Chikezie First to Go in Top-10 Countdown

Simon had conceded Chikezie sang his song very well but said the performance itself, specifically Chikezie holding out his hand to the manically waving chicks in the Mosh Pit, was cheesy.

So, in a way, Chikezie was done in by the vocal coach and Drippy Mosh Pit Chicks. Such a shame because, besides his abundance of charming personality, his rendition of "She's a Woman" is by far this season's best "Idol" performance. The show will miss him.

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CBS's second stab at quitting "Jericho" attracted about 6 million curious Tuesday night.

Despite Jake and Hawkins having successfully delivered the bomb, exposing the evil Cheyenne government for what it was and bringing hope for a united U.S. of A, the show went out with a whimper rather than the bang CBS may have hoped for.

The 6 mil is a tick above the 5.7 million who'd watched the penultimate episode one week earlier, but pretty much on par with the show's performance since it was brought back in February to help fill a prime-time schedule decimated by the Hollywood writers' strike.

Six million is certainly not a number that's going to convince CBS that it should recant on its second cancellation of the apocalyptic drama. CBS scrapped the show last spring, only to change its mind after being buried under 8 million peanuts -- not to mention the e-mails and phone calls -- from the show's fans.

Those fans were aware Tuesday's episode of "Jericho" would be the show's last on CBS, and possibly anywhere. Last week the network announced this would be the series finale. Two endings had been shot for this season's seven-episode order; CBS aired the more closed-ended one.

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Reality ratings monsters "American Idol" and "Dancing With the Stars" both came out of their Tuesday 9 to 9:30 p.m. skirmish bruised.

Fox's 90-minute "Idol" suffered its smallest audience for a performance show this season, though still drawing a hefty 25 million viewers.

The one-hour return of the "Dancing" results show, from 9 to 10, logged 17.5 million viewers, which is down slightly compared with last spring's results-show return crowd of just under 18 million. Considering it ran against "Idol" for 30 minutes -- as opposed to last year's three-minute overlap -- that isn't bad.

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NBC continues its retro ways, ordering a prime-time celebrity edition of "Family Feud" this summer, from "American Idol" producer FremantleMedia.

FremantleMedia owns the "FF" franchise, which got its start as an ABC daytime show in the mid-'70s, and has already resuscitated it as a syndicated strip series, hosted by John O'Hurley.

NBC's version would be the game show's first foray into prime time as a regular series.

"Family Feud" is being considered for the network's "All-American Summer" lineup of mostly reality programs premiering in May, coinciding with the return of another '70s reality series, "American Gladiators," which became the network's go-to show during the recent writers' strike.

The network also is likely to add to its lineup a "Knight Rider" show, based on the '80s talking-car series, after the recent made-for-TV flick of the same name drew promising numbers.