New survival show "Extreme Debut Wild Idol" to start broadcasting in September.

[yejun.livejournal.com]

MBC will air a new survival show titled "Extreme Debut Wild Idol" starting this September.
The participants will train and compete for a possible debut in the wilderness.
Fans are for now showing great interest in the show mostly due to the announced coaches.

2PM's Jun.K, Teen Top's Niel and Block B's Taeil have been announced as vocal coaches along with INFINITE's Sunggyu. SHINee's Minho and Gong Minzy are said to have joined forces with, among others, Kim Jong kook, as physical fitness coaches.
Further coaches include Nell, Tiger JK, Lia Kim etc.


Teaser video:

Images and videos of the contestants can be found on the show's Instagram / MBC's youtube channel respectively.

SHINee fans might recognize one of the contestants as Doha. He played a younger version of Minho's character Kang Tae Joon in the drama To The Beautiful You.



Sources: MBS's Homepage and Youtube, Sports world, Osen, oxygenHG

Comments

[carmine-pink.livejournal.com]

There are a few other contestants who have debuted before/participated in previous idol competitions. Some I recognized are Newkidd's Jinkwon, ex-UNB/The Unit's Kijoong, PDX101 Park Yuri. Doha is also a member of BAE173. More here: https://www.kpopmap.com/extreme-debut-wild-idol-2021-tv-show-cast-summary/

The concept of idol wilderness survival is just so weird to me though.

[yejun.livejournal.com]

I'm sad to say almost none of the names sound familiar lol. I vaguely remember 24K... and Cclown...

Mostly just hoping for some shawol to cut out Minho's parts.. not really interested in survival shows anymore since participants are like ~15 years younger than me lol.

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

korean media is really trying to create idol debut shows in the wildest (pun not intended) ways. i feel bad for the idols competing and i can't really imagine this will be a much-watched show

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

I am very confused with the concept of this show and how idol/wilderness are interconnected....
Personaly I think if you want to do a survival show, you should just make the people who want to be idols have an idol schedule/life for x-amount of time to see if they really want the job and are willing to go through everything idols go... Or something like that

[em-cavey.livejournal.com]

you should just make the people who want to be idols have an idol schedule/life for x-amount of time to see if they really want the job and are willing to go through everything idols go

Ooooh this is a great idea, probably the only idol survival/debut show I'd watch. It'd be dark as hell though lol

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

It would be super dark, but would give (I think) an idea to fans and even trainees the actualy reality of being an idol and that, no matter how talented you are, doesn't mean you're going to make it.
So I kinda want to see how it would go

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

egh. i thought the 'wild' is proverbial. seems like i'm not going to enjoy it. but then again i don't really enjoy idol making shows that is not produce and it's spin offs.

anyway, i was laughing bc KJK is the physical fitness coaches when he's a whole ass singer himself.

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

BLOCK B TAEIL?????

[babycheeses1.livejournal.com]

I just wanna watch Minho as a main lead in a kdrama 😩, is that so much to ask for? A very huh choice. But I guess actors/singers going on reality/variety shows isn't looked at the same way as it is in the west, and is actually the thing to do to gain popularity with Korean gp?

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

This sounds like an accident waiting to happen

[theweebdream.livejournal.com]

Nah cause I literally came here to say this sounds like this is gonna be a mess like g-idle “African style” mess waiting to happen

[adenar.livejournal.com]

i want to be happy for minzy but this just seems so weird

[em-cavey.livejournal.com]

This is surreal lmao

Kim Jong kook, as physical fitness coach
I can’t 🤣 They're making KJK whip these poor kids into shape in some boot camp out in the sticks wtf is even happening

[sjtaazrz.livejournal.com]

Ugh, this is just giving me Hot Blood vibes..



They had all the trainees running at dawn and doing all kinds of physical challenges. iirc Taecyeon even had a bloody nose or lip after some boxing challenge they had. Not that I condone it, but at least with Hot Blood they were making a ~beastly idol~ group. What is the point of having all of these dudes push themselves so hard in the wilderness?


Plus, lord help them if they do debut, get successful, then have some kind of office job during their military service. People won't let them live down that they gained notoriety with all of this stamina and strength.

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

Sounds weird but I want to watch the coaches. Still, sounds weird.

[foxmadperson.livejournal.com]

this wouldve been perfect without the block b member edit: nvm i was confusing taeil with another block b member i don’t like
glad my man sunggyu is staying employed