Seventeen-year-old David Archuleta and 25-year-old David Cook are the last two contestants
still standing following the elimination of 21-year-old Syesha Mercado from the American
Idol finals Wednesday night. The final contest is set to take place next Tuesday,
with the winner to be announced the following night. Ratings for the show continued
to show significant erosion from a year ago as it posted a rating of 15.5 and a 23
share, representing 26.4 million viewers. Earlier in the evening the contest between contests
on CBS and NBC ended in a virtual draw as CBS's The Price Is Right Million Dollar
Spectacular attracted 7.00 million viewers, while the first hour of NBC's Deal
or No Deal drew 7.08 million. At 9:00, CBS pulled solid numbers with Criminal
Minds opposite Idol, corralling 12.6 million viewers.
15/05/2008
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