EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is on the verge of greenlighting French and German variations of actuality format Surviving Paradise from Squid Recreation: The Problem producer Studio Lambert and Uncooked TV, because it steps up its technique within the premium unscripted house.
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 identical strategy to The Circle, with Studio Lambert and Uncooked producing the completely different variations from a central hub.
In Surviving Paradise, 12 gamers imagine they’re about to dwell it up for a summer season at a lovely villa. Nonetheless, after 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, through which contestants are separated between luxurious and poor situations on the high and backside of a tower block.
Surviving Paradise might not have been handed the advertising and marketing would possibly of Squid Recreation: The Problem nevertheless it entered the Netflix international high 10 checklist 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 operating 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 Recreation: The Problem competitors format, which is co-produced with The Backyard, is at present sitting in Netflix’s high 10 in almost 100 nations, and it has topped the U.S. checklist for the previous fortnight.
Netflix declined to touch upon Surviving Paradise.
