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HONG KONG: The brand-new Cambodian broadcaster Town TV has picked up Keshet International's interactive talent format Rising Star.

BUDAPEST: Best Offer from Osakond in Estonia won the Pitch & Play Live competition at NATPE Budapest this afternoon.

BUDAPEST: Executives from ITV Studios, Endemol Shine Group, Armoza Formats, Modern Times Group (MTG) and Global Screen discussed what’s working, and what’s not, in regard to global formats during a session this morning at NATPE Budapest.

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.