BBC Two will air a brand new collection on the boyband mania of the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s that includes interviews with Take That‘s Robbie Williams, Westlife’s Brian McFadden, and music mogul Simon Cowell.
Boybands Without end, a three-episode collection, 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.Okay. 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 Without end will embody interviews with the artists themselves together with Williams, McFadden, in addition to members of East 17, Blue, 5, 911, and Harm.
The collection may also hear from the music label bosses and band managers who dealt with their ascent to fame, together with Cowell (RCA Data) 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 business insiders, presenters, and journalists.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled about this series,” stated Louis Theroux, who serves as government producer. “An epic story featuring a cast of stars and star-makers, spanning three decades, it involves some of the icons of modern British pop. We see them through their highs and lows, hearing from the key players, as we chart the golden years of boy bands. How they came together, the experience of sudden fame, the opportunity and temptations that came their way, conflicts within the groups, between the groups, and between the boys and their managers.”
The British journalist and presenter continued: “It’s a gripping fable about getting everything you dreamed of, and it not being what you imagined, centered on a generation of young men, and their managers, who were wildly successful and also immensely vulnerable, having the times of their lives and also in some cases cracking up. Those boys we all watched singing and dancing in tight formation – Take That, East 17, Westlife, Blue, Five, Damage, 911 and so many others – are now middle-aged men who have the time and the maturity to look back and reflect on what they went through. It’s taken us more than a year to make the series. Now I’m just excited for people to see it.”
Boybands Without end is a Mindhouse manufacturing for BBC Pop Music TV and BBC Two. It was commissioned by Jonathan Rothery, head of Fashionable Music TV. The commissioning editor for BBC Fashionable Music TV is Rachel Davies. Govt producers are Strang and Theroux for Mindhouse.
