Marrying Millions Leads A+E Networks MIPCOM Format Slate

A+E Networks International’s slate of unscripted formats for MIPCOM includes the factual-entertainment format Marrying Millions.

Marrying Millions puts couples—in which one is of considerable wealth and the other on the lower end of the financial spectrum—in focus, leaving friends, family members and the audience at home to wonder if it’s true love, money or the superficial attracting them to one another. It has recently been renewed for a second season on Lifetime in the U.S. and has been optioned to Seven Studios UK, marking A+E Network’s first collaboration with the U.K. production arm of Australia’s Seven Studios.

In Generation Dating, a co-development with Virgin Media Television (VMTV), two strangers, one old and one young, attempt to fix each other’s love lives. “It brings together people from completely different generations to help one another learn a new approach to finding love, and in the process, they find themselves forging unexpected friendships,” said Hayley Babcock, head of format productions and acquisitions at A+E Networks.

Solo Wars, a large-scale in-studio dating game-show format, sees one hundred singles compete for love and/or a cash prize. The first project to come from the company’s recently announced partnership with Korean media group JTBC, Solo Wars is a game of strategy in which participants must form romantic allegiances to progress to the next round.

Ellen Lovejoy, senior VP and head of sales in the Americas and formats, added: “We’re extremely confident that global audiences will embrace the three newest formats we’re bringing to MIPCOM. They all have massive entertainment value and address the topic of love and relationships, but from entirely different angles. A+E looks forward to furthering our relationships with key broadcasters and producers across the globe while in Cannes, and to hopefully partnering with them both on A+E formats for them to produce in their territories, and on brand new, co-developed formats.”