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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.

Nick Smith, the senior VP of format production at all3media international, discusses the dating format.

PARIS: KABO International has snapped up the global distribution rights outside of Canada for the scripted comedy formats Dumped! and Adam & Eve from Canadian producer Avanti Ciné Vidéo.

NEW YORK/TEL AVIV: Armoza Formats's Date in Reverse has been snapped up by Loud TV, part of ITV America's Leftfield Entertainment group, for the U.S.

LONDON: FremantleMedia is planning to launch the new music entertainment show Q The Music, produced by FremantleMedia Sweden, to the global market at MIPCOM.

ISTANBUL: Global Agency's dating game show The Married Game is getting a local treatment on SBS Belgium.

LONDON: Filmpool’s constructed reality format Day and Night, distributed by all3media International, has been recommissioned by broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe.

NEW YORK: Manuela Caputi, the head of international sales for the Mediaset catalog at Mediaset Distribution, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the company’s scripted and unscripted format business.