Netflix apologizes for delaying Love Meet is blind to UK viewers

Netflix has apologized after postponing and pre-recording the “live” Love is Blind reunion, and UK viewers are still waiting to see it.

The dating show, which sees couples get engaged before they meet, was scheduled to be broadcast live globally at 01:00 BST on April 17.

After delays of 90 minutes, the live broadcast was canceled and the reunion was filmed instead.

Netflix said the reunion special will be available globally at 18:00 GMT.

There are no spoilers for the Love Is Blind reunion in this article.

This was Netflix’s second foray into live programming, after successfully airing a Chris Rock special in March this year.

The comedy routine aired mostly without a glitch, with only a few users reporting problems across social media at the time, but technical glitches meant the Love is Blind live stream never got off the ground for most people.

While some viewers in the US were able to catch the broadcast about 75 minutes after its scheduled start time, most were met with an on-screen reading “There is a problem with the live broadcast”.

Netflix reported delays over time and by 02:30 GMT – 90 minutes after the broadcast was scheduled to begin – the streaming giant apologized and told fans it was filming the episode instead.

“To everyone who stayed up late, got up early, gave up on a Sunday afternoon… We are incredibly sorry that the Love is Blind Live Reunion didn’t go as we planned,” Netflix tweeted in a statement.

“We’re filming it right now and we’re going to get it on Netflix as fast as humanly possible. Again, thank you and sorry.”

Netflix didn’t give a reason for the cancellation of the live stream, but show host Vanessa Lachey pointed out that it was a technical error in an Instagram live video, captioned: “Looks like we broke the internet.”

Downdetector, which tracks websites, showed that more than 10,000 people in the US reported that the site was not working during the broadcast.

But the decision to postpone the reunion caused a panic, as fans in the UK who had chosen to sleep over the live stream woke up to find that the episode was not available.

Some called the delay in showing the episode online unacceptable, while others noted that it means that spoilers are now spreading through social media.

Some international viewers have claimed that they are no longer interested in watching the show at all.