Made in Korea FIRST LOOK: Five British boys attempt to make it as the next big band in the K-Pop world in new BBC series narrated by Vick Hope

Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience is a new BBC series that will premiere on Saturday, August 17. The first trailer will be released on Tuesday, giving a first look.

The six-part series is narrated by radio star Vick Hope and follows five British boys Blaise, Dexter, James, Oliver and Reese as they go through the K-pop training process with the goal of launching Dear Alice, a new boy band, onto the world stage.

At K-pop talent house SM Entertainment, the cameras go behind closed doors for the first time to watch the band.

The new trailer showed how excited they were about the project as they worked hard on rehearsals.

They said in the clip: ‘This is a great opportunity. We want to learn and gain everything we can, but the standard is very high!’

They collaborate with the world’s best choreographers, sing songs by the best songwriters and are taught by some of the most respected experts in the K-pop business.

SM Entertainment has been a leader in the entertainment and media industry in South Korea for 30 years and is the company that founded and led the system that made K-pop a global phenomenon.

SME also coordinates all aspects of artists’ career paths in the industry, including album planning, production, distribution, promotion and artist management.

Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience was filmed in South Korea and sees the boys immersed in K-pop culture and undergoing a 100-day K-pop training program from SME.

They will be taught a programme of choreography, singing and performance lessons, life coaching techniques and immersed in all aspects of Korean life, all set in the beautiful landscapes of Seoul and iconic K-pop locations.

Each week, the band’s progress is assessed by undisputed K-pop expert Hee Jun Yoon, the creative force behind some of the biggest K-pop bands of the past 20 years.

This is the ultimate bootcamp from the people who created the world’s biggest K-pop superstars. But success is far from guaranteed.

Vick, who already presents BBC Radio 1 Drive and ITV’s Vick Hope’s Breakfast Show, has said she is excited about her new role.

She said: “I’m really looking forward to being part of the show. It’s a fresh way to bring a brand new boy band and I’m excited to see their journey.”

The band members are Blaise Noon, 19, a former pupil at the BRIT school, Dexter Greenwood, 22, and James Sharp, a 23-year-old content creator from Huddersfield.

The other two members are Olly Quinn, 20, who was a choir singer as a child and is now venturing into the world of pop music, and Reese Carter, also 20, who previously worked as a cruise ship performer but is now pursuing his dream of being in a boy band.

Meanwhile, Simon Cowell, known from X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, has been looking for the successor to One Direction. He admitted that there has not been a more successful group since then. The search will be shown in a Netflix documentary called The Midas Touch.

And on This Morning, Simon admitted he has “no idea” what the format for his show will look like.

He told Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary: ‘I have no idea how this is going to end because until we find the band it’s pretty much anything. But there is something I’m going to do halfway through that I’ve never done before. I’ll tell you more about that later.’

Vicks’ latest project comes after a summer of extensive travel, including vacations in Ibiza and Paris.

The star looked more in love than ever with her 40-year-old husband Calvin Harris, sharing a glimpse of her summer so far with a series of snaps of her long legs, not on Instagram.

One photo showed her daringly posing in a plunging gold mesh dress, featuring a fringed skirt and a halter neck, revealing her ample breasts.

Vick snuggled up to Calvin, who caught a glimpse of his muscular chest in a printed shirt he kept half-unbuttoned.

And the couple are said to be seen with a number of other famous faces, including rapper Flavor Flav, fellow Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free and Love Island star Olivia Attwood.

Vick also shared photos of herself giggling as she handed out a birthday cake to her youngest brother Gabe, 26.

To show off her jet-set lifestyle, she posted photos of herself in Paris and a Calvin performance in Ibiza.

Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience airs on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday 17 August at 5:15pm.