I didn't see this weeks ROB, but watched the previous 2. I know exactly what you mean about all the American schmultz and cheese and, even though I started to get into it, there was a lot of it that was very cringeworthy.
I remember the big coloured guy from the previous round and he was very good.
Simon Cowell is so playing up to the cameras. He comes over as a complete caricature of himself. OK, in Pop Idol he was still a big headed egotistical *******, but he also did seem honest most of the time and was just giving his opinions in his own inimitable way. In American Idol that element seems missing and he just seems to be saying everything for effect.
