Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Canada's CBC Calls Cops On "Idol"
This is pretty amusing. In Canada, the CBC has a huge fiasco on its hands after investing heavily in ABC's now-legendary flop reality show "The One: Making A Music Star," its ripoff of "American Idol." Now, a CBC staffer has been caught out for calling the cops with a complaint that a live taping of "Canadian Idol" across the street from the CBC was proving too noisy and boisterous. Their show can't get arrested, but they must have hoped "Idol" would be.
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Hey Michael: The Globe and Mail has been having a great time sticking it to the CBC over "The One" mess. Hey, it's the dog days of summer and we all need a diversion! And it also gives them a great excuse to tout Canadian Idol, which airs on CTV and is owned by the same company which publishes The Globe and Mail. Gotta love convergance...
Well, that puts the end to that: From Media Life:
The One’ is done: ABC yanks second reality show
This may be the least surprising cancellation in recent history: ABC has yanked “The One: Making a Music Star” after two weeks of increasingly disastrous outings that produced some of the worst ratings in the network’s history. Wednesday’s results show averaged just a 1.0 in adults 18-49, the second-lowest regularly scheduled telecast on the network since 1991. That came after the show had the lowest-rated premiere in network history last week. “One” averaged a 1.0 over four performance and results shows. ABC has not yet decided what to slot in its place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The “American Idol” wannabe is the second show ABC has canned this summer, following “How to Get the Girl” earlier this month. It the third show overall to get the boot on broadcast this summer; CBS’s “Tuesday Night Book Club” was the first.
And now it's "uncertain" whether the Canadian version will continue, though they argue the UK version took a while to catch on and now it's gone through multiple seasons. My guess is it isn't worth the bother but they'd be too ashamed to NOT do it.
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