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Tessanne Takes ‘The Voice’ Victory
When Tessanne Chin won season five of “The Voice” Tuesday, she not only started weeping, she nearly dropped to her knees and let out an unearthly wail. And when the fireworks banged behind her, she...
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Alex & Sierra Win ‘X Factor,’ Naturally
Inevitability doesn’t always rule the day when it comes to singing competitions and home voters. But it did so Thursday on ”The X Factor” finale as the super-cute 22-year-old lovebirds Alex Kinsey and...
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First Rose to the Reluctant on ‘The Bachelor’
I already do not buy the central premise of “The Bachelor” – that people can find long-lasting love on a reality show. So why should I believe it when smarmy host Chris Harrison declares Jean Pablo...
View ArticleWither Randy on New ‘American Idol’?
There’s something very strange about the new season of “American Idol” (Fox, 8 p.m.) that begins tonight with the usual series of auditions, tonight in Austin and Boston. Nobody expected having Randy...
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Juan Pablo’s Own Vietnam
Forty years may be long enough to forget a big war, so there was no mention of the divisive conflict when “The Bachelor” randomly set this week’s episode in Vietnam. At least they didn’t have a...
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‘X Factor’ X-ed Out
Fox cancelled “The X Factor” Friday, after three seasons of disappointing ratings. Hyped as the singing competition that would usurp “American Idol,” the Simon Cowell concoction has consistently been...
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A Bad Birthday on ‘The Bachelor’
Even with weekly roses and on a week ending with Valentine’s Day, “The Bachelor” is still one of the least romantic shows on TV. No matter what exotic location the producers have acquired through...
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Sharleen Quits ‘The Bachelor’
Juan Pablo won’t be coming to Canada anytime soon. Before next week’s hometown visits on ”The Bachelor,” Ottawa’s Sharleen Joynt on Monday did what we hoped scores of women would have had the guts and...
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See You, Cee Lo
Cee Lo Green let it be known Wednesday he would be giving up his spinning chair on “The Voice.” Vertigo, he explained. Actually, he said he had to put in more time to his music career, having not...
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An Unremarkable ‘Idol’ Top 13
“American Idol” came up with its Top 13 finalists Thursday, which as a whole didn’t look like the most promising bunch, dominated by pale guys with guitars and belting women, it looked like females had...
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‘Amazing Race All Stars’ Sheds Worst Team
There is this consolation to the quick elimination of the “Twinnies” on the premiere of “Amazing Race All-Stars” Sunday. You don’t have to hear them yell at one another any more. natalie and Nadiya...
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Ho-Hum Hometown Visits on ‘The Bachelor’
In many ways, the hometown visits make for each season’s most boring episode of ”The Bachelor.” The surviving women all pretty much say the same thing: “I’m so happy to have him here in my own town,...
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Saluting Women Who Bolt ‘The Bachelor’
Why should men be the only one to decide who comes and goes on “The Bachelor”? Surely the women who are assembled for the show have their own feelings whether the person handing out roses is really...
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Women Tell Off Juan Pablo
Host of “The Bachelor” Chris Harrison is used to exaggerating, but when he said Monday “This isn’t like any ‘Women Tell All’ episode I’ve been a part of,” there was a ring of truth of it. Honesty,...
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Olympic Team, Sitcom Stars in ‘Dancing’ Cast
The gold medal winning U.S. ice dancing team of Charlie White and Meryl Davis will split up and compete individually on the 18th season of “Dancing with the Stars” where they would seem to have the...
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Do ‘Idol’ Voters Hate Women?
It gets asked just about every season: Do women have a chance on “American Idol”? Voters seem anxious to vote them off quickly, and soon after the Top 13 were named this season, two women were voted...
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No Love in Ugly ‘Bachelor’ Finale
Juan Pablo Galvais has been turning women off with some regularity on “The Bachelor” all this season. Even on his finale Monday, he said something that so offended one finalist she thought of fleeing....
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‘Dancing’ with the Olympians
It’s not clear what drives newly awarded Olympian medalists to immediately line up to win a cheesy mirror ball on a reality TV show. Are they that competitive? That worried about the next step in their...
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The (New) Worst Person on TV
After putting in full days in trying to inform and interpret Wall Street for investors and viewers, CNBC turns to prime time programming that shows the ugly side of this single-minded pursuit of money....
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Diana Nyad Sinks on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ Sean Avery Also Elbowed Out
She may have been the first person to swim from Florida to Cuba in shark-invested seas, but Diana Nyad couldn’t navigate “Dancing with the Stars” for more than one week, becoming the first person...
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