BBC Worldwide to Offer New Formats

LONDON: There are six new formats making their debut at MIPTV from BBC Worldwide, which has just signed up a number of European broadcasters for the wish-fulfillment show Tonight’s the Night.

Norway’s TV2 and Sweden’s TV4 are on board to produce the shiny-floor format, which sees deserving members of the public given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to perform in front of millions of viewers. These deals follow on a sale to Ukraine, where the show recently achieved the best performance of a premiere ever on New Channel.

BBC Worldwide has six new formats to launch at MIPTV, among them Nutopia Productions’ The House that Made Me. The biographical show features famous figures on an emotional trip back to the recreations of the homes they were brought up in.

Also new to the slate is Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands. This fly-on-the-wall format puts the lives of seven newly qualified doctors in the spotlight on their first four months in a busy city hospital.

Toughest Place To Be features ordinary people with ordinary jobs who are displaced to some of the most extreme environments on earth. They will work alongside the locals in workplaces that are vastly different from the ones they are used to.

Generation Gap is just off its U.K. launch. From Love Productions, the format sees young people volunteer to work in a care home for the elderly. Kidnapped By the Kids, also from Love Productions, sees workaholic parents kidnapped from the workplace by their children and taken off to a holiday where the kids call the shows. Another Love Productions format, The Great Bake-Off, is a competition the launches a nationwide search to find the best amateur baker.

Cook Off is also culinary themed. The format is on a mission to find the nation’s best cooking family. Rounding out the slate is the reality format A Farmer’s Life for Me, which sees nine couples putting their farming skills to the test as they compete to win an opportunity to run their very own farm.

Returning formats include Life on Mars, The Week the Women Went, which was recently produced in France and India, and the global hits Dancing With the Stars and Top Gear.