Poll Idol contest gets under way
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Contestants line up for ITV's first Pop Idol-style competition to find a member of the public to stand for Parliament.
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Fox's "American Idol" returned as the nation's most popular TV series, but with 4 million fewer viewers than the 2007 season premiere. Tuesday's debut was seen by 33.4 million viewers, down 11 percent from the 37.4 million who watched the first show, according to preliminary ratings by Nielsen Media Research.
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Rules for the Dev Anand contest.
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By Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 6--This week's episodes of "American Idol" nearly didn't happen for  some Pittsburgh fans.
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Can search term data predict the next American Idol?
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Life after not winning American Idol may not be   all Grammy Awards and People magazine covers, but the show's   also-rans seem to be holding their own.
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WASHINGTON - They came with their wraparound shades, hair-styling tools and other items essential for a shot at fame. Thousands of people, many appearing to be teenagers or in their twenties, flooded into the Washington Convention Center this week to audition for Fox's popular "American Idol."   Candidates began arriving Monday morning - two days before the start of auditions - for a chance to win a spot on the television reality program that makes stars out of its winners...
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As the 2004 election approaches, groups everywhere are springing into action to get the word out about their candidate. But one group is already in the spotlight: musicians and rockers who come out to support the party.
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Blah. If any word were to sum up this year's mostly bland and sometimes unwatchable batch of "Idol" contestants, that'd be it. Sure, there are some standouts &#151; sweet-natured former backup singer Melinda Doolittle, big-voiced belter LaKisha Jones and cocksure beatboxer Blake Lewis are shoo-ins to face off in the weeks before the Fox talent show's big May finale. Each are confident, worthy performers &#151; yet they don't leave you wanting more.
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Yes, American Idol will air three times this week. But is that really enough?
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Campaigning is under way in upper house polls seen as a key test for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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WASHINGTON -- &quot;American Idol&quot; continues to hack away at the dreams of thousands of singers in Washington.
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The 2004 Miss World is about to be chosen - and for the first time TV audiences will be taking part. They can vote for their favourite beauties by phone, SMS text messaging, TV remote control and online.
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Fans of "American Idol," U.S. TV's most popular program, on Thursday gave their backing to a female contestant purportedly shown in some X-rated Internet photos, voting to keep her on the show.
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"American Idol" is poised to set  ratings records when Fox's talent show returns to the airwaves  with a four-hour season premiere on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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In a quick post to his blog, Lukas Smith notes his support of the recent announcement of the PEAR elections.   I am confident that both of the proposals will help in improving collaboration in PEAR, mainly because they basically provide the same organization we used to have for all of PEAR (which worked great in the beginning), now for categories of related packages.   He reasons that, since PEAR is such a huge project, it needs this kind of approach - a method to the madness - to help keep the project on the right path.
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Candidate is first to appear in a joint MySpace-MTV forum that will take questions over instant messenger and lets netizens vote on his answers.