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RUSSIAN IDOL
April 1, 2018  | By David Bianculli

FXX, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
SERIES PREMIERE: The final season of FX’s The Americans began last week, surfacing at a time when tensions between the United States and Russia are more heightened than at any time since the end of the Cold War. FX’s sister network, FXX, is aware of the free publicity to be gained by any Russian-based programming – and since ABC has just revived Fox's former music-competition American Idol powerhouse, Fox is importing a spring cycle of the latest edition of the international phenomenon’s RT television hit, Russian Idol, for its smaller, lower-risk cable network. Viewers here, like viewers in Russia, will get to vote on the singers in the final round. The difference in this version, though, is that the judges, like Vladimir Putin, already know who’s going to win.
 
 
 
 
 
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