Netflix’s Star Search was won by a magician defeating another magician, but, despite that, it didn’t pull any ratings out of its hat.
The competition series failed to enter Netflix’s top ten chart over its run and is unlikely to return for a second season.
Having said that, the streamer is still keen to crack the live, unscripted competition genre and learned a lot from the Jesse Collins Entertainment-produced show.
Speaking at the Next on Netflix press event, Bela Bajaria, Chief Content Officer, said, “Live in general, I think is just really a very natural extension of what we do and there are certain things that have a kind of urgency like Alex Honnold climbing Taipei 101. I thought Star Search was very interesting for us to actually learn a lot because that was the first time that we did voting. There was a ton of learning
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