The Circle: Channel 4 decides not to re-commission the reality show
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image captionChannel 4 has cancelled The Circle after three years
Reality show The Circle will not be returning to Channel 4, after three years on our screens.
Based around catfishing and social media, contestants chat online and vote each other off based on popularity.
It had three regular series and one featuring celebrity contestants, each with contestants living in the same block of flats during the show.
The show has also been sold to Netflix in the US and has a Brazilian and French version too.
A spokesman for Channel 4 said: The Circle has been a huge hit for young audiences and has grown successively over three seasons on Channel 4.
The Circle cancelled by Channel 4
Channel 4 has confirmed that after three series and a celebrity special, the show will no longer air
12:39, 7 MAY 2021
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The Circle has been cancelled by Channel 4, weeks after the final of its most recent series.
The reality show first launched in 2018 described as a social experiment crossed with game show where the contestants could be anyone they wanted.
Emma Willis hosted The Circle (Channel 4)
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The Circle will not be commissioned for a further series, Channel 4 has said.
The reality TV programme, which has seen three series and one celebrity special in aid of charity, sees players compete with each other online while housed separately in a block of flats where they communicate via The Circle, an app designed for the show.
The third series was won by military police officer Natalya, who adopted a fake identity, known as “catfishing”, and won masquerading as a 29-year-old soldier named Felix.
“
The Circle has been a huge hit for young audiences and has grown successively over three seasons on Channel 4, consistently outperforming slot averages,” the broadcaster said in a statement.
“We’re incredibly proud to have worked with Studio Lambert North and Motion Content Group to invest in such an innovative show and to have given it a springboard for its international format success.
“In much the same way as when we originally commissioned
The Circle, Channel 4 has a responsibility to continually look at how we reinvent and create space for new ideas, and so we have decided not to commission the show for a fourth season.
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Channel 4 after three series. The reality TV show, which recently aired the third season and celebrity version for Stand Up to Cancer, has proven to be popular with viewers in recent times but the broadcaster has decided to not recommission programme for a fourth series.
The Circle. The series creator, Stephen Lambert, has reportedly assured that the programme could be heading to
Netflix, where the US version of the show is released weekly.
Channel 4 said in a statement: The Circle has been a huge hit for young audiences and has grown successively over three seasons on Channel 4, consistently outperforming slot averages.