Boom of task-based series prompts streamer to upskill 10 emerging producers

Amazon’s talent development initiative Prime Video Pathway has teamed up with Jo Woolf Media Training to deliver a training course designed to upskill producers working on challenge-based and competition reality shows.

The training course, created in response to the growing popularity of such formats – including hits such as Taskmaster, The Celebrity Traitors and Destination X – aims to train and upskill 10 assistant producers or producers from across the UK to develop and create missions, challenges and games.

The training will include masterclasses and sessions from industry experts, with Squid Game: The Challenge exec producer and The Cube series games producer Anna Kidd and Destination X and Love Island Games exec producer Darren Brown serving as training consultants.

The course will include five days in-person training in central London from Monday 25 to Friday 29 January, with deep dives into hit challenge-based shows, presented by some of the team members who made them and sessions on idea development, world-building, games rules and mechanics, contributor welfare, risk assessments, managing budgets, understanding schedules and pitching.

The group will develop their own games and challenges to be pitched to a panel of experts and have the opportunity to take up a week-long paid work-shadowing placement.

Participants must have more than three years of experience working at assistant producer level or above in reality, entertainment, factual or development.

The deadline for applications is Saturday 5 December.