So Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey are about to be tossed under the bus once the current season of American Idol ends. That is no big deal, at least for Minaj who came into the competition series at the peak of her career. As evidence of this, Hollywood wants the pop singer to act alongside Cameron Diaz in The Other Woman which is currently in development. The pic stars Diaz as a woman who teams up with her lover’s wife to plot revenge after they discover each other. Supporting stars include Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, and Chicago Fire’s Taylor Kinney. The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes is behind the camera on this one.
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Well, apparently not as Fox reportedly tried their hand at a coup that failed miserably. The broadcaster was all set to replace Mariah Carey with Jennifer Lopez. Yes, Jennifer Lopez the woman who abandoned the show responsible for her career resurgence thinking that all sorts of film deals would come her way. It did not happen as the pop star was fading fast which explains why she would 180 on her stance of wanting nothing to do with American Idol. That said, the deal clearly did not go through because of one reason: Mariah Carey lawyer’d up and that was that. The network backer of American Idol did not want a battle that would undoubtedly drag out bad press for the series for a very long time. What they want to do is get out of this season alive and rip off the band aid of Mariah without much afterthought. Make no doubt about it, that will be happening although it will not occur until the end of the season at which point Jennifer Lopez will likely come in as a replacement for her third turn on the judge’s panel.
It was just last year we were first seeing a chink in AI’s armor as the program lost on occasion to The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family. This was during the midst of the season and therefore was not too big a deal; however, today’s performance is as it comes in below last Thursday’s episode of Big Bang (6.4 18-49/20 million viewers) which was by all accounts a normal showing for the sitcom other than its record-setting audience. Continue Reading
This news follows the actress’ call-in interview via Ryan Seacrest’s radio show where she did not flat out say she was done, but the singer certainly implied it. The pop star is said to be resuming other elements of her career which are presumably more lucrative than the $10-15 million she receives annually from Idol. Hit the jump for the radio call-in interview.
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People in the media must be really sick of American Idol after dominated television for much of the last decade because the major story of the spring has been the demise of the long-running series and nobody has been covering it in the mainstream. The talent competition show might as well have gone extinct as its 3.0 18-49′s is a soft comparison to the 5.0′s and 6.0′s it brought in not so long ago. Not being a viewer myself, I was a bit amazed that Fox would sit on their hands and not try to do anything to “fix” viewership. Maybe there was something I was missing.
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