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Welcome to our Formats catalogue
Over the last 10 years, Passion Distribution has consistently teamed up with some of the best creative talents in the world to bring you a rich, varied and exciting line up of formats.
Our current Formats slate is brimming with engaging, heart-warming, hugely relatable formats such as Class Next
Door, Where To I Do? and Postcode Playdates as well as WELCOME successful and long-running entertainment franchises such as Paradise Hotel, Worst Driver and Drag Race.
Whether they come to life as Reality Competitions, Gameshows or Social Experiments, Passion’s formats resonate with global audiences by tapping into universal values and emotions whilst bringing something unexpected and fresh. Our formats are pure TV magic that capture and enthral audiences.
I am incredibly proud to share with you our latest selection of formats. The whole Passion team is looking forward to discussing with you how to bring about local versions where you are in the world.
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FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT LIFESTYLE
Paradise Hotel 8 An Idiot Abroad 26 Spies 41 Where To I Do? 52
Drag Race 10 Don't Tell The Doctor 28 All On The Line 42 The Arrangement 54
Skin Wars 12 Free Speech 28 Save Our Business 42 Window Warriors 54
Skin Wars: Fresh Paint 12 12 Hours To Cure Your Street 29 The Customer Is Always Right? 43 Starting Over 55
The Next Great Magician 13 Hotel Of Mum And Dad 30 Cooks To Market 43 DietTribe 55
Robot Wars 14 Take My Mother-In-Law 30 Things Not To Say 44 The 100 Mile Challenge 56
Techno Games 16 Drag U 31 Super Saver Showdown 56 CONTENTS
X-Fire 16 The Class Next Door 32 GAMESHOW The 100 Thing Challenge 57
Crash Course 17 Dad Camp 34 Quiz Nights 48 Trash To Cash 57
Worst Driver 18 Daring Duos 34 Today's The Day 48 Dealers: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 58
World's Worst 20 Postcode Playdates 35 Love Triangle 49 Restoration Roadshow 58
Vote For Me 20 Bad Teen To Ballroom Queen 36 Emogenius 50 Selling Houses 59
The Game Of Dating 21 The Dressing Room 37 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 60
The Newlywed Game 21 Make Me A Baby 38 Find It, Fix It, Drive It 61
Diet On The Dancefloor 22 Most Identical 38 SCRIPTED Beat The Chefs 22 Divorce Hotel 39
The Ultimate School Musical 23 Personality Test 40 Sirens 64
#DanceBattle 23 The Mortified Sessions 40 Derek 65
The Politician's Husband 66
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As the contestants get to know each other on Duration: 60 minutes exotic dates and challenges, it is up to the Scheduling: Primetime remaining single person to try and break up a couple in order to stay in the game. Originating territory: US At each elimination ceremony, the person who Broadcaster: FOX and My Network remains single must leave paradise and a new person enters the competition. Heading Producer: Mentorn Media towards the final, with a life-changing sum of money at stake, the couples scheme against Lust, Jealousy, Greed, Deception... Welcome each other to win the grand prize. to Paradise Hotel.
Paradise Hotel is a classic primetime dating reality programme which successfully kept its Already produced in 11 territories and core youth demography over the years to also boasting over 1800 episodes worldwide! become a great online success! Paradise Hotel is one of Norway's In this hit reality competition, 11 sexy single longest running reality series, airing people live in a luxurious resort and compete on TV3 since 2009. The series has been against each other to see who can stay in paradise nominated for a Gullruten Award for the longest. Each week the singles choose a Best Reality Competition in 2018. partner with whom they must share a room, Paradise Hotel has been captivating leaving one contestant without a roommate. audiences in Denmark and Sweden since 2005. ENTERTAINMENT
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12 talented and overly dramatic beauties are With season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race Duration: 60 minutes pitted against each other in an over-the-top commissioned in the US, series 2 of Drag Race Awards and Nominations received for the Scheduling: Primetime competition and given the chance to fulfil Thailand announced in Thailand, and series 2 original US version RuPaul's Drag Race: their lifelong dream & win a coveted title. of The Switch Drag Race: El Arte Del Originating territory: US The contestants may be men in stilettos, but Transformismo being a huge success in Chile, • Winner of a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality Broadcaster: Logo and VH1 the competition is by no means a drag! this unique format is an outstanding success that has stood the test of time and garnered Program in 2016, 2017 & 2018. To win the title of Next Drag Superstar, our Producer: World of Wonder a worldwide fan base. contestants have to be top models, fashion • Winner of a Primetime Emmy Award designers and sheer geniuses all rolled up for Outstanding Host for a Reality Drag Race is an elimination competition for into one. In each episode, the Queens Program in September 2016 & 2017. drag queens where the winner takes home a Over 150 episodes produced in the US! compete in a mini challenge and a main • Nominated for a Primetime Emmy fabulous cash prize and where the losers are With 10 seasons of the main show, challenge in front of a panel of esteemed Award for Outstanding Reality asked to “sashay away”. 3 All Stars seasons, and over 150 judges. The bottom two are challenged to Competition Program in 2017 & 2018. Everything is superlative – the heels are higher, “Lip Sync for your life” and outshine each episodes, RuPaul’s Drag Race is the hair is bigger, the cat fights cattier – and in other in a battle that needs to be seen to constantly breaking network records • Winner of a MTV Movie + TV Award Drag Race, outrageous Queens, big guest stars be believed. as Logo and VH1’s highest rated and for Best Reality Competition and and wild challenges take the talent format to a #1 series! Best Host in 2017. new and hilarious extreme.
10 11 SKIN WARS
Skin Wars is the exciting competition show which aims to find the most talented and versatile body painter.
There is no more compelling canvas for artists than the human body and Skin Wars is the first ever competition show format designed to find the country’s best body painting artist.
This elimination format puts a bevy of fiercely competitive body painters and artists through a series of ingenious artistic challenges, which may include camouflage, graffiti, multiple model installations, corporate ad campaigns, animal art, and more. Completed programme also available Each week one competitor is eliminated by the Duration: 60 minutes judging panel until one winner is the last artist standing and is crowned the victor and the Scheduling: Primetime ultimate body painter! Originating territory: US
Broadcaster: Gameshow Network
Producer: Michael Levitt Productions and Game Show Enterprises ENTERTAINMENT
SKIN WARS: FRESH PAINT
Skin Wars: Fresh Paint features many of Skin Wars’ top former contestants who mentor six new, highly accomplished artists each week.
These artists are at the top of their game in their own disciplines but they will leave their creative comfort zones to compete in body painting for the first time to attempt to win the cash prize and become a "Skin Wars: Fresh Paint Champion" at the end of each episode.
