{"id":307128,"date":"2010-02-11T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:33:51","slug":"judging-the-idol-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307128","title":{"rendered":"Judging the Idol Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Idol judges aren\u2019t the only ones doing the judging this season.\u00a0 Ellen DeGeneres joined Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi at the judges table this week.\u00a0\u00a0It seems everyone is weighing in on the new panelist.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/4011990\/ellen-debuts-as-idol-judge?category_id=86874\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> to see clips from her debut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11240\" title=\"TV American Idol\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/02\/Idol-judges-259x182.jpg\" alt=\"TV American Idol\" width=\"259\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the web, one headline reads \u201cEllen DeGeneres Hits High Notes.\u201d\u00a0 Another blasts her style, stating, &#8220;DeGeneres\u00a0Is One Victim\u00a0In A Long Line Of Denim-On-Denim.&#8221;\u00a0Despite the fashion-bashing, most of the headlines are about her performance, and almost all seem to be positive.<\/p>\n<p>There are also plenty of online polls about DeGeneres\u2019 first week on Idol.\u00a0 One poll, conducted by USA Today, garnered more than 5,000 votes.\u00a0 Of those, 41% called DeGeneres \u201cfantastic.\u201d\u00a0 Another 15% called her \u201ca disappointment.\u201d\u00a0 The rest fell somewhere in between.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are the ratings.\u00a0 DeGeneres&#8217; debut as an\u00a0&#8220;American Idol&#8221; judge drew the series&#8217; biggest audience since its season premiere. \u00a0With 27.7 million viewers \u2013 viewership was up 10% from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>In other DeGeneres news, its been reported that her daytime talk show has been renewed\u00a0and will air for at least\u00a03 more years on NBC stations.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s time for YOU to share your thoughts.\u00a0 Are you watching American Idol this season?\u00a0 What do you think of the current judging panel?\u00a0 Is Ellen DeGeneres a strong addition to the show?\u00a0 Click \u201ccomments\u201d below to weigh in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Idol judges aren\u2019t the only ones doing the judging this season.\u00a0 Ellen DeGeneres joined Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi at the judges table this week.\u00a0\u00a0It seems everyone is weighing in on the new panelist.\u00a0 Click here to see clips from her debut. On the web, one headline reads \u201cEllen DeGeneres Hits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307128","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\/4532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}