This happens EVERY YEAR with this show and it drives me nuts. You would think I would learn to deal with it after three seasons. You would be wrong. So after three weeks of initial auditions, "Idol"'s go-go cousin "So You Think You Can Dance" settled on its Top 20 performers. Know this: At times I actually like "SYTYCD" better than "Idol." For one, at least once a week I am blown away by what these young performers can do, and for second, there's no way you can fake your way through this show. People who have a really bubbly

Last night's "Charm School" saw the inevitable booting of Brooke, the reality TV artist formerly known as Pumkin. It was hard to say goodbye. Brooke has exposed her body and soul to so many reality programs --- Blind Date (more than once), some MTV dating show I can't remember, Flavor of Love 1, now this --- that when she was finally snuffed for acting like a ho it was kind of hard to watch. That was why we liked her in the first place! Her willingness to remove her top, her glee at discussing the size of men's members... Inappropriate

The summer's best talent competition continues apace, and some clear winners are emerging just as some clear losers are stinking up the joint. Unfortunately in last night elimination episode the judges got it 100 percent wrong, getting rid of one player who coulda been a contender (at least for Top 10) and keeping around someone who is essentially poisoning his partners on stage.First, let me say this: I was disappointed in general with last year's Top 20. I thought Grandpa Nigel and Co. made some really awful choices, especially with the women (JOY?! Are you serious?). Season 1's group was

It was a little harder to take the drama of "Hell's Kitchen" seriously last night, after recent accusations that chef Gordon Ramsay exaggerated the squalor of a restaurant for his soon-to-premiere new show, "Kitchen Nightmares."� I mean, everything that can go wrong on "HK" tends to, and it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine someone planting something like rancid crab, the serving of which cost Joanna her spot on the show last week, to make things more interesting.At least Ramsay's yelling seemed real enough. (Really, it doesn't look too forced.�And he does plenty of it.)�The first challenge, a test of