In each self-contained episode, the three Skin Completed programme also available Wars All-Stars work with artists from a variety Completed programme also available Each episode sees five magicians perform their of backgrounds and skill-sets and give them Duration: 60 minutes most sensational tricks, from close-up and a crash course in body painting. They mentor Duration: 60 minutes Scheduling: Primetime comedy magic through to amazing illusions and their teammates through several rounds of incredible escapes, both in front of a studio Scheduling: Primetime intense competition, pushing them to apply Originating territory: UK audience and on location in front of astounded their talents to the human canvas in innovative Originating territory: US Broadcaster: ITV members of the public and celebrities. ways. It all culminates in a final challenge The magicians then judge each other’s Broadcaster: Gameshow Network where the remaining two artists must put all Producer: Vaudeville Productions and performances, with each week’s highest-voted they have learned to the test, completing a full Crook Productions Producer: Michael Levitt Productions and contestant going through to the final. Game Show Enterprises body masterpiece on their own before they are judged by two guest judges. The Next Great Magician features the world’s In the grand live final, the five top magicians best magicians performing their greatest will perform even more astonishing new tricks tricks, many of them for the first time ever on in a battle to win a truly money-can’t-buy prize: television, as they compete to be crowned their own television special. "the next great magician".
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Robot Wars is a knockout competition format throwers and pick axes. Also up against the Duration: 60 minutes to find the toughest, most advanced fighting competitors are the fearsome and charismatic Over 160 episodes produced in the UK Scheduling: Primetime robots in the country. In this high energy house robots whose purpose is to ambush and across 10 seasons. entertainment format suitable for mass family destroy. In each timed round the winning Originating territory: UK audiences recently rebooted for BBC2, each robot is the one which disables its adversary, This cult series has been watched by week, competing teams of amateur robot traps it in a pit or feeds it to the house robots! millions across the globe. Broadcaster: BBC designers build robots to fight to the death in The updated format features back story VT’s "...Most enjoyable hours of television Producer: Mentorn Media and SJP Media a bulletproof arena in front of a live audience. giving viewers a chance to get to know the I have seen this year" Overseen by the hosts of the show and a panel roboteers, allowing the audience to The Daily Telegraph Robot Wars is an exciting and entertaining high of judges, the competitors' robots battle understand how they built their robots and energy primetime format that pits killer robots "Bigger and noisier than ever" against each other using powerful weapons demonstrate how powerful they are. Daily Mail against each other. including pneumatic hammers, blades, flame
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Mechanised sport has finally come of age with Techno Games, a spectacular high tech Olympic-style robot competition format.
Techno Games is a unique national competition from the makers of the cult entertainment format Robot Wars that brings together the best of sport, entertainment and science. In this high tech competition, teams from schools, colleges, universities, businesses and families, as well as individuals with a lust for mechanised sport, must compete against each other with their home made machines, robots and electrical devices. This format is all about Completed programme also available creativity, innovation and technical excellence.
Techno Games is the ultimate "Technology Duration: 30 or 60 minutes Olympics" in which teams design, build and Scheduling: Primetime control machines capable of competing in a number of different sporting events from Originating territory: UK "Swimming", "Cycling", "Shot Put", “Robotic Broadcaster: BBC and Tech TV Sprinting” and “Soccer” to “Rocketry”, "Rope Climb", "Solar Powered Marathon" and the Producer: Mentorn Media “High Jump.” The format Techno Games is the world games of the future. ENTERTAINMENT
X-FIRE
X-Fire (pronounced "Cross-fire") is the ultimate action adventure game show format that combines paintball combat with James Bond-style plots.
X-Fire is a unique game show format that Completed programme also available features a Strike Team consisting of 6 players players must take turns driving. This team armed with paintball markers who attempt Duration: 60 minutes dynamic is what really puts this show over the to complete challenges in simulated Special Scheduling: Primetime top as the interaction between the teams Forces-type raids against similarly-armed provides humour, drama, and high energy. opponents. The contestants play games of Originating territory: US paintball against the show's antagonists in The preliminary rounds of challenges are used Broadcaster: ABC an elaborately inspired world of espionage, to eliminate the first three teams, culminating hi-tech drama and outright combat. The Strike Producer: A. Smith & Co. Productions to the ultimate test which is a timed event Completed programme also available Team has 60 minutes to save the world. where contestants face an automotive Buckle up! Crash Course is an outrageously obstacle course that defies logic, gravity, and Each episode contains three missions that are Duration: 60 minutes funny, high energy, automotive competition sensibility and is one of the most entertaining based around a particular narrative, such as game show format where daring teams of rides of their life. Scheduling: Primetime stopping toxic waste dumping or preventing the drivers put their driving skills to the test and production of counterfeit bank notes. The Special In hopes of winning the grand prize, teammates Originating territory: UK compete in unimaginable stunts to win a Forces is always involved with these evil plots, from the two final teams must work together grand prize. Broadcaster: Channel 4 and thus has to be stopped by the Strike Team. and summon their greatest driving skills to Five teams of two compete against each other conquer and survive the “Crash Course”. Producer: Mentorn Media The teams' actions in the challenges are rewarded eliminating one team per round and then the with credits that allow them to purchase new final two teams battle it out on the elaborate items such as: more paintballs, shields, paint Already produced in the US for ABC “Crash Course” to determine the winner. grenades, stationary shotgun weapons, or they and in Denmark for Kanal 5 & Dplay can also buy back teammates who have been The teams can be comprised of best friends, (Discovery Network). eliminated in previous challenges. siblings, spouses, co-workers, etc. and both
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Completed programme also available family and compete in a series of driving In the format, a group of nominated "worst instructors, motorsport stars, celebrities) who Duration: 60 minutes challenges designed to uncover the nation’s drivers" must each drive their own car (with their judge and provide tips and feedback. worst driver. nominators in the passenger seat) to the Driver Scheduling: Primetime At the end of each episode, the driver who has Rehabilitation Centre following only written They are tested on the streets and then let performed the best across the tasks and who is Originating territory: UK directions. The order of arrival dictates which loose in a series of intimidating obstacle deemed to be the most able driver leaves the contestant competes first in the opening Broadcaster: Channel 5 courses to show the panel of judges that they show. In the final episode of the season, the challenge. Two to three driving challenges are are not the worst driver. The aim is for each three least talented drivers compete in the Producer: Mentorn Media undertaken by each driver (accompanied by their driver to improve their skills throughout toughest challenges in a bid not to be named nominator) which test skill, nerve and reactions. each episode. the country’s worst driver. Worst Driver is a spectacular driving knockout The challenges become harder and more The drivers who improve the most are able to competition format to uncover the nation's hair-raising as the competition continues. leave the show with their head held high, but very worst driver. Alongside their ability to complete each Already produced in 23 territories and the one who just can’t impress the judges is challenge, the competitors’ performances are has over 1000 episodes worldwide! In this primetime reality competition format, voted the nation’s very worst driver! terrible drivers are nominated by friends and assessed by a panel of three judges (driving
18 19 WORLD'S WORST THE GAME World's Worst is a primetime reality competition OF DATING format in the spectacular and hilarious search for people who are the "world's worst" at something. The Game Of Dating is a unique dating format where three teams of friends and family watch Following the global success of the World’s real dates from the comfort of their homes. Worst Driver brand, the possibilities with the format World's Worst are infinite as it offers In each episode, three teams of friends and/or many variations and spin-offs based on the family watch real dates in a hidden camera original format. style from their homes. Throughout the show, the teams offer commentary about the couples World's Worst allows viewers to meet a line-up as they try to figure out the daters’ stories and of unforgettable characters who might not next moves in order to score cash. think they have a problem but who have been nominated by their family, friends or As the dates progress, the teams will participate colleagues as being shockingly bad at one of in game-play with questions such as “How long Completed programme also available Completed programme also available the basic skills of life. has this couple been dating?” or “Who will pay the check?” Each correct answer earns the Duration: 30 or 60 minutes This format puts these people -husbands who Duration: 60 minutes teams increasing amounts and the team with cannot boil an egg, handymen who destroy Scheduling: Primetime Scheduling: Primetime the most money at the end of the episode wins their houses, cooks who burn everything, a grand prize. Welcome to The Game Of Dating. Originating territory: UK etc.- through a series of challenges in a Originating territory: US knockout competition designed to provide Broadcaster: Channel 5 Broadcaster: TV One laughs, tears, and to test relationships, before a Producer: Mentorn Media team of experts confer and crown the winner as Producer: A. Smith & Co. Productions being the "World's Worst" at something.
