Endemol Concludes New Format Deals

HILVERSUM, April 2:
Endemol International has finalized a new round of deals for its stable of
entertainment formats, including pickups for the game-show format 1 vs. 100 by RTL in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF in
Switzerland.

The new deals for 1 vs.
100 bring the format to a total of
more than 30 territories worldwide. RTL in Germany has commissioned 1 vs.
100 for a run of 60 access
prime-time episodes that will go to air this May. In Austria, a first season of
the game show is due to launch in prime time on ORF this month for a 10-episode
run, while the format has been snapped up by SF in Switzerland. These latest
deals follow Hunan Television commissioning 1 vs. 100 for a prime-time run of 16 one-hour episodes in
Endemol’s first format deal in China.

Endemol’s The One and
Only… has been bought up by TV
Globo in Brazil, with a first season of the new talent show due to launch this
month. TV Globo has also bagged the factual-entertainment format Celebrity
Daycare Center, which is slated to
launch in May.

Meanwhile, Polsat in Poland has acquired Circus of the Celebrities, which has also received a recommission from
Channel 1 in Russia. This follows the recent announcement that NBC has
commissioned the format for a first run of six weekly prime-time episodes
launching in June.

Finally, the comedy format
8 out of 10 Cats has been
commissioned by TVE in Spain and is due to premiere soon. Also in Spain, the
game show Show Me The Money has
been recommissioned for a fifth season on Cuatro for a daily run of 65 episodes
in access prime time.

—By Irene Lew