{"id":7706,"date":"2020-06-24T10:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/lion-television-usa-pacts-prank-shows\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:43:28","slug":"lion-television-usa-pacts-for-prank-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/lion-television-usa-pacts-for-prank-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Television USA Pacts for Prank Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Television USA has entered into a co-production partnership with Michael Krivicka and his producing partner Peter Veverka for original formats.<\/p>\n<p>Krivicka made a name for himself in the elaborate prank space with viral videos such as &#8220;Devil Baby Attack,&#8221; &#8220;Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise&#8221; and &#8220;Rings TV Store Prank.&#8221; Under the deal, Lion will work with Krivicka and Veverka to develop and produce original prank formats for premium cable networks and streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Krivicka and Veverka will work closely alongside Tony Tackaberry, CEO of Lion Television USA, and Stan Hsue, senior VP of development.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the companies are developing\u00a0<em>Crazy Products<\/em>, a format that features fun, over-the-top elaborate \u201cnew products\u201d that unsuspecting people test out on camera, as well as\u00a0<em>Fear the Prank<\/em>, a format that directly capitalizes on the viral videos that have made Krivicka a force in the industry\u2014scaring the living daylights out of people with ridiculous supernatural incidents in public places.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Tackaberry, CEO of Lion Television USA, said: \u201cMichael is synonymous with intricate and hilarious pranks that have generated huge audiences. Their unique sensibility delivers highly entertaining, escapist content that we feel could be just the tonic in a post-COVID world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krivicka added: I\u2019m impressed with Lion\u2019s ongoing success in the format space. And it feels like the perfect time to transition to long-form entertainment and apply our ideas and storytelling skills there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Television USA has entered into a co-production partnership with Michael Krivicka and his producing partner Peter Veverka for original formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2102],"class_list":["post-7706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-lion-television-usa","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lion Television USA Pacts for Prank Shows - TVFORMATS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/lion-television-usa-pacts-for-prank-shows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lion Television USA Pacts for Prank Shows - 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