I failed to properly celebrate National Poetry Day earlier this week, because I was too busy watching reality television. But hey, in a certain sense, this week's Réalité is a love poem: To Maksim Chmerkovskiy's meticulously groomed chest and Natalie ...

  Simon Cowell (along with his fellow X-Factor judges) is getting his own cologne, and my guess is it's going to smell like new money, chest hair, and the Righteous Brothers'

  Holy Tivo, reality TV junkies! It was quite a week for staying glued to the couch, clutching the remote control, and trying to contain one's jaw from dropping like Beyoncé in her

  News that Simon Cowell might bring top-rated British singing competition The X Factor to the U.S. airwaves has me feeling a little skittish. Maybe that's because of my profound and deep-rooted fear of change.* Or maybe it's because over in ...

  Tonight marks the fourth-season finale of Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew (MTV, 9:00 p.m. EDT), and to mark the occasion, the titular producer and American Idol judge got on the phone with EW.com to discuss the AfroBorike-vs.-We Are ...

  Because Kathy Ireland and Macy Gray aren't afraid to respectively liken Dancing With the Stars to a religious experience and virginity loss. Because the girls of the latest cycle of America's Next Top Model are so tragique that they're inspiring ...

  Oh, Chris Sligh. I remember when you first graced my TV screen way back in 2007, a breath of fresh air amongst a crop of season six Idol lookers like Haley Scarnato. Oh, how silly you were, bouncing into that ...

  We have an African-American president and a Hispanic Supreme Court justice, so the next step in the interest of equal-opportunity for positions of national power is clearly to have a blond lady sit next to three dark-haired people and judge ...

  Backstage this year at the Emmy awards, the pressroom was privy to American Idol predictions, shout outs to former Beatles, and some seriously stylish lounging by the stars of Mad Men. Here are the highlights. Live! From the press room! Two and ...

  The sound of Kara DioGuardi's speaking voice and the sound of my soul howling in agony created constant cacophony in my living room during American Idol's eighth season. Week after week after infuriating week, the

  So You Think You Can Dance judge and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe told EW that American Idol

  We all know that Ellen DeGeneres will join American Idol as the fourth judge when TV's No. 1 show returns for season 9, but how did the talk show host and funny woman land the gig? “We went through a lot ...

  We all know that Ellen DeGeneres will join American Idol as the fourth judge when TV's No. 1 show returns in January, but how did the talk show host and funny woman land the gig? “We went through a lot of ...

  The day after boarding a last-minute flight for Dallas to sit in as a guest judge on American Idol, America's Emmy-nominated Neil Patrick Harris sat down and shared a plate of nachos with EW for an upcoming feature. But the ...