kelly pickler

A lot of viewers thought this season's American Idol gave us the weakest, blandest pool of contestants ever. It was a complaint I heard almost daily while blogging about Idol for TV Squad.

Producer Nigel Lythgoe obviously heard the same complaint, and he addressed the issue directly during the TCA Press Tour, admitting that mistakes were made.

We tried a couple of weeks ago to get an American Idol chat going, but we didn't have too many that turned out for the show. See, I thought that making fun of the horrible contestants was the best part of the show, and everyone else would want to join my snarky butt in doing so. I, was apparently wrong. With tonight's start of the voting rounds of the show though, we thought we'd give the chat another go round. So come back here at 8pm and check in, that's when we'll unveil the location of the super secreat chat room. Which of the 12 girls is going to shine tonight? I'll see you at 8 pm tonight and we'll find out together.