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6 June 2008 10:38 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Fox plans to kick off its fall season on September 1 with a series of nightly two-hour season premieres. (Fox airs only two hours of primetime programming on weekdays, versus three on the other major networks.) The season gets under way with a two-hour permiere of Prison Break on Monday, Bones on Wednesday, The Moment of Truth on Thursday and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on Friday. The following Tuesday, Fox plans to launch its new J.J. Abrams-produced Fringe with a two-hour series premiere.

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12 March 2008 12:14 PM, PDT | From buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news

American Idol's Top 12 is about to be reduced to 11.  It's the first single elimination Results Show of the season and, really, I'm not looking forward to it.  These episodes drag on forever, and will especially do so now that Fox and American Idol decided to extend all Results Shows from a half hour to a full hour.  So, to recap, now American Idol will spend an hour doing what could be done in five minutes.  Ech.  After the mildly impressive Beatles Night yesterday, these are the contenders to go home tonight – Kristy Lee Cook, David Hernandez, Syesha Mercado and Ramiele Malubay.  My prediction for the bottom three is this: Kristy Lee Cook, David Hernandez and Syesha Mercado, with Syesha getting the ticket home.  I'll be here throughout the episode to give live updates as the show moves along.

I can't even watch these promos for The Moment of Truth.

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11 March 2008 12:01 PM, PDT | From buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news

It's here: Beatles Night on American Idol.  I've been waiting with both excited anticipation and sheer dread for the Top 12 to perform tunes from the legendary Lennon/McCartney songbook (I doubt anyone will do a George Harrison song – maybe “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” or “Taxman”).  I have no doubt that at least a couple of The Beatles songs will be butchered tonight, but I also am optimistic that we'll hear a handful or worthy covers.  The simple truth is that almost every Beatles song is a great song, which makes it that much easier for the American Idol hopefuls to concoct a good arrangement.  Word on the street is that Emi/Capitol/Michael Jackson/Apple/whatever only released 25 Beatles songs for the Idols to choose from tonight.  This bothered me at first, but let's be honest – they're all exceptional pieces of music and 25 is more than enough to choose from.

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31 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Ratings for Fox's The Moment of Truth fell to a 10.4 rating and a 6 share Wednesday night, down from last week's 12.9/19, but they nevertheless represented the second-highest numbers of the night, behind lead-in American Idol, which scored another impressive 14.4/22. The results for Truth are also likely to keep it in Nielsen's top ten when results for the week are announced.

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30 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Fox had no NFL playoffs to buoy its ratings last week, but it did have American Idol, and even though the talent contest's ratings were somewhat off from what they were a year ago, they still looked better than anything else in sight, as Tuesday and Wednesday's telecasts finished first and second for the week among overall viewers and those 18-49. A rerun of Fox's House also crushed the competition on Tuesday night. Overall, Fox averaged a 6.9 rating and an 11 share for the week. CBS followed with a 6.1/10. NBC came in third with a 5.1/8, while ABC trailed with a 4.4/7. The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research: 1. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 16.2/24; 2. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 15.1/23; 3. Moment of Truth, Fox, 12.9/19; 4. 60 Minutes, CBS, 9.5/15; 5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 8.6/13; 5. Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Russell Girl, CBS, 8.6/13; 7. Deal or No Deal, (Monday), NBC, 8.5/13; 7. Deal or No Deal (Wednesday), NBC, 8.5/13; 7. House, Fox, 8.5/13; 10. Law and Order: SVU, NBC, 8.4/14.

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24 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Fox's The Moment of Truth from reality-show producer Mike Darnell, in which contestants are hooked up to lie detectors, drew the highest ratings of any new show of the season Wednesday night, posting a 13.1 rating and a 20 share in the 9:00 p.m. hour, following an audition episode of American Idol. (The Idol episode pulled a 15.3/23 at 8:00 p.m., down 16 percent from the comparable night a year ago.) But if the ratings were the best of the season, reviews were likely the worst. Max Roush in TV Guide wrote: "Who with a brain or a soul could do anything but despise Fox's new bottom-of-the-reality-barrel time-waster, which turned out to be as dull as it was degrading?" Adam Buckman in the New York Post called it "a slow-paced bore." Mark Perigard in the Boston Herald described it as "cringe-worthy." And at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, journalism student Bassem Etim, writing in the student newspaper, the Badger Herald, pronounced it, "the beginning of the end of TV as we know it."

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