TV presenter Holly Willoughby is set to join forces with adventurer Bear Grylls for a new Netflix series.
The former This Morning host will present the action-packed reality competition show which has the working title of Bear Hunt.
In the show, British celebrities will be dropped into the Central American jungle and become prey to survival expert Grylls.
The show is expected to be available to watch next year and will see Grylls, 49, put the famous faces through their paces.
BEAR HUNT
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) March 14, 2024
Holly Willoughby hosts this action-packed competition show that sees a group of unlikely British celebrities dropped into the Central American jungle as prey for one of the world's most fearsome predators – Bear Grylls! Coming 2025. #NextOnNetflix pic.twitter.com/qjPGQQ61xI
Competitors who fail to impress him will face the Bear Hunt – a game of cat and mouse in which they will be eliminated if they are captured.
Bear Grylls is known for his impressive survival skills so the celebrities will need to be ready for a challenge.
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A variety of new shows will come to Netflix in the next couple of years, including another series of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series Black Mirror which will be coming to the platform in 2025.
Series seven will comprise six new episodes, including a sequel to the sci-fi adventure episode USS Callister.
The streaming platform will also be bringing Marian Keyes’ best-selling novel Grown Ups to the screen in 2026 in the form of a family drama.
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Another programme arriving on Netflix in 2026 is three-part documentary Millennium Diamond Heist based on the Millennium Dome raid in 2000 in which a group of south-east London criminals orchestrated an attempted heist in broad daylight.
Elsewhere, Suranne Jones plays a British prime minister in high stakes series The Choice which is coming to Netflix next year.
Jones, who is also an executive producer on the series, stars as the recently elected Abigail Dalton while Julie Delpy plays the first female French president campaigning for re-election.
The pair work together after Abigail’s husband is kidnapped and Vivienne begins to be blackmailed.
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