The streaming giant, Netflix on Tuesday has used the Edinburgh TV Festival to announce three new reality and entertainment series from the U.K., including a VFX dance competition, a series about a group of youngsters sent to a back-to-basics outdoor camp, and a dating show with a twist.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the first series titled ‘Snowflake Mountain’, from Fremantle-owned Naked, a bunch of clueless kidults who aren’t yet living to their full potential is given a rude awakening by being sent to puts them through their paces at a wilderness survival retreat with no running water, no parents to wait on them, and no wifi. Cal Turner and Jo Harcourt-Smith executive produce, while the series producers are Andy Cullen, Nick Walker, and Cherry Sandhu.
Meanwhile, ‘Dance Monsters’ is a large-scale dancing competition where competitors use VFX, live-motion capture, and facial recognition to transform into the dancing creature and perform before a panel of judges and a live studio audience, but as if nobody was watching. The show comes from Lime Pictures, with Sarah Tyekiff, Andrew Jackman, and Tamsin Dodgson exec producing.
Finally, pairs of siblings with be examining each other’s love lives in Dated and Related, which allows them to act as the ultimate wingman or scupper their plans. Leon Wilson, Ed Sleeman, and Saul Fearnley exec produce the show for Great Scott Media, with Jimmy Fox and Emily Bon serving as executive producer and co-executive producer, respectively, for the All3Media-owned Main Event Media.
Therefore, All three titles are U.K.-made and set to launch on Netflix in 2022.
“Over our past couple of years at Netflix, we have been thrilled by the ideas pitched to us from production companies in the UK; ideas that are fresh, thought-provoking and playful, a perfect combination for our unscripted slate,” said Daisy Lilley and Ben Kelly, Netflix’s U.K. unscripted content leads.
They also added, “We look for series that have a unique take on a familiar concept and put innovative twists on shows that you wouldn’t find anywhere else so that we can deliver something truly original.”
They also announced on Tuesday it was the third series of Netflix’s no-touching dating show Too Hot to Handle, which will launch early in 2022.