Unfortunately, I will not be doing a Making the Band 4 liveblog tonight. Sorry! I've been sick since the night before last and I want to watch The Bronx is Burning. However, I will be taping the episode and will watch it and do a recap as soon as I can.

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The New York Post mentions that "A Raisin in the Sun" could air on ABC as early as February.


They quote a "studio source" who has viewed the rough cut of the film as saying "it's turned out remarkable".

Diddy starts the show by saying that it's time for some guys to get out of the house. He's going to have them perform at B.B. King's in New York.

Robert talks about June, his girlfriend of 1 year (4 years "unofficially", he says). He talks about calling her and not being able to reach her and wondering what she's up to. He finally leaves a message, saying that she better have a good reason for not answering his calls all day. He thinks she's at a party (with her ex-boyfriend) and if so, it's over. He talked about how she'd done it before and he forgave her.

Donnie tells him to stay focused on making the band. Robert says it helped him, reminded him of what he was here for. Robert heads to bed. Later, Donnie comes in and wakes Robert to tell him that June has called him back. They get into an argument and he hangs up on her.

So, now everyone heads to bed and we're shown them all sleeping. Uh oh... here comes Diddy at 2:00 AM. He starts clapping and waking them up. One of them is sleeping really heavy. Diddy sits down on his bed and Diddy gets closer to him and wakes him up gently... asking him if he's alright. Hilarious.

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Just a reminder: I'll be liveblogging tonight's episode of Making the Band 4 tonight at 10:00 PM ET (on MTV), just as I have with episode 1 and episode 2. So, if you're watching it, please feel free to stop by and comment. Thanks.

The show opens with the group arriving at the house. Of course, they all go crazy because it's beautiful - one of them calls it "Diddylicious". We cut to night, dinner at the house. We run through some of them talking about their past/present - Dan works for a DJ company, Julius used to be a bag boy at Piggly Wiggly, Donnie is in college, Carlos used to be homeless.

The next day (I guess), Michael Bivins comes in the house and everyone is, of course, happy to see him. He explains that they are now going to go into 5 steps. The first three are training and conditioning, choreography (with Laurie Ann) and vocal coaching (with Ankh Ra). Then, they will be split into groups and will compete against each other. After that, they will be doing a live performance somewhere.

They arrive for training and conditioning at a fitness studio. Their trainer is Amie, who starts with a weigh in. Qwanell, 165. Donnie, 166. Dyshon, 186. Dan, 209. He says that he wants to lose 10-15 pounds more. Michael, 278, wants to be at 220. Amie tells him he'll need to pay attention to his exercises and diet more than the others, but if he wants it... he can do it.

She then has them run around the room single file, then jumping jacks, push ups and a number of other exercises. Brian A. says he's never felt pain like this in his entire life. Dyshon says he's physically drained. He's having a lot of trouble and Amie escorts him out, with him heavily leaning on her. He looks terrible. She gives him a Gatorade like drink and tells someone to call an ambulance. It arrives and he gets in, saying that if he doesn't come back, to tell his mother that he loves her.

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Anthony Violante, who works in New Media Marketing at Bad Boy, agreed to write, exclusively for Bad Boy Blog, about his experience attending the Orlando casting call for Making the Band 4. We saw parts of this casting call in the first episode.

Hello everyone! My name is Anthony Violante and I work in the New Media Marketing department (online promo to make it simple) for Bad Boy Entertainment. Patrick had suggested that I share the experience I had attending a Making The Band 4 casting call, so here it goes. On January 23, 2007, I had the privilege of attending the Making The Band 4 casting call here in my hometown of Orlando, Florida.

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From the Suffolk News-Herald:

Alloy has an interview with Dyshon Warren (a.k.a Shon Penn), Donnie Klang, DeAngelo Redman, Qwanell Mosley (Q) and Julius Robinson, Jr. (Diddy Boo) from Making the Band 4.


Wouldn't it be kind of funny if someone named Q made it into the group, seeing as he said he wants them to follow in the steps of 112?

We open to the New York skyline. Diddy comes on, saying that we're back. He's looking for a group to follow in the foot steps of The Temptations, New Edition, 112, Boyz II Men and N*Sync.

Diddy introduces the judges - Michael Bivins (from New Edition), Joe, Bryan Cox, Slam (A&R;), Ankh Ra (vocal coach) and Laurie Ann Gibson.

The first city they are in is Orlando. The judges, minus Bryan Cox, arrive by limo. After going through some singing on the 1st day, the 2nd day is dancing. The first singer we meet in any detail is Dan. The judges are clearing impressed by his singing and then his dancing as he finishes a dance by giving Laurie Ann a high five.

Brian H. is the next singer. He's sung in his church choir. They vote for him unanimous.

Julius is the next singer. Apparently, he just got into singing. He's the son of a pastor and sings in church, as well. The judges disagree on him with Laurie Ann saying she's "saving him" because he's a boy that would get his dreams crushed. So, he sings again, leaving some of the judges in tears. Suffice to say, Laurie Ann is convinced and he seems to be in unanimously.

Dan, Brian H. and Julius are headed to New York. It looks like there was a 4th guy, as well, but we haven't met him, yet.

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The Boston Herald has an article on Makio, an R&B; singer from Boston who is featured in Making the Band 4. Check out his MySpace for more.