Already produced in 23 territories and has over 1000 episodes worldwide! ENTERTAINMENT
VOTE FOR ME THE NEWLYWED Vote For Me is the format that combines GAME politics with a talent contest. The fun and entertaining format The In this format, politics meets Idols as viewers Newlywed Game ranges from the hilarious to vote for aspiring politicians who they want the heartfelt as it features couples all willing to represent them. Each episode sees the to reveal their most intimate and at oftentimes candidates go through a series of challenges downright shocking marital quirks! designed to test their abilities as politicians, and then get grilled by a panel of celebrity judges. In each episode, The Newlywed Game pits three newly married couples against each Viewers vote for the candidate they feel is other in a series of revealing question rounds best suited to become a politician and the to determine how well the spouses know or do contestant with the least support is voted off. not know each other. The shortlist is whittled down each night until the grand final when the winning candidate During each round, a spouse attempts to guess Format only Completed programme also available is announced. The winner stands as an his or her mate’s answer to questions about independent candidate at the next election. their relationship, ranging from the innocuous Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 30 minutes to the wildly personal and the couples earn Vote For Me is a unique format that can Scheduling: Primetime Scheduling: Access Primetime points for each correct response. At the end of be stripped daily or weekly, and that offers the game, the couple scoring the most points Originating territory: UK additional revenue streams through voting, Originating territory: US wins very exciting prizes such as: a trip for a multimedia interactivity. Broadcaster: ITV Broadcaster: Game Show Network (GSN) second honeymoon!
Producer: Mentorn Media Producer: Embassy Row
20 21 DIET ON THE THE ULTIMATE DANCEFLOOR SCHOOL MUSICAL
Glamour meets fitness in this distinctive This brilliant format sets a school of ordinary dance format where contestants must lose kids an extraordinary challenge: to become weight by getting on the dance floor and theatre stars in just six weeks. show their best moves. In the fun and entertaining format Ultimate In Diet On The Dance Floor, ten contestants School Musical, a team of showbiz industry have to shape up and get fit through dance. experts are brought together to a school in an With expert tuition, weekly dances, tasks and attempt to transform the students into star eliminations, each contestant will go on a performers with a crash course in all the skills roller-coaster journey to become the champion they will need to produce a musical to a of Diet On The Dance Floor. professional standard.
Paired up with a professional dancer, over Expect stage-fright, crises in confidence, Completed programme also available Format only eight grueling weeks the contestants have to life-changing accomplishments and tears of learn to dance and improve their fitness as joy, as the final performance caps an Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 60 minutes they battle to gain a place in the final dance exhaustive and emotional personal journey Scheduling: Primetime off. They are judged by professional dancers Scheduling: Primetime for everyone involved. and experts who are looking at their dance, Originating territory: UK Originating territory: UK The Ultimate School Musical is a fitness, technical style and panache. packed, heart-warming format event Broadcaster: Sky Living Broadcaster: Sky One Who will waltz away with the Diet On The for a family audience. Producer: Mentorn Media Dance Floor crown? Producer: Mentorn Media ENTERTAINMENT
BEAT THE CHEFS #DANCEBATTLE
A wildly fun cooking show format that pits Inspired by a dance battle on social media ordinary folks against professional chefs. between former Dancing with the Stars dancer Julianne Hough and E! News host A panel of expert food critics will judge and Maria Menounos, #DanceBattle sees groups decide if the amateurs can Beat the Chefs and of families, co-workers and friends compete take home a cash prize. in the ultimate dance battle to see who is Beat The Chefs is filmed in front of a live the best dance group in the country. studio audience. The format invites amateur Teams from across the nation film their teams to bring their favorite recipes and dance routine and submit it via social media. compete against a team of pro chefs, who will Whether hilarious, uplifting or moving, the try to cook a five-star version of the same dish. best teams are picked to compete in the The stage includes two separate kitchens. One studio-based competition. kitchen looks like a standard home kitchen, with typical appliances and tools, dinner Eight teams are chosen to go through a week Completed programme also available Format only table, refrigerator magnets, etc. The other is of training with top choreographers to create a professional restaurant-style kitchen with a routine around a chosen song, and then face Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 30 or 60 minutes industrial appliances and all the high-tech gear off across four rounds of competition. Once Scheduling: Primetime and gadgets of the master chefs. Scheduling: Primetime the battle rounds are completed, the winning team is selected by the studio audience and Originating territory: US But here is the twist: the pros have no idea Originating territory: US crowned #DanceBattle champions. what the home team is cooking, and thus, Broadcaster: Game Show Network (GSN) Broadcaster: ABC what they will have to create, until the dish is Producer: Game Show Enterprises announced live on the show. The chefs then Producer: Magical Elves and RelativityREAL scramble to concoct their own version, on the fly, in the same amount of time that it takes the home cooks to finish theirs.
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Every nation has them: idiots who are firmly Masterminding the whole trip is a comedian Duration: 60 minutes set in their ways and hate to experience new or pair of comedians who revel in the Award nominations for the UK version: Scheduling: Primetime things. The everyman (or woman) who lacks suffering of the idiot as they force him to • Nominated for a BAFTA TV Award any kind of sophistication and has a secluded endure uncomfortable experiences. Inflicting Originating territory: UK for Best Reality and Constructed way of life. maximum humiliation, we document his Factual in 2012. Broadcaster: Sky One idiotic reactions to cultural differences as he In this format, we give one such idiot a big is pushed way out of his comfort zone. • Nominated for a British Comedy Producer: Mentorn Media, RiSK Productions, wake-up call. Each season of An Idiot Abroad Award for Best Comedy and Me & You Productions features a different themed trip that drops our Will he learn from it? Doubtful. Will he enjoy Entertainment Programme in 2011. idiot into a diverse range of experiences, from it? Definitely not, but will we? Absolutely as • Nominated for Broadcasting Press visiting the seven wonders of the world to we send An Idiot Abroad. Guild Award for Best Multichannel ticking off things to do before you die. The original UK version starred Karl Pilkington Programme in 2012. (The Moaning Of Life, Derek), Ricky Gervais • Nominated for a National Television (The Office, Derek), and Stephen Merchant Award for Most Popular Factual (The Office, Logan). Programme in 2012. FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
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Don’t Tell The Doctor is a fresh format which comes to the rescue of a generation who are taking medicine into their own hands.
