The updated show would feature a new boy band in the roles made ... sing and could be packaged in a comedy-drama television series - like The Monkees in the 1960s - to promote their records.

The Monkees began as a musical television series starring Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones as members ...

And in the midst of it all, there were the Monkees ... Jones had acted on TV and Broadway while Dolenz got his start as a child actor in a TV series called Circus Boy. The show aired on ABC ...