- 2025
- Netflix
SummarySimon Cowell selects 16 teens from auditions in Dublin, London, and Liverpool as finalists to compete in Miami to be part of his new boy band in the six-part docuseries.
Simon Cowell: The Next Act
Season 1 Premiere:
Dec 10, 2025
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Generally Unfavorable
36
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Dec 11, 2025
60
Simon Cowell: The Next Act combines the homelife version of the host’s caddish personality with the process of finding, founding and making a boy band flourish. We’re just intrigued enough to see if Cowell really can go from zero to One Direction in the space of six episodes.
Dec 10, 2025
60
I must say I found the auditioning bits boring (fast forward if you feel the same; it’s lots of young men singing whiney songs), and Cowell himself much more interesting.
Dec 10, 2025
20
The star of this show is Cowell and Cowell alone. The group – all the identically haired 16-year-olds who did most of the work – are presented as an afterthought.
Dec 10, 2025
20
A show so dated and derivative that it’s as if the last 20 years never happened. But it’s easy to see why Cowell wanted to make it. This is a vanity project from a man desperate for relevance and deeply bored.
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Dec 18, 2025
3
It’s clear that Simon Cowell is doing this for a career revival. Is he broke or running out of money? Won’t be surprised. Look at that panel of judges - all nobodies! And Simon wearing sunglasses or tinted glasses the whole time? Mate, we know you splurged on plastics and **** it up. Move on!
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Dec 21, 2025
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This might be watchable if it was about the contestants and not a vanity project for Simon Cowell. Nobody wants to spend that much time looking in horror at what he did to his face,
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Production Company:
- Box to Box Films
- Syco Entertainment
Initial Release Date:Dec 10, 2025
Number of seasons:1 Season
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