AMERICAN IDOL
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
Last night, we finally got our first live edition of this year’s Idol incarnation, and left with several first impressions. First, the women challengers are not the overwhelmingly impressive batch of singers the judges have claimed them to be. As for the judges this year: Keith Urban is a nice-guy singer in the Adam Levine mold, Mariah Carey loves the sound of her own voice whether she’s singing or talking, Nicki Minaj is the most blunt judge of the group (but also the Steven Tyler-type wild card, in terms of her tossaway remarks), and Randy Jackson, who should sue himself for plagiarism, already has pegged several contestants as being “in it to win it.” Tonight, the guys sing.