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Did "American Idol" become boring overnight?

By Tung Yin

Last night, I fired up my TiVo and started watching the "American Idol" performance show.  It was country music night, which was not a good thing for me.  I'll admit, when it comes to country music, Shania Twain, some of Martina McBride, and current Taylor Swift are about as adventurous as I get.  But geez, after one and a half performances, I abandoned "AI" and decided to watch "Castle" instead.

Yeah, there's nothing special about "Castle" -- it's another police procedural/mismatched "buddy" series -- but the interaction between Nathan Fillion as annoying crime writer Richard Castle and Stana Katic as exasperated police detective Kate Beckett is pretty entertaining.  It looks like it's dropping a lot of its lead-in from "Dancing with the Stars," though, so it may not be long for this world.

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).