Boybands (Aren't) Forever

Remembering a lost 20th Century art form - and its costs

A couple of months back, I wrote about the mildly interesting but not exactly gripping BBC boyband reality series Made in Korea, which allows us, reality stylee, a close-up view of the hard drilling of the hopeful young members of fivesome Dear Alice in the K-Pop discipline.

It was mostly an opportunity to confess how I invented boyband reality TV – back…