Outright Secures New Format Commissions in Russia and CIS

LONDON, February 15: Outright
Distribution, formerly Screentime Partners, has secured a number of new and
returning commissions for local versions of its formats in Russia and the
Ukraine, for a total of 400 hours.

Russia’s music and
entertainment channel Muz TV has commissioned the fourth season of the relationship
format Fidelity Test, originally
produced by Japan’s TV Asahi, for a 13-episode run. Fidelity Test, which gives
contestants the chance to find out how likely their partner is to cheat on
them, is currently the strongest performing format on the channel. The new
commission brings the total number of episodes ordered by the channel to 90
over the last two years.

In association with ALL3MEDIA
International, Outright has licensed Lion Television’s game show format Cash
Cab to a number of broadcasters in the
region, with Russia’s TNT requesting a five-year extension of the format, and
NTV World renewing its license for the finished Russian version with an order
of 250 episodes. In the Ukraine, the CME backed channel City TV has ordered an
additional 110 episodes of the format.

Lastly, Russian broadcaster CTC
has commissioned 13×1 hour episodes of ALL3MEDIA International’s I Want My
Mummy, which was originally produced in the
U.K. by Lion Television, for launch in the spring. The series looks at three dads
who are charged with looking after their kids for seven days while the moms
watch and judge everything they see from a luxury health spa.