Seven.One Studios International Unveils MIPCOM Slate

Seven.One Studios International arrives at MIPCOM with a slate of new formats in the dating, competition and talent spaces, as well as scripted offerings such as The Cooking Academy.

Match My Ex, a new dating format, sees celebrity singles hand over the matchmaking reins to their ex-lovers. Produced by Madame Zheng, it has fared well for Joyn in Germany and Austria and One+ in Switzerland and has been commissioned for a second season.

Play That Song Again is a prime-time competition format produced by Herriemakers for RTL in the Netherlands in which four contemporary singers compete to perform the best version of a legendary ’80s song. A studio audience decides who wins the Play That Song Again Gold Record.

The Race is an adventure reality competition featuring content creators that has been a hit for Joyn, with its second season sitting in the top ten for nine weeks. A third season has already been commissioned and will be produced by studio flitz, the in-house production company for creator programs.

Two new Married at First Sight spin-offs will be introduced at MIPCOM: Married at First Sight: The Last Resort, first produced by July August Productions for Keshet Channel 12 (Israel), and Married at Second Sight, produced by Redseven Entertainment.

Seven.One Studios International is also bringing over 200 hours of English-language versions of hit formats, including Married at First Sight USA season 19, Married at First Sight UK season ten, Married at First Sight Australia season 12 and the first seasons of Stranded on Honeymoon Island UK and Stranded on Honeymoon Island Australia.

On the scripted front, The Cooking Academy is set at a prestigious German cookery school. The series encompasses 120 half-hour episodes. There’s also Frier & 50, a comedic drama about a soon-to-be 50-year-old actress, and the returning daily drama The Country Doctor. Produced by Filmpool Entertainment and commissioned for a fourth season by SAT.1, the series has sold internationally to TV2 in Hungary, Duo Media in Estonia, Nova TV in Croatia, TV Polska in Poland and Planet TV in Slovenia. In Germany, the series is currently running on Disney+, Joyn and SAT.1. Also returning is the hit TV movie franchise The Blind Detective, produced by Tivoli Film Produktion. It has been a hit for ARD in Germany and ORF in Austria.