MUMBAI: Music channel VH1from the Viacom stable will introduce a reality show in the US. Remaking will air from 1 January.

The series of specials is dedicated to improving the careers and lives of artists through various forms of transformation.

Heavy metal band Motley Crue's singer Vince Neil is the first artist to "face the music" in the episode Remaking: Vince Neil.

Throughout the hour-long special Neil will undergo a facelift, work out with a personal trainer and most importantly, kick his drinking habit. Following his physical transformation, Neil will then team up with some of the music industry's top producers to record a new single, Promise Me proving that true music legends never die.

Throughout each special, every artist will go through 90 days of hands-on interaction with a specially selected team of experts who will take them through the sometimes comic, emotional, but always intense transformation which could involve anything from therapy to plastic surgery, exercise, style renovation or musical reinvention.

On 3 Jnauary it will air a special under its news section Plastic Surgery Obsession. America The Beautiful is no longer just a patriotic anthem. The US has cultivated an obsession with physical perfection and a booming makeover industry fuels the Americans desires - and anxieties.

The broadcaster delves into why America has become makeover crazed. This one-hour special traces the history of the early pioneers of plastic surgery, from its hush-hush beginnings to today, where plastic surgery is flaunted on television's newest Cinderella- reality stories. What happens to the people once the faces heal and the cameras leave? The show also introduces viewers to the latest trends in makeover madness.