Nine weeks, a ton of performances and one winner. Unlike previous weeks of "Duets," we won't know the results until the end of the night. Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Nettles -- the only superstars still left with their amateurs -- sing a rendition of "Would I Lie To You." Despite Kelly's casual black flats, the performance was still spicy and I couldn't be happier to watch the female superstars sing. After the performance, Quddus gives us a rundown of the show: All the amateurs (including those voted off) have come back, the final three will give one last performance, and at the end of the night, America will have its winner.
The show brings back Bridget Carrington, the last female amateur standing to sing with her duet partner John Legend. The pair sing The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and Bridget sure showed America who they voted off. I didn't...
The show brings back Bridget Carrington, the last female amateur standing to sing with her duet partner John Legend. The pair sing The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and Bridget sure showed America who they voted off. I didn't...
- 7/20/2012
- by Kimberly Nagaran
- Aol TV.
Duets went live last week, and America voted for their favorites for the first time. But of course, that always means someone's going to come in at the bottom! So here we go... who's going to go home, and which of the final four will impress? Of course, our superstars love to put on a show, so we kick off the episode with a Jennifer Nettles-Robin Thicke performance of 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'. But then it's straight into the nitty gritty - who's going home? Saying goodbye... The amateurs take to the stage - they're all still hoping to get that recording contract with Hollywood Records, but not all of them can win! First to find out his fate is Jason Farol... and he's safe! So are J Rome and John Glosson, leaving our female contestants Olivia Chisholm and Bridget Carrington in the bottom two. "We'll...
- 7/6/2012
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Remember that time a suddenly blonde Kelly Clarkson covered “Freedom ’90″ and you went out of your mind with elation? Okay, that was last night on ABC’s Duets, and by “you,” I actually mean “me.” Plus, Kelly was actually part of a quartet with her fellow mentors Jennifer Nettles, John Legend, and Robin Thicke. But still, it was a brilliant move on the part of the show’s producers for the first live episode of the season: Reminding reality TV fans that Duets can deliver a weekly dose of the original American Idol is as obvious and easy as a...
- 6/29/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, here are some queries we’re going to lob at you, from shows including So You Think You Can Dance, Today, True Blood and Falling Skies!
1 | Say what you will about Ann Curry, but doesn’t the exiting Today co-host deserves props for having the moral fiber to show up for work on Thursday and Friday? (But could you blame her if she didn’t, after a “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” graphic flashed on-screen during one of her segments?!)
2 | Did Fairly Legal make...
1 | Say what you will about Ann Curry, but doesn’t the exiting Today co-host deserves props for having the moral fiber to show up for work on Thursday and Friday? (But could you blame her if she didn’t, after a “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” graphic flashed on-screen during one of her segments?!)
2 | Did Fairly Legal make...
- 6/22/2012
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
Memo to Duets‘ “superstar” mentors: Please stop telling each week’s Bottom 2 contestants that it doesn’t matter if they get booted, that their participation on ABC’s summer reality series is only the beginning of their careers in the music biz. Sure, such soothing talk cushions the blow of elimination (or near-elimination) and it may even be true, but as a viewer, it adds to the low-stakes vibe that’s pervaded this show ever since it tossed the first two weeks of scores into the dumpster (right next to Gcb) and never mentioned ‘em again.
At the rate the show is going,...
At the rate the show is going,...
- 6/21/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
This week's performances on "Duets" brought us straight to the movies -- with one not-so-happy ending for an amateur. Our trustee host, Quddus reminds the viewers that next week, the show goes live. The superstars do their best to get the best five out on the stage for America -- because clearly we know better than four award-winning artists. Let's go to the movie performances!
John Glosson and Jennifer Nettles
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Titanic" was a drama, but Jennifer and John were all laughs while rehearsing for this ballad. Robin had a problem with John's dance moves last week, so John suggests a little baton twirling? He was kidding (thank goodness), but John and Jennifer nailed the song's emotion, even earning another one of Kelly's love/hate comments: "I can't stand you." Robin loved that he "sings from his heart," which led to Jennifer's "Thanks, boo." John thought it was fabulous.
John Glosson and Jennifer Nettles
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Titanic" was a drama, but Jennifer and John were all laughs while rehearsing for this ballad. Robin had a problem with John's dance moves last week, so John suggests a little baton twirling? He was kidding (thank goodness), but John and Jennifer nailed the song's emotion, even earning another one of Kelly's love/hate comments: "I can't stand you." Robin loved that he "sings from his heart," which led to Jennifer's "Thanks, boo." John thought it was fabulous.
