Jamie Stalcup

Expectation has partnered with David Flynn’s Plegazoid to create entertainment formats in the game-show and reality space for U.K. networks and streamers.

Bunim/Murray Productions has partnered with X Games for the new competition series X Games Battleground in honor of the action sports company’s 30th anniversary.

TV3 Group has commissioned a local Lithuanian version of Warner Bros. International Television Production’s (WBITVP) Impractical Jokers.

A Spanish adaptation of Talpa Studios and Hasbro Entertainment’s Trivial Pursuit is set to be produced by Satisfaction Iberia for RTVE’s La 1.

Nick Tanner, director of sales and co-productions at Passion Distribution, highlights the company’s formats slate, which includes big swings such as Virgin Island.

Another casting tour for Love Island USA has begun, with a pop-up villa where fans can record a casting tape to be considered for an upcoming season of the hit show appearing across the U.S.

BBC Studios Productions has appointed Optomen alum Mel Bezalel to lead its new central development and design team beginning in June.

Filming has begun on the U.K. adaptation of Race Against the Tide on West Sands Beach in St Andrews, with Iain Stirling as host and artists Sadie Clayton and Jamie Wardley as judges.

5 has commissioned the new game show Celebrity Puzzling from Potato, part of ITV Studios, and Wheelhouse Studios.

Simon Thomas, formerly president of ITV Entertainment, has joined Pantheon Media Group as its new head of creative.