Making the Band

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 24, 2000
Season #: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17

Critic Reviews

  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Nov 28, 2019
    37
    While the young girls who follow these boy bands may be fascinated, their parents are likely to be alternately touched and horrified. These young men are so hopeful, so eager, so openly and innocently ambitious. And if you watch, you'll see how easily some of them are crushed...Tell me why that's entertaining. [24 March 2000]
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Phil Gallo
    Nov 27, 2019
    30
    Hourlong debut is numbingly dull and predictable, a combination of MTV's "Real World" with "Behind the Music" lighting and a random public access "community auditions" show.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Nov 28, 2019
    25
    Stranger things have happened, but it's going to take some powerful wizardry to whip Making the Band into must-see TV. [24 March 2000]
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