EXCLUSIVE: Apple is getting deeper into the K-pop business. The streamer has ordered a new competition series set in the popular music genre starring Gangnam Style artist PSY and Megan Thee Stallion with Lionel Richie as exec producer.
Kpopped is an eight-part series that sees western icons reimagine one of their biggest hits, collaborating with top-tier K-pop idols to deliver battle performances, with a live Seoul-based audience picking the winner of the best new song.
It comes from CJ ENM, the Korean company behind Fox’s I Can See Your Voice and Oscar-winning movie Parasite, and Eureka Productions, the Fremantle-owned company behind series such as Netflix’s The Mole and Fox’s The Floor.
Exec producers include Moira Ross, Lionel Richie, Miky Lee, Megan Thee Stallion and Greg Foster, alongside Harry H.K. Shin and Jake Hong, and Eureka’s Chris Culvenor, Paul Franklin, Wes Dening and David Tibballs and Bruce Eskowitz.
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