After 132 million votes, Phillip Phillips is the winner of American Idol season 11. The finale was a total talent blowout. Cars were given to the top two (and their mentors), a number of bedazzled spandex bodysuits were rocked, and Jane Lynch was in the audience! Steven Tyler showed off his sloth and Idol alums Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo even got engaged on stage! But let's talk music. Phillip Read more

It's been a long trek, American Idol watchers. Months after the initial search began, we've finally made it to finals week. If I feel this exhausted, then I can't imagine how finalists Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips feel, especially after the three performances they each had to rock before the last round of voting. As Jennifer Lopez noted tonight, our final two could not be more different. Read more

Joshua Ledet has been let go of season 11 of American Idol. I don't know about you, but I just overreacted a little bit. My neighbors might come over and check to make sure if I'm all right after the shriek that I let out when Ryan announced Phillip Phillips would be joining Jessica Sanchez at next week's finale. Admittedly, I haven't been championing Joshua over the past couple weeks, but that's Read more

This is it, y'all. There are only three finalists remaining on season 11 of American Idol. Not only did we get several performances from the top three this week, it was also hometown visit week! But first, Joshua got the party started with some Etta James then Jessica came out and gave a beautiful but totally boring rendition of Mariah's "My All." Phil Phillips got all Dave Matthews-y on Read more

How I Met Your Mother's season seven finale brings us one step closer to finding out who the mother is, but the more important coupling highlighted on the episode has nothing to do with Ted. We finally see whom Barney marries — and it's Robin! The season has been building up to this big reveal, tossing us a few red herrings, like his relationship with Quinn, to whom he proposed in the finale. Read more

Hollie Cavanagh is the latest casualty of American Idol, and I can't say we didn't see this one coming. This week wasn't her strongest week, and her song choices didn't quite impress the judges — or Jimmy Iovine, who openly criticized her lack of connection to the songs she selected. To be fair, she's up against some solid competition. Jessica Sanchez and Joshua Ledet have been getting nothing Read more

It's official: Britney Spears has signed a deal with Fox to be a judge on the upcoming season of The X Factor. Spears will be joining existing coaches Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid for the show, which is set to air in the Fall. It seems music competitions have been pulling bigger and bigger names to their shows as of late, with Christina Aguilera currently set to return for a third season of The Read more

We had a dual theme this week on American Idol. "California Dreaming" — which essentially meant songs about California, written by artists from California, or songs that were written in or around the state of California — was the first, followed by a round of songs that the contestants "wished they had written." Phillip Phillips started off the show with CCR's classic "Have You Ever Seen the Read more

After a hard fought season, Jermaine Paul has won season two of The Voice. It was a touching moment when Carson Daly called his name, and no one was more emotional than Jermaine, crying as he sang his anthem from last night, "I Believe I Can Fly," as the final performance of the season. So close was the race, in fact, that Carson noted that a mere four percentage points separated Jermaine and the Read more

There was some bittersweet irony on the American Idol stage tonight as the show's biggest country star, Carrie Underwood, returned to her old stomping grounds to perform a song off her new album. Minutes later, this season's country crooner, Skylar Laine, was sent packing. Mentor Jimmy Iovine was on hand with some commentary, and it appears he just thought Skylar was confused by her songs, Read more