In the program, the participants, each on their own, are locked in large boxes – boxes – and must overcome various challenges. When the boxes are opened, the participants do not know where they are and they have no idea, at first, what the different challenges are about.
They are quite extravagant places and challenges that await. The idea is that it should kick-start the adrenaline, explains Pär Lernström.
Attracted attention
The idea is that the series will be broadcast in the spring. Right now, filming is taking place all over Sweden – which has attracted attention in various places in the country when TV4 has appeared with their boxes.
We were in Farsta and filmed and had placed the boxes on the 15th floor between two houses. There were many gentlemen and ladies who stood there with their cats and looked up and wondered what we were doing, says Lernström and laughs.
Gary Lineker
The participants compete both in teams and individually. One person is eliminated after each episode.
It is decided, in the end, in a duel, but in many ways it is decided through the choice of the group. They must remind themselves that "if I don't have any friends in here, then I won't last long", says Pär Lernström.
"The box" is one of the world's hottest TV formats. In the UK, the program is made with former football star Gary Lineker as the host.
I'm glad they didn't make that choice before we got started. Then I'm completely convinced that we would have had a football player leading this too. Then it would have been Mikael Lustig who would have had to step in, says Pär Lernström and laughs.
