BUENOS AIRES: Telefe's telenovela Candy Love has landed in Colombia, where it airs as The Sweetest Love, Taste the Forbidden on Caracol Televisión. The format has also been optioned in Italy. Meanwhile, its finished version was picked up by the Megavision Group for El Salvador, with other sales taking place in Bosnia, ...

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LONDON: Sony Pictures Television and the Welsh broadcaster S4C have renewed a partnership deal to develop prime-time entertainment formats. Now in its second year, the partnership sees Sony Pictures Television and S4C develop original non-scripted format ideas with a number of Welsh production companies. The focus is on prime-time entertainment, ...

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TEL AVIV: The fifth annual Formagination competition, hosted by Armoza Formats, saw a tie between two formats, The Secret Adviser and Jungle Cook Off, which will split the development prize.  The Secret Adviser features a participant being coached through life's dilemmas, though they are unsure if the coach is a ...

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HILVERSUM: Talpa's family-oriented talent competition Superkids has been adapted in Poland, where it will begin airing this fall in prime time on Polsat. The format features children between the ages of 6 and 14 performing various talents, including singing, dancing, doing magic tricks or playing an instrument. The young participants ...

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LONDON: Sky 1 has commissioned a brand-new season of the family entertainment show Wild Things from Zodiak-owned IWC Media, Mad Monk and GroupM Entertainment. The first run of Wild Things, distributed by Zodiak Rights, was hosted by Kate Humble and Jason Byrne. It saw couples compete in physical challenges wearing ...

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SYDNEY: I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! has been ordered for a second season in Australia, returning to Network Ten in 2016. Hosts Julia Morris and Chris Brown are on board for the second season as well, traveling back to the South African jungle. The series will again be ...

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LONDON: UKTV has ordered the all-new entertainment cooking format Humble Pie for its premium pay-TV channel Watch. The 8×60-minute series, produced by Fizz, RDF Television’s new entertainment label, is hosted by Melanie Sykes and judged by Michelin star chef, Marco Pierre White. It will air later this year. Each episode sees ...

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MIAMI/MADRID: MTV International is expanding its Shores franchise with the all-new Ibiza Shore, produced by Magnolia TV. Ibiza Shore marks the fifth international edition of MTV’s Shores franchise, joining the ranks of Geordie Shore (U.K.), Warsaw Shore (Poland), Gandía Shore (Spain) and Acapulco Shore (Mexico). The new cast will include ...

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LONDON: An all-new ten-part season of the reality entertainment program Britain's Next Top Model is being made for Lifetime in the U.K. for launch in 2016. The format was licensed from CBS Studios International and is being produced by Thumbs Up Productions. Production will begin in September 2015. The talent lineup has ...

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LONDON: On the heels of Channel 4 commissioning three new seasons of the quiz show Fifteen to One, the U.K. network has given the go-ahead to four celebrity specials, to be produced this summer. Titled Celebrity Fifteen to One, the specials will be produced by Remedy Productions, part of the ...

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