Sara Alessi

LA PLAINE ST DENIS: KABO International has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the game-show format Hot Pepper, which it will present as part of its MIPTV 2016 offering.

TEL AVIV: Banijay Studios North America has acquired Armoza Formats’s studio-based challenge game show Double or Nothing, developed in partnership with Studio Glam, for the U.S.

LONDON: The family-entertainment game-show format Wild Things from Zodiak Rights, the international distribution arm of Banijay Group, is getting additional local treatments in Europe and Latin America.

LONDON: Beyond Distribution is launching the new daytime culinary series Too Many Cooks, for which it has secured finished and format rights, at MIPTV.

TOKYO: Nippon Television Network Corporation (Nippon TV), creator of the hit Dragons' Den, is gearing up for MIPTV with three new formats, among them Battle of the Homes, co-developed with Red Arrow Entertainment.

LONDON: Following its launch in Italy, two local adaptations of Zodiak Rights’s brand-new format Undressed have been commissioned for TLC in the U.K. and Ireland, and in the Netherlands.

HILVERSUM: General Media Group in Moldova has acquired Talpa’s format The Wishing Tree.

LONDON: Independent distribution company all3media international is extending its factual-entertainment format brand Be My Guest with the creation of Welcome to our Home, which is due to roll out at MIPTV.

LONDON: Slovenian free-to-air broadcaster ProPlus has licensed the format rights for Tuesday’s Child’s You’re Back in the Room from BBC Worldwide.

Retired footballer Gianluca Vialli speaks about his new reality show, co-developed with FremantleMedia Italia, and its potential for international adaptations.