[UPDATE: Based on your valuable feedback, we've decided to pursue the live chat idea, but NOT with American Idol. So you're on your own Wednesday night -- but we'll let you know when we've got the right show, and technology, in place to have us gather together to react to a show right after it airs. Thanks for all the smart suggestions, which you can read below...]
The TV WORTH WATCHING brain trust (and trust me, that's described with all due irony) met over the weekend to plan the next alterations and additions for the site. One thing we wanted to try -- but not unless readers were interested -- was an experimental live chat, or close to it.
So the suggestion was to meet here in cyberspace after the ET season premiere of Fox's American Idol on Wednesday -- it runs from 8-10 p.m. ET, so we'd meet at 10 -- and let you talk to us, and each other, about what you thought of the new judges, and the absence of the old ones.
We haven't worked out yet whether it'll be an actual live chat enabled via our software, or whether I'll just be hanging out and approving posting comments as quickly as I can. Nor have we figured out whether to extend the experiment to the West Coast -- or, frankly, whether it's worth doing at all, much less with American Idol.
But YOU tell US.
Would a live chat visit from time to time be fun, or just a waste? And if we're going to do this, is American Idol a good place to start?
(I'm spooked, for example, that in promotional photos, new judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez seem to have the exact same shades of highlighted hair.)
And will you pop in, or will I be hanging out all alone at my computer again?
Believe me, I'm used to it...