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Netflix UK will as soon as once more be carrying weekly episodes of the expertise competitors sequence American Idol with each episode of season 19 dropping on Netflix weekly ranging from February 18th.
It’s not the primary time Netflix has acquired unique rights within the UK to American Idol. In actual fact, 2019 was the first year Netflix begun getting weekly episodes of the singing competitors present. Netflix UK additionally carries weekly episodes of America’s Received Expertise too.
For these unaware of the format of the present, you observe contestants seeking to chase their goals of changing into a success singer.
Judges for season 19 embrace Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Ryan Seacrest. Bobby Bones returns because the mentor for season 19 and likewise for this season, a number of the auditions are conducted virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sequence has additionally discovered itself in a little bit of scorching water after Kellyanne Conway’s daughter Claudia auditioned which has been accused of being an “exploitation of a minor“.
Some have speculated that ABC might decide to place the weekly episodes on Disney+ Star in future years however for this yr at the very least, it seems like its streaming dwelling within the UK will proceed to be on Netflix.
When do new episodes of American Idol season 19 arrive on Netflix UK?
New episodes air in the US each Sunday at 8:00 PM EST however don’t come to Netflix till the next Thursday.
- Episode 1 – February 18th
- Episode 2 – February 25th
- Episode 3- March 4th
- Episode 4 – March 11th
- Episode 5 – March 18th
- Episode 6 – March TBD
- Episode 7 – March TBD
- Episode 8 – April TBD
- Episode 9 – April TBD
- Episode 10 – April TBD
- Episode 11 – April TBD
- Episode 12 – April TBD
- Episode 13 – April TBD
Episodes don’t keep on Netflix eternally, nevertheless. Netflix has been getting weekly episodes of American Idol since 2019 however as soon as the brand new season concludes that often marks when the earlier season will depart from Netflix UK.
Through which case, season 18 (listed as 2020 assortment) ought to depart in full over the subsequent few months.
Will different Netflix areas get American Idol?
Unlikely. Each America’s Received Expertise and American Idol have solely ever hit Netflix UK and no different areas. Netflix may nonetheless work out offers for different areas however for the second, it seems prefer it’s the UK solely in the interim.
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