This is elimination night for the Top 6, who performed yesterday – and the official NBC lead-in to yet another competition reality series, America’s Got Talent, which begins its new season with two new judges, Heidi Klum and former Spice Girl Mel B. I can’t imagine ratings for that show not going down this year – just as it’s easy to imagine The Voice getting stronger, at least for a while, even though it also uses its rotating thrones as a game of musical chairs. Judges on The Voice have chemistry, while those on American Idol and America’s Got Talent seem to resent being assigned to the same Breakfast Club.

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