An emotional Melanie Amaro won the TV singing contest The X Factor on Thursday, earning a $5 million recording contract and closing the first U.S. season of the heavily hyped Fox show.
Confession time: I love Steven Spielberg's screen adaptation of The Color Purple, but I can't defend it. The music, the cinematography, the performances, and everything else about it has been painstakingly designed to manipulate an emotional response, and even though I can see the strings, I fall for it every time.
X Factor winner Melanie Amaro opens up about her big win, her new album, and describes how she plans to spend her newfound $5 million prize money.
Melanie Amaro has wonThe X Factor, but not much is known about the singer who was eliminated by mentor Simon Cowell before being brought back for the win. What will she do with the $5 million prize? What's her plan for her debut album? How do finalists Josh Krajick and Chris Rene feel about the results? Find out this and more here.
Former American Idol finalist Adam Lambert brushed off his arrest in Finland on Thursday, blaming his bad behavior on travel, booze and irrational confusion and adding lesson learned on Twitter.
Will Drake and Tony Bennett be the next to pair off on one of Bennett's Duets tunes? Maybe not. But the rapper and crooner are among the guest who'll perform on NBC's New Year's Eve With Carson Daly special on December 31.
Former American Idol finalist Adam Lambert brushed off his arrest in Finland on Thursday, blaming his bad behavior on travel, booze and irrational confusion and adding lesson learned on Twitter.
American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert had some trouble in paradise Wednesday night when he and boyfriend Sauli Koskinen got into a barroom brawl, resulting in arrest.
Adam Lambert celebrated the first day of Hanukkah with the digital release of his new song, Better Than I Know Myself that was accompanied by a Happy Hanukkah video message to his fans.
Archulta, who was 16 when he competed on the popular American Idol show, performed with the Grammy-winning Mormon Tabernacle choir in 2010 at the choir's annual Christmas concert. A spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ for Latter-day Saints said he didn't know when Archuleta was supposed to report for missionary training.
American viewers have chosen the three singers who will compete in the finals of The X Factor after a first season that underwhelmed critics and raised questions about audience fatigue ahead of returning TV contests American Idol and The Voice.
Simon Cowell, who has served as the acrid judge on the popular television shows American Idol and The X Factor, will have a biography of himself published in spring of 2012.
Adam Lambert has given his fans a taste of his new single Better Than I know Myself, after releasing a snippet of the song on his Twitter account ahead of its Dec.20 launch
After Nigel Barker announced at the finale that Angelea Preston was disqualified from this season's America's Next Top Model fans news began to fly that it was possibly being due to her leaking the results on her Facebook page.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that NBC executives met with Seacrest earlier this week to discuss bringing him in as the program's co-host, replacing Lauer who has told the company he might leave next year. Executives who met with Seacrest include Today show executive producer Jim Bell, NBC News president Steve Capus and senior vice president for marketing and communications Lauren Kapp.
HBO's popular fantasy drama Game of Thrones and new Showtime thriller Homeland burst into the race for the top TV shows of the year on Wednesday, with nominations for their writers and producers.
