Netflix Poised To Greenlight French & German Versions Of ‘Surviving Paradise’ From ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Producer Studio Lambert & Raw TV
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix is on the verge of greenlighting French and German versions of reality format Surviving Paradise from Squid Game: The Challenge producer Studio Lambert and Raw TV, as it steps up its strategy in the premium unscripted space.
Nothing is signed but Deadline understands a deal is relatively close. If greenlit, the two versions would be filmed in their respective languages and Netflix would take a similar approach to The Circle, with Studio Lambert and Raw producing the different versions from a central hub.
In Surviving Paradise, 12 players believe they’re about to live it up for a summer at a beautiful villa. However, when they arrive, some remain in the villa while others are condemned to camping in the wilderness, and they all compete to enter the villa and win a $100,000 cash prize.
The show has shades of Studio Lambert’s Channel 4 format Rise & Fall, in which contestants are separated between luxury and poor conditions at the top and bottom of a tower block.
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