"The Voice had 11.7 million viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49, while American Idol‘s time slot debut had 8.4 million viewers and a 1.8 rating...."

"ABC countered as if they don’t care, noting the network 'nearly tied' NBC to win the night, and that Idol improved their time period average for the season...." (Entertainment Weekly).

I've never watched "The Voice," but I like the old familiar "American Idol" format. I've watched half of what's aired so far in the new season, and it seems pretty good to me. I like the simple pleasure of some appealing young people getting a chance balanced by some other young people who have deluded ideas about how wonderful they surely must be.

And in one case there was a combination of those 2 things — an appealing new audition by a girl who had — years ago — spectacularly misjudged her own singing — of the national anthem — and gotten ridiculed mercilessly on the internet:



By the way, who — especially in the younger, 18-49-year old group — has a problem watching 2 shows that happen to air in the same time slot? Doesn't everyone use a DVR or some kind of streaming?