Win a Trip to the American Idol Finale Through Dominos and Coca-Cola
What goes better than a pizza, a coke, and some good music?
Coca-Cola is teaming up with Domino’s Pizza, the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, and American Idol to make the family ritual of watching American Idol as delicious, refreshing and exciting as possible. Now through May 2, consumers who add a Coca-Cola product to their pizza order will have a chance to instantly win one of two trips for four people to attend the “American Idol” Finale in Los Angeles this May.
To enter, consumers simply add any Coca-Cola product, such as a 2-liter or 20-oz bottle of Coke, to their pizza order at Domino’s. “American Idol” fans can also enter for free online at www.dominos.com through May 2, 2010. The ticket to Hollywood will be delivered to the winners’ door by a Prize Patrol Team along with their prize-winning pizza and Coke. Consumers who don’t win the Grand Prize “American Idol” Finale trips could win a First Prize — an ATT Samsung Mythic™ phone package and a $150 Domino’s Pizza gift card.
“Through our partnership with Coca-Cola, consumers have a chance to enjoy the great taste of Domino’s Inspired New Pizza and Coca-Cola while watching one of the most popular family entertainment events on television, ” said Brandon Solano, vice president of product innovation at Domino’s Pizza. “Coca-Cola is a premiere partner for Domino’s and we are honored to once again collaborate with them to give our customers a chance to win some really great, fun prizes.”
And, especially for Reality Shack, they’re also opening up a $20 Domino’s gift card to try the new pizza recipe. Here’s how they’ve improved that recipe, “a garlic seasoned crust with parsley baked to a golden brown; sweeter, bolder tomato sauce with a medley of herbs and a red pepper kick; shredded cheese made with 100% real mozzarella and flavored with just a hint of provolone. I don’t know about you, but it’s got me hungry.
So here’s the details for the special Reality Shack contest. What’s the craziest combination of ingredients you’ve ever ordered on a pizza? Something that includes pineapple? Anchovies? How about both? I don’t eat seafood, so I’m clearly not going to put it on my pizza. But, I did order a pizza with pineapple once. I love pineapple, but discovered, it’s not quite right with pizza sauce. But that’s me.
Email LauraBelle@realityshack.com before April 30 with your craziest recipe for a pizza to be entered into the Reality Shack contest. And after you relive that craziest pizza, order it again at Dominos and add a Coke product to get entered in the bigger contest through Dominos and Coca-Cola, or just head to dominos.com. One entry only per email please.
What’s Hot On TV Tonight – American Idol Top 12 Female Contestants
This is pretty much what we were waiting for. Sure the auditions were great, but they dragged on. We wanted to see Ellen DeGeneres on American Idol. And then we heard her and Simon weren’t getting along, but is it in the same way he and Paula Abdul didn’t get along, meaning it was all with a wink wink? We’ll get a chance to see tonight for the first time. Regrettably, it’s only an hour, when usually the first night of Hollywood is two hours. Perhpas their aim this year is to always leave us wanting more.
1. 31 Days of Oscar. To celebrate the upcoming Academy Awards, Turner Classic Movies is running 31 Days of Oscar, 360 films in all. Today they’re showing The Merry Widow, 42nd Street, Carefree, Topper Takes a Trip, My Favorite Wife, The Awful Truth, Artists & Models, Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap, One Hour With You, Gigi, An American In Paris, The Barkleys of Broadway, and Good News. Be sure to enter the contest to win an Oscar Party Prize Pack. Begins at 6:00 AM CT Turner Classic Movies
2. Oprah Winfrey. The Family of Amanda Knox, convicted of killing a roommate in Italy, speaks out. Syndicated, check local listings.
3. Winter Olympics: Women’s curling, men’s hockey. U.S. takes on China in women’s curling. 11:00 AM CT USA
4. Ellen DeGeneres Show. The guests today are Ewan McGregor, Gordon Ramsay, Shelby Dressel, and a women who helped a man having a heart attack while driving on an interestate highway Syndicated, check local listings.
