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BEVERLY HILLS: Starz in on board for an American adaptation of the hit British comedy Peep Show, which ended with its ninth season on Channel 4 at the end of last year.

CANCUN/CANNES: Submissions are being accepted for the MIPFormats Pitch Latin America, a competition for creators and producers of non-scripted entertainment formats in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market.

LONDON: Sky Italia has commissioned FremantleMedia Italy to produce Kids Got Talent for the free-to-air channel TV8.

The founder and CEO talks about the company's take on delivering innovative, brand-defining, unscripted entertainment.

TEL AVIV: Germany's ARD has commissioned an adaptation of Armoza Formats’s docureality show Local Heroes for its WDR channel.

LONDON: NBCUniversal International Studios has signed a first-look partnership deal with the French production company Terminal 9 Studios to develop entertainment and factual-entertainment formats.

LONDON: all3media International has signed deals for new local adaptations of the formats Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Hell in Southern Europe.

LONDON: FremantleMedia Latin America is adapting an Argentine cooking format for TV Azteca, to be titled Cocineros Mexicanos.

DUBLIN/LONDON: RTÉ2 has commissioned Independent Pictures's Then Comes Marriage?, a factual-entertainment show that was a Format Farm submission.

A look at the success of the competition format, which is part of the BBC Worldwide catalog.