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This past Sunday and Monday garnered double downs from the week as the ratings decline week after week.
This Sunday saw a 9% drop from the previous week to 4.6 million drop in total viewers.
The next night, Monday, was worse, with 3.87 million total. It was down over 6% from the previous Monday.
All in all, “Idol” is down more than 5% so far from last year.
On Monday as usual it was beaten soundly by “The Voice” on NBC.
At least you can say ABC is loyal. They stick with this show like they are loyal “Grey’s Anatomy,” which does worse! What if they developed new shows? What if?
Wanna be a rock star? Wanna play on stage at the Global Citizen show this fall?
Shady group Global Citizen is supposed to be about stopping hunger, poverty, injustice, and suffering.
But as I’ve written before they give no money from the millions they raise to any of those issues. They mainly spend those millions on themselves and producing concerts.
Now they’re offering $50,000 to rock bands to play on their stage. They’re not just inviting rock bands to be part of the Global Citizen Festival, but Hugh Evans and co are going to give them $50,000 instead of donating the money to people who need it.
Evans, who makes a high six figure salary, only wants to hand with rock stars. That’s the foundation of the Foundation.They have an excellent marketing tea, that knows how to publicize “actions” that result in no actions.
Woke? Beyond. Cynical, too! Maybe some poor people in a third world country can put together a rock and win the fifty thou!
The Time 100 list is out, and it’s all pandering to Donald Trump and cronies.
Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, Robert Kennedy Jr. and even Megyn Kelly are all featured in their leadership section. There isn’t one Democratic Party leader, liberal, or mainstream journalist except for the milquetoast David Muir.
Also included are right wing podcaster Joe Rogan and Snoop Dogg, who performed for Trump at his inauguration. And Russell Vought, architect of Trump’s many sinister policies.
What’s wrong? They couldn’t have included Netanyahu? Putin? Weren’t they just as awful?
Missing, very emphatically: Cory Booker, Rachel Maddow, and dozens more who actually contributed positively to society.
I don’t know how TIME editor in chief Ed Felsenthal could have okayed this group. But it’s clear TIME owner Marc Benioff has become one of the super rich who are now sucking up Trump and co.
It’s all very sad and unfortunate. How far TIME has fallen. I remember the original TIME 100, a glorious mixture of true geniuses and groundbreakers. This is miserable.
I don’t even know if the students at SUNY Purchase know what went on on their campus last night.
A stunning three hour rock, R&B, and Jazz show went off in their concert hall that was for the ages. Luckily, it was filmed.
Musicians United for ALS featured Rob Thomas, Patty Smyth, jazz greats Bob James and Kirk Whalum,The Bacon Brothers, the amazing Lisa Fischer, Yankee great Bernie Williams with jazz star Gil Parris, and a rare appearance by the Average White Band.
“Letterman” show musician extraordinaire brought down the house with Memphis Stax legend Carla Thomas.
The occasion was a tribute to famed producer Wayne Warneke who is now wheelchair bound from ALS. His wife, Vaneese Thomas, legendary back up singer for dozens of artists including Aretha Franklin, assembled what turned out to a historic night.
Rob Mathes, the great arranger and producer himself for acts like Sting and Elvis Costello, not only produced the evening but surprised everyone by accompanying himself on piano, singing! That got everyone’s attention backstage — people who know him but didn’t realize what a great voice he has!
It was a night full of showstoppers, including Fischer’s “Walking on the Air,” a gem that seemed like it levitated the audience; James and Whalum on the former’s classic hit “Westchester Lady,” and the Average White Band — which doesn’t perform anymore — on a stampede of funk in “Pick up the Pieces” and “Work to Do.”
Of course, Rob Thomas and Patty Smyth were knockouts respectively on “Lonely No More,” “Smooth,” “Warrior,” and “Goodbye to You.”
The pinnacle? Carla Thomas (she and her sister Vaneese are the daughters of late Stax legend Rufus Thomas). Carla and Paul Shaffer brought down the house with “Little Red Rooster” and “Tramp,” Carla’s saucy 60s hit with Otis Redding.
