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How BBC Competition Format ‘Chess Masters: The Endgame’ Is A “Love Letter” To Producer’s Daughter
New gameshow was inspired not by 'The Queen's Gambit' but by its exec's daughter, Camilla Lewis reveals.
There are an estimated six million people regularly playing chess in the UK, with celebrity fans around the world including Will Smith, Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Cole. While Lewis believes Chess Masters would have got off the ground without the existence of The Queen’s Gambit, she is in no doubt that the huge hit starring Anya Taylor-Joy has helped get the format to screen. Rather than having one exclusive deal with a sales house in place, Night Train-owned Curve Media chooses its distributor on a show-by-show basis and Lewis said this paid off on Chess Masters, over which there was a bidding war fought by “every big player.”
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