This edgy and fast-paced format sorts out a huge variety of self-diagnostic misconceptions Completed programme also available while delivering jeopardy packed stories that Visiting various cities around the country, the will have the audience glued to their screens. Duration: 60 minutes doctors are racing against the clock as they With medical services struggling to keep up Scheduling: Primetime attempt to do as many house calls and with 21st century lifestyles, and unable to appointments as they can within a 12-hour shift. Originating territory: UK access the medical advice they need, young Each episode sees the duo take on the 12-hour people are choosing to dodge the doctor Broadcaster: W (UKTV) Completed programme also available challenge, unaware of what symptoms and altogether and are turning to the internet and Producer: Firecracker Films conditions their patients will have until they social media to self-diagnose. Duration: 60 minutes open the front door. A team of four talented young doctors rush to 12 Hours To Cure Your Street follows two Scheduling: Primetime With doctors rarely being able to offer home the rescue of young men and women who have well-known and experienced doctors as they visits to patients, this unique format puts even Originating territory: UK got themselves into serious trouble. Being of travel across the nation in a mobile clinic to the most experienced doctors to the test as the same generation, the young doctors treat individuals in their hometowns. Broadcaster: 5Star they bring professional healthcare to the understand only too well how easy it is to fall nation’s doorstep. Producer: Arrow International Media into dangerous diagnoses and deadly lifestyle copycat behaviour. FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
FREE SPEECH
Free Speech is the first ever interactive live factual entertainment format on TV where viewers are heard... and call the shots!
Each episode of Free Speech centres around a different topic such as: "body image", "drugs" or "sex", hearing varying opinions from the panelists, audience and general viewing public via social media.
Interactivity drives the debate, fuelling the drama and energy of a live event, the panellists and their opinions are rated in real time with eye-catching data visualization, through our patented Twitter voting bar. Twitter feed Completed programme also available updates and Facebook messages are also shown on our innovative live split-screen. Duration: 60 minutes Spiky, opinionated, funny, and outrageous Scheduling: Primetime comments are uploaded, responses are Originating territory: UK provoked, and the debate begins.
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Producer: Mentorn Media
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Mum & There is a phenomenon happening around the Dad globe, a staggering number of couples are moving in with their parents.
The factual entertainment format Hotel Of Mum And Dad looks at this global trend and in each episode, two pairs of young couples are given the chance to change their situations and to live together in a home of their own for a week.
Be it financial, situational or pure laziness, more and more couples are living with their parents, and this can be a struggle for everyone involved. Completed programme also available Each week, Hotel Of Mum And Dad gives two couples a chance to move out of their parents’ Duration: 60 minutes homes and road test living alone in a property Scheduling: Primetime they could afford.
Originating territory: UK Their practical skills, compatibility and relationships are put to the test. They have to budget, shop, Broadcaster: BBC Three cook, clean, entertain and survive for the week on Producer: Mentorn Media their limited budget. We see the humour, tension and emotion as we discover untapped domestic talents they never knew existed or watch as they struggle with even the simplest of domestic tasks. FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT At the end of the week, each couple have to decide whether to stay put or move back in with Mum and Dad. TAKE MY MOTHER-IN-LAW
Would you let your mother-in-law run your life?
In this factual entertainment format, mothers- in-law take charge of their in-laws' families for a week. While their son or daughter moves out, the mother-in-law moves in and is in charge of daily routines: from breakfast to bedtime and everything in between. Completed programme also available
She brings with her five objectives, things that these drag queen Professors give fashion Duration: 60 minutes she wants to change in order to improve family challenged women their famous Diva Makeover, life, and is given some cash to help make these Scheduling: Primetime the Drag U Faculty is teaching the students how changes a reality. But will the family, and to take their new found style and confidence Completed programme also available Originating territory: US especially her son or daughter-in-law, go along and apply it to their everyday routine. with her? Or will they fight her all the way? Broadcaster: Logo and VH1 Duration: 60 minutes After a crash course in the art of being The tantrums, tears and laughter are captured Producer: World of Wonder fabulous, the three contestants are judged by Scheduling: Primetime on camera and in video diaries, all the the Drag U President and guest judges and are Originating territory: UK while the son or daughter has been secretly Drag U is a fun and fabulous factual evaluated on their "Drag Point Average" monitoring events and reflecting on how entertainment format where three real women (DPA): Drag transformation, Performance and Broadcaster: ITV things are going. are given drag makeovers and are taught to Attitude adjustment. Producer: Mentorn Media access their true "Inner Diva". At the end of the week, when the mother-in- The final test is a group performance and a solo law moves out, will the family stick to her new In each episode of Drag U, three women who reveal of their fantasy look in front of a live routine or revert back to their old ways? Has have lost their mojo and no longer take pride in audience that includes their loved ones. The one family life changed for better... or for worse? their appearance attend Drag U(niversity). Helped diva with the highest DPA that wins over the by a team of three drag queen "Professors", the audience then “draguates” with top honors and women undergo an extreme makeover and (re) returns to compete in the Grand Finale Diva discover their true I.D. (Inner Diva). Not only do Homecoming episode of Drag U.
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The Class Next Door is a brilliantly funny and Each episode is driven by the warm and funny This format also shows how the parents cope with Duration: 60 minutes warm factual entertainment format which sees narratives of parents as they endure the daily the politics of the playground and how they Scheduling: Primetime a group of parents being sent back to school routine of school all over again, and reveals create new friendships and hierarchies. It also for one half term. The twist: their kids are in how they compare to their kids next door. invites viewers inside the staffroom to hear the Originating territory: UK the classroom next door. teachers’ insights into their new class and find out Mirroring the school term, each episode Broadcaster: Channel 4 – aired as Class Of who the troublemaker and the teacher’s pet are. Parents discover what being an 11 year old child culminates naturally in an event in which the kids Mum And Dad today really is like, revisit some of the highs and and the parents are required to show what they Producer: Firecracker Films lows of their formative years, and even put the can do: a spelling competition, an art exhibition, Already produced in the UK for odd old demon to rest. Shooting in a real school a sports day, a musical performance, etc. The Channel 4 and in the Netherlands with real teachers, the extra class of parents go events show just how hard the kids work, reveal for NPO1. through the same regime and curriculum as the parents’ talents that they had buried since their children, from school uniforms and sitting school, and bring out their competitive spirit! exams to sex education and detention.
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The factual entertainment format Dad Camp attempts to transform six irresponsible soon-to-be dads into respectable fathers.
Each couple attending Dad Camp has a major problem to solve: while his girlfriend is pregnant, he is not ready or willing to accept the duties of fatherhood. In this docu-reality format, young unprepared fathers-to-be are asked to embrace their looming responsibility as a parent before it is too late.
