Simon Cowell is ready for his next act.<\/p>\n
Netflix dropped the trailer for \u201cSimon Cowell: The Next Act\u201d on Monday, which will see the \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d \u201cX Factor\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d alum assemble what he hopes to be the next big boy band.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAs much as I love my job on TV, I miss where I started \u2014 signing artists and working with bands. There is a massive opportunity. I am going to find a new boy band,\u201d he says in the teaser. \u201cIf this goes wrong, it will be: \u2018Simon Cowell has lost it.’\u201d<\/p>\n This December, from thousands of auditions, 16 boys will spend a week in boy band bootcamp with Cowell\u2019s team to figure out who makes the final cut.<\/p>\n \u201cMusic mogul and record executive\u00a0Simon\u00a0Cowell\u00a0has single handedly created some of the biggest music superstars in the world. In this brand-new Netflix docu-series, cameras follow him everywhere as he sets out to do it again, to try and create the next global boyband sensation,\u201d per the logline. \u201cThis is unlike any show he has made before. From raw open casting calls to the release of their debut single, this is an all-access pass for viewers to catch every moment of\u00a0Simon\u2019s next chapter. Will he strike gold once again?\u201d<\/p>\n Cowell has famously\/infamously had a hand in putting together acts like One Direction, Little Mix and Fifth Harmony, while Netflix has offered similar concepts<\/a> with \u201cBuilding the Band\u201d and \u201cPop Star Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n The 6-episode series comes from Box to Box Films and Syco Entertainment, with executive producers Simon\u00a0Cowell, James Gay Rees, Paul Martin, Warren Smith and Cassie Bennet.<\/p>\n \u201cSimon Cowell: The Next Act\u201d premieres Dec. 10 on Netflix.<\/p>\n The post \u2018Simon Cowell: The Next Act\u2019 Hopes to Recreate the Magic of One Direction in Netflix Trailer<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simon Cowell is ready for his next act. Netflix dropped the trailer for \u201cSimon Cowell: The Next Act\u201d on Monday, which will see the \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d \u201cX Factor\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d alum assemble what he hopes to be the next big boy band. \u201cAs much as I love my job on TV, I miss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2170975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[23191,418786,23185],"class_list":["post-2175973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-netflix","tag-next-act","tag-simon-cowell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eddie-Murphy-to-Receive-AFI-Life-Achievement-Award.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175974,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175973\/revisions\/2175974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n