{"id":186376,"date":"2025-12-11T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:49:09","slug":"tanya-sweeney-simon-cowells-netflix-show-is-about-finding-new-talent-but-hes-out-of-date-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186376\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Sweeney: Simon Cowell\u2019s Netflix show is about finding new talent \u2013 but he\u2019s out of date already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">While pop music will never go out of style, Cowell\u2019s particular dream factory probably has \u2013 The X Factor, Pop Idol and their ilk feel like artefacts from a bygone era\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon Cowell and partner Lauren Silverman on \u2018The Next Act\u2019. Photo: Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/210ac56c-7a49-41c8-996e-cd12cabcb017.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Simon Cowell and partner Lauren Silverman on \u2018The Next Act\u2019. Photo: Netflix<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Just when you thought you\u2019d finally seen the back of Simon Cowell, the originator of gladiator-style talent shows that the Guardian once called \u2018Karaoke Sauron\u2019, up he pops again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Netflix is now the home of Cowell\u2019s latest show The Next Act, in which the mogul attempts to assemble the world\u2019s next big boyband; his attempt, he says, to return to where he started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While pop music will never go out of style, Cowell\u2019s particular dream factory probably has \u2013 The X&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,1868,30028,12271,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-186376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-simon-cowell","13":"tag-tanya-sweeney","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}