Univision Gives Simon Cowell Show La Banda the Go-Ahead

Network upfront features dancing Steve Mandela, Carlos Santana

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Univision has green-lit a new series from American Idol/X Factor/America's Got Talent producer Simon Cowell entitled La Banda, out to find "the best band in the world," as Cowell told the crowd. Coincidentally, a man who would surely be a principal player in the best band in the world, Carlos Santana, closed the presentation with a two-song set.

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