5. Spotlight on Goldie Hawn. This month Encore is putting its spotlight on Goldie Hawn, today showing Everyone Says I Love You, Crisscross, Town & Country, Seems Like Old Times, Housesitter, and Bird On a Wire. Begins at 1:45 PM CT Encore
6. Winter Olympics: Speedskating, biathlon, freestyle skiing. The man’s 10,000m in speedskating, women’s 4×6km relay biathlon, and women’s ski cross in freestyle skiing. 2:00 PM CT NBC
7. Winter Olympics: Figure skating, bobsledding, skiing. women’s figure skating starts tonight with the short program, and we also bobsledding and skiing. 7:00 PM CT NBC
8. American Idol. The top telve female singers perform tonight. 7:00 PM CT Fox
9. River Cottage Treatment. People that exist on take out foods are shown some healthy alternatives, then end up operativing a stall that sells organic fare and preparing meals for local soccer fans. 7:00 PM CT Sundance Channel
10. Lost. Hurley wants Jack to go with him on an unspecified mission, and Sawyer runs into an old friend. 8:00 PM CT ABC
11. Wild Recon. Donald Schultz heads to the Costa Rican rainforests to finds poison dart frog samples, as well as those of several snake species, and a three-toed sloth. 8:00 PM CT Animal Planet
12. RuPaul’s Drag Race. The queens do celebrity inpersonatons on a TV Game show. Niecy Nash, Lisa Rinna, Alec Mapa, and Phoebe Price appear. 8:00 PM CT VH1
13. The Forgotten. When a woman’s body is found in a derailed train’s wreckage, the network looks into a secret society of roving nightclubs. 9:00 PM CT ABC
14. Southland. Season finale … of the NBC repeats. A gang member is found ead outside of Dodger Stadium, and Lydia ends up taking in Janilla into her home to be sure she remains protected. Salinger is upset he’s growing further apart from his daughter. Next week brand new episodes begin. 9:00 PM CT TNT
15. White Collar. Neal’s old nemesis puts forth a challenge to recreate a rare bottle of wine onced owned by Ben Franklin, and Peter steps in to help. 9:00 PM CT USA
16. Millionaire Matchmaker. Patti takes on former-client to see if she can find him love a second time around. But Patti is nervous that the cocky, over-confident bachelor hasn’t changed his ways – including his infamous referral to himself in the third person! Patti’s other client this week proves to be a handful as well when he expresses his laundry-list of the perfect woman. But when Patti presses him on his expectation for religious values and sex, he gets defensive;. 9:00 PM CT Bravo
17. Winter Olympics: Women’s curling. U.S. takes on Switzerland, the team that won silver in both of the last Olympics. 7:00 PM CT NBC
18. Little Couple. With Bill and Jen moving into a temporary rental, it gets hectic when Bill loses his watch and Rocky gets loos in the new neighborhood. 9:00 PM CT TLC
19. Bad Girls Club. Highlights of season 4. 9:00 PM CT Oxygen
What’s Hot On TV Tonight - Happy Memorial Day
Hope you’re having good weather for your picnic. Here it’s chilly and overcast. If you’re forced to stay in today, we have a special movie marathon on Turner Classic Movies featuring war movies throughout the day. I featured The Dirty Dozen, but be sure to also catch Men of the FIghting Lady, The Devil’s Brigade, Kelly’s Heroes, and a special collection of movies about WWI. And if that marathon isn’t your cup of tea, try the Land of the Lost on Sci Fi. My son can’t believe what used to pass for special effects.
1. Land of the Lost. Before the Wil Ferrell movie comes out next month, catch up with today’s marathon of old episodes of this really corny show. I just put it on and that animation is unreal. It looks like something some kid did for his middle school social studies project. 11:00 AM CT Sci Fi
2. Summer School. Memorial Day means school is almost out for the summer. If you have to do the Summer School thing either to catch back up again or to get ahead, you might want to watch this funny movie with Mark Harmon. 11:45 AM CT WMax
3. The Bonnie Hunt Show. Bonnie’s guests are Hank Azaria currently appearing in the Night at the Museum sequel, Mary McCormack currently starring in In Plain Sight, and Chef Charles Mattocks. Syndicated, check local listings.
4. Delta Farce. Comedy about three guys in the Army reserves that mistake the Mexican desert for Iraq, starring Larry the Cable Guy. 12:00 PM CT Showtime Comedy East
American Idol Cast on Larry King Live
I’ve gotten some more complete information on tonight’s Larry King Live. While I previously thought it would be just Kris Allen and Adam Lambert on the show, it turns out it gets much better than that.
