Simon Cowell is reportedly set to signal an enormous cope with Netflix to launch a model new expertise present to seek out the subsequent One Course.
The music mogul, 64, helped type the well-known boyband, made up of Harry Types, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Niall Horan on The X Think about 2010, the place they got here third.
He then signed the group to his document label, Syco Data, and the band quickly skyrocketed to world success, turning into one of many best-selling boybands of all time.
Now Simon is alleged to be trying to discover one other group that may equal One Course’s success, with a brand new expertise contest.
In response to The Solar, filming for the present is believed to have already begun within the UK in partnership with manufacturing firm Field To Field movies.
Simon Cowell is reportedly set to signal an enormous cope with Netflix to launch a model new expertise present to seek out the subsequent One Course (pictured final month)
The music mogul, 64, helped type the well-known boyband, made up of Harry Types, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Niall Horan on The X Think about 2010, the place they got here third (pictured on present L-R Louis, Zayn, Simon, Niall, Harry and Liam)
He then signed the group to his document label, Syco Data, and the band quickly skyrocketed to world success, turning into one of many best-selling boybands of all time (pictured in 2014)
Sources have claimed that Simon was in a bidding warfare after first pitching the present, with Apple and Prime Video additionally eager to come back on board.
Nevertheless, they are saying he’s now in talks with Netflix and able to signal an enormous deal, and has already joined pressured with a PR agency to arrange to announce the present within the coming weeks.
The supply instructed the publication: ‘Simon is making ready to signal an enormous cope with Netflix to seek out the world’s subsequent largest boy band.
‘He’s working with the crew behind Drive To Survive on the present and needed to get it on a streamer as a result of it matches the viewers higher. Simon knew The X Issue had grown drained so he needed to do one thing that appeared fully recent and new.
‘He’s famend for recognizing expertise and One Course’s success got here off the again of him placing them collectively. Simon desires to duplicate this and discover a group who can attain the heights One Course did.
‘Filming for the present has already began within the UK and he’s so enthusiastic about what’s to come back.’
Simon’s new mission comes six years after the ultimate sequence of The X Issue, which he admitted took a toll on him.
The TV persona beforehand stated turning into a father modified his life and helped him overcome an all-encompassing obsession with work that left him ‘depressed, depressing’ and unable to sleep.
Now Simon is alleged to be trying to discover one other group that may equal One Course’s success, with a brand new expertise contest (pictured in 2013)
Sources have claimed that Simon was in a bidding warfare after first pitching the present, with Apple and Prime Video additionally eager to come back on board (pictured final month)
His straight-talking value determinations as head choose helped earn him a fame as TV’s Mr. Nasty, however behind the scenes he admits to working around the clock in a frantic bid to assist the present keep one step forward of the competitors.
And Simon says turning into a father late in life helped steer him away from his darkish, determined and finally doomed try and salvage the previous ITV flagship from a speedy decline in recognition by toying with its as soon as profitable format.
He instructed The Solar: ‘Earlier than Eric, my life was 99 p.c work — I used to be obsessive about it. I obtained to that time the place every thing was about, “In case you’re not score towards this then you definately’re a failure” and I ended having fun with what I used to be doing and I used to be depressing the entire time.
‘I used to be obsessive about beating the competitors. I took it to a ridiculous degree and I might get actually down about that stuff, to the purpose I used to be depressed.’
Simon and his fiancée Lauren Silverman welcomed son Eric, 10, on Valentine’s Day 2014.
Simon says turning into a father late in life helped steer him away from his determined try to avoid wasting X Issue (pictured along with his fiancée Lauren Silverman and son Eric, 10, final yr)
