Louis Theroux is producing a brand new BBC present that may discover boyband mania in the course of the 90s and 00s.

‘Boybands Perpetually’ will air on BBC Two within the autumn and the sequence will function some searingly trustworthy interviews with some well-known figures within the music trade, together with Robbie Williams and Simon Cowell.

Louis stated: “I couldn’t be extra thrilled about this sequence.

“An epic story that includes a forged of stars and star-makers, spanning three a long time, it includes a few of the icons of recent British pop.

“We see them by means of their highs and lows, listening to from the important thing gamers, as we chart the golden years of boy bands. How they got here collectively, the expertise of sudden fame, the chance and temptations that got here their approach, conflicts throughout the teams, between the teams, and between the boys and their managers.”

Louis has been engaged on the present for greater than 12 months, and the veteran documentary-maker cannot look forward to folks to see it.

He stated: “It’s a gripping fable about getting every thing you dreamed of, and it not being what you imagined, centred on a era of younger males, and their managers, who had been wildly profitable and likewise immensely susceptible, having the occasions of their lives and likewise in some instances cracking up.

“These boys all of us watched singing and dancing in tight formation – Take That, East 17, Westlife, Blue, 5, Injury, 911 and so many others – are actually middle-aged males who’ve the time and the maturity to look again and mirror on what they went by means of.

“It’s taken us greater than a yr to make the sequence. Now I’m simply excited for folks to see it.”