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American Idol

Season 3

44 listed hours · 2002–2016 · Fox

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Filed by Julian Hart · The Binge Brief

Simon Cowell's sneer, Paula's softness, Randy's dawg: Simon Fuller's Fox hit made karaoke national infrastructure and a star factory. Mid-2000s finales felt like elections; Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood fed a pop pipeline. Pure event-TV archaeology from the last mass monoculture.

TV Flash files Season 3 of American Idol (2002–2016) on Fox as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 24) — 44 listed hours, 2004-01-19–2004-05-26 from “First Show, First Recap” (S03E01) to “And the Winner is.....” (S03E44). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

  1. S03E01 First Show, First Recap
  2. S03E02 The Journey Continues!
  3. S03E03 Night Three!
  4. S03E04 Finally! a Show About California!
  5. S03E05 Mokolokilikilanilaki! It's Hawai'i!
  6. S03E06 The Road is to Hollywood! (is Paved with Broken Dreams and Asphalt)
  7. S03E07 You're Going to Hollywood! (for a Little Bit, at Least)
  8. S03E08 87 - People Not Good Enough = 32 Finalists!
  9. S03E09 Sing!
  10. S03E10 Two Will Be Happy. Six Will Be Sad. Lots Will Be Watching
  11. S03E11 Sing Again!
  12. S03E12 The Final Decision...But the Right One?
  13. S03E13 I'm Back, Baby!
  14. S03E14 You! Over Here! with the Rest of the Finalists!
  15. S03E15 Uncut, Uncensored and Untalented
  16. S03E16 Group Four! Then the Wild Card!
  17. S03E17 Finally! Finalists!
  18. S03E18 Wildcard
  19. S03E19 Wildcard Results
  20. S03E20 12 Finalists Have Been Chosen
  21. S03E21 Clay Aiken Returns
  22. S03E22 1 Down 11 to Go
  23. S03E23 Soon There Will Be 10
  24. S03E24 10 Contestants Sing
  25. S03E25 10 - 1 = 9
  26. S03E26 Elton John Theme
  27. S03E27 Tamyra Gray Returns
  28. S03E28 8 Left to Compete
  29. S03E29 Down to 7 (Battle of the Jo(h)n's)
  30. S03E30 7 Sing!!
  31. S03E31 6 Remain - Barry Manilow Visits
  32. S03E32 6 Perform
  33. S03E33 6-1=5 is the Result
  34. S03E34 American Idol: The Final Five 2004
  35. S03E35 5 Idols Sing
  36. S03E36 Only 4 Remain
  37. S03E37 4 Idols Perform
  38. S03E38 Only 3 Idols Remain
  39. S03E39 The Final 3 2004
  40. S03E40 3 Sing
  41. S03E41 Now Down to 2
  42. S03E42 American Idol: The Phenomenon
  43. S03E43 Fantasia Barrino vs. Diana DeGarmo
  44. S03E44 And the Winner is.....

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