With their pregnant girlfriends by their sides, the guys move into the same house to face a variety Completed programme also available of tough, progressive lessons in parenting. Some parents love them, others dread them but Completed programme also available Duration: 60 minutes Honesty and maturity is developed in the future playdates are the perfect place for children to fathers by a psychologist and relationship expert spend time with different families and learn Duration: 60 minutes Scheduling: Primetime who accepts nothing less than the truth. about lifestyles, cultures and backgrounds that Scheduling: Primetime Originating territory: UK differ from their own. Seen largely from the kid's Over the course of eight intense episodes, the point of view, each episode follows three Broadcaster: Channel 4 Originating territory: US two experts attempt to guide these children on three playdates from the same town. unprepared men, and their very pregnant Broadcaster: VH1 Producer: Firecracker Films girlfriends, through transformative group From tears and tantrums to forming new friendships, Postcode Playdates is a Producer: 3 Ball Productions therapy sessions, activities, and private Postcode Playdates sees families with children heartwarming, thought-provoking and consultations to get them ready for fatherhood. from the same neighbourhood but across insightful peek into the world of playdates. Ultimately, there is only so much that the experts social, cultural, ethnic and economic divides open their doors to their neighbours’ offspring can do and once the therapy is complete, each FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT for a playdate for the very first time. girlfriend must decide if her relationship is worth saving or if she wants to raise her child alone.
DARING DUOS
Teenagers today spend much of their time on their games consoles playing at adventures, and with their busy modern lives, parents and children spend less and less time together.
Daring Duos takes a parent and their child out of their comfort zones and brings them into real life adventures together where they learn what they are really capable of.
In each episode, a parent and their teenage offspring choose an exciting challenge from the past which the mum or dad has always wanted to try, for example flying a World War 2 plane or becoming captain of a giant Completed programme also available historical sailing ship. They are then given just five days with the experts to learn the practical Duration: 60 minutes skills to enable them to take on their mission. Scheduling: Primetime Daring Duos is a unique format that creates Originating territory: UK entertaining and feel-good television that builds up to an exhilarating climax full of Broadcaster: Channel 5 explosions, period weapons or historical Producer: Mentorn Media machines. Viewers are also invited to learn about the past just as the parent and their son or daughter do.
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Completed programme also available Completed programme also available Duration: 60 minutes Each episode follows what happens to the key Duration: 60 minutes Scheduling: Primetime characters in each club on the other side of the Scheduling: Primetime touchline, their personal stories, including their Originating territory: UK work, family and relationship dramas that they Originating territory: UK Broadcaster: 5Star share with their teammates. Viewers get access Broadcaster: UKTV to an intimate and emotionally charged world, Producer: Firecracker Films witnessing how team mates of all ages interact Producer: STV Productions and in the heat of the moment - their shared Motion Content Group What happens when eight badly-behaved teens histories and in-jokes, their reliance on each with a collective track record of everything from other, their personal grudges, even their latest arson to battery are thrust into the disciplined In the format The Dressing Room, the real relationship dramas. world of ballroom dancing? drama is off the pitch.
In this format, we follow the jaw-dropping The Dressing Room is a fixed-rig reality Already produced in the UK, Norway, transformation of a group of unruly youngsters entertainment format that invites the viewer Sweden and the Netherlands. into disciplined, competitive ballroom dancers. into the hidden world of dressing rooms of The teens will be given a crash course in amateur sports teams across the entire country, ballroom dancing over a period of 30 days. showing all of the off-field drama and focusing Under the watchful eye of Ballroom dancing on dynamic characters with fascinating lives. instructors, boys and girls who have never met The format The Dressing Room follows the before must form a couple and learn to work natural structure of a sporting event, with a together culminating in taking part in a big beginning, middle and end, and all the emotion national competition. that comes with being part of a team: the Follow the shocking but lovable cast of rogue pre-match nerves and adrenaline, the instant teens as they not only learn the brutal disciplines half-time reactions, arguments and motivational of ballroom dancing, but go on an epic journey speeches, as well as the post-match euphoria of that will transform their lives forever. victory and the bitter taste of defeat.
36 37 MAKE ME A BABY
Make Me A Baby is a ground-breaking format that follows 100 couples who desperately want to conceive on their journey to debunk the myths, unravel the science, and present the latest and most reliable advice for making babies.
In the first episode, we meet 100 couples from across the country in a studio event. Using fun experiments, we test various beliefs and investigate how frequency of sex, age and body mass index affect their chances of conceiving. The episode ends by conducting a pregnancy Completed programme also available test on all of the prospective mothers to be. Avoiding years of pain the format delivers real Duration: 60 minutes The following episodes follow many of the insight into the breakdown of a relationship, Completed programme also available couples for the next nine months, covering all Scheduling: Primetime the issues of who gets what, and how the team the stages of pregnancy. of lawyers and experts navigate the couple to Duration: 60 minutes Originating territory: US a positive end. Shot over the course of a year, this ultimate Scheduling: Primetime Producer: A. Smith & Co. Productions human drama blends compelling and Each episode is self-contained with one couple, Originating territory: UK entertaining studio events with powerful reality one weekend and one outcome, with the Divorce Hotel is a factual entertainment format storytelling. A panel of fertility and relationship couple able to make a positive new start. Broadcaster: BBC Three experts is there to guide each couple through where estranged couples who have been Producer: Mentorn Media the highly emotional and physically demanding unable to resolve their divorce, check into a Already produced in the Netherlands, process to increase their chances of conceiving. luxury hotel and check out 48 hours later divorced and ready for a positive new start. Sweden, and Denmark.
Through home videos, wedding footage and Ratings highlights for RTL4 in the Already produced in the UK, Germany, FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT Netherlands: Denmark, Israel, and the Netherlands. interviews with friends, family and the couple themselves, we learn their story, discover how • Final episode was the primetime they met and fell in love, and we see the lives winner, being the most watched they have created, where they live, and what show by 20-49 year olds. they own. Then, we learn how it all went wrong. • Ratings increase week-on-week, MOST IDENTICAL A dedicated team of attorneys, counsellors, with a 23% viewer rise. and mediators condense the normally • Market share within the target The unique factual entertainment format lengthy and expensive divorce process into group (20-49 y/o) increased by 5.9% Most Identical wants to find out if "two can a whirlwind weekend packed full of across the series. really be one". emotional ups and downs. • The total target share peaked at 23.2%. In a nationwide search to find the two that are • #1 trending topic on Twitter during most identical, 100 sets of twins are selected the premiere episode. and put through a series of entertaining, challenging and scientifically demanding tests. • Rated as one of the top 5 shows in the Netherlands. Leading experts analyse and judge the contestant reactions from simple physical comparisons to more complex reactive intellectual and personality tests. Most Identical concludes with the ultimate masquerade: a real life identity swap. Will family and friends notice Completed programme also available the difference or can two really be one?
Duration: 60 or 90 minutes
Scheduling: Primetime A proven success format all around the world with local versions in the UK, US, Originating territory: UK Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and in the Netherlands. Broadcaster: BBC
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Are we masterminds, peacemakers, leaders or realists? The factual entertainment format Personality Test offers viewers to find out what personality tests really tell us about ourselves.
