Adam Lambert performs with Kiss on American Idol finale.

Well, another season of  American Idol has come and gone.  Your winner, after an alleged record setting almost 100,000,000 votes,  is:  THE GUY WHO ISN’T ADAM LAMBERT!!!  Oh,  yeah,  Kris Allen is his name.  Judge Simon Cowell had said that if Adam Lambert did not make it to the “Finals”, then it would have been one of the biggest upsets in the show’s history.  Well, Adam, of course made it to the finals along with season-long  “dark horse”,  um,  what was his name again?  Oh, yeah, Kris Allen.  Well,  after sitting through almost 2 hours of  musical guests and performances by the  “Final 10″, who will be coming to a town near you, we got the results.  Adam Lambert did not win.  Simon Cowell himself,  did not even stand with Randy, Paula or Kara for the ovation when Kris Allen’s name was announced as the winner Wednesday night.  I could see the look of disappointment on Simon’s face as he sat there.  This show is not about who has the best talent anymore.  I cannot wait to hear what Simon has to say.  I would not blame him if he just walked off the show, period.  Let’s see the other three judges handle it without him.  We know Kara will be back next season.

I know there are certain people and websites out there that are loving every minute of  Adam Lambert’s  loss, and you know who you are!   If  the fact that Adam Lambert is “Allegedly” homosexual, or the pictures that surfaced of him on the internet had any effect on the outcome,  we’ll probably never know,  but  it definately was NOT because of his singing that he came in second.  There were two highlights in Wednesday night’s show for me.  Adam Lambert singing with rock icons  KISS and Adam Lambert singing with the legendary  group “QUEEN”.   But, for the most part,  the usual time wasting drivel the show is known for.  As host Ryan Seacrest said at the end of Tuesday night’s performance finale,  “Wednesday’s show will go long, so those of you who record it, make sure you set your DVRs accordingly”.   And, of course, it went long.  Again.

Kris Allen may be 2009’s American Idol,  and I wish him every success,  but Adam, if you ever see this blog, coming in second ain’t so bad.   Can you say Clay Aiken???

Happy viewing!

Michael Queenstown

And the winner is! NOT ADAM LAMBERT!!

Last night fox viewed a sneak peek pilot episode for the show Glee. While the advertising hyped it at maximum velocity, when it finally arrived, we were pleasantly suprised.

Despite losing more than half of “AI” viewers, we hope enough people tuned in to come back when it is officially on the fall schedule.

A few things we absolutely loved about this show:

Uniqueness, no show has ever found a really good way to represent “Glee Club”.

The Acting: The acting in this show is first class, you really felt for the characters, you laughed at their ackwardness, and felt sorry for those characters that were less fortunate.

The Music: Wow, after the show was over we couldn’t get that “Don’t Stop Beliveing” song out our heads, but that wasn’t the only highlight, the rest of the music was equally intriguing. This hopefully will be a show aimed at the 35-45 year old’s, that actually remember the originals.

So with these three key ingredients in the rinse how could you go wrong? Then add some great drama, and comedy and we smell hit.

WAKE UP America, stop tuning into dribble like ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” and move up to the “90210″ meets “That 70’s Show” meets “Grease”. We give this 5 kisses and can’t wait till the fall!

~Gina Clark

Cast of Glee

Lee Michele

Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 (Fox, 2009)

And the winner is Danny!

This season of HK started off looking more promising then the previous two seasons, but after watching the finale last night it made us wonder. Will future seasons add anything new to the show? Will we get villian contestants like Lacey? Surely anything is possible…

This season as a whole had a few suprises that were nice to see, but the finale was agonizing. The last 10 minutes of show and build up was so predictable and seeing Gordon Ramsey play acting was almost as bad as the build up “open your door”. From the overly saturated music, to the flash clips, then the picture wall, yep Danny got to put his oversized picture on the wall, left us feeling a bit deflated.

Let’s stop going on about the season finale, and just say that this season had some really great weeks in it. We loved Lacey, who wouldn’t? Our girl L.A should have won outright though. It would have also been nice to see if Robert made it into the finale, but his illness wouldn’t allow it. The other contestants in this years season also provided some good interactions with Ramsey himself, did he keep Seth on so long to amuse himself?

In closing we will look forward another new season, because it’s just so satisfying to see and hear Ramsey yell, “Donkey!” two inches from a contestants face…Ah fine dining indeed. ~Gina Clark

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