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'American Idol' Season 10 semifinals advance 5 guys, 5 girls, Wild Card judges' picks

american-judges.jpg"American Idol" has officially announced the first half schedule for Season 10 (or as Randy Jackson calls it, "the Remix").

The most interesting aspect of the schedule is that once the top 20 semifinalists are chosen (which is actually happening Tuesday, Jan. 11), those 20 will compete and the five males and five females with the most votes will join the finals. The judges will then get to make Wild Card selections. 

The first few months schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, Jan. 19         New York / New Jersey Audition Episode

Thursday, Jan. 20             New Orleans Audition Episode

Wednesday, Jan. 26         Audition Episode
       
Thursday, Jan. 27             Audition Episode

Wednesday, Feb. 2          Audition Episode

Thursday, Feb. 3              Audition Episode

Wednesday, Feb. 9          Audition Episode

Thursday, Feb. 10            Audition Episode

Wednesday, Feb. 16        Hollywood Round, Part 1

Thursday, Feb. 17            Hollywood Round, Part 2

Wednesday, Feb. 23        Las Vegas Round

Thursday, Feb. 24            Top 20 Semifinalists Announced

Tuesday, March 1            Semifinalists Perform

Wednesday, March 2       Semifinalists Perform

Thursday, March 3           First Results Show and Finalists Announced

"American Idol" debuts in just over a week. Are you getting excited, "Idol" fans?
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So long and drawn out. Why not just skip all the horrible auditions and give us the final you picked and we can start from there.

I disagree with Denise -- give us several episodes of ONLY BAD auditions (the only ones I watch -- I hate scretchy girls that make it through to finals!) --

No reason to watch the semifinals, etc., as the judges already have their winner (e.g. Bowersox last year). Remember how they changed the schedule to accommodate her? (yes, she was sick, but still....)

It is alll a scam -- the voting is apparently rigged else they would publicize the numbers. Why don't they? Fix is in!

thanks for the schedule as i do not have to waste my time with lame auctions that show case all the rejects , so i guess i have till Feb 24th till maybe i will start watching , more time for "the middle " and winter wipe out

Bring it on!!! I still miss Paula!

Can't wait! Might be the best season in years.

I just read an article that said they weren't going to have the same amount of guys and girls in the finals.From exec producer Ken Warrick" If we have 6 fantastic boys and 4 average girls,I'm certainly not going to throw out a fantastic boy to put in an average girl or vice versa" So what is this five and five thing.

I hate the auditions. 2 episodes is enough. Just give us some good and some bad of all the cities put together. Why spend a whole episode on each city? I usually only ever watch the first two episodes and then wait for the Hollywood round.

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