Does personality explain why some people are always late, some a bit unkempt and others perennially going from one new look to another? Does personality explain why some friends always seem to make friends with strangers and others can seem a little aloof until you get to know them? Completed programme also available In Personality Test, the tests and the testers themselves are put under the microscope. Duration: 60 or 90 minutes How accurate are they? Can a psychologist Scheduling: Primetime who has never met us tell us who we really are? This factual entertainment programme Originating territory: UK is entertaining, but with a healthy dose Broadcaster: BBC of skepticism.
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THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS Completed programme also available As the trainees’ raw intelligence, powers of Are the secrets to a celebrity's success buried Duration: 60 minutes persuasion and talent for concealment are in childhood artifacts like a love letter, an art Scheduling: Primetime put under the microscope, the ex-spies project, or a prom photo? (known as Control) judge who has the Originating territory: UK The Mortified Sessions attempts to find character, wit, and confidence needed to out by asking the nation's most fascinating Broadcaster: Channel 4 make it through to the end. celebrities to dig up their most mortifying Producer: Motion Content Group As the course progresses, any "James Bond" childhood letters, lyrics, poems, and photos, and Minnow Films illusions are shattered as only the most and allow the audience to experience a new adaptable and capable survive. The trainees side of fame, as well as some secrets never Spies is a multi-layered, cross-genre format, are forced to find strength and abilities that revealed before. marrying compelling storytelling with cinematic they did not even know they possessed, whilst This unique factual entertainment format production values and combining genuine being watched 24/7 by Control. Completed programme also available provides a totally new take on the celebrity journalistic revelation with the bold format This experimental, fixed-rig footage is biography with the ability to reveal childhood points of a factual entertainment show. It is Duration: 30 minutes combined with cinematically shot secrets that went on to shape their future. original, timely and dramatic television. observational camerawork, including drones Scheduling: Primetime It gives viewers a brand new perspective on Every day, Secret Intelligence Services are and hidden cameras, to create a modern, celebrity with a conversation that is intimate, Originating territory: US fighting an invisible war against a host of noir-ish tone. The result of this format is a revealing, and unexpected. series that combines the visual flair of an Broadcaster: SundanceTV hidden threats. In this factual format, three The Mortified Sessions offers a unique insight former spies are putting a diverse group of espionage thriller with emotional storytelling. Producer: Critical Content and RelativityREAL into the journey of star from child to adult, and men and women to the test to see if they have In a first for television, the format Spies takes the poignant moments in their early lives that the skills and qualities required for that battle. viewers deep inside the experience of working had a direct impact on who they are today. Spies sees them go through a series of for Intelligence Services. Their intimate and intense, ultimately inspiring psychological remarkably candid interviews add a layer of experiments run by people who have been unprecedented insight into the shadowy through the real thing. realities of 21st Century Spying.
40 41 ALL ON THE LINE THE CUSTOMER IS In the factual entertainment format All On The ALWAYS RIGHT? Line, a well-known and media friendly fashion expert helps struggling designers save their In The Customer Is Always Right?, major clothing lines from ruin. brands invite customers inside their companies and listen to their feedback and ideas before In each episode of All On The Line, a struggling putting them in charge to see if they have designer has hit a roadblock in their fashion what it takes to save the company. career. Once famous for an item worn on the red carpet it could mean the end of the line for In each episode, a struggling, nation-wide their careers if they can’t turn things around. brand invites a group of long-time customers to a focus group. From behind a two-way mirror, The fashion expert steps in during this crisis executives from the company watch, forced to and works with the designers to unlock their listen to everything their loyal customers think true potential and re-ignite their passion for they are doing wrong, before the company the fashion industry as they prepare to present Completed programme also available Completed programme also available head makes a surprise appearance to the group their new revitalised line to a notable retail and hire two of the customers. buyer who can make or break their dreams Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 60 minutes with an order. For one week, the two selected customers have Scheduling: Primetime Scheduling: Primetime the unique opportunity to address their biggest issues with their favourite brands. Working Originating territory: US Originating territory: US alongside the company’s employees, together Broadcaster: Sundance Channel Broadcaster: OWN they strive to improve the bottom line, because when a brand does well, people not only stay Producer: Sundance Channel and Producer: Katalyst Productions and employed, they prosper. Authentic Entertainment NorthSouth Productions In the end, the changes they make are shown to a final focus group of customers. If they like FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT the changes, the two customers each win a cash prize and viewers therefore find out whether or not The Customer Is Always Right?
SAVE OUR COOKS TO BUSINESS MARKET
Starting, building and maintaining a business Two teams of amateur chefs compete to turn is always a tough proposition, but in today’s their delicious home-made food into a life economic climate, it is more difficult than ever. changing business opportunity.
Thousands of small businesses are struggling, First, the passionate cooks need to cook their filing for bankruptcy and in too many cases, products on a massive scale. Then they have to shutting their doors forever. In the factual sell their creations at very busy venues of the city. entertainment format Save Our Business, The team with the most profit wins the chance a business expert answers the call of failing of a lifetime: to pitch to a panel of experts businesses with the goal of transforming them with the power and money to set them up and from money-pit to money-maker. invest in their business. Using hidden cameras, secret shoppers, and Completed programme also available Completed programme also available But have they got what it takes? And can employee interventions, no stone is unturned their product become the next big and no method left unused to get to the Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 60 minutes supermarket brand? bottom of these failing businesses in order to Scheduling: Primetime discover and address the issues. Scheduling: Primetime Additional opportunities to share in the revenue from any of the products put into mass Originating territory: US Based on the expert's observations, he works Originating territory: UK production and placed in stores are also available. with the owners to devise a plan to save the Broadcaster: TNT Broadcaster: Sky Living business. With just a few days to pull off Producer: A. Smith & Co. Productions the near-impossible, it is a race against the Producer: Splash Media constantly-ticking clock to accomplish all that must be done.
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Each episode is dedicated to a specific theme Duration: Short form or subject. Scheduling: N/A The original UK version of Things Not to Say Originating territory: UK includes episodes about things not to say to people with Down's Syndrome, people with Broadcaster: BBC Three tattoos, gingers, dog owners, Scottish people, people with autism, schizophrenics, people Producer: Mentorn Media with facial disfigurement, young black men, people with dyslexia, hairy women, short Things Not To Say is a warm and lighthearted people, people with acne, people living with short form format designed to overcome vitiligo, people with HIV, bald people, and misconceptions and stereotypes, in which women wearing burkas. young people speak about issues they face in everyday life.
In each episode of Things Not To Say, a group Already produced in the UK for BBC of diverse people must answer hard questions Three and in Denmark for the online in a way that is both informative and funny. channel TV 2 ECHO.
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Quiz Nights is the ultimate ob-doc meets quiz show hybrid format as it combines the play along fun of a quiz show with the watch-ability of real, funny and relatable characters competing in a real-world setting.
