One Direction’s Liam Payne final TV project ‘Building The Band’ will air this summer with the singer guesting as a judge. The announcement was made by Netflix at their latest event. Nicole Scherzinger (The Pussycat Dolls), Liam Payne (One Direction), and Kelly Rowland (Destiny’s Child) will serve as judges, bringing their unparalleled expertise and personal band experience to the competition. AJ McLean of The Backstreet Boys will host the series.
Filming on the show wrapped prior to Payne’s death last October. Back in January, the show was listed as one of the most anticipated 2025 Netflix shows. The show is a Love is Blind-style talent contest in which singers form their own bands without being able to see each other. The Building the Band talent competition series from Remarkable Entertainment, which is part of Banjay, UK, aims to form the next great music group sight unseen. The series will culminate in three live shows that were filmed in late August in front of a live audience in Manchester.
Possible adjustments by the Building the Band producers to address Payne’s loss could include his fellow judges and Backstreet Boys star AJ McLean, host of the competition series, offering a tribute in the opening episode.
The singer who came to fame whilst being part of very famous boyband One Direction in 2010 died after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires which came as a shock to the whole entire world. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Argentina is continuing to investigate the circumstances around Payne’s death at the Casa Sur Hotel. Five people have since been convicted in the singer’s death, including the singer’s friend Roger Nores, the hotel manager, and a receptionist – who were all accused of manslaughter. Two others, a hotel employee and a waiter, have been charged with supplying cocaine, Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office previously said in a statement.
The streaming date of Building The Band is yet to be confirmed.
