Nordisk Film TV World Unveils Slate for MIPTV

Copenhagen, March 21:
Nordisk Film TV World will launch a number of new formats at MIPTV in April,
including the comedy panel show Dubbed.

Dubbed features two teams of famous comedians compete
against each other to bring new life to classic footage by improvising and
dubbing it.

Nordisk will also be
offering the game show Bias,
created by Zig Zag Productions. The format examines prejudices based on age,
occupation, education or appearance. Contestants ask questions such as, how
many students would cut off a toe for a million dollars? Or, how many chefs
have spat in a customer’s food? If participants can guess what the answers to
those questions are, based on a rotating panel—which one day could be
supermodels, the next day priests—they win a cash prize.

Centered on music, Melody
Challenge is an event-driven
talent show, open to both amateurs and professionals, which searches for the
nation’s best song. Doobidoo, a
prime-time entertainment format, is
another music-based offering from Nordisk. According to Nordisk, the feel-good
sing-a-long series is the only format in the world to consistently post higher
rating shares than Idols in a
head-to-head competition.

Also new from Nordisk is
the sitcom The Terror Cell,
which is the story of four bumbling terrorists who plan countless suicide
attacks that are all bound to fail.

Back to the Street rounds out Nordisk’s slate. The reality show
watches a well-known local artist get thrown penniless onto the streets in
another country.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski