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Accomplished format developer and showrunner Moira Ross (KPOPPED, Strictly Come Dancing, The Voice UK) has entered a creative partnership with Sphere Media to develop a hub for large-scale U.S. and U.K. format co-productions.

Global Agency’s newest original format, The Mashup, will premiere at the Realscreen Summit in Miami on February 3.

NBCUniversal has unveiled the lineup of brands it has partnered with for the upcoming 23rd season of Top Chef, which takes place in the Carolinas.

Ranking the Stars, a format originally created by TV Asahi and distributed by Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP), is marking 20 years since its Dutch debut with the premiere of its 20th season on RTL 4 in the Netherlands this week.

BBC Studios has scored the first international license for its reality dating format The Honesty Box, with Brutal Media set to produce an adaptation for Telecinco in Spain.

BiggerStage has inked a multi-million-euro agreement with Hackman Capital Partners’ Troy Studios, as well as MBS Group, to create a global unscripted production hub at the facility in County Limerick, Ireland.

Sony Pictures Television has entered into an option agreement with Thailand’s TV Thunder and Columbia Pictures’ Aquaverse, a Columbia Pictures-themed waterpark in the Asian country, to develop a Thai adaptation of 100 Choices.

Bill and Tom Kaulitz, founding members of Tokio Hotel, are taking over as hosts of ZDF’s Wanna Bet?, which is set to make its return in December.

ITV has commissioned Farming for Love, a revival of the dating series Farmer Wants a Wife, which aired in the U.K. on ITV in 2001 and on Channel 5 in 2009.

An Indian adaptation of the competition format The Fifty is set to bow on JioHotstar and Colors TV on February 1.