‘Simon Cowell: The Next Act’ Trailer: Music Mogul Gets Nostalgic For The Days Of Putting Together Boy Bands

Simon Cowell, best known in the U.S. for starring in American Idol and America’s Got Talent, has been instrumental in the success of bands such as Westlife, One Direction and Little Mix.

He’s now looking for his next boy band in Netflix docuseries Simon Cowell: The Next Act.

The cameras are following him in this journey, starting with raw open casting calls to the release of a debut single by bringing together 16 boys in Miami.

“As much as I love my job on TV, I miss where I started, signing artists and working with bands. There is a massive opportunity: I am going to find a new boy band,” he says in the trailer (above). “If this goes wrong, it will be Simon Cowell has lost it.”

The series, which will premiere on December 10, is produced by Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and Drive to Survive producer Box to Box Films. Cowell exec produces alongside James Gay Rees, Paul Martin, Warren Smith and Cassie Bennet.

Simon Cowell: The Next Act is a departure for the music mogul; on the television side, he has largely been involved with major entertainment franchises such as AGT, Idol and The X Factor rather than documentary series such as this. He was, however, involved in BBC documentary series Boybands Forever, which was produced by Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions and aired last year.

He also recently featured as a judge on a proof-of-concept taping of Who’s In The Band, a music competition series in development at ABC. The series, which comes from Richard Bacon’s Yes Yes Media, also featured Joe Jonas, Mel B and Savan Kotecha as judges with KPop Demon Hunters’ Rei Ami as host. However, if the project does move forward at the Disney-owned network, Cowell will be unlikely able to be involved on screen given his NBC contract.