LEONINE Studios Inks Deals for Raft of German Formats

LEONINE Studios has sold format rights for three of its prime-time entertainment shows, including Small Vs. Tall, to European territories.

Finland’s Aito Media and Spain’s Boomerang TV have optioned the rights to Small Vs. Tall, a family-entertainment show. It features children with special mental or physical talents and abilities competing against celebrity contestants.

The prime-time game show They Have No Idea What Will Happen was licensed by Boomerang TV and France’s Mediawan, which also took format rights to Quiz Without Borders.

In They Have No Idea What Will Happen, hosts Barbara Schöneberger, Günther Jauch and Thomas Gottschalk don’t know which of them will moderate the evening or what to expect in the individual action and game rounds in each episode. They also do not know in which constellation they will work together as a team, which prominent candidates they will compete against or who will be allowed to take home the prize of a total of 50,000 euros at the end.

Quiz Without Borders brings eight celebrities from eight countries together for a quiz evening among friends, with everyone playing for their country and 50,000 euros at stake.

Nina Etspüler, LEONINE Studios co-head of entertainment, said: “We are really happy and excited that these wildly successful formats, that have been developed by LEONINE’s non-fiction production banner i&u TV, are starting to travel internationally. The shows have universal appeal, and we’re sure that they can repeat their success in other territories.”