Having thrown its weight (and deep pockets) behind British drama for several years, Netflix is now ramping up its unscripted slate across the Atlantic.
The streaming giant on Tuesday 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 an back-to-basics outdoor camp and a dating show with a twist.
In Snowflake Mountain, from Fremantle-owned Naked, a bunch of clueless kidults who aren’t yet living to their full potential are 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 dancing creature and perform before a panel of judges and a live studio…
