Simon Cowell has hinted that his rumoured new show to find the next big boyband will feature a "never seen before" format. It has been 14 years since he helped form One Direction on The X Factor and the music mogul has now confirmed that he's on the hunt once again. His attempts will reportedly be filmed for a "potential documentary series" produced by Box to Box Films and rumours suggest that the show will be released on Netflix , although this has not been confirmed.
Speaking on This Morning on Friday (July 12), Simon told Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond : "I have no idea how this is going to end because until we find the band that's sort of it but there is something I'm going to do in the middle which I've never done before which I'll tell you about later." Alison added: "I think you'll put them in a house together." Simon replied: "It's kind of close to that but something different which I've never done before.
I think 1D [One Direction] it was always about friendship and Spice Girls, and the determination to be success." It comes after the telly star sensationally hit out at social media as he blames the platforms for the decline of the music industry and claimed the dire state is because wannabe recording artists, are by-passing record labels to make it big via social media platforms. Speaking to Jackie Brambles on Greatest Hits Radio, he said: "The reality is that every day something like 200,000 songs are uploaded [to social media] so weirdly less people are getting.
