"TV Guide" Tidbits

As we tick off the minutes until tonight’s episode, here are some tidbits from this week’s “TV Guide” cover story:

The Seattle auditions were originally scheduled to be a one-hour show, but after producers saw how many strange auditions they got, they expanded it to two…

173 people went to Hollywood. We’ll see the judges get rid of a lot more people than normal on the first day…

When the finalists get down to the final six, there will be a “big celebrity show” that producers promise will be bigger than last season’s finale…