New Commissions for Stranded on Honeymoon Island

Red Arrow Studios International has closed new deals for its hit format Stranded on Honeymoon Island, which has been picked up in four territories.

Germany’s SAT.1 and Portugal’s SIC join Australia’s Seven Network in getting their own local versions of the new adventure dating format. An additional commission has been sealed with a broadcaster in the Netherlands. Others are in the final stages of negotiation.

Stranded on Honeymoon Island sees couples matched by experts marooned on a deserted island and left to fend for themselves for three weeks.

The show was created by Snowman Productions, creator of the dating phenomenon Married at First Sight.

The Copenhagen-based production company—part of Seven.One Studios and a sister company to Red Arrow Studios International—have set up and will manage a production hub in Southeast Asia to facilitate the year-round filming of new local versions of Stranded on Honeymoon Island.

Tim Gerhartz, managing director at Red Arrow Studios International, said: “We are delighted with the response to Stranded on Honeymoon Island: to sign up four broadcast partners in just a few weeks is an astounding start for a new format; it’s one of the fastest traveling dating reality formats of recent times. After years of increasingly dramatic reality shows, we have seen a growing demand for more authenticity—and Stranded on Honeymoon Island truly captures the zeitgeist, delivering a heady combination of real-life experience packaged with the gloss of exotic escapism. The format brings together two reality subgenres—dating and adventure—to create a truly unique, fast-track relationship experience, and we are looking forward to seeing it roll out around the world.”