They might as well just kill the show now. None of that will fix anything--it will just make things worse.
If Simon and the producers really want to improve ratings, all they have to do is one very simple thing:
GET RID OF THE BEG-A-THON.
It's so obvious! Can't they see that?
They don’t want to admit that the beg a thon is hurting their ratings. I think we need to not watch at all that week. Perhaps if they see that the ratings for the week prior and the week after their beg a thon are higher than the week of their beg a thon, they will finally admit to themselves where one of their main problems is.
That too. I watch AI because it’s totally mindless. I don’t watch it to have big issues crammed down my throat by limo liberals.
I don’t mind the giving to charity. In fact, I think it’s nice But they can do it better and far less offensively than the beg-a-thon.
Take one week’s show, in the middle of the season, and have the Idols all perform live at the Kodak, and have every seat’s admission go to charity. That Idol concert here in L.A. was sold out at Ticketmaster and now the good seats are going for upwards of $300, just since yesterday when they went on sale.
Oh, and send no one home that week!