Idol Producer: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Idol Producer brings together 100 trainees from different entertainment companies and talent agencies, both within and beyond China. The trainees will have seal-offed training sessions which are recorded for a period of four months. Nine candidates will be chosen through a voting system by the audience from the pool of 100 trainees to debut as a unit boy group of 9 people.

Series details

• Title: Idol Producer
• Format: Reality
• Language: Chinese
• Premiere date: 2018-01-19
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: iQIYI
• Typical episode runtime: 144 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 34478
• TVDB ID: 340187

Cast and credited roles

• Cheng Xiao — Dance mentor
• Zhou Jie Qiong — Dance mentor
• The8 — Dance mentor
• Jolin Tsai — Dance mentor
• Jackson Wang — Rap mentor
• MC Jin — Rap mentor
• After Journey — Rap mentor
• Wilber Pan — Rap instructor
• Jony J — Rap instructor
• Lay — Nation's producer
• Li Rong Hao — Vocal mentor
• Cai Xu Kun — National producer

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2018-01-19; final listed air date 2018-04-06.
• Season 2: premiered 2019-01-21; final listed air date 2019-04-06.
• Season 3: premiered 2020-03-12; final listed air date 2020-05-30.
• Season 4: premiered 2021-02-18; final listed air date 2021-05-01.

Source and licence

Adapted from Idol Producer on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.