{"id":174684,"date":"2010-01-13T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88597"},"modified":"2010-01-13T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:52:25","slug":"%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-season-9-premieres-to-29-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/174684","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Season 9 Premieres To 29 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Idol&#8217;s<\/em> still tops on the tube. Tuesday night&#8217;s return <em>American Idol<\/em>, now in its ninth season, pulled in 29.8 million viewers between 8pm and 10pm last night, according to early estimates.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kCUywJdZ9H0&#038;color1=0xcc2550&#038;color2=0xe87a9f&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kCUywJdZ9H0&#038;color1=0xcc2550&#038;color2=0xe87a9f&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Boston auditions, which featured former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham as a guest judge, peaked with 32.32m in the half hour from 9 PM. Overall, the audience was almost in line with last year&#8217;s Jan. 13 opener, which drew 30.4 million. <\/p>\n<p>The new season of FOX&#8217;s <em>Idol<\/em> will be the series&#8217; first without veteran judge Paula Abdul and the last with acid-tongued Brit Simon Cowell. Cowell will leave the program in May to develop an American adaptation of his UK talent show, <em>The X Factor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vA48Ya4oOqhiXjpnHET-rjaSc7k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vA48Ya4oOqhiXjpnHET-rjaSc7k\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vA48Ya4oOqhiXjpnHET-rjaSc7k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vA48Ya4oOqhiXjpnHET-rjaSc7k\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idol&#8217;s still tops on the tube. Tuesday night&#8217;s return American Idol, now in its ninth season, pulled in 29.8 million viewers between 8pm and 10pm last night, according to early estimates. This year&#8217;s Boston auditions, which featured former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham as a guest judge, peaked with 32.32m in the half hour from 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}