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BUDAPEST: all3media international has received a new commission and additional episode orders in Central and Eastern Europe for the constructed-reality formats Cases of Doubt and Families at the Crossroads.

BUDAPEST: Following a successful first season, the prime-time cooking format Game of Chefs has been licensed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) to Romania’s Antena 1 for a further two seasons.

Kristin Brzoznowski speaks to a range of distributors about the current format trends across Central and Eastern Europe.

LONDON: Antenna Group's Planet TV has licensed the prime-time entertainment format The Jump for Slovenia from Twofour Rights.

LONDON: Zig Zag Productions has licensed the health and lifestyle format Change the Day You Die to Z Living in the U.S.

BUDAPEST: Keshet International’s new cross-media format Touch is based on the simple concept of identifying what’s wrong with a given picture.

AMSTERDAM/COLOGNE: The social-experiment format The Big Benefits Handout, which originated on Channel 5 in the U.K., is heading to German broadcaster RTL.

BUDAPEST: From Armoza Formats’s scripted slate, La Famiglia is an Israeli comedy that follows the lives of a normal suburban family living in the divorce capital of the country.

BEIJING: China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television is placing new restrictions on the imports of foreign formats in a bid to encourage local creativity.

TEL AVIV/MUNICH: RTL in Germany has added to its summer schedule a local adaptation of the Abot Hameiri-created reality format Power Couple, distributed by Dori Media Group.