{"id":16329,"date":"2025-09-11T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16329\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:10:07","slug":"american-idol-boss-talks-big-format-changes-carrie-underwood-season-24-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16329\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American Idol\u2019 Boss Talks \u2018Big\u2019 Format Changes, Carrie Underwood &#038; Season 24 Auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search is already underway for the next American Idol heading into Season 9 on ABC (Season 24 overall). Hopefuls have been invited to sign up via the \u201cIdol Across America\u201d website to receive a virtual audition slot with a producer via Zoom. They sing live with the potential to receive virtual callbacks or advance straight to in-person and eventually receive a golden ticket to the iconic Hollywood Week. Who will be able to sing in front of judges <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005360\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Richie<\/a>, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2828504\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Bryan<\/a>, and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1863227\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Underwood<\/a>? There are audition days ultimately scheduled for all 50 states, plus Washington D.C. It\u2019s the sixth year the popular singing competition has offered this option,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search is already underway for the next American Idol heading into Season 9 on ABC (Season 24&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":["post-16329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}