Yeah, you may be eliminated tonight, but at least you get to go on the tour

As the Idol results show drones on, let me first express my surprise at Shannen Doherty's ouster on DWTS. I had Buzz or Kate pegged to go for sure, although I think Buzz is getting votes based on 1) him being a national hero, and 2) him being the "sentimental old guy" of this "season".

I also expect Jake and the soap opera guy to be kicked of soon; it's just a matter of the order.

What puzzles me about Kate is why ABC would bring her on to begin with. The obvious answer is that she is a polarising figure who will bring ratings. Lots of people like her, although an equal (if not greater) number loathe her. I'm ambivalent about her personally, although I understand why lots of people think she's a publicity-loving control freak diva. It's interesting to watch her and Tony together; they obviously can't stand one another, and you wonder if John really was that crazy.

In other news, Didi is running her yap and I can't stand her speaking voice any more than I can stand her singing voice. I muted the TV.

Back to Kate: I think viewers like their "celebs" to try hard and show a little bit of humility; Kate does the former very well and the latter not so much. I appreciate the lengths she is willing to go to in order to provide for her children, but I think the world is at the Kate Gosselin overload point. Her fame and fortune are built on being a reality TV star; what would she do if that all went away?

I think there are a lot of people who are willing to vote for her because they see her has a hard-working mom who got stiffed by her lazy, passive-aggressive ex-husband, but I think a lot more people think less complimentary things about her.

As far as her dancing goes, she has no chance at winning (unless Nicole Sherzinger gets lost in a paper bag one day), but she's certainly not any worse than some of the others on the show.

Seacrest just announced the bottom 3 as Didi, Katie and Tim. For the record, that makes two weeks in a row that I've hit the bottom 3. Maybe TPTB will take mercy on us all and whack both Didi and Tim at once (Seacrest just sent Katie back to the couches for the second week in a row).

Kate's problem on DWTS will be that as long as she and Tony are sparring and she's trying to tell him how to do his job, they're going to have problems. I don't think she'll last more than two or three more weeks.

Back to the elimination. Didi and Tim are left and there are 12 minutes left in the show. Seacrest lets them stew for a while as Diddy performs. That makes tonight's performers Diddy, Usher and Rueben. That's almost a line-up of contemporary music. If only they had included a group sing instead of that stupid Ford commercial.

We're 57 minutes into the show and Didi will have to sing for her future. I thought Idol had the time management thing down. I guess now.

Will Didi burst into tears in the middle of her song? I mute her performance because they're going to let her go.

So that leaves us with 9 Idols. I'd say this week, the right singer got eliminated, although I'd have been happy to see Tim go, too.

I'm headed home on Friday and will go see Clash of the Titans this weekend (even without the prompting from Fox). It will be good to be back in my own bed again.

High Lord. Out.