American Idol 10: Casey Abrams Goes Home for Good This Time

The real shocker of tonight’s American Idol live elimination show was that Haley Reinhart was the first one sent to the top five. The rest would have painfully wait with us, as Ryan Seacrest clumsily stretched 15 minutes worth of material into an hour. It was rough. When the votes were finally revealed, it was Casey Abrams who performed a sexy swan song as he left the Idol stage in sixth place.

Steven Tyler was given props to start the night, for being on the cover of two magazines right now. “I may be good, but when I’m bad I’m better!” Tyler told Seacrest.

Video of Casey's "I Put a Spell on You" below!

American Idol 10: Carole King Week Goes to James Durbin & Scotty McCreery

Tonight the final six contestants on American Idol season 10 sang songs from the library of Carole King. I was afraid it would be a yawn-fest, even though I like most of her songs. It’s not a good genre for these young singers. It was not as bad as I feared. In fact, James Durbin and Scotty McCreery managed to have really good performances, again. Hopefully we’ll get the country vs. rock showdown it looks like we are headed for in the finals.

Just for filler, Idol producers gave us duets tonight too. Yay. So, mixed in with the regular top six performances we saw: Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams, Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery, Jacob Lusk and a less than thrilled looking James Durbin.

Kenny “Baby Face” Edmonds joined with Jimmy Iovine to mentor the Idol hopefuls. He definitely pointed them in the right direction.

What’s on Network TV Tonight? (Thursday 3/10/11)

Thursdays are a little strange for me now that Survivor has moved to Wednesday nights on network TV. One thing we can count on though, someone’s going home from American Idol. There is comedy and a little bit of drama for those that aren’t into reality TV.

Here’s what’s on network TV tonight:

ABC
8/7c: Wipeout - rerun

10/9c: Grey’s Anatomy - rerun

CBS
8/7c: The Big Bang Theory - new episode