'American Idol' Reboot Finally Gets a Premiere Date
by EG
The reboot of American Idol on ABC has been teasing us for months now. Pretty quickly after the revived series was announced, we learned that Katy Perry was going to be its first judge. But then we had to wait what seemed like forever to learn whether or not Ryan Seacrest was going to return as host. It took even longer to learn who was going to be joining Perry on the judges' panel, and even after all that was sorted out, we still didn't know when the series was going to premiere. Now we do.
Via Us Weekly.
This … is your new American Idol.
☑ your calendars 🇺🇸 let's find an IDOL❗@AmericanIdol will premiere Sunday, March 11 on ABC. #AmericanIdol pic.twitter.com/adKVabe5EE
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) November 6, 2017
The ABC reboot is set to premiere on Sunday, March 11, host Ryan Seacrest announced during Live! With Kelly & Ryan on Monday, November 6. Judge Katy Perry tweeted the news, sharing a photo with Seacrest and fellow judges, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie.
As for the judging styles to expect, that’s “too be determined,” Perry, 32, told Us Weekly and other reporters at the American Idol auditions last month. “I don’t think any of us believe in being nasty. I think what we believe in is being constructive and giving constructive criticism because it doesn’t help anyone and people are really sensitive and we understand because we’ve all walked into a room like that at one time in our lives.”
Richie, 68, added: “I think I’m going to change the word ‘nasty’ to ‘brutally honest.’ We don’t have time to warm up here. We only have a couple of months to get this right and so if we had a couple of years to work with these acts, artists, fantastic. But I don’t like the word ‘nasty.’ I think nasty only implies that we’re going to hurt someone.”
For Bryan, he’s already struggling with when to stop an audition. “That’s a tough thing to do because we know that feeling of being up there singing,” the country star, 41, said. “If you’re some really harsh person and go, ‘OK, that’s enough!’ We got better at it.”
Get the rest of the story at Us Weekly.
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