> http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/09/american-idol-n...
>
> VIDEO: Can 'American Idol' finally zoom ahead of 'Amazing Race'?
>
> As I note in my overview article about the Emmy program races, TV's
> top program, "American Idol," has never won best reality-competition
> show and, even more amazing, "Amazing Race" has never lost.
>
> At the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony last Sunday I caught up with Kynt
> and Vyxsin — "a couple of Goth kids from Louisville," says Kynt —
> whose elimination episode of "Amazing Race" will decide that show's
> fate this year. That's the one that was judged by Emmy voters — and
> it's a doozie full of thrilling action as five teams compete in
> Mumbai, India, to thread 108 flowers into a wedding garland, deliver
> propane gas tanks to residents and ride a rickshaw to a tailor shop.
>
> However, "American Idol" submitted an excellent episode too: the
> two-hour season finale that not only includes the gripping suspense
> over which of the two Davids (Cook or Archuletta) will win, but their
> joint performance of Nickelback's "Hero" and other socko musical turns
> by Donna Summer, ZZ Top, the Jonas Brothers and past "Idol" champ
> Carrie Underwood.