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As the editor for Canadian Idol I feel the need to "spread the word" about the show. I will say that those able to download off the web, but don't live in Canada, should attempt to watch some of this season. A really great episode is the Top 9 from last night. It was better than last season and much better than the last two seasons of American Idol. This is my opinion.

I've asked kids that are in the target market here why they watch AI but not CI. Really it sums up to "Zack tries to be like Simon too much". While I can see that as a valid cause to not watch CI, I have two responses to that.
1. It turns out they haven't watched last season or this season when they make that comment. I must say that Zack started that way, but has naturally moved back to just being Zack. Zack knows what he likes and what he doesn't. He doesn't like Country music (nor do I) and so he says so. Zack is not nasty like Simon (who is nasty because he's supposed to be), Zack is just honest.
2. If it bothers you that much, then fast forward through his part or all of the judges, and enjoy the music.

I keep meaning to ask the kids, "do you watch AI for the music or the judges?". If they watch for the music, then they'd love CI and should skip the judges. If they're just watching for the judges then they need to turn off the TV because then it's just another useless reality show.

Whether you like CI or not, it still is the highest rated Canadian show on Canadian TV, just not in Toronto.

Oops, I went a little off-topic there.

My point was supposed to be that the Top 9 show was super! My point was that next week is a potentially stronger Top 8 performance show. The show's guest will be Enrique Iglesias and the theme will be "Unplugged". That's a simple way of saying acoustic instruments only, and likely most of the Top 8 will play instruments themselves.

Although I don't have the readers that I once had, I would ask that you help support CI if you are willing. Either post the above banner, or copy one of the links to the forum, or link to this blog entry. Last year the CI community was bigger, now it is about 3 people on this site. At this rate I won't keep editing this show due to lack of interest from the community.

It seems people are going to the CTV forums to talk and not here. That's there right, but why should I continue to care about the show on this site if I'm the only one.

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The submission system has made some major bug fixes since my last blog post. This is good. But it is very bad that it still has problems.

Currently, my biggest problem is that I added the CI Top 10 at an episode level instead of at the show level. If I had of added them at a show level I would have avoided the bug by just importing them with the rest of the stars. I didn't and so now I'm at a loss of what to do.

The bug is that once you create a person with this new system and want to add them to other shows/episodes they won't appear in the search results. For example, if you search for "Bixby" in the above search you will find several Bixby's including Jaydee (he's in the Top 9). But if you go to the Top 9 episode (or any episode) and search on "Bixby" you get results with all but Jaydee. No Jaydee means I cannot add him to the show.

I keep bringing up this issue, but it is being ignored.

Arggg.

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Those of you that have been around awhile will remember that I'm not fond of all of the emblems we have. I even asked to have less. Just as a place holder I decided to include my current list of emblems and the list of emblems that I think I should have.

How they are:





How I'd like to see them:



There's no point, I'm just saying.

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