“Bodily 100,” the primary unscripted Korean present to prime Netflix’s non-English world charts, is being given a second season.
The present falls between a expertise contest and a survival competitors with 100 contestants, together with Olympians, skilled fighters, bodybuilders and former troopers, by a sequence of quests to problem their power, endurance, agility, stability and willpower, and to develop the proper physique. Controversially it combined women and men and amateurs and professionals.
The present integrated a plaster forged of every contestant’s torso. This was destroyed with a sledgehammer once they had been eradicated.
The primary season debuted in January and remained within the Prime 10 for the previous month. Greater than a month after its debut, it was amassing some 45 million viewing hours and holding up because the second most-watched present on the service.
The nine-episode first sequence was gained by Woo Jin-yong, a 37-year-old CrossFit athlete and snowboarder, who picked up a KRW300 million ($243,000) prime prize. He was notable for successful a round catch-the-tail quest through which he ran greater than 20 laps round a race-track.
Timing of the second season manufacturing and add was not disclosed. The present can be directed by Jang Ho-gi
And produced by Lee Jong-il and produced at Galaxy Company for Netflix. The studio set, the dimensions of two soccer fields within the first season, can be expanded with a view to incorporate extra excessive assessments.
“We’re very grateful ‘Bodily: 100’ acquired a lot love from followers all throughout the globe, and we paid consideration to all of the feedback and suggestions,” stated Jang, in a ready assertion. “We determined to retain the essence of the present—discovering the proper physique—whereas introducing contemporary parts. That is our manner of expressing our gratitude to the followers of the present.”
“I’m honored to satisfy a whole lot of contestants whom I really feel are overqualified. And I’m additionally collaborating with many consultants to ensure we’ve much more electrifying and well-designed quests that can go away audiences on the sting of their seats,” Jang added.
“I provide you with my phrase that we are going to be again with an all-new season that’s received all the things taken up a notch for our world followers.”
