Beat your Host! Gets Croatian Launch

MUNICH: SevenOne International’s hit game show Beat your Host! will premiere live this Friday at 8 p.m. on RTL in Croatia under the title Pobijedi Solu.

Former professional handball player Vlado Sola will be the competing host. Sola will go 15 rounds against a contestant from the audience. The challenges, studio look and on-air design for the Croatian version will be based entirely on the German concept.

SevenOne International has sold Beat your Host!, produced by Raab TV/BRAINPOOL, for broadcast in 14 countries so far, including Spain, the Netherlands, and China. In Germany, its country of origin, Beat your Host! had the most successful TV debut for ProSieben in more than four years.

Jens Richter, the managing director of SevenOne International, said: "Beat your Host! is one of the most successful event entertainment brands in the international TV scene. Over the past 12 months we’ve launched the prime-time show with record-breaking ratings in the United Kingdom, France, Sweden and Denmark. We are sure that our Croatian colleagues at RTL will have just as much success."

Christoph Oldenburg, the senior editor of entertainment programs for RTL Televisija, added: "Pobijedi Sola is one of the biggest game- show productions ever made for Croatian TV. We’ll be setting new records for the length of the show, the size of the studio, and the amount of the prize. We’ve been excited about the idea from the very start, and I’m certain our audiences will feel the same way."