SPTI Preps New Game Show for Challenge

LONDON, January 18: Sony
Pictures Television International (SPTI) is producing a British version of the
game show Pyramid for Challenge
that will be hosted by Donny Osmond, who helmed the American version from 2002
to 2004.

Challenge has commissioned
SPTI to produce 30 episodes of the show, for launch in the spring. Filming will
begin in March this year and the show will be stripped daily in a prime-time
slot.

Antony Root, the SVP of
European production at SPTI, said in announcing the deal: “The in-house
production of Pyramid for
Challenge marks a new stage in the growth of our production business and one
that underlines our renewed focus on non-scripted, light entertainment. While
the show itself has been a winner with audiences around the world, we are
thrilled that Donny Osmond has agreed to host this latest version for SPTI and
for Challenge.”