Netflix Heads Back To The Jungle After Renewing Survival Competition Series ‘Outlast’

EXCLUSIVE: The first two seasons of Netflix’s survival competition series Outlast were set in the remote wilderness of Alaska. Earlier this year, season three took a new set of contestants to the Panamanian jungle, which is exactly where season four of the show will take place.

Netflix renewed the show, which comes from BBC Studios and Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films, for a fourth season, which is also considered season two of Outlast: The Jungle.

It will see 16 strangers put their survival skills to the test navigating scarce resources, brutal conditions, and alliances that shift without warning in order to outlast the rest and claim a $1M prize.

It comes after Outlast: The Jungle premiered in June. The first six episodes launched on June 10 with the two-part finale dropping on June 17. [SPOILER ALERT] Team Alpha, consisting of Maddy Jones, a photographer from West Virginia, and Nikki Hru, a Florida-born boxer, won the prize after surviving a grueling two-day hike into the Panamanian jungle.

This was in contrast with the first two seasons of the show, which were filmed in Chichagof Island, west of Juneau, and Little Duncan Bay, southwest of Petersburg, in Alaska.

Showrunner Mike Odair said season three “felt like throwing gasoline on the format”. “We traded the frozen isolation of Alaska for the heat and volatility of Panama, and everything changed: the survival, the strategy, and the social dynamics … This may be our most dynamic group yet,” he said ahead of the launch.

Odair exec produces alongside Bateman and Michael Costigan and Emma Ho for Aggregate Films and Ryan O’Dowd and Krystal Whitney for BBC Studios.