reality Check cohost Melinda…
Read MoreYou could call Simon Cowell cruel for introducing the "Four-Chair Challenge" to Season 3 of The X Factor, and you wouldn't be wrong. Like a…
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