BBC Two will air a brand new sequence on the boyband mania of the Nineties and 2000s that includes interviews with Take That‘s Robbie Williams, Westlife’s Brian McFadden, and music mogul Simon Cowell.
Boybands Endlessly, a three-episode sequence, will air later in 2024. Produced by Mindhouse Productions (Louis Theroux Interviews, Lockerbie) and from producer-husband-and-wife pair Louis Theroux and Nancy Strang, the present will dive into popular culture within the ’90s and ’00s, wanting on the success of a number of the U.Ok. and Eire’s most celebrated pop stars.
Every episode will comply with the truth of new-found fame at a younger age whereas revealing a number of the pivotal behind-the-scenes moments. Boybands Endlessly will embrace interviews with the artists themselves together with Williams, McFadden, in addition to members of East 17, Blue, 5, 911, and Injury.
The sequence will even hear from the music label bosses and band managers who dealt with their ascent to fame, together with Cowell (RCA Information) Nigel Martin-Smith (Take That), Louis Walsh (Westlife), Daniel Glatman (Blue), Chris Herbert (5) and Steve Gilmour (911), in addition to these near the band members, music trade insiders, presenters, and journalists.
“I couldn’t be extra thrilled about this sequence,” stated Louis Theroux, who serves as government producer. “An epic story that includes a solid of stars and star-makers, spanning three many years, it includes a number of the icons of recent British pop. We see them by their highs and lows, listening to from the important thing gamers, as we chart the golden years of boy bands. How they got here collectively, the expertise of sudden fame, the chance and temptations that got here their method, conflicts inside the teams, between the teams, and between the boys and their managers.”
The British journalist and presenter continued: “It’s a gripping fable about getting all the pieces you dreamed of, and it not being what you imagined, centered on a era of younger males, and their managers, who have been wildly profitable and likewise immensely weak, having the instances of their lives and likewise in some instances cracking up. These boys all of us watched singing and dancing in tight formation – Take That, East 17, Westlife, Blue, 5, Injury, 911 and so many others – at the moment are middle-aged males who’ve the time and the maturity to look again and replicate on what they went by. It’s taken us greater than a 12 months to make the sequence. Now I’m simply excited for folks to see it.”
Boybands Endlessly is a Mindhouse manufacturing for BBC Pop Music TV and BBC Two. It was commissioned by Jonathan Rothery, head of Well-liked Music TV. The commissioning editor for BBC Well-liked Music TV is Rachel Davies. Government producers are Strang and Theroux for Mindhouse.