Alison Skilton

Media Ranch is presenting a full formats slate at MIPCOM that includes Judge for One Day, which has just been commissioned by RTL Belgium.

Duronto TV, a kids’ channel in Bangladesh, is set to produce a local version of the game show Mastermind, per a newly inked deal with BBC Studios.

A+E Networks has optioned the relationship-documentary format Marrying Millions to Seven Studios UK.

The Story Lab’s slate for MIPCOM spans reality, game-show and digital-first entertainment formats, including the two new dating shows Undercover Twins and Pulling with My Parents.

Endemol Shine Group has struck a deal with Globosat’s GNT to produce a Brazilian version of the reality format Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Armoza Formats has unveiled its new dating show Queens of Love, which sees three drag queens guide troubled singles in choosing their perfect match.

TVNZ has commissioned the lifestyle format Eat Well for Less for adaptation in New Zealand.

A new celebrity version of MTV’s Ex on the Beach franchise, titled Ex on the Beach Brazil: Celebs, has begun production and is slated for a late 2019 debut.

Carlotta Rossi Spencer, head of format acquisitions for Banijay Group, talks about what keeps people tuning into the reality format more than a decade and a half after it first premiered.

FOX is doing a U.S. adaptation of the U.K. series Flirty Dancing, which sees two complete strangers learn a dance routine and perform it without having met previously.