Chris Brown won't get to sing on Good Morning America after all

Boo hoo for Chris Brown. He's getting more hard knocks, thanks to all of us bitching ferociously about him getting to perform on Good Morning America. Especially after they'd canceled Adam Lambert's scheduled performance for his questionable stage antics. Brown has been pulled from the morning show altogether, which is sort of good. And he won't get to sing and dance and promote his career. The bad news is he's been moved to 20/20, which could conceivably get him even more viewers. But it's supposedly a serious tell-all' interview, and Brown won't get to plug his music and bounce around on stage like everything's just fine and he's a decent guy.

ABC had a change of heart over the weekend and will not let R&B singer Chris Brown sing next week on 'Good Morning America.' Instead, Brown has agreed to 'come clean' in a primetime interview about what happened the night he beat up former girlfriend Rhianna, according to reports,

The network was bitterly criticized last week after it canceled a performance by flamboyant 'Idol' star Adam Lambert on 'GMA' — following his raunchy performance on the American Music Awards show — then announced plans for Brown to promote his latest CD with a live show on the program.

When Brown appeared recently on 'Larry King Live' and afternoon talk show 'Wendy Williams' to apologize for the incident, he sidestepped questions about what happened last February on the night before the Grammy awards when Rhianna, battered and bruised, walked into an LA police station.

Now, he is promising to give details of the incident in an 'in-depth interview' with 'GMA' host Robin Roberts set to air on '20/20″ Dec. 11. His appearance follows by a month Rhianna's shocking interview with Diane Sawyer on the same show that drew nearly 9 million viewers, unusually high for a news show.

On that show, Rhianna admitted she was 'embarrassed' that she had gone back to Brown shortly after the beating and entertained the idea of a reconciliation. The interview with Brown — which is being billed as his reply to Rhianna — was taped over the weekend, according to reports. ABC did not say why it canceled its original plan to air a Brown interview and stage a short concert only on its morning show and move it to primetime — without the music.

[From the New York Post]

Well sure, obviously they couldn't say, We made such a bad decision that everyone freaked out so we had to do something more responsible!' Thus... no comment. I doubt this'll be Chris Brown's mea culpa. I doubt he has one in him. I mean the jackass has proven time and time again that he doesn't think he did anything wrong, and he thinks it's worthy of mockery. Oh, and let's not forget how it's our fault he doesn't seem sorry. The only - only - thing that might ever make him have just a teeny, tiny sliver of doubt that maybe he wasn't totally justified in beating the sh*t out of Rihanna are the consequences to his career. Which is why it's so important that people continue to boycott Brown until he's genuinely sorry. Or the end of time. Whichever comes first. Sadly, my money is on the end of time.

As much as the Post tried to make it sound like Brown will reveal some of the details of the event or actually tell the truth about what was going through his head, I don't believe it. Once a temperamental asshole, always a temperamental asshole. It may take a long time, but I truly believe Chris Brown will eventually feel the repercussions. Even if it just means he ends up broke. At least he can sell that $300,000 Oops!' necklace. That was a smart investment for the future.