Idol ratings for yesterday way up! Gee, I wonder why.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content...c0aba30edd78d5f

A one-hour version of American Idol stood well above the competition, with a 16.6 rating/24 share at 8 p.m. Comparably, and completely unprecedented, was growth for Idol over the year-ago telecast (12.5/18 on Jan. 20, 2009) of 33 percent. Never in the history of television has a veteran season nine series posted gains this large from the year-ago period. That led into a repeat of the pilot of Human Target, which finished third at 9 p.m. with a 5.8/ 9.


With that said, I thought Shania did AMAZING. I could see her being a judge on Idol or X Factor full time. She was outstanding.