While much of the show will assumably be concentrated on the winner and runner-up, the rest of the finalists will be on as well, just as in years past. Paula Abdul and Ryan Seacrest will appear as well. And after the hour is over tonight, it’s not done yet, as everyone returns for a second hour on Monday night.
Additionally, Ryan will be taking a question from either Twitter or Facebook. Questions can be asked of him, Kris, Adam, and the other finalists as well. To get your question in now, either go to the CNN Fan page on Facebook or Tweet your question on Twitter to @kingsthings (Larry King’s personal Twitter account) or apply the hashtag #LKL to your Tweet.
It sounds a little corny, but you know what I’m looking forward to the most about tonight and Monday night? Seeing them all together. They had such a good camaraderie this season, even more so than in years past, that I just want to see that again. If you hear the question asked on why Scott McIntyre was shut out of a solo, or even one line or piano playing even, that will be me. We’ve heard rumors, but I want the dirt.
Make sure you tune in tonight to CNN at 9 PM ET/8 PM CT.
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For more information on American Idol, see Reality Shack, SirLinksalot: American Idol and American Idol Headlines.
What’s Hot On TV Tonight - Meat Loaf!
I don’t know why but I find Meat Loaf, meaning the singer, not the entree, entirely fascinating. He’s just hard not to watch when he guests on a show. Tonight he’s on the season finale of Don’t Forget the Lyrics. And if you like that show, catch it tonight, as while it’s being called a season finale, it’s not on the Fox schedule for this summer, next fall, or next winter.
1. Alvin and the Chipmunks. The cartoon is made over into a movie combining live action with animation and starsthe voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney. It’s cute, and that’s about all. 11:10 AM HBO Comedy East
2. Erin Brockovich Based on a true story, Julia Roberts stars as a woman who gets a job as a legal assistant and is the only one with the cajones to take down a utility company that’s contaminating the water. 11:45 AM Starz
3. The Bonnie Hunt Show. Bonnie always honors those comedians and talk show hosts that came before her, so I’m betting today’s show with Dick Van Dyke will be a good one. Common guests as well. 2:00 PM CT NBC
4. The Quiet American. Screen adaptation of Graham Green’s novel starring Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine about a British journalist and American agent in Vietnam. It’s a great commentary of Vietnam from a different perspective. 2:45 PM CT IFC
5. Don’t Forget the Lyrics! It’s the season finale, event hough we haven’t see the show for several weeks, months perhaps. Meat Loaf and his daughter try to win money for a camp for seriously ill children, The Painted Turtle. 7:00 PM CT Fox
6. The Seven Year Itch. Marilyn Monroe classic playing the sexy neighbor of a man whose family is away from the summer, giving him nothing but sexual daydreams of how he’d really like to spend the summer. 7:00 PM CT Retro
7. NBA Playoff: Game 2: Magic at Cavaliers. It’s game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. 7:30 PM CT TNT
8. Alzheimer’s Project! This episode of the series highlights families that provide caregiving for their loved ones with the disease. For more information, check out my review of the series. 7:30 PM CT HBO SIgnature East
9. Dateline NBC. A report on the death of a fisherman, and a stripper and steelworker who are somehow involved in the mystery of passion, manipulation, and murder. 8:00 PM CT NBC
10. Larry King Live. Kris Allen and Adam Lambert of American Idol will both be on tonight. 8:00 PM CT CNN
11. 20/20. Video diaries from a summer camp show kids suffering with Tourette’s Syndrome. I think everyone should watch that as people assume it’s just the swearing thing, but once you see people affected with it, you see it affects their whole life, not just that little part. 9:00 PM CT ABC
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What’s Hot On TV Tonight - So You Think You Can Dance?
Yes, I do think I can dance, but only after I’ve had a few cocktails … okay, many cocktails. This premieres tonight with its fifth season, and what’s even better is that we’ll get the sixth season in the fall instead of waiting until next summer. It’s kind of like having two vacations in a year. After you get done with the first one, you don’t have to be sad thinking it will be another whole year. You have another one waiting on deck.
1. Regis and Kelly. Susan Sarandon guests, hopefully talking about her stint in the MotherLover video on SNL a few weeks back, as well as the DWTS finalists. I assume since Shawn Johnson and Mark Ballas were on yesterday, this means the other four people that didn’t win. Syndicated, check local listings.
