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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ EP Nicola Brown On Creating A “Genuinely New And Different” Reality Competition
Executive producer Nicola Brown on creating a genuinely new and different reality competition with 'Squid Game: The Challenge'.
If you’ve worked in TV for a long time, it’s quite rare that you tackle something which feels genuinely new and different, but the casting of Squid Game: The Challenge was something that none of us had ever attempted at this scale before. When you approach many reality shows as a viewer, you think, ‘This person’s got something, they could do quite well.’ But in this, as producers, we had absolutely no idea which of those 456 people would make it to the end. We felt it was quite a fitting end, and I think the simplicity was quite important because we could have had another big set piece, but ultimately when you come that far, you wanted it to be one against one, rather than two people against a final game, if that makes sense.
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