The US and the UK version pretty much had the same final 5 and same winners
Trevor - Felix
Chloe - Manrika
Courtney - Andy
River - sayed
John - Tom
Think this is a bit of a shock but Channel 4 have announced that The Circle wonât be continuing:
Seems like a weird decision. Why would you can something that is growing?
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Truly Bizarre.
No doubt will land somewhere else.
Hello Channel 5
Or even Netflix, since they hold worldwide rights.
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The same Twitter account says Broadcast Now is reporting that production is in talks with Netflix about a UK version.
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Omg what??? The show grew big time this year. I am shocked they wonât be continuing it
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On the one hand it seems incredibly short sighted - it was growing every year and was highly regarded by those watching.
However sadly it seemed inevitable - it was growing but very slowly from a very low base, and though highly regarded by those watching quite simply not enough were. That said though I canât see C4 replacing it with anything that rates better - just content that costs less.
Apparently it was too expensive. They were trying to negotiate a better price but the production company wouldnât budge. It will be picked up somewhere.
Cough Netflix Cough
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The Circle is moving from the UK to Atlanta.
shame we never got to see a local version of this formatâŚ
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The more recent seasons on Netflix havenât been as good as the original FTA versions (IMO).
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Itâs similar to Sevenâs Big Brother. Netflix is pre-recorded months in advance, the UK FTA version was the previous day. This made it so much better for audience participation.
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Netflix bought the rights in all territories, didnât they? Am surprised we havenât seen other versions pop up tbh.
But unlike BB, the Audience voting was not a major part of the series. And the 3rd UK series was pre-recorded (and was my favourite of the franchise).
There might have been a twist or two that involved a viewer vote (vote for the next new contestant or vote for the next influencer who will evict a contestant, etc) as well as a secondary prize for the publicâs favourite finalist, but it was not a vital part of the format.
Yes - feels like that was a huge misstep by the production team considering what was to come in 2020 and how covid safe their format was - I think it would have got picked up in multiple territories if it hadnât been already.
The Netflix version has absolutely been saved by being a UK production over the last few years so hope the bad habits of US reality shows donât creep into the edit now itâs produced stateside.
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I see the latest Netflix version of The Circle has the ultimate catfish - an AI chatbot as one of the participants.
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