Endemol Closes Deals Ahead of MIPCOM

HILVERSUM, October 4: Endemol has notched up a slate of
format deals ahead of MIPCOM, including agreements on the game show 1 vs. 100 in Thailand and Israel.

Thailand’s Channel 13 has signed on for a run of 13
episodes, while Reshet in Israel is taking a further 12 episodes on top of the
18 already produced. The format has now been sold to 26 territories worldwide.

In Eastern Europe, the music reality format Operacion
Triunfo is being adapted locally in Ukraine
by New Channel, and Channel One in Russia has just commissioned a seventh
series. And the 13×45-minute The Hidden Talent has been sold to TNT. Also in Russia, Watch
Your Step has been bought by RTR, which
also took a kids’ version of Beat the Nation. In Poland Celebrity Daycare Centre has just gone to air having been picked up by
Polsat, which has already ordered a further six episodes.

Elsewhere in Europe, Endemol Italy’s version of Gay,
Straight or Taken, known locally as Scelgo
Te, has been bought up by Sky Vivo and is
set to premiere on October 15.

In Greece 20 episodes of Set for Life have been bought by Mega as a weekly series and 13
episodes of Last Passenger have
been sold to Antenna as a weekly show, launching this month.

In Turkey, the talent show format My Name Is… has been picked up by Channel D and is due to launch
later this year. Deal Or No Deal
has also been snapped up in Turkey and is launching this October on Show TV.

And in the U.S., the game show format Hot Tub Ranking has been sold to Fox Reality and will be produced by
Endemol’s East Coast arm, True Entertainment. Meanwhile, in Canada, a fourth
series Loft Story has just gone
to air having been bought by Quebec’s TQS.