Brian Damage
12-22-2007, 10:11 AM
FOX has unveiled the roll-out schedule for the seventh season of American Idol. As announced, the series bows with a two-night, two hours each, premiere on January 15th and 16th. After that it settles down to its usual one hour episodes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays until the "Hollywood Rounds" on February 12th and 13th, with the Top 24 announced on the 13th. That's one month, ten episodes and 13 hours before we get to the Top 24!
From February 19-March 6 we go to three nights a week with the boys performing on Tuesdays, the girls on Wednesdays and the bottom two voted off each Thursday. And finally on March 11th, after two months on the air, the Top 12 perform and the show really gets going! From there it's two nights a week in the usual format, with extended episodes when FOX wants more ratings (and don't forget Idol Gives Back on April 9). The full schedule breakdown after the jump.
The first month will feature the best and worst of the preliminary auditions held in San Diego, Dallas, Omaha, Atlanta, Charleston, Miami and Philadelphia earlier this year. Admittedly this is the "guilty pleasure" portion of the show, with some of the most amazingly god-awful singers this planet has ever spawned.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/12/21/fox-details-american-idol-rollout/
From February 19-March 6 we go to three nights a week with the boys performing on Tuesdays, the girls on Wednesdays and the bottom two voted off each Thursday. And finally on March 11th, after two months on the air, the Top 12 perform and the show really gets going! From there it's two nights a week in the usual format, with extended episodes when FOX wants more ratings (and don't forget Idol Gives Back on April 9). The full schedule breakdown after the jump.
The first month will feature the best and worst of the preliminary auditions held in San Diego, Dallas, Omaha, Atlanta, Charleston, Miami and Philadelphia earlier this year. Admittedly this is the "guilty pleasure" portion of the show, with some of the most amazingly god-awful singers this planet has ever spawned.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/12/21/fox-details-american-idol-rollout/