American Idol-Top 24

American Idol has steadily lost viewers since the beginning of the season.  The reason seems rather obvious to me: they no longer show singing.  In the audition shows, we would watch maybe ten performances in an hour, if we were lucky.  When the show was in Hollywood, we were shown an entire show with no performances, just performance prep.  Who wants to watch that?  Not this girl.  We did get to see most performances in Vegas Group Night, but still, lots more prep.  I want to watch singing.  In the top 24, there are people that I haven't seen more than a glimpse of prior.  And I didn't get to see all their performances.  I watched 3 hours wherein they chose 24 people from 42 and I didn't get to see 42 performances.  I didn't even get to see 24 performances.  This is lame.