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NEW YORK: The TV Formats Preview for MIPFormats and MIPTV provides you with a number of useful services in one location, including a link to our Screening Rooms and much more.

CANNES: One of the fastest-selling formats of 2016, This Time Next Year is a studio entertainment series that features an array of real-life transformations, presented in an instantaneous time-travel fashion.

HELSINKI: Rabbit Films has licensed its original format Haggle Battle into Germany, where a local version will be produced by Bavaria Entertainment.

SEOUL: CJ E&M's romantic dramedy Emergency Couple has been licensed for a local adaptation in Mexico.

LOS ANGELES: GSN has lined up a second season of Divided, a game show that began airing on the channel earlier this year.

ISTANBUL: Inter Medya has sold the game-show format Join Instant into India and Pakistan.

CANNES: There are two new formats in the TV Asahi portfolio: Experts Visiting Experts and The 3 Family 3 Day Challenge.

LONDON: The Story Lab has secured the worldwide distribution rights, outside of North America, for the dating show Game of Clones.

LONDON: The BBC One prime-time entertainment show Let’s Sing and Dance is being offered as a format by BBC Worldwide.

Joanna Stephens looks at the world of singing talent formats, exploring new spins on the genre and its continuing success.