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CANNES: NBC has acquired the rights for Un año para recordar, a series that aired on Telefe in Argentina, with plans to adapt the show in the U.S.

CANNES: Red Arrow International has inked deals in France and Australia for the new social-experiment format Look Me in the Eye, which made its debut at the market.

CANNES: Two new commissions have been secured by all3media International for the factual-entertainment format World of Weird.

CANNES: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) has unveiled its new “Format Factory,” an incubator meant to develop several new formats for the international marketplace.

CANNES: GMA Worldwide has licensed a pair of scripted formats to the Mexican production company Altavision Producciones.

CANNES: German broadcaster ZDF has commissioned a local version of the Tuesday's Child format For What It's Worth from Tower Productions, a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and All3Media.

COLOGNE: WDR mediagroup (WDRmg) has sold the remake rights for the speed-dating format Autumn Tingles to Finnish production company Kaiho Republic, which is making a local version for pubcaster Yle.

TEL AVIV/KIEV: Armoza Formats has entered into a new co-development deal with FILM.UA Group for virtual- and augmented-reality projects.

Distributors, producers and broadcasters are aligning across borders to jointly develop concepts.

CANNES: The Story of My Life, a new format from the Talpa catalog, has been commissioned by VOX in Germany, with Talpa Germany producing the local version.