EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is on the verge of greenlighting French and German variations of actuality format Surviving Paradise from Squid Sport: The Problem producer Studio Lambert and Uncooked TV, because it steps up its technique within the premium unscripted area.
Nothing is signed however Deadline understands a deal is comparatively shut. If greenlit, the 2 variations can be filmed of their respective languages and Netflix would take an analogous method to The Circle, with Studio Lambert and Uncooked producing the completely different variations from a central hub.
In Surviving Paradise, 12 gamers consider they’re about to reside it up for a summer time at an exquisite villa. Nevertheless, once they arrive, some stay within the villa whereas others are condemned to tenting within the wilderness, and so they all compete to enter the villa and win a $100,000 money prize. The present has shades of Studio Lambert’s Channel 4 format Rise & Fall, by which contestants are separated between luxurious and poor situations on the prime and backside of a tower block.
Surviving Paradise might not have been handed the advertising may of Squid Sport: The Problem however it entered the Netflix world prime 10 listing in a number of nations when it launched in late October.
An English-language recommission is also on the playing cards however within the meantime a deal is near being struck for the French and German variations, Deadline has been instructed.
Studio Lambert has expertise producing a number of variations of The Circle for Netflix from a central hub. The All3Media-backed indie was initially making The Circle for Channel 4 within the UK earlier than Netflix greenlit variations within the U.S., Brazil and France. The latter two have since been canceled however the former is one in every of Netflix’s longest working actuality codecs, with filming just lately shifting from the UK to Atlanta.
Studio Lambert co-produces Surviving Paradise with Uncooked TV, which has made quite a few hit Netflix docs together with The Tinder Swindler and Don’t F**ok with Cats.
Studio Lambert’s Squid Sport: The Problem competitors format, which is co-produced with The Backyard, is at the moment sitting in Netflix’s prime 10 in almost 100 nations, and it has topped the U.S. listing for the previous fortnight.
Netflix declined to touch upon Surviving Paradise.
