Last night on "So You Think You Can Dance's" first results show of Season 8, something unprecedented took place: The indecisive judges (including guest judge Megan Mullally) asked two of the up-for-elimination dancers, Mitchell and Robert, to reprise their solos...and then ultimately chose to keep all 20 contestants on the show for another week. It all made for excellently suspenseful television, but apparently this was not staged for just for TV drama's sake.

Speaking to reporters backstage immediately after the show, main judge and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe revealed that the surprising decision was just as last-minute as it seemed on TV, and was made in the final minutes of Thursday's live episode. "I called for Mike Darnell [Fox's president of alternative entertainment] and Trae Williams, who is standards and practices, and said, 'This is what we'd like to do. We've done it on 'Idol' before. I know we've never done it on this program, but it gives us another week for America

Before Thursday, I'd expected a video premiere by provocateur (and future "SYTYCD" guest judge!) Lady Gaga to be the most shocking thing about this week's "So You Think You Can Dance" results show. But the "Edge Of Glory" vid turned out to be so tame (by Gaga standards, at least), so un-"Telephone"-esque, that it was not at all the source of Thursday night's "SYTYCD" drama.

As the top 20 sashayed out at the start of "SYTYCD's" first live results show of the season, all looking fierce (and dancing fiercer) in a killer-ninja routine choreographed by Sonya Tayeh and soundtracked by M.I.A., my heart stopped. And then it sank. Because I knew that by the episode's end, two of these uh-mazing dancers would be going home...and I knew none of them really deserved to.

And I guess the judges knew that too...because in an "SYTYCD" first, no one went home this week; the judges decided to let all 20 dancers advance! I'd like to think this will set a pattern for the entire season, culminating in a

Last night, Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green's teams competed on "The Voice," plus we found out which singers from Team Xtina and Team Blake (who competed last week) made it through to the next round. There were a couple surprises--namely, America's unexpected embracing of Beverly McClellan and Blake Shelton's polarizing decision to save Xenia--but for the most part, my Yahoo! Entertainment colleague Matt Whitfield and I agree that the best four singers (Beverly and Xenia, plus Frenchie Davis and Dia Frampton) prevailed.

And oh, there is much more to discuss. Why did Cee Lo put poor Tori & Taylor Thompson in those stupid "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" uniforms? Does Nakia have a lisp? Could Vicci Martinez win it all? Is Casey Weston a dark horse? We discuss all this and more today.

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Hey kids! Want a real live American Idol to perform your next event? Well, it'll cost you, of course. Just maybe not as much as you think.

The New York Post recently ran an article on the booking fees for various "Idol" alums, everyone from Season 7 semifinalist Carly Smithson (with her Evanescence-associated rock band, We Are The Fallen) to the most successful Idols of all time, Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson. And some of the figures are a bit surprising.

The findings are based on fees posted on the website of Degy Entertainment, a "middle agency" that helps college campuses, the U.S. Navy, and other musical event organizers deal with the red tape that comes with booking celebrity singers. (According to Degy's Jeff Hyman, the liaison agency earns its 10 percent fee by helping with matters like "making sure the artist isn't asking for six pounds of brown M&M's" and such.) While it comes as no surprise that Carrie can earn half a million for a single concert (although her fee might