18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Simon Cowell set to launch ANOTHER new TV talent contest amid ‘huge excitement' around his Netflix boyband search show
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SIMON Cowell is lining up another TV talent contest — this time about the search for the next Little Mix.
It comes as the record producer, who helped the girl group find success on the X Factor in 2011, is about to wrap filming on his hunt for a hit boyband.
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Simon Cowell is planning a follow-up to his new talent show on Netflix, to focus on girl groups. The mogul pictured with Little Mix
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Simon Cowell: The Next Act, which will stream on Netflix, follows the music mogul, 65, as he goes on a quest to find the next One Direction.
And he is planning a sequel where he does the same for budding female pop stars
A TV insider said: 'There's huge amount of excitement around the boyband search show dropping on Netflix, which is expected to drop later this year.
'So it makes sense to consider a sequel with a similar concept but looking for the female equivalent.
'And if anyone can do it, it's Simon. After all, through One Direction and Little Mix, he helped deliver two of the biggest pop acts of the last two decades.'
The Next Act was this week confirmed by Netflix as part of its slate of big programmes coming over the next 12 months.
The follow-up has not been commissioned yet — and Netflix is unlikely to seal the deal on a second series before the first had aired.
But Simon was so confident in his boyband search concept that he set out on it before it was confirmed that Netflix would pick it up.
Filming started last year, with US production company Box to Box following Simon as he auditioned youngsters across the UK and Ireland.
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Representatives for Simon declined to comment.
