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Paramount Global Content Distribution has licensed a pair of its hit game-show formats to be revived in Germany.

RX France and FOX Entertainment’s unscripted studio, FOX Alternative Entertainment, have opened the call for entries for this year’s MIPFormats Pitch, seeking innovative non-scripted entertainment formats with global potential.

Armoza Formats has licensed Sex Tape into Latin America, following successful adaptations in the U.K., Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and Germany.

Wheelhouse has tapped Glenn Hugill (Deal or No Deal, The Mole, Rat in the Kitchen) to serve as president of the newly launched Wheelhouse UK.

Marc Pos, creator of The Traitors format and chief executive at idtv, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the keys to casting for the format, how to innovate season after season and adapting for streamers versus linear channels.

Phil Gurin has launched TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE), a distribution company to represent formatted content across entertainment, factual and documentary.

Tuesday’s Child has secured a controlling interest in the London-based independent production company Interstellar, founded by David Williams and Jamie Ormerod.

Plimsoll Productions, part of ITV Studios, has appointed Magnify Media founder Andrea Jackson as creative director of factual entertainment.

Blue Ant Media and World of Wonder have partnered to launch Drag Race Universe, a new FAST channel, on VIZIO WatchFree+ in the U.S.

Fremantle has appointed Andrew Llinares as director of global entertainment, taking over from Rob Clark.