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TEL AVIV: Armoza Formats has secured another commission for the hit game show Upgrade, from Russia’s DTV. The format challenges people to wager used and damaged personal belongings based on their ability to answer trivia questions as a group. If they win, they receive new items, but if they lose, ...

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BURBANK: This season’s roster for ABC’s Dancing with the Stars includes Grammy winner Gladys Knight, Disney star Roshon Fegan and former NFL player Donald Driver. This season will feature musician Gavin DeGraw; Donald Driver, the all-time leading receiver for the Green Bay Packers; Roshon Fegan, who stars on the Disney ...

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NEW YORK: Linda Jenson, the CEO of HBO Central Europe, and Antony Root, the executive VP of original programming and production, talk with TV Formats about adapting the In Treatment format in Romania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. Following a successful first season on HBO Romania, In Treatment, which ...

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BURBANK: Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has secured a round of format commissions for the NorthSouth Productions comedy show Impractical Jokers. Impractical Jokers features four friends competing in awkward social challenges, all taped on hidden cameras, and is currently airing on truTV in the U.S. WBITVP secured deals in ...

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MOSCOW: Star Media Group and Studio Kvartal-95 have signed a development deal for a North American version of the format Go Dance!, which will be co-produced by MY Tupelo Entertainment and Nigel Lythgoe Productions. The series, currently in its second season on Inter TV in Ukraine, will be included in ...

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LONDON: ITV Studios has optioned the rights for Passion Distribution’s reality format 100 Mile Challenge, created by Paperny Entertainment for Food Network Canada, in an agreement that covers a variety of territories. The series features six families who accept the challenge to only eat food produced within a 100-mile radius ...

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STOCKHOLM: Ludo Poppe’s Ecchomedia has invested in Sparks Network, which plans to build out its group of companies by adding scripted television producers. Ecchomedia encompasses Eccholine, an international line production company, and Ecchoremakes, a global distributor for remake rights to indie films. Sparks Network becomes a sister company to these ...

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TEL AVIV: The in-studio dating format Foreplay has been sold by Armoza Formats to MTV Russia, for a local version titled Love Games. Actress and singer Anastasia Zadorozhnaya will host the Russian version, which heads into production in mid-February for an April premiere. The dating show tests singles on what ...

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MUNICH: The sciencetainment magazine Galileo, sold by SevenOne International, has launched with a local version on Greece’s free-to-air channel Antenna TV. The show has been given an hour-long slot on Antenna TV, at 9 p.m. The local Greek version airs under the original title Galileo. The show first launched in ...

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PREMIUM: Andrea Wong, the president of international for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and president of international production for Sony Pictures Television (SPT), talks to TV Formats about the uptick in scripted formats and the success of the company’s international productions. Wong is responsible for a number of the studio’s key businesses. ...

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