Netflix is reaching again into TV historical past for its subsequent piece of dwell programming.
The streamer has picked up a brand new model of the expertise competitors Star Search. The announcement got here Wednesday throughout Netflix’s upfront presentation to advertisers, which additionally included a bunch of collection renewals (for Bridgerton, The 4 Seasons and The Diplomat, amongst others).
Star Search is one of some new collection orders Netflix introduced on the occasion. Additionally on faucet are a comedy from Schitt’s Creek Emmy winner Dan Levy; All of the Sinners Bleed, a thriller from Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole; The Physique, a YA drama created by Quinn Shepherd (Hulu’s Below the Bridge); and Prime Time, a doc collection about NFL Corridor of Famer and College of Colorado soccer coach Deion Sanders.
Star Search premiered in 1983 as a syndicated expertise present hosted by Ed McMahon. It ran for 12 years and was revived at CBS from 2003-04 with Arsenio Corridor as host. Among the many notable contestants through the years have been Future’s Youngster (performing as Women Tyme), Britney Spears, Ray Romano, Dave Chappelle, Billy Porter, The Backstreet Boys and Usher.
The Netflix present will stream dwell twice per week as contestants in music, dance, selection/comedy and children classes vie for the viewers votes that can decide who continues within the competitors.
Emmy Awards and Tremendous Bowl halftime present producer Jesse Collins Leisure is behind Star Search, with Collins, Dionne Harmon, Madison Merritt, Elaine Metaxas govt producing. America’s Acquired Expertise veteran Jason Raff is the showrunner.
The untitled comedy from Levy and co-creator Rachel Sennott is a results of the general deal Levy has on the streamer (which additionally produced the film Good Grief). It should comply with “two deeply incapable siblings who’re blackmailed into the world organized crime.” Levy, Laurie Metcalf, and Taylor Ortega star; Levy is the showrunner and exec produces with Sennott.
All of the Sinners Bleed is predicated on an S.A. Cosby novel of the identical title. It facilities on a former FBI agent who’s now the primary Black sheriff in a small county in southern Virginia and leads the seek for a serial killer who has been preying on Black communities.
Cole will function showrunner, author and director on the collection, which comes from Increased Floor Productions and Amblin Tv. The 2 firms might be credited as govt producers together with Cole and Cosby.
Shepherd’s The Physique is a coming-of-age drama. The present’s logline reads, “After a dance-team initiation gone flawed, a gaggle of badly behaved Catholic faculty women start having prophetic visions that set off mass hysteria of their city.” Shepherd would be the showrunner and direct a number of episodes, govt producing with Amy Israel, Peter Chernin, and Josh Stern for The North Highway Firm and Riley Keough, Gina Gammell, and Sacha Ben Harroche for Felix Culpa.
Prime Time, from SMAC Leisure, Skydance Sports activities and NFL Movies, will delve into Sanders’ life on and off the sphere. The exec producers are Constance Schwartz-Morini and FredAnthony Smith for SMAC Leisure) Jesse Sisgold, Jason T. Reed and Jon Weinbach for Skydance Sports activities; and Jessica Boddy, Keith Cossrow, Ross Ketover and Ken Rodgers for NFL Movies.