As Squid Game continues to be the gift that keeps on giving for Netflix, the streamer is adding more reality to the mix.
Netflix has renewed Squid Game: The Challenge, the unscripted version of the dystopian Korean hit, for a third season ahead of the launch of the second season.
The second season of the show, which sees contestants compete for a $4.56M prize, will launch on Netflix on November 4 (watch the teaser above).
It will now be joined by a third season of the show, which comes from All3Media’s Studio Lambert and ITV’s The Garden.
The first season of the show, launched at the end of 2023 with an interesting release strategy. The first five episodes premiered on November 22, followed by episodes six through nine on November 29 and its finale on December 6.
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The show was a big hit for Netflix; it secured 271M views across the first six months of 2024.
The second season will see 456 brand-new contestants compete in a series of challenges or as Netflix calls it the “ultimate test of strategy, alliances, and endurance” with only one person walking away with the prize.
The teaser suggests that contestants will be playing some of the new games that appeared in seasons two and three of the scripted series.
When it launched Squid Game: The Challenge gave away the largest prize in reality TV history, although it has since been usurped by Amazon’s Beast Games, which handed the winner $10M.
It is exec produced by Nicola Brown and John Hay for The Garden, Tim Harcourt, Stephen Lambert, Nia Yemoh and Stephen Yemoh for Studio Lambert and Anna Kidd and Nick Walker.