It’s been a strange couple of weeks for ABC in terms of unscripted television and things got a little weirder last night.
American Idol postponed the results of last night’s live vote as the last twelve singers waited patiently to see if they would make it through the Songs of Faith episode.
Deadline revealed earlier this year that the ABC show was introducing live social voting and it seems to have disrupted the process.
Host Ryan Seacrest revealed in the closing moments on Monday’s show that no one would leave in episode 10 because the new voting system saw “tens of millions of votes coming in at a rate we’ve never seen before”.
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Seacrest called it “truly unprecedented”. It was a move that clearly surprised judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood.
“This is the first time
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