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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.

CANNES: World Screen’s Anna Carugati is moderating a session at MIPFormats entitled New Creative Boom in the U.S., which will spotlight 60 Days In and Lip Sync Battle.

STOCKHOLM: ITV Studios has snapped up the supernatural cop drama Who Are You, produced by South Korea’s CJ Group and distributed by Eccho Rights.

HILVERSUM: Talpa’s latest format, The Wishing Tree, has been sold to RTVS in Slovakia.

TEL AVIV: Banijay Studios North America has acquired Armoza Formats’s studio-based challenge game show Double or Nothing, developed in partnership with Studio Glam, for the U.S.

LONDON: The family-entertainment game-show format Wild Things from Zodiak Rights, the international distribution arm of Banijay Group, is getting additional local treatments in Europe and Latin America.

LONDON: Beyond Distribution is launching the new daytime culinary series Too Many Cooks, for which it has secured finished and format rights, at MIPTV.

SYDNEY: Nine Network in Australia has ordered a celebrity version of the ITV Studios format Come Dine with Me.