The release of MBC’s boy band audition program “Fantasy Boys” will be delayed for a week to accommodate international broadcastings, announced the producer Phunky Studio on Friday.

“We have had multiple requests from North American and European platforms in anticipation of 'Fantasy Boys,'” said the producers.

“There was a lot of work left for content distributions, including translations and subtitles.”

The first episode will be aired at 10 p.m. on March 30, a week after its original release date which was set for March 23.

Produced in collaboration with the broadcasting company MBC, Phunky Studio and Naver, “Fantasy Boys” follows MBC’s 2021 girl group audition program “My Teenage Girls,” which debuted the seven-member girl group Class:y in May 2022.

With Soyeon from girl group (G)I-DLE, Yoon from boy band Winner, Wooyoung from boy band 2PM and Jinyoung, a former member of boy band B1A4 working as trainers on the program, a total of 54 idol trainees will be competing to form a boy band.

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]