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TEL AVIV: Germany's ARD has commissioned an adaptation of Armoza Formats’s docureality show Local Heroes for its WDR channel.

LONDON: NBCUniversal International Studios has signed a first-look partnership deal with the French production company Terminal 9 Studios to develop entertainment and factual-entertainment formats.

LONDON: all3media International has signed deals for new local adaptations of the formats Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Hell in Southern Europe.

LONDON: FremantleMedia Latin America is adapting an Argentine cooking format for TV Azteca, to be titled Cocineros Mexicanos.

DUBLIN/LONDON: RTÉ2 has commissioned Independent Pictures's Then Comes Marriage?, a factual-entertainment show that was a Format Farm submission.

A look at the success of the competition format, which is part of the BBC Worldwide catalog.

LONDON: Sue Perkins, Joe Lycett and Moira Stuart have been lined up to present The Big Spell (previously Spelling Star), a new family-entertainment series that aims to find the best young speller in the U.K. and Ireland.

LONDON: Honey We’re Killing the Kids and The Great Bake Off have both been licensed by BBC Worldwide for adaptations in Poland.

TEL AVIV: Israeli comedian Miki Geva has won first place at Armoza Formats’s sixth annual Formagination for his prime-time celebrity entertainment submission Fake or Real.

LONDON: Naked Entertainment has been commissioned by Channel 4's on-demand service All 4 to produce Threesome Dating, a new format focused on the three-way dating trend.