Studio Lambert

The format started in the Netherlands in 2021 and has been licensed in 40 countries.

Studio Lambert makes the UK version.

All3Media International sells it abroad.

Now, the thing to keep in mind is the valuable asset isn't the episodes, it's the format.

I would, I, I could immediately, if I was y- you as a producer, there would be 10 names above my name on the list for the show.

Anyway, Golden Elevators comes in from Studio Lambert, who are the makers of Race Across the World, Traitors, Celebrity Traitors, Gogglebox.

I mean, uh, Squid Game: The Challenge.

Just huge shows.

... and that's Talpa.

But, uh, as I say, Jas- Jasper, uh, Hoogendoorn came up with the show.

It's being made by Studio Lambert, who make all these amazing big shows.

Uh, and it's made in, uh, Antwerp or just outside Antwerp at a place called AED Studios.

Alan says, great start to the season, despite the shorter episodes.

Someone else had mentioned that too, right? Studio Lambert, it's probably Alan and his voice note earlier, says, Alan, this is not us making fun of you.

I absolutely love getting your messages.

Studio Lambert's production is the best.

The shipwreck, the music, the editing, top marks as ever.

And although that's not a question, it just made me think that, firstly, maybe I'm biased.

I agree.

I think that Studio Lambert, who co-produce the UK version and the US version of do such an outstanding job of creating the show and actually this might be a good place to mention I've been in touch with one of the art directors who's worked on a few seasons of the trailer so someone who works on on set and creates some of the set pieces and the beautiful objects and interiors of the castle uh and we're probably gonna talk on the podcast i'm gonna ask them to come on we'll do an interview um and get some behind the scenes info on the look and the appearance of the show uh but david my question to you is uh is alan right that studio lambert's production is the best compared to some of the other countries that we've seen like do we think there's something extra special in the uk and us seasons

Mm-hmm.

Studio Lambert, they are a powerhouse in British broadcasting.

They also do-

Yeah

And Richard Osman corroborates this shift, noting he heard from Season 2 participants that filming was, quote, "intense."

Quite intense coming from Osman feels like a massive understatement, especially because Deadline then introduces their own sources who describe the production of Season 2 for Studio Lambert as a literal nightmare.

To understand why a television set turns into a nightmare, we really have to look at the baseline established in Season 1.

Okay, take us back to Season 1.

No, you are managing the foundational pillar of the network's annual strategy.

You are holding the golden goose.

And the institutional pressure on Kalpana Patel-Knight, and by extension the production team at Studio Lambert, becomes practically incalculable.

Because you can't just let those numbers drop in season two.

Of course they're not given them, and so everyone is nervous because they, you know, because they are professionals, and they do understand, "Oh, what if they just keep in that one thing that I did, but and they don't keep in that thing?" So everyone will worry.

I, I think 'cause the way Studio Lambert make television and the way that the BBC will edit it, everyone's going to be okay.

But people are naturally paranoid beforehand because of course you go to sleep and you wake up thinking, "Oh my God, what if I'm edited in this way, and this is such a huge deal, and it's such a huge program, and what if this is not understood?" So I absolutely get it.

I, I, I don't think it will, will be an issue.