Comments on: Fox ‘apologizes’ for overlong ‘Idol’ finale being even more overlong than they thought it would be

By: Bigmonkey

Bigmonkey — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:43:34 +0000

I cannot believe Idol brings in 72 million viewers per week. It’s karaoke!

By: SilverRain

SilverRain — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:10:31 +0000

It’s times like this wherein I discover I am truly odd. This DVR/TiVo talk is Greek to me. As is the need to see American Idol.

By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:55:12 +0000

Yes, it’s true. I actually DVRed this while I was in Hawaii. Of course, we came across the winner before we had a chance to watch it. But, then again, it was no surprise anyway.

People who don’t DVR overtime have no right using the technology. A little power can be dangerous.

By: card

card — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:04:12 +0000

Wow. That sounds like a perfect Idol results show. Just DVR the news and you only have to watch 10 minutes for the results!

By: B

Tue, 29 May 2007 13:59:42 +0000

I’m just glad the season finale of house wasn’t on afterwards. I would have been very upset if my DVR recorded 10 minutes of AI instead of the opening scenes of House.

By: Fritz S.

Fritz S. — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:04:28 +0000

Here’s a thought…Why the hell would you waste space on your TiVo or DVR on the American Idol finale!? And them comparing it to sporting events, come on…

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:41:14 +0000

I suspect that at least some of the overage came from Clive Davis’ interminably long “State of Idol” address in the middle. For some reason, I kept getting visions of Elder David B. Haight telling stories of football and malt shoppes in Oakley and cranking up the Tin Lizzie, but I digress….

And yes, the logical thing would have been to cut something in the middle, among which there were no end of choices:

- Sanjaya (duh)
- Tony Bennett (he’s griped that AI is too nasty, let’s prove it to him)
- Bette Midler (who had absolutely zero to do with Idol)
- Green Day (um, okay, angsty song notwithstanding, what were they doing there?)

And of course, removing any/all of the Golden Idol crap, in which we learned that AI is still happy to pick on the delusional and the mentally challenged, would have served everyone well.

By: Jason Leslie Wright

Jason Leslie Wright — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:14:07 +0000

What I don’t get is how people ar surprised that this happened. American Idol quite often goes over just to screw the DVR users. the night before when we set it up to record we decided that we’d better record the news just after idol as we knew it was going to run over.

By: Homerific

Homerific — Sun, 27 May 2007 14:45:14 +0000

I love American Idol, but I don’t even watch the finals. I rarely even watch the Wednesday night results shows. If I’m home, I flip them on with 5-10 minutes left in the broadcast. If I’m out with friends instead, I figure who was kicked off will be headline news the next morning. Why waste your time on fluff when there are far more important things to do? Well…one of those things is usually college homework, so maybe procrastinating would make sense…but we’ll ignore that.

By: Runbrianj

Runbrianj — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:32:37 +0000

Yes, we watched it on our DVR and yes, it sucked to miss the ending. Really, though, other than revenge against us evil TiVo people, what would be the point of FOX doing this? I will not change my viewing habits. I will just dislike FOX more. If I choose to watch Idol ever again, I will just do as Tina says and run my DVR timer longer to cover my butt. And I’m sure they’ve got sponsors who feel they’re getting their money’s worth regardless of if I watch their traditional commercials. This show is the epitome of product placement (Ford, Cingular, Coca-Cola . . .). I don’t even have to watch their commercials to see commercials, you know?