TBS Presents New Formats at THE TALK OF TOKYO

Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) hosted an independent format pitch event, THE TALK OF TOKYO, at MIPTV today.

During the event, TBS presented full details of three new formats for 2023.

Kamiwaza: The Superhuman Skill Show aired in May 2021 on TBS under the local title The Kamiwaza Challenge, gaining the highest share among viewers in the 13-to-49 demo. Inspired by stunts found on social media, the producers create notoriously tricky challenges for a mixed group of celebrity and civilian contestants to complete on the show. Each 60-minute episode can be produced flexibly in terms of structure and timing but typically features three challenges that can be localized to the territory’s audience.

OUTSING the CHOIR! began airing regularly in prime time on TBS as a segment of the popular program Banana Sand and garnered a 35 percent increase in the ratings among males and females ages 13 to 49. The musical game show features two teams of contestants facing off in a singing showdown. Each contestant must sing their chosen song perfectly while not getting thrown off by the live, in-studio choir.

The scripted format My Family is currently streaming worldwide on Disney+. In the thriller, the lead character, Haruto, is a husband and father who lives a seemingly ideal life in a gorgeous suburban home with his beautiful wife and young daughter—until everything gets turned upside down when his daughter is taken in a serial kidnapping. This is when Haruto and his wife are forced to reassess their priorities and choose whether or not to get the help of the police.