The Star Search studio is enormous, with bright screens along one wall and a lit-up star at least twice my height casting a golden glow around the room. Most of the format is borrowed from the original Star Search, which first aired in 1983. There is something about the Star Search structure that feels distinctly modern, even four decades after its debut. Nearly everyone I spoke to said that casting Star Search was the hardest and most important part of the development process, and that while a show like The Voice or American Idol can survive on the strength of its format and cast alone, Star Search lives and dies a performance at a time. We’ll have a magician for you.”The second, and maybe more important, is that Star Search functions eerily like a TikTok feed.