| The Star | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | เดอะสตาร์ ค้นฟ้าคว้าดาว |
| Country of origin | Thailand |
| Original language | Thai |
| No. of seasons | 14 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Thakolkait Weerawan |
| Production company | Exact |
| Original release | |
| Network | Modernine TV |
| Release | 7 October 2003 – 26 April 2014 |
| Network | One 31 |
| Release | 15 January 2015 – present |
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The Star (Thai: เดอะสตาร์ ค้นฟ้าคว้าดาว) is a Thai reality television singing competition produced by Exact, a GMM Grammy company, and broadcast on Modernine TV. It was first broadcast on 7 October 2003 and its fifth season aired during the first half of 2009. It is one of two such television programmes in Thailand, the other being Academy Fantasia. Both feature a number of auditioned contestants competing in weekly concerts, with elimination determined by viewers' voting through SMS, but unlike the other, The Star does not feature continuous broadcasts of the contestants' lives in a common residence. A number of winners and runners-up from the contest have continued to become mainstream singers and/or actors under GMM Grammy, most notably Sukrit Wisetkaew ("Bie"), who was first runner-up in the show's third season.[citation needed]
In 2016. GMM Grammy cancelled The Star after 12 seasons. Because the format of the program no longer matched the audience at that time. But 3 years after the hiatus, GMM Grammy (or now, The ONE Enterprise) was announced that The Star will come back in 2020 (postponed 1 years due to COVID-19 pandemic). Rather than being the name The Star 13, program was renew under the name The Star Idol.
As of 2024, The Star had 14 seasons, And there has been no announcement of a 15th season yet.