Although FOX has yet to confirm, The Hollywood Reporter says that this season, the final season, of American Idol, will be four weeks shorter than last year.
THR reports that Trish Kinane, who shares showrunning duties with Fox executive vp David Hill, acknowledges, “The storytelling works better in [fewer] weeks.” The problem, surmises Kinane, is that during its heyday, “Idol was so successful [that the season] got too extended too much. There are only so many hours that Âviewers will devote to watching these shows, so if it is shorter this year, it will be a good thing.”
Despite the declining ratings, American Idol‘s numbers are still good, when compared to other non-scripted entertainment. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we see a re-boot at some point.
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913. Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a White passenger, once the "White" section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws. The federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted in a November 1956 decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Parks's act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the civil rights movement. Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment on the east side of Detroit. -