2. Footloose. Kevin Bacon stars as a guy that moves to small town and has a hard time fitting in. After Zac Efron dropped out of the remake, now Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl is in his place, and filming is expected to start next year. 12:05 PM CT @Max
4. Mad Money. Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes star in this movie as women who devise a plan to steal from the Federal Reserve bank from the inside. Did you see Queen last night on American Idol. I liked her better there than in the movie. Find out why in my review of the film. 1:00 PM CT Starz Comedy
3. The Bonnie Hunt Show. Guests include John McEnroe, Jennette McCurdy, and The Bachelorette host Chris Harrison. Syndicated, check local listings.
4. Ugly Betty. The season finale has Betty’s moving plans interrupted by a visit from Henry. Wilhelmina uses the dysfunction of the Hartley family to renew her rivalry with Claire. Marc and Betty are both Mode job opening candidates, while Justin wants to be accepted at a performing arts school. This show was on ABC’s bubble, but it’s been renewed for next year, but moved to Friday. 7:00 PM CT ABC
What’s Hot On TV Tonight - American Idol Winner Crowned!
No matter how the American Idol contest ends up tonight, it’ll be a terrific season with a deserving winner. Adam Lambert has been stunning since the get go, and Kris Allen has found his way, starting with no early exposure on the show, and doubting that he belonged, and now being in the final 2 and told he by Simon he 100% deserves to be there. They’re both deserving of the title, even though we all have our favorites. Looking at the pic to the left, have you ever seen a better-looking final 2? Don’t forget Ryan Seacrest’s warning to set your VCR or DVR longer, as they do expect the show to go over.
1. Regis and Kelly. Ricky Gervais guests, as well as the surprising winners of Dancing With the Stars, Shawn Johnson and Mark Ballas. Syndicated, check local listings.
2. 27 Dresses. Katherine Heigl follows up her success in Knocked Up, this time living out the adage “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” 12:00 PM CT HBO2 West.
3. Charlie’s Angels. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu copy the roles created in the 70s TV show. It’s more different than the same, other than in basic storyline, but it’s still a good time. 1:00 PM CT HBO Signature East.
4. Rachael Ray. TV chefs Bobbly flay, Rocco DiSpirito, and Adam Perry Lang help with some summer entertaining tips, as well as a fried chicken recipe. I’m guessing Rocco didn’t share that recipe with the folks on The Biggest Loser when he made a guest appearance. 2:00 PM CT CBS
What’s Hot On TV Tonight - Adam or Kris, We Decide!
It’s solely up to us now, but those judges on American Idol might try to sway us one way or another. This is the most I’ve looked forward to a season finale of this show in awhile. Adam Lambert was running away with the win in the first few weeks of the season, but the unassuming Kris Allen crept up there, slowly, growing his fanbase and increasing in confidence. By last week’s performance of Heartless last week, he had arrived. How will the public decide tonight?
1. Regis and Kelly. Guests are Ben Stiller promoting his film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and Jesse James premiering his new show Jesse James Is a Dead Man. Syndicated, check local listings.
2. Kindergarten Cop. This is of course before he became the governor of California, yet it’s still amusing to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger playing with a roomful of Kindergartners.9:40 AM Starz Comedy
3. Night at the Museum. Surprisingly good film about the crazy things that go on in a museum once everyone but the night watchman (Ben Stiller) go home. Everything back in history comes alive. Catch this now before the sequel comes out this weekend. 6:30 PM CT FX
4. NCIS. The season ender has the team traveling to Israel as Ziva has an uncomfortable reunion with her father, Tony confronts Rivkin, and Gibbs decides something that will reverberates throughout the NCIS 7:00 PM CT CBS
American Idol - An Emotional Journey Comes to an End
I’ve been a fan of American Idol since the very beginning, and I don’t ever remember seeing a final three that was this deserving. Sometimes by the time we get to final two I don’t feel like either of them are deserving. But this time we had three very deserving Idols, where all were very different, but no less deserving. No matter how the vote went tonight, we knew we’d up up with a great finale. We also knew that either way it was going to be hard to say goodbye to someone tonight.
Danny Gokey was a guy we followed since his audition. His plans had originally included auditioning with his wife and going on the journey with her. Yet just a few weeks before the auditions, she died of a heart condition. His grief almost kept him away from the auditions, but he thought people might learn who she was through him. Instead, he auditioned with his best friend, Jamar Rogers, who came close to making it, but didn’t make the final 36.
