Tonight on the TiFaux: 7 Minutes in Heaven

Posted by Maggie March 27th, 2007 at 02:07pm In House

Oh, Fox. What will you think of next?

You’re got quite a network there, House

Tonight, in a bid to cling on to viewers who might want to switch over to Dancing with the Stars, Fox is extending American Idol 7 minutes into the 9:00 hour. Although I do think that House — now running 9:07 to 10:07 — is better than DwtS, this seems like such a strong-armed, sleazy method of making people realize that. And I didn’t think it was actually possible for American Idol to get sleazier.

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: Speaking of sleazy, there’s a new contender on the block — Great American Dream Vote. I think it’s trying to be patriotic and stirring, but it sounds to me like a college psych experiment gone horribly wrong. The idea that a mob of people can arbitrarily decide whose dreams can come true and whose aren’t worth it sounds like cruelty to the participants, and it gives the mob a hugely inflated sense of their ability to affect change in the world (i.e., if we vote, we will make a deserving person happy! But only one; the other one can suck it).