{"id":6231,"date":"2025-07-18T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6231\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:02:10","slug":"simon-cowell-boy-band-series-greenlit-at-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6231\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell Boy Band Series Greenlit at Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFifteen years after he helped assemble One Directon on The X Factor, Simon Cowell<\/a> is searching for a new boy band.<\/p>\n

\n\tCowell will star in and executive produce a Netflix<\/a> docuseries called Simon Cowell: The Next Act, in which he will attempt to \u201ccreate the next global boyband sensation.\u201d The six-episode series, set to premiere in December, is one of several unscripted orders and renewals Netflix announced Thursday; among the others are Let\u2019s Marry Harry, featuring Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match alum Harry Jowsey, and Love Con Revenge, in which Cecilie Fjellh\u00f8y (featured in The Tinder Swindler) teams with a private investigator to expose romance scanners.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix has also renewed The Ultimatum<\/a>: Marry or Move On and King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch and set fall premiere dates for season nine of Love Is Blind<\/a> and a trio of real estate shows: Selling Sunset<\/a>, Selling the OC and Owning Manhattan. Additionally, the streamer announced former Bachelor Nick Viall and his wife, Natalie Joy, will host the dating show Age of Attraction.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimon Cowell: The Next Act is the latest in a spate of music<\/a>-oriented unscripted shows at Netflix. Building the Band<\/a> (featuring the late Liam Payne of One Direction) premiered July 9, and the songwriter-focused Hitmakers is set to debut on July 24.<\/p>\n

\n\tCowell\u2019s Syco Entertainment and Box to Box Films (Formula 1: Drive to Survive) are producing The Next Act. Cowell, James Gay Rees, Paul Martin, Warren Smith, Cassie Bennet are the executive producers, and Tayla Richardson is co-EP.<\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s Marry Harry comes from Alex Cooper\u2019s Unwell, with Cooper, Matt Kaplan and Mina Lefevre executive producing. The series will be a Bachelor-esque dating show, but with some of Jowsey\u2019s closest friends choosing who stays in the running. Love Con Revenge will team Fjellh\u00f8y and P.I. Brianne Larson in a series from EPs Chris McLaughlin and Ruth Kelly.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix also picked up Calabasas Confidential, about a group of young adults in the wealthy L.A. exurb, and Members Only: Palm Beach, following women as they navigate the high society enclave in South Florida.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the premieres, Love Is Blind is set to debut its ninth season on Oct. 1. Selling Sunset will premiere Oct. 29, followed by Selling the OC (Nov. 12) and Owning Manhattan (Dec. 5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen years after he helped assemble One Directon on The X Factor, Simon Cowell is searching for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,3648,128,392,3649,3650,3651,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-love-is-blind","tag-music","tag-netflix","tag-selling-sunset","tag-simon-cowell","tag-the-ultimatum","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}