If this is just the beginning for Musicians for ALS, they’re going to become legendary pretty quick! Click here to donate.
A nearly three hour Billy Joel documentary called “So It Goes” will kick off the Tribeca (Film) Festival in June at the Beacon Theater.
It’s a festival loaded with interesting documentaries and a few narrative ones. Some of the highlights include docs about Jayne Mansfield by daughter Mariska Hargitay, films about Barbara Walters, Boy George, and Eddie Vedder.
He is, on Netflix, where he starred as Frank Underwood on “House of Cards” until they fired him.
Now in a promo for a Tim Dillon comedy special, Spacey — older, puffier — is back as Underwood.
Weird? Yes.
Spacey was canceled by Hollywood after becoming a magnet for sexual harassment lawsuits. The “HOC” star managed to stay out of jail even thought there were settlements on the various lawsuits. He still owes “HOC” production company MRC, one million dollars in a settlement that was reduced from $31 million.
He couldn’t get work and lost most everything, he claimed.
It’s supremely odd that he would resurface in a Netflix promo considering they killed him off in the penultimate season of “HOC,” turning the show over to Robin Wright.
But maybe they want to monetize “HOC” reruns after all this time. Will the show suddenly surface again on streamer? Will Spacey be able to use this as a launching pad back to Hollywood?
It seems unlikely, but Donald Trump is president again.
In new posts, he claims his parents beat him — but not in an abusive way.
He claimed in one post that he found his mother, the late Professor Donda West, sleeping with his female babysitter. Most of West’s posts are disgusting but this one is just sad. He revered his mother and is now demeaning her by exposing her private life with no possible explanation.
West also has posted hideous things about Hillary Clinton and Taylor Swift. I’m not going to post those because they’re filthy and beyond the pale. Suffice to say, West — who says in other posts he won’t delete anything, he’s very proud of all this — is a sick, sick man.
And just like that, here’s the trailer for “Sex and the City: And Just Like That” season 3.
Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, and friends are back enjoying the high life in New York. The only intrusion of reality is rats scurrying in Carrie’s backyard of her townhouse. (Good thing she married rich — and then killed off the husband!)
So far the trailer doesn’t give much away. The women are now almost in wheelchairs, but as the songs, they’ll never give up.
“And Just Like That” won’t win any awards, but it’s frothy summer entertainment, and a good pay day for all involved.
The ubiquitous Chinese marketer that famous sells products at cheap prices has exited Google Ads.
Temu, according to reports, fell from 3rd or 4th place to 58th place a few days ago on all of Google’s rankings.
By Sunday, Temu was gone entirely.
This is all in response to Trump’s trade war with China, and his 125% tariffs on Chinese goods. There was no carve out for Google. This is ironic, of course, since Google was one of many tech companies to grovel for help by donating money to Trump’s inaugural campaign.
The Google boycott by Temu probably won’t last long. They need to be on the internet via Google in order to survive and sell $2 polyester sweaters and gadgets that don’t always work. But they’re making a statement.
Will Smith had better not give up his day job in acting.
Will’s “Based on a True Story,” his first rap album in 20 years, has been a colossal sales dud.
Through today, “True Story” has sold just 699 paid downloads.
If you include streaming, the total is only 14,500. All of this includes pre-sales.
So far, there’s been little interest in “Based on a True Story” outside of its opening week on March 28th.
It’s hard to say how committed Will was to the project. He could have played Coachella and gotten a lot of attention. But he didn’t. He also hasn’t been very visible on TV.
One reason for the low profile is that still, three years later, his Oscars slap of Chris Rock is an obstacle in interviews. He still can’t explain it and hasn’t really seemed contrite. He’s also still banned for 7 more years from the Oscars.
Videos from “Based on a True Story” also haven’t been watched much. The one below, “Beautiful Scars,” has 6.6 million views over two weeks. Sounds like a lot, but it’s not. The others from the album haven’t come close to that number.