An early favorite of many since that first audition, Danny continued to wow us in Hollywood and again in the final 36. People were whispering about him being in the final two since the very beginning, just as they were with Adam Lambert. Paula told them both every week it seemed that she’d see them in the finale. I think the problem with all of this early attention was that Danny started to believe it. He can’t be blamed necessarily, as it was a new thing for him, unlike Adam who was so much more seasoned. Danny sang great every week, but he didn’t constantly challenge himself, and all the songs started to blend together with his trademark of starting slow, then jamming his way to the end.
What’s Hot On TV Tonight - Lost Season Finale
It’s the two-hour season finale tonight of Lost, with a special retrospective beforehand. That makes three straight hours for Lost fans. You’ll have to get the DVRs running, though, as smack dab in the middle of all that is the American Idol results show where we find out who the final two will be. I won’t be surprised no matter how this one turns out. And if you’re still looking for something to watch, you also have the America’s Next Top Model finale. Still looking for more?
1. Regis and Kelly. Ewan McGregor and Jewel are the guests, along with last summer’s America’s Got Talent winner, Neil E. Boyd. Syndicated, check local listings.
2. Surf’s Up. This is a surprisingly good animated movie about a surfing penguin. Read why Film Monthly reviewers find it to be a better penguin movie than most. 12:10 PM CT Starz Kids & Family
3. We Are Marshall. Matthew McConaughey stars as a football coach saddled with the task of rebuilding a college football team that perished in a plane crash. Read why it could be one of the top 10 movies of 2006 at Film Monthly. 2:25 PM CT @Max
4. Tyra Banks. Tyra holds a graduation part for her cast of America’s Next Top Model. Syndicated, check local listings.
5. Rules of Engagement. Jeff and Audrey invite a friend with marital problems to stay with them, but it becomes very awkward when the friend gets way too touchy-feely. 7:00 PM CT CBS
6. Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Wheeler and Det. Nichols investigate when an artist is found stabbed in the midst of a neighborhood with ethnic tensions. 7:00 PM CT CBS
7. Lost: A Journey In Time Featured here are highlights from some of the past episodes, focusing on the fate of Locke, how the Oceanic 6 returned, and what happened to the survivors left behind. 7:00 PM CT ABC
8. America’s Next Top Model. The final three shoot a cosmetics commercial and then pare down to the final two before walking down the final runway to name the winner. 7:00 PM CT CW
9. Lie to Me. In the season finale, FBI agent Reynolds finds help from the Lightman Group to search for the perpetrators of a terrorist attack outside Washington, D.C. Cal and Zoe are afraid their daughter could be in peril. 7:00 PM CT Fox
10. The New Adventures of Old Christine. Christine pretends she’s in love with an obnoxious date she brings to Richard’s rehearsal dinner to show she’s okay with her ex remarrying. Matthew then falls for New Christine’s sister. 7:30 PM CT CBS
11. Criminal Minds. One of the agents risks his life trying to stop a killer from releasing a deadly virus into the air. 8:00 PM CT CBS
12. Lost. In the season finale, Jack’s plan to make things right on the island meets with stiff opposition, and Locke gives Ben a tough job assignment. Flashbacks focus on Kate, Juliet, and Sawyer. 8:00 PM CT ABC
13. American Idol. And then there were two. Before we have an elimination of a guy who is very deserving of being there, no matter which of the three it is, we’ll have performances of Katy Perry and Jordin Sparks. 8:00 PM CT Fox
14. NBA Playoff: Game 5: Nuggets at Mavericks. Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinal series. 8:00 PM CT TNT
15. CSI: NY. Stella probes murders that seem to be linked to some ancient Greek artifacts. She turns in her badge to follow the clues to Greece, uncoveering a mystery that has historical proportions. 9:00 PM CT CBS
16. Law & Order. Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate when the bodies of two scientists are set on fire. Lawyer wants to make a deal for the suspect’s confession, but the case doesn’t sit right with Connie. 9:00 PM CT NBC
17. Late Show With David Letterman. Robin Williams guests, and you just never know what you’re going to end up when he’s on a talk show. Wynton Marsalis appears as well. 10:35 PM CT NBC
18. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Jeff Probst is on talking about one fantastic season of Survivor. I’m guessing Coach’s name will come up … a lot. The Beat Freaks make an appearance as well. 9:30 PM CT TNT
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