Kristin Brzoznowski

COLOGNE: Original TV formats from Germany are the focus of WDR mediagroup's (WDRmg) MIPTV activities, in line with this year's Focus on Germany.

TEL AVIV: Armoza Formats’s new studio game show Wrecking Ball sees a team of three contestants face four giant wrecking balls and nine increasingly difficult questions for the chance to win $250,000.

The brand-new singing talent show The Legend will make its world premiere at MIPTV, and Global Agency believes it has found “the next big thing” with this format.

TEL AVIV: The game show Smart Face, a format in the Dori Media Group catalogue, has launched successfully on channel HTV7 in Vietnam.

Rive Gauche Television's Bryan Gabourie and Marine Ksadzhikyan discuss the sports-themed competition format.

TEL AVIV: The new studio game show Wrecking Ball is being launched by Armoza Formats at MIPTV.

Avi Armoza, the founder and CEO of Armoza Formats, talks about the factual-entertainment show.

STOCKHOLM: The Swedish broadcaster TV4 has ordered a local version of the Finnish drama Nurses from Bob Films.

LOS ANGELES: FOX has ordered eight one-hour episodes of Superhuman, following a two-hour special that aired in January.

NEW YORK: World Screen Newsflash met with Marco Pierre White, whose role on Humble Pie is that of “the taster,” and Peter Usher, executive producer and creative director of production company Fizz, to discuss the cooking format and the essential casting elements for international versions.