While the 2024 season of Koh Lanta is in full swing, TF1 has already planned to launch two next seasons, one of which is currently filming in the Philippines with two winners from previous editions.
The TF1 survival game still seems to have many good years ahead of it! According to Le Parisien, the channel has just ordered two new seasons of Koh Lanta to Adventure Line Productions. While the 2024 season of the famous game show has been on the air for several weeks already, Denis Brogniart and his teams have already set off on their trip for new adventures and preparation for the next season of the program.
They are currently filming in the Philippines to record a new season of this game. legendary adventure launched in 2001. Despite declining audiences in recent years, TF1 does not intend to abandon the broadcast of this program which has kept millions of viewers in suspense for two decades.
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Anonymous people and two known faces
The rule of Koh Lanta is above all to highlight anonymous people who must challenge and surpass themselves by demonstrating strategy and finesse to hope to win this game. Thus, since Tuesday February 13, viewers have been able to discover, as every year, ordinary citizens from all over France. Among the 20 candidates in the running, we were able, for example, to discover rugby player David, strategist Léna or Norman carpenter Jean. Denis Brogniart then attended the creation of the two teams Kadasi (yellow) and Matukad (red), before announcing the new rules associated with different immunity collars more powerful than previously, and hidden throughout the small island from Luzon, Philippines.
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But, for the brand new season of Koh Lanta, also currently filming in the Philippines, TF1 has chosen to change the situation. No doubt to allow the program not to run out of steam, by creating a new dynamic which will not fail to intrigue viewers, the first channel has chosen to make a major change. Indeed, TF1 has chosen to integrate two personalities well known to the public in the casting of playersthe others remaining completely unknown to the public.
And the two winners concerned are…
As revealed by our colleagues from Le Parisien, two former winners of the survival game will therefore participate in the next season. It is Frédéric Khouvilaywinner of the 2023 season, Koh-Lanta: The Sacred Fireand Ugo Lartiche winner of Koh Lanta in 2012 and finalist of Koh-Lanta All Starsin 2021.
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However, this is not the first time that former adventurers have returned to the program to mingle with anonymous people. In 2020, during Koh-Lanta: The island of heroesTeheiura, Claude, Moussa, Sara and Jessica, who had participated in other numbers of the show, had joined completely unknown candidates in the adventure. It remains to be seen how an edition including winners will take placewho therefore have more than one trick up their sleeve, and a huge head start over novice candidates…
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