Each standalone episode of Quiz Nights features four teams in four different pubs while they are all playing the same quiz at the same time. The teams are lovable, hilarious characters that the audience will want to get behind.
Across four rounds, the teams are awarded points for correct answers from a range of topics. At the end of each episode a winner is Completed programme also available declared and crowned champion! But it is not the winning or even the taking part that Duration: 60 minutes Completed programme also available count, Quiz Nights is the quiz format all about The suitors then take a personality test to see Scheduling: Primetime the laughs! Duration: 30 minutes how compatible they are with the dater, Originating territory: UK Filmed using fixed-rig camera technology, this Scheduling: Daytime especially in the subjects of lifestyle, money, and gameshow format captures quiz action in a sex. The dater asks the suitors questions which Broadcaster: Sky One Originating territory: US new way and is adaptable to different cultures they must answer while hooked up to a lie Producer: Firecracker Films and situations. Broadcaster: Game Show Network detector. The dater is also shown what the future will hold with each of the suitors, including their Producer: 3 Ball Productions financial situation and for example how they would look like in 15 years or what their child Love Triangle is a dating themed game show-talk might look like using an aging software. show crossover format in which people caught in a real-life love triangle must decide which In addition to his or her own thoughts from prior GAMESHOW partner they want to build a future with. to the show, these tests offer to the dater all of the information he or she should need in order The format Love Triangle focuses on a single to eliminate one of the suitors. At the end of dater who is involved in a romantic relationship each episode, the dater and the suitor who has TODAY'S THE DAY with two suitors often having vastly different been chosen win a vacation as a grand prize. Today's The Day is a unique archive-based quiz lifestyles and personalities. Each episode begins show format that tests contestants' knowledge by discussing secrets of each of the suitors' past. of anything and everything that happened on the day of transmission in previous years.
In this format, teams of two contestants each must compete to answer several rounds of questions that are all about events that had taken place in past years on the episode's broadcast date, such as: news, major historical events, and entertainment or showbiz gossips
In the fun and entertaining format Today's The Day, the teams can remain on the show for a maximum of five days before retiring Format only undefeated. At the end of each season the teams with the highest final scores are invited Duration: 30 or 60 minutes to come back to the competition to compete in Scheduling: Daytime a final knockout tournament. All contestants who appear on the show receive a newspaper Originating territory: UK that has printed on the day they were born. Broadcaster: BBC Two
Producer: Mentorn Media Today's The Day gained a massive 33% audience in the UK.
Over 1000 episodes produced worldwide!
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rounds to put their emoji-solving skills to the Duration: 30 or 60 minutes test. First they have to decode a series of pop Scheduling: Primetime culture inspired messages. Next, they send each other strings of emojis in the hope that their Originating territory: US partner can guess the message. Broadcaster: Game Show Network Finally, only one team will advance to the Producer: Game Show Enterprises bonus round, where they trade off sending and guessing rapid fire emoji messages for a chance Emogenius is a play-along half-hour game show to win a huge cash prize. format that uniquely taps into the massive popularity of text messaging and emojis. Already produced for GSN in the US In this format, each episode features two pairs and for Al Aan TV in North Africa and of contestants who face off through a series of Middle East.
US Ratings Highlights: • The series had a strong premiere outperforming the year-to-date time period average +25% among the target demographic of W18-49. LIFESTYLE
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Hosted by a design and property expert, Duration: 30 minutes Where To I Do? takes engaged couples on a The series has absolutely outperformed Gusto’s expectations and has been Scheduling: Primetime tour of three completely unique spaces, where recommissioned for a second season. their fantasy wedding could take place Originating territory: Canada • The series is a hit with the key 25-54 • The most-watched episode (episode 5), Whether it is a medieval castle, a rustic country target, it almost doubled the channel's drew nearly 3 times the audience of Broadcaster: Gusto barn, or a chic rooftop bar, the expert presents primetime average with A25-54 (95% the premiere. the best options in order to help the couple Producer: Bell Media Studios and higher), and more than doubled with lock down this key detail for their dream day. • Where To I Do? is a huge success for Motion Content Group F25-54 (123% higher). Gusto and is highly contributing to the Each space is then brought to life in a channel's growth. state-of-the-art glossy 3D graphic that the host Where To I Do? is the ultimate property reveals to the couple to help them decide, but makeover meets wedding format that focuses everyone else will have to wait until the on the three most important wedding decisions wedding day for the big reveal. couples make: location, location, location! LIFESTYLE
52 53 THE STARTING OVER ARRANGEMENT Starting Over is the inspirational career make-over format where participants take up In The Arrangement, flower arranging gets the challenge to change their lives forever. ugly as ten designers compete to prove that In this lifestyle format, the trials and triumphs of they are the nation's best floral designer. carving a new career path becomes an exciting Flowers are supposed to bring joy to life and journey to a new life for eight brave people. help relieve stress, but tell that to the ten Guided by a team of experts, including a life cutthroat professionals featured in this lifestyle coach and a stylist, the participants will clarify meets reality competition format as they must their goals, overcome their fears and achieve battle it out to prove that they are the new challenges, casting off the personal and country's best floral designer. The fun and professional obstacles preventing them from exciting format showcases the amazing skills of truly Starting Over. accomplished floral designers, each with their Completed programme also available own story, skills, and unique point-of-view. Completed programme also available
Putting the petal to the metal, each week the Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 30 or 60 minutes designers are being assigned two challenges Scheduling: Primetime designed to not only push the creative Scheduling: Primetime sensibilities of these bouquet builders to the Originating territory: US Originating territory: New Zealand extreme, but also to test their ability to Broadcaster: Logo improvise with whatever materials are at hand. Broadcaster: Sky Television New Zealand
Producer: World of Wonder The tension builds up in each episode as Producer: Top Shelf Productions prospective finalists are nipped in the bud, one by one, by a panel of floral design experts and celebrity guests, until only a single designer remains and is named the nation's "Best Floral Designer". LIFESTYLE
WINDOW DIETTRIBE WARRIORS 120 Days, 5 Friends, 1 Journey. The stakes are high in the unique lifestyle The worlds of art and commerce collide in the format DietTribe as five friends embark on a fun format Window Warriors. weight-loss journey. A fitness trainer and a This unique lifestyle format sees eight of licensed psychotherapist also take part in the the most talented window merchandising journey as the two experts guide the group of designers compete to build elaborate displays friends through the entire weight-loss process. and earn the approval of a panel of three The experts challenge the group to lose celebrity judges. between 35 and 50 pounds during the process. In each episode, the contestants are given a The five friends are also given the shock of design theme and materials that correlate with their lives when they learn that they must one major retail brand. Festive, luxurious, and complete a triathlon at the close of their four- shockingly unexpected, these artists must push month effort. At home the participants share Completed programme also available Completed programme also available their creativity to the limit in order to stay in their worst moments with their video diaries the game and win the grand prize. set up to catch them cheating along the way. Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 60 minutes But the greatest thing of all is the support When artistic abilities and design skills are put Scheduling: Primetime Scheduling: Primetime they give each other as they embark on an to the test, who will come out on top? emotional roller-coaster. Originating territory: US Originating territory: US DietTribe is a unique format that shows how Broadcaster: Game Show Network Broadcaster: Lifetime Television weight affects groups of friends but also that Producer: Michael Levitt Productions Producer: Pie Town Productions losing weight does not always have to be a lonely experience.
