Netflix axe huge reality show with all-star cast after just one series as it’s branded ‘most expensive flop in years’
It was one of Netflix’s most expensive flops – and now Battle Camp has been axed after just one series.
The celebrity challenge show, with a strong whiff of I’m a Celebrity, dropped on the streaming service in April, but got a poor reception from critics and viewers alike.
COURTESY OF NETFLIXGabi Butler, Tony Castellanos, and Shubham Goel, in the axed Netflix show Battle Camp[/caption]
Filmed on location in Mexico, the series featured names including Tony Castellanos, Shubham Goel and Gabi Butler and others from the streamer’s various reality shows such as Too Hot to Handle, Love Is Blind and The Circle.
But I can reveal that Netflix quickly took the decision to shelve a second season due to the lacklustre response and the huge costs involved in making the ten-parter.
A TV insider said: “There were so many individuals taking part in the show, with 18 contestants in total.
“The fact that they all charged a fee to take part and that it was filmed on location, made it unusually costly.
“Plus the format — set in a camp which was purpose-built from scratch for the show — relied on multiple challenges, each costing big money to set up.
“It was an expense Netflix would have been happy to shoulder, except it didn’t meet their expectations.
“The hope was that it would create the sense of there being a ‘Netflix reality universe’, but most people who watched it didn’t think the show was out of this world.”
Fingers burned
Netflix had already had its fingers burned in February when it screened Celebrity Bear Hunt, with Holly Willoughby and Bear Grylls, plus a string of celebrities, each getting paid for their time trying to survive the Costa Rican jungle.
Like Battle Camp, the show cost millions to make but didn’t make an impact when it dropped earlier this year and it was axed in June.
Perhaps the streamer needs to come up with some original formats, rather than mash-ups of other shows.
Mia plays it cool
Mia Goth as Elizabeth in the new Netflix adaptation of FrankensteinWoroner/Netflix
Jacob Elordi as The CreatureWoroner/Netflix
Guillermo Del Toro gives Mary Shelley’s classic a lavish new twistWoroner/Netflix
Looks like the new adaptation of Frankenstein has already got a big fan, long before it’s even aired on Netflix.
The drama, out this November, sees Jacob Elordi play the monster while Oscar Isaac is his creator Baron Frankenstein.
Mia Goth plays Elizabeth Lavenza, the baron’s beautiful fiancée – who knows just how to stay cool in a crisis.
Judging from these pictures, director Guillermo Del Toro has given his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel a seriously opulent treatment.
Matt’s Q clue to series 2
Justin Downing/NetflixMatthew Goode thinks a cut scene in Netflix’s Dept Q could tease a second series[/caption]
Netflix hit Dept Q could be set for a second series – if you believe a theory cooked up by one of its stars.
Matthew Goode, who plays DCI Carl Morck in the British crime thriller, says he saw creator Scott Frank edit out a key scene at the last minute which revealed much-needed information on his character’s past.
And he thinks it could be used in a later series of the show, based on the books by Jussi Adler-Olsen.
He said: “There was a speech in episode five which got taken out, I’m not going to say what in case Scott changes his mind or uses it for a second series, but it was perfect.
“I love that because Morck remains a mystery.
“There’s ten books that could be done, so hopefully we get to do at least a few of those.”
This City never sleeps
Hit BBC One series This City Is Ours will be shot in Liverpool and Spain once againBBC
Filming for the second run of drama This City Is Ours gets underway next month.
I can reveal the hit BBC One series, following the lives of the notorious Phelan family, will be shot in Liverpool and Spain once again.
Its debut eight-episode run, which aired in March, attracted more than six million viewers and is the Beeb’s most-watched new drama this year.
Dubbed “the Scouse Sopranos”, due to its parallels with the hit Italian-American gangster drama, the series caused such a buzz one of its stars James Nelson-Joyce has been touted as a contender to be the next James Bond.
But another of its cast members with a 007 connection, GoldenEye’s Sean Bean, won’t be returning in the follow-up as the veteran actor’s character, Ronnie Phelan, was killed off in series one – the 25th on-screen death of the Sheffield actor’s career.
Is it any wonder he’s always grumpy?
Claudia Doumit and Ellie De Lange are joining the cast of the second series of 3 Body Problem on Netflix.
The fantasy series was a huge hit for the streaming giant when it debuted last year and a sequel was quickly in the pipeline.
Claudia and Ellie will play the characters of Captain Van Rijn and Ayla, respectively.
The first season of the drama series spent 3 weeks at No.1 and 7 weeks on the Netflix Global Top 10, where it reached the top 10 in 93 countries.
Danny’s on hot streak
Shutterstock EditorialDanny Dyer shocked locals with a nude scene filmed on a real street for Sky comedy Mr Bigstuff[/caption]
Danny Dyer’s nude scene in the new series of Mr Bigstuff gave a neighbourhood the willies.
The episode of the Sky Max comedy was shot on a suburban street and creator and co-star Ryan Sampson says the sight of Danny – who played Mick Carter in EastEnders – running down a road in the buff, with a sock on his manhood, was quite the shock.
Ryan told the Mashy-Cast podcast: “Danny is chasing someone. It’s a real street, people live there.
“A man’s going into his house and he goes. ‘Sorry babe, I have to go, a man’s running down the street naked. I think it’s Mick from EastEnders’. It was on Halloween, too.”
And they say full moons are rare on Fright Night.
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