Netflix is bringing back Star Search as a live show

Netflix is adding an important class to its unrecorded offerings: endowment competition. The streamer announced that it volition beryllium reviving Star Search, the classical American Idol and America’s Got Talent precursor that has been disconnected the aerial since 1995. The modern iteration volition aerial unrecorded doubly a week connected Netflix, and viewers volition beryllium capable to ballot connected contestants crossed 4 categories: music, dance, assortment / comedy, and kids.

A batch of details are inactive to beryllium announced, including who the big and judges volition beryllium and erstwhile the caller Star Search will commencement streaming. But Netflix has tapped longtime America’s Got Talent showrunner Jason Raff to pb the project.

The announcement comes arsenic Netflix continues to propulsion connected unrecorded programming arsenic an important portion of its service. When it does premiere, Star Search volition articulation the likes of the WWE, John Mulaney’s precocious nighttime speech show, and sports including boxing, the NFL, and upcoming editions of the Women’s World Cup. Netflix antecedently said that its Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson combat was “the most-streamed sporting lawsuit ever,“ with an mean of 108 cardinal viewers.