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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Makers On Finding 456 Leads And Embracing The Chaos – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted


Watch a panel interview with ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ producers about how they found 456 leads and embraced the chaos for Netflix reality competition series.

“The most terrifying thing was following story with a cast that big,” said John Hay, executive producer at co-producer The Garden, during a panel for the show at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted. Toni Ireland, executive producer at Studio Lambert, the show’s other co-producer, said accepting that the shape of cast was entirely uncontrollable became crucial to the production. Squid Game: The Challenge was a huge hit for Netflix, watched more than 20 million times in its launch week.

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