Looks Like Diddy’s Making the Band Is Coming Back to MTV

Seventeen years after its first debut on MTV and ten after being placed on indefinite hiatus, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Making the Band is coming back to MTV in 2020.

That’s right—the superhuman musician-producer-multi-millionaire has announced the revival of the talent search competition best known for launching the careers of the short-lived musical acts O-Town, Da Band and Danity Kane, and spawning a Dave Chappelle iteration.

Combs announced the show’s return by launching an open casting call across all major social media platforms in search of its next “global superstar.” Though the musician’s announcement is merely hours old, Twitter’s #MTBCasting hashtag is already clogged with video after video of young hopefuls belting it out to self-produced instrumentals in different languages. It’s only a matter of time before the memes start to trickle in.

MTV also announced its collaboration with the musical performance app Smule (was TikTok unavailable?) to launch a “first-of-its-kind” audition feature that provides users curated playlists of songs to choose from and create video entries to share on social media.