'AI Rewind' to skip Season 3?

According to a blog entry post yesterday, Anthony Federov, Season 4's fourth-place finalist, said that the American Idol Rewind series will be jumping ahead to showcasing the fourth season of American Idol this fall, meaning the third season will be ignored by the syndicated program. Anthony said the following on his MySpace page:

They are skipping season 3 and going right to season 4. The best part of all, is that my season will be shown on FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Were going back to prime time baby!!!!!!!!!! lol

You will see all of my performances again as well as all the brand new interviews that I'll be doing for the A.I. rewind.

So those of you that have missed watching me on TV on a weekly basis, will now have that opportunity again starting in mid August. You don't have to vote though, we all know what happened

Since when have Nigel & Co. been so ashamed of the show's third installment? Just because it did not churn out a Carrie Underwood or a Daughtry does not give them the right to write it off and pretend it never happened. Does this mean we get to skip Season 6 as well?

Regardless, it appears that the main motivator in this decision was optimizing ad revenues, as "Carrie's season" would be the perfect time to segue into bring Rewind to FOX rather than The CW. To borrow a line from The O'Jays, "Money, money, money, money...MONEY!"