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The pop-punk turned slightly country princess, Cassadee Pope, was crowned tonight’s season 3 winner of NBC’s The Voice.
The twenty-three year old West Palm Beach native left her band, Hey Monday, in hopes of breaking out as a solo artist. Tonight, Cassadee’s dreams were fulfilled as host Carson Daly announced she is the winner of a recording contract and $100,000.
Cassadee’s fellow member of Team Blake, Terry McDermott, came in second, while Team Cee Lo’s Nicholas David took third. | Full Story
“It’s Elementary, My dear America”
- CBS to the nation when annoucing which show will follow the 2013 Super Bowl
CBS has officially announced that a new episode of Elementary, starring Lucy Liu and Johnny Lee Miller will air post Super Bowl XLVII. It’s no secret that this time slot following the nation’s biggest televised sporting event is highly coveted and sure to bring in high volumes of viewers. Hit scripted shows like Fox’s Glee and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy have earned the spot in recent years. | Full Story
Just before X Factor and The Voice are set to air their season premieres, the rivalry between the two music competition shows has reached fever pitch.
In a move apparently aimed at sabotaging the The X Factor’s September 12th Season 2 opener, NBC announced it would air a special Wednesday installment of The Voice next week.
Following the announcement, X Factor creator, Simon Cowell, responded with some harsh words, citing a “gentleman’s agreement” between programs. | Full Story
On Tuesday night, The Voice declared Jermaine Paul the winner of NBC’s singing competition, after a very eventful season.
Following a night full of spectacular singing performances that brought back many of the contestants that didn’t make the final four, the moment had come to announce who would be the Season 2 winner of The Voice.
Paul, a 33-year-old background singer from Harriman, N.Y. could hardly fight back tears when he found out that he would be awarded the grand prize of $100,000 and a new record deal with Universal. The newly crowned champion, who was mentored by country singer Blake Shelton during the season, told the audience, “I just want to say thank you to everybody that supported me from day one”. | Full Story
Tony Lucca has been taking heat on The Voice from his fellow former Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer, Christina Aguilera, all season long.
He certainly made the matter worse when he recited “I got 99 problems but a b–– ain’t one” while covering Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” during his last performance on The Voice Monday night.
Aguilera may have even thought Lucca was directing the line at her?
“Your beautiful wife and your daughter and family are here tonight, and I just thought the lyrical connotation was a little derogatory towards women,” she told Lucca during her critique of his performance. | Full Story
NBC’s “The Voice” and “Smash” earned big numbers in their Monday night debut, making the network the top dog of the night again after Super Bowl Sunday.
Season 2 Of “The Voice” is off to a very good start. Sunday’s post Super Bowl premier took full advantage of the strategic timeslot, earning a 16.3 rating and 36.7 million total viewers. These numbers made the show the highest-rated entertainment broadcast in six years. | Full Story
It’s completely foreign for a contestant on”The Voice” to stand up to the coaches – usually, the coaches just bicker amongst each other. But when 33-year-old Jermaine Paul, a former backup singer for Alicia Keys, hit the stage, he did just that.
He was discovered by Keys when he sang to her at a nightclub, and she hired him to tour the world with her.
“I’ve been able to open up for her all around the world, but ‘The Voice’ is my opportunity to … be Jermaine Paul, I feel like it’s my time. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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