When X Factor hit our screens last year Simon Cowell made the decision to try and keep away from sob stories and instead focus some of the attention back onto the potential ‘pop sensations.’ However as the class of 2010 were boring to the extreme (apart from Glorious Wagner obvs) this left the story writers and editors with so much time to fill that some of them actually died*.  Instead we ended up hearing about Rebecca Ferguson being a mother and how she missed her kids and blah blah blah. This has become a worrying feature of reality TV. Watching American Idol last night and any female contestant that had forced new life...

American Idol has just started it’s tenth season and as XFactor makes it’s trip over the Atlantic stealing the Cowell and jettisoning the crown princess of the toon into the hearts of middle America, it’s time for a shuffle. The Big Dawg Randy Jackson is the only returning judge now that Paula’s gone proper tonto and Ellen decided she wasn’t keen on being mean. So they’ve brought on two new judges, and bloody well done FOX because these are J to the Lopez and Steven ‘face of a sexy Lion’ Tyler. The new judges have just the right amount of industry klout, rock-star mental and bubbly enthusiasm....