Entries tagged with "nerdiness"

I'm out of it for a little while, and everybody gets delusions of grandeur.

posted by srah on January 17, 2008 5:09 PM

Tags: american idol, american idol 7, nerdiness, tv, writers' strike

Fox was apparently surprised and dismayed to find that the viewership numbers for American Idol are down this year. Fox had assumed that the writers' strike would mean that more people would turn to reality television, but from everything I've seen and heard anecdotally, it sounds like more people are turning to Netflix and to Doing Other Stuff. I have turned to the Internet, to my local library's DVD/video collections and to Not Procrastinating. It might help if Fox's advertising approach were something other than "It's the only thing on!" I watched part of Tuesday's episode and decided that was...