• 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. Negative: 3 out of 17

Critic Reviews

  1. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ann Hodges
    Nov 28, 2019
    83
    "Making the Band" is "The Monkees" meets MTV's "The Real World" and "Road Rules." What a concept...The big surprise is, it works. [24 March 2000]
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Howard Rosenberg
    Nov 28, 2019
    80
    The premiere is tender and seductive. [24 March 2000, p.F2]
  3. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    Nov 28, 2019
    80
    Making the Band proves highly watchable. This story of a bubblegum band gives you something to chew on. [24 March 2000]
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Allan Johnson
    Nov 27, 2019
    80
    Enticing. [19 March 2000, p.3]
  5. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: John Levesque
    Nov 28, 2019
    75
    Even if all eight continue to be as fresh-scrubbed and downright agreeable as they seem tonight, Making the Band already promises to capture a thrill of victory/agony of defeat ethos that's irresistible to the average dreamer. [24 March 2000]
  6. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    Nov 28, 2019
    70
    Sick as it sounds, this should be fun. [24 March 2000, p.1E]
  7. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Terry Jackson
    Nov 28, 2019
    70
    Unlike The Real World, Making The Band has far more hopeful, giddy moments where you can't help but root for these guys to make it. [24 March 2000, p.1E]
  8. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    Nov 28, 2019
    63
    It worked for the Monkees. Maybe it'll work for O-Town. The concept is almost the same. [24 March 2000, p.E-11]