Format

There has been a very strong trend for some years now, but it has never been noticed — not even by me — because it remains hidden and ‘disguised’ by other, more easily recognisable trends. It is the trend of HYPER-FORMATS, i.e. reality shows that feature (and often also host) participants from other reality shows, and, more recently, influencers and internet personalities.
A current example is the German reality show Reality Queens – Auf High Heels durch den Dschungel (Reality Queens: Through the Jungle in High Heels), whose second season will be broadcast digitally only on RTL+ starting 9 February, and which was produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH for RTL+.
As the title suggests, the participants are 12 former reality TV contestants, including the host Filip Pavlović, who won I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2022. The first season aired weekly on RTL+ from 6 June to 1 August 2024 and was set in the greenest country in the world: Suriname, a small country in South America where 93 per cent of the land is covered by rainforest.
Here, queens of reality TV compete against each other while living in the open air in the middle of the rainforest. Together, they compete for the jackpot, but ultimately, only one of the 12 queens will have the chance to win up to 50,000 euros in prize money. They compete not only for the money, but also for their sleeping quarters: the winners fill the team coffers and sleep in the luxury camp, while the losers are sent to the basic camp.
In the second series, everything seems to have been confirmed except for the location, which has moved to the Colombian jungle. As you can see, there are no significant new elements or twists in the format, which relies exclusively on the queens’ casting. However, the audience seems to like it, so a second series is well justified.

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