54 55 THE 100 MILE THE 100 THING CHALLENGE CHALLENGE
Based on the best-selling book "The 100 Mile (Also known as Consumed). Diet: A Year of Local Eating" by James In this lifestyle and extreme home experiment MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, the lifestyle format, families must survive for 30 days with format The 100 Mile Challenge is part reality, only the bare essentials. They must choose the part documentary, part social experiment. 100 things that mean the most to them while It follows six families who accept the challenge the rest goes into store. to eat only food produced within a 100-mile An emotional and cleansing experience, this (160 km) radius of their homes for 100 days. format provides a fascinating insight into what Each episode documents the progress really matters to people and the relationship chronologically, revealing the ups and downs with their possessions. The process is tough, and downright creativity of ordinary citizens as but ultimately hugely liberating, resulting in Completed programme also available they try to cook full meals from just local Completed programme also available a simpler, clutter-free life. The 100 Thing ingredients. The format also draws attention to Challenge is a way for participants of Duration: 60 minutes what average families eat and exactly how far Duration: 60 minutes asserting control over their life. food travels to reach their plates. Scheduling: Daytime Scheduling: Daytime Along the way, there may be anger, tears, When participation in the challenge begins to Originating territory: Canada Originating territory: Canada laughter and even joy, and at the end of each trigger a shift in family dynamics, can these episode a huge decision must be made as the Broadcaster: The Food Network families really change their relationship with Broadcaster: HGTV Canada participants must decide if they want to take food and will they stick to the diet for 100 days? Producer: Paperny Entertainment Producer: Paperny Entertainment back, trash, or sell, their stored possessions. Two experts are also part of this experience as they guide and impart their knowledge and their own experiences. LIFESTYLE
SUPER SAVER TRASH TO CASH SHOWDOWN Clear out the clutter for a mountain of money! In Trash To Cash, a team of experts helps a Super Saver Showdown is a unique lifestyle family to recycle, refurbish and repair the junk format featuring two obsessed bargain hunters in their home in order to raise money and make competing to see whose coupon clipping, super their dreams come true. saving, and DIY skills are the best. In this unique lifestyle format, each episode In each episode of Super Saver Showdown, two sees a team of experts take to the home of bargain hunters pit against each other to see one hoarding family to help them de-clutter, who can save the most money by collecting and radically transform their living space, and coupons, finding sales and using their DIY skills. salvage some serious cash from things that they might have been tempted to dump. Half of the In addition to playing for themselves, the money they raise is then dedicated to a personal "super savers" are playing for families looking family project and the other half is donated to a to throw lavish events on small budgets. Completed programme also available Completed programme also available good cause of their choice. In the first round, the savers are paired with a Each episode of Trash To Cash culminates with Duration: 60 minutes member of their family and have $100 and 20 Duration: 60 minutes a house sale which is open to the public. And minutes with which to shop for food essentials Scheduling: Daytime Scheduling: Daytime when the money has been made, it is then time for the party. The contestants share their for the family to decide what to spend it on… Originating territory: US savings tips and DIY tricks with the families as Originating territory: UK and which worthy cause gets to benefit too. they race against the clock. The saver who wins Broadcaster: OWN Broadcaster: BBC that round, and the family he or she is playing Producer: Glassman Media and OWN: for, gets a week of free groceries. Producer: Reef Television Oprah Winfrey Network In the second round, the savers have 48 hours and an additional $100 to finish planning the parties. At the end of the game, the contestants are judged on the savings and styles of the parties to determine the winner, who then takes home a cash prize.
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In Dealers: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, antique experts compete by visiting flea markets, auctions and antiques markets to see who can resell and make most profits.
In this entertaining format, two antique-dealing experts go head-to-head over a series of five challenges to see who can make the most profit Completed programme also available from buying and selling antiques and collectibles, all of which are then donated to Duration: 60 minutes the charities of their choice.
Scheduling: Daytime Stripped across a week, the top consumer experts go to a different buying location each Originating territory: UK day, whether it is an auction house, a flea Broadcaster: BBC One market, a foreign antiques market or a UK antiques fair. They must then sell their Producer: Reef Television purchases for as much money as possible.
The 6th highest rating daytime show of 2014 (Broadcast Magazine) LIFESTYLE
RESTORATION ROADSHOW
In this unique lifestyle format, an antiques expert and a talented team of antiques restorers invite members of the public to a "roadshow" set within the grounds of beautiful stately homes. Completed programme also available In Restoration Roadshow, the public brings along For some the truth is hard to hear, and the their damaged heirlooms and attic treasures in Duration: 60 minutes advice and their rivals’ comments are not the hope that they can be restored. Items are Scheduling: Daytime always welcome, especially when it is so close appraised and valued before restoration and to home. But with budgets tight and time viewers discover the back story and history of the Originating territory: UK short, the pressure is on to make the most item. We also learn what motivates the owner to Broadcaster: Channel 4 impact with their makeovers. Completed programme also available have the items returned to their former glory. Producer: Reef Television This unique format is about style, taste and Across the episodes, the restorers set to work Duration: 30 minutes more importantly, it is about Selling Houses. and viewers learn many of the tricks of the Scheduling: Daytime trade about caring for antiques and they see The property and lifestyle format Selling the highly skilled forensic process involved in Houses follows three homeowners, desperate Originating territory: UK restoring damaged items. As a side story, we to sell get the chance to snoop around each Broadcaster: BBC Two also find out about a major restoration that has other’s houses before going head-to-head in competition to tempt one buyer. Producer: Transparent Television been going on at the stately location. Finally, the restored pieces are revealed to their Having sized up their rivals’ properties they owners who decide whether they want to keep then get one week, one thousand pounds and them or sell them at auction. The idea being top-notch advice from a well-known property that the antiques which go to auction will expert on how to improve their homes, before hopefully make a bigger profit than they would a buyer comes round to select their favourite, have made from being sold damaged. and ultimately make a purchase.
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two to find the chosen vehicle. But along the Duration: 60 minutes way, the couple of experts cannot help but pick Scheduling: Daytime up the odd other item to restore too. They then embark on the restoration while taking Originating territory: UK time to reflect on the history of the vehicle. Broadcaster: More4 For the challenge, whether it is traversing the Producer: HCA Entertainment and Yeti Media undulating hills of Wales on a Russian Military sidecar, thrashing round the banking at the In the format Find It, Fix It, Drive It, two legendary Brooklands race track in their 1928 infamous automotive restorers set out to Wolseley racer, or riding the American dream locate, buy, restore, and ultimately use an on their 70’s chopper, the restorers strive to iconic vehicle for a challenge that it was complete the challenge that they have set originally designed for. out to fulfil.
From a WWII side car outfit to a 1946 American Each episode of Find It, Fix It, Drive It is self-contