{"id":52558,"date":"2025-11-24T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/simon-cowell-hunts-for-the-next-big-boy-band-in-netflix-docuseries\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:12:40","slug":"simon-cowell-hunts-for-the-next-big-boy-band-in-netflix-docuseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/simon-cowell-hunts-for-the-next-big-boy-band-in-netflix-docuseries\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell Hunts for the Next Big Boy Band in Netflix Docuseries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The stakes are high in the six-episode docuseries, which will air on Netflix on Dec. 10 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/simon-cowell\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Simon Cowell<\/a> is on the hunt for the next big boy band in the first trailer for the pop kingmaker\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\">Netflix<\/a> docuseries, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/simon-cowell-the-next-act\/\" id=\"auto-tag_simon-cowell-the-next-act\" data-tag=\"simon-cowell-the-next-act\">Simon Cowell: The Next Act<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe man behind the megastar groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/one-direction-10th-anniversary-collaborators-1032313\/\">One Direction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fifth-harmony\/\">Fifth Harmony,<\/a> and Little Mix takes cameras on a behind-the-scenes journey as he searches the United Kingdom for potential stars. Sixteen lucky young men will be brought to Miami, where the music executive and his team will put the hopefuls through the paces to see who will make the final cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe ruthless and direct talent judge, who has appeared on <em>American Idol<\/em>, <em>The X Factor<\/em>, and <em>Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>, said he wanted to return to his roots, developing young artists. \u201cAs much as I love my job on TV, I miss where I started, signing artists and working with bands,\u201d Cowell says in the trailer, which dropped on Monday. \u201cThere is a massive opportunity: I am going to find a new boy band. If this goes wrong, it will be Simon Cowell has lost it.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon Cowell: The Next Act | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5kASilodsdA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe stakes are high in the six-episode docuseries, which will air on the streaming platform on Dec. 10, as in-fighting amongst the contestants plays out on screen. Cowell also seemed pushed to the brink by the process: He\u2019s seen in the trailer receiving an IV drip for exhaustion as he confesses the \u201cchances of this working are less than 10 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCowell announced his search for the next big boy band last summer, hosting open-call auditions in London, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Dublin. \u201cThere\u2019s always a high degree of risk, and I genuinely have no idea what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Cowell said at the time. \u201cThere is no guaranteed path to success \u2014 anything can happen, but that\u2019s what\u2019s exciting for me, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/simon-cowell-the-next-act-trailer-boy-band-docuseries-1235471259\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stakes are high in the six-episode docuseries, which will air on Netflix on Dec. 10 Simon Cowell is on the hunt for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}