Simon Cowell has a new TV talent show out today – though he’d rather you didn’t call it that. Simon Cowell: The Next Act on Netflix is dressed up as a documentary series, following Cowell as he embarks on a search for a new boy band . Gone are the dry ice machines and public votes of The X Factor – this is a glamour-free, warts-and-all insight into what it takes to create the next One Direction .

The six-part series arrives just a couple of months after the one-year anniversary of Liam Payne’s death . At just 31, the singer fell from the balcony of an Argentinian hotel – he had traces of alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant in his blood. It was a tragic, shocking loss, made all the more devastating by the fact that – had Payne never been thrust into the limelight at just

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