{"id":15160,"date":"2025-07-01T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:15:06","slug":"expectation-plegazoid-enter-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/expectation-plegazoid-enter-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectation &amp; Plegazoid Enter Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expectation has partnered with David Flynn\u2019s Plegazoid to create entertainment formats in the game-show and reality space for U.K. networks and streamers.<\/p>\n<p>Plegazoid is behind ITV\u2019s upcoming quiz show <em>Time Is Money<\/em>. Before setting up Plegazoid, Flynn founded Youngest Media, where he launched formats such as <em>Small Fortune<\/em>, <em>Game of Clones<\/em>, <em>HouseShare<\/em>,<em> The Search<\/em> and <em>Surprize Fund<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Flynn was chief creative officer at Endemol UK, where he was responsible for formats such as <em>The Million Pound Drop<\/em>, <em>Pointless<\/em>, <em>7 Days on the Breadline<\/em>, <em>The Bank Job<\/em> and <em>The Singer Takes It All<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Expectation\u2019s format catalog features<em> In With A Shout<\/em>,<em> I Literally Just Told You<\/em> and <em>This is MY House<\/em>. Recent commissions include <em>The Dyers\u2019 Caravan Park<\/em> (w.t.), <em>How I Made a Million in 90 Days<\/em> and <em>How to Trick Your Way onto the Property Ladder<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid has created some of the most successful game shows ever made, wildly original reality formats, and above all else: huge hits,\u201d said Ben Wicks, creative director of entertainment at Expectation. \u201cHis shows have cemented themselves into the schedules for decades and been sold to so many countries even David himself would struggle to name them all. In short, nothing is guaranteed in life\u2014apart from David Flynn coming up with un-turndownable formats, and we are elated to be working together on his next dazzling array of hit shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flynn commented, \u201cBen and the development team at Expectation are a really creative and talented bunch, and we share a vision about the type of formats which cut through with audiences in the U.K. and travel internationally. 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