If you’ve just watched the live final for Channel 4’s newest reality TV show “The Circle” then you may be excited to discover that Netflix are adapting the format for an upcoming series on the streaming service. Netflix has teamed up with Studio Lambert and Motion, the makers of the Channel 4 show, to produce three local versions from around the world including one from the USA. The other two countries are yet to be announced and it is unknown as to country availability for each regional version.
Contestants live in separate apartments in a single building and do not meet face-to-face during the competition. They communicate through a special voice-activated social media platform and rate each other frequently. Unpopular players are “blocked” and ultimately the most popular player wins a cash prize. Since they only know each other through their online dialogue and profiles, players can choose whether to present a true or fictional version of themselves. It’s a game exploring questions of honesty and trust when people can’t see each other in the flesh.
Netflix is adapting UK’s social media-based reality competition #TheCircle. In the hit series, contestants are isolated & communicate exclusively through social media so players choose whether to present a true or fictional version of themselves in their quest to win
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There needs to be a “roll your eyes” Facebook react
So Netflix is getting desperate enough for cheap and easy TV then? Great (!)
Why?
Clearly they want to make Black Mirror look like journalism rather than fiction.
Emily
It is fucking crap.
Lydia Rowe
I am pleased to say I’ve never seen it
Hannah Fern Sophie Cowderoy
@studiolambert Does this mean that #TheCircle will still be on @Channel4?
Charlotte Evans
David
Hannah Hopcroft
James Gurney err what’s what with it on the channel now. Don’t mess with perfection xoxo
Niamh Keeling Isobel Andrews x
@ObvItsAmy
Meh. Haven’t watched a second of it on C4.
Netflix need to be careful. Most people (that I know, anyway) pay the subscription to get some quality shows, since broadcast TV is increasingly full of this tat.
I know, they’ve a long way to go before they’re that bad, and we don’t have to watch it… but the more of this stuff they put on, the harder it is to find the good stuff. Especially since the app keeps moving around ‘My List’ and ‘Continue watching’ to make you scroll through the latest additions and ‘popular’ items.
If you managed to not watch it on Channel 4 then I’m pretty sure you can manage to not watch it if it comes to UK Netflix too.
Not sure what the issue is?
I didn’t say it was an issue. I said they need to be careful of letting it become one.
Follow up – actually unsubbed from Netflix on the back of this. To me it started out distributing quality US TV, waited until everyone was on board then started cheapening the content.
Well, good luck finding a streaming provider that caters solely for your individual, specific needs.
New On Netflix UK I’m guessing I’m not alone in thinking the quality of content has reduced significantly over the last year or so.
Emily Hawken I don’t think they are changing anything. Just doing one in the USA and 2 other countries.