- 6/21/2012
- by Kimberly Nagaran
- Aol TV.
This week's performances on "Duets" brought us straight to the movies -- with one not-so-happy ending for an amateur. Our trustee host, Quddus reminds the viewers that next week, the show goes live. The superstars do their best to get the best five out on the stage for America -- because clearly we know better than four award-winning artists. Let's go to the movie performances!
John Glosson and Jennifer Nettles
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Titanic" was a drama, but Jennifer and John were all laughs while rehearsing for this ballad. Robin had a problem with John's dance moves last week, so John suggests a little baton twirling? He was kidding (thank goodness), but John and Jennifer nailed the song's emotion, even earning another one of Kelly's love/hate comments: "I can't stand you." Robin loved that he "sings from his heart," which led to Jennifer's "Thanks, boo." John thought it was fabulous.
John Glosson and Jennifer Nettles
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Titanic" was a drama, but Jennifer and John were all laughs while rehearsing for this ballad. Robin had a problem with John's dance moves last week, so John suggests a little baton twirling? He was kidding (thank goodness), but John and Jennifer nailed the song's emotion, even earning another one of Kelly's love/hate comments: "I can't stand you." Robin loved that he "sings from his heart," which led to Jennifer's "Thanks, boo." John thought it was fabulous.
- 6/21/2012
- by Jaimie Etkin
- Aol TV.
Duets is a little like the lamb chop I had for dinner last night: Perfectly lovely summer weeknight fare, but with tiny morsels that get stuck in your teeth and drive you loopy hours after the meal is over.
Central to the show’s irksomeness is the wretched/”secret” scoring system where the three judges not on stage anonymously enter not one, but two scores for the fourth judge’s amateur partner — is it my imagination, or was the announcement of separate scores for “performance” and “presentation” a new development in the show’s ongoing, haphazard evolution? After that, the...
Central to the show’s irksomeness is the wretched/”secret” scoring system where the three judges not on stage anonymously enter not one, but two scores for the fourth judge’s amateur partner — is it my imagination, or was the announcement of separate scores for “performance” and “presentation” a new development in the show’s ongoing, haphazard evolution? After that, the...
- 6/14/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
The theme for this week's "Duets" is Party Songs, which ... should prove interesting, since those don't tend to have much harmony going on.
One more finalist is going home this week, which means we get another a capella sing-off and then the group is whittled down to six. Unless Olivia Chisholm really steps it up this week, she's our vote to leave.
1. Kelly and Jason, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," Rolling Stones
Jason has such nice tone, we hope he can pull one out this week. When they start, he's a little thin, but he ramps it up pretty quickly and it's better, but then he starts verse two and it's thin again. It's like he needs Kelly for confidence, because he's pretty weak without her. And when she sings alone, she draws attention to how weak he was because she's so awesome. Hmph. Definitely better than last week, especially his stage presence,...
One more finalist is going home this week, which means we get another a capella sing-off and then the group is whittled down to six. Unless Olivia Chisholm really steps it up this week, she's our vote to leave.
1. Kelly and Jason, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," Rolling Stones
Jason has such nice tone, we hope he can pull one out this week. When they start, he's a little thin, but he ramps it up pretty quickly and it's better, but then he starts verse two and it's thin again. It's like he needs Kelly for confidence, because he's pretty weak without her. And when she sings alone, she draws attention to how weak he was because she's so awesome. Hmph. Definitely better than last week, especially his stage presence,...
- 6/14/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
If you just tuned in to ABC’s Duets for the first time this week, congratulations! Because apparently, those of us who wasted our time on Episodes 1 and 2 were actually watching some sort of meaningless preliminary rounds that won’t have any impact on the competition.
If that’s not the case, then shame on ABC nonetheless. After all, if the judges’ “secret scores” from Rounds 1 and 2 were somehow factored in to this week’s leaderboard, then why not just say so? And if Thursday night’s leaderboard really was a three-week average, we also needed to know: Was it...
If that’s not the case, then shame on ABC nonetheless. After all, if the judges’ “secret scores” from Rounds 1 and 2 were somehow factored in to this week’s leaderboard, then why not just say so? And if Thursday night’s leaderboard really was a three-week average, we also needed to know: Was it...
- 6/8/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
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