Kristin Brzoznowski explores how producers and distributors are offering up innovative spins on game shows.

NEW YORK: Watch clips and access detailed information on thousands of new shows by visiting our video portal's dedicated Screening Rooms for MIPTV.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Wilshire Studios, the unscripted production arm of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, has inked an overall development deal with Danny Salles, who is behind such reality series as Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.

SAN FRANCISCO/STOCKHOLM/NEW YORK: Toca TV, a video platform for children launched by app maker Toca Boca in 2016, is being discontinued at the end of this month due to low subscription numbers.

NEW YORK: Travel Channel has commissioned more than 390 new hours of programming for 2017, including another show from Andrew Zimmern (Bizzare Foods).

CANNES: Co-produced with Herschend Enterprises, Splash and Bubbles is an ocean-themed animated series that is made using The Jim Henson Company’s Emmy-winning Henson Digital Puppetry Studio.

CANNES: A beret-clad dog is at the center of the Sixteen South highlight Claude, a 1950s-inspired animated comedy series based on the best-selling books by Alex T. Smith.

DUBLIN: 9 Story Distribution International has snapped up the rights for Vivi, Ruby's Studio and My Friend Bubbles, all of which will be presented at MIPTV.

PARIS: Out of more than 300 submissions, 16 projects have been selected for the Co-Production Forum taking place at Series Mania Festival this year.

Digital TV Research projects that the number of non-pay-TV homes in Canada and the U.S. will rise from 20.69 million in 2012 to 41.56 million in 2022.