Sara Alessi

LONDON: ITV has commissioned Twofour to produce a six-episode season of Talpa’s international format Dating in the Dark for ITV2.

TEL AVIV: Ahead of the sixth annual Formagination competition, which will be held next week, Armoza Formats has revealed the five finalists, as well as the international jury members.

LONDON: Channel 5 has commissioned the factual-entertainment format Stripped and Stranded from Naked Entertainment.

LONDON: FremantleMedia has secured worldwide TV rights for the music-entertainment format Sidewalk Karaoke from Pango Productions.

TEL AVIV: Armoza Formats has sold the local rights for the scripted comedy La Famiglia to Zodiak Fiction in France and Endemol Shine Chile.

Mike Beale, the executive VP of global development and formats at ITV Studios, talks about the reality-dating show Love Island, which recently returned to ITV2 for a second season.

HILVERSUM: RTL has acquired Talpa’s format The Wishing Tree for French-speaking Belgium.

LONDON: ITV has commissioned Potato to produce the new entertainment series Go for It, based on Talpa’s format Challenge Me.

TEL AVIV: Polish broadcaster TTV has commissioned Armoza Formats’s celebrity interview show How to Be for a September debut.

AMSTERDAM/MILAN/LONDON: Endemol Shine Italy’s branded format Top DJ has been commissioned for a third season by Italia 1, with DJ David Morales joining the jury.