FremantleMedia Announces MIPTV Slate

LONDON, March 25:
FremantleMedia will head to MIPTV with a lineup of game shows and reality
formats, including The Big Give.

The Big Give has been a ratings success in the U.S., where it
airs on ABC. The reality-based competition has a feel-good factor, where the
more the contestants give, the better the chances of them winning.

Also on offer is the game
show Password, which was
commissioned by CBS in the U.S. The format watches celebrities team up with
contestants to offer them one-word clues to guess the password, move up the
money ladder and win the big prize. Another game show FremantleMedia is
bringing to the market is Crystal Clear?, which has been commissioned in Sweden. The show sees contestants
placed in a soundproof box where they must mime, shout or do whatever it takes
to get the answer out.

As more of a quiz show, Family
Links draws on strategy and suspense
to test how well a family can work together to answer pop-culture questions and
win a prize from their own personal wish list. The format has been picked up by
Sweden’s Metronome Group. Another quiz show, Your Price or Mine, which airs on TV3 in Denmark, lets contestants
with opposing tastes and backgrounds check out each other’s houses and guess
how much their prized possessions are worth.

Already commissioned by
the U.K.’s ITV1, Natural Born Sellers watches a group of contestants go into a real environment and sell
various items—from yachts to fruit—with the nation’s top sellers
battling to make the sale, take a commission, bank the proceeds and compete for
the big-money pot during the finale.

Soccer Prince, one of FremantleMedia’s top performers in Asia,
is a talent search for the next great athlete in the game, with the winner
receiving an apprenticeship with a British Premiership club.

Rob
Clark, the senior executive VP of entertainment and production for
worldwide entertainment at FremantleMedia, said: “Broadcasters always want the
next big hit, but at the moment we see they are focused on balancing the
schedules. They need the blockbuster formats but they also want a variety of
shows. They need to hit everyone’s sweet spot, to be representative of their
audience and their changing tastes. So this season’s slate has it all. We have
the big shows with blockbuster finales, family game shows with passion and prizes,
reality formats with cut-throat competition and gentler feel-good shows with
positive role models. We have some truly great formats, from across all genres,
with real global appeal.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski