Tag: BBC Studios

BBC Studios has entered into a partnership deal with Jolly Octopus Media, a new production company founded by Emmy and BAFTA winners Ollie Brack and James Longman.

Kate Phillips, director of unscripted at the BBC, and Sumi Connock, creative director of formats at BBC Studios, showcased trends in the vibrant game and quiz formats sector at a MIPCOM session this morning, where they were joined onstage by the producers of some of the company’s latest launches.

BBC Studios has secured its first international license for the game-show format In With a Shout to W9 in France.

In BBC Studios’ game show The Answer Run, the answers are already known, and the players must match questions to the correct responses to earn money—and victory depends on a split-second swipe.

New spins on the always popular game-show and dating genres dominate the selections for the latest edition of the TV Formats Screenings Festival, which features a slew of new and returning properties that will be on offer at MIPCOM.

BBC Studios has secured international distribution rights for Montreux Film and Fjernsyn’s game-show format Nation’s Dumbest.

BBC Studios has tapped Channel 4 alum Karl Warner as executive VP of U.K. entertainment and digital development to establish and lead a new creative unit within its recently formed global entertainment business.

Primedia Studios has inked a license agreement with the BBC Studios-owned production company Rapid Blue to bring Dancing with the Stars back to South Africa.

BBC Studios and the African streamer Showmax have struck up a deal for a South African adaptation of the hit comedy format The Office.

In this video, Fremantle’s Vasha Wallace, Banijay’s James Townley, BBC Studios’ André Renaud and All3Media International’s Nick Smith weigh in on the state of the market for non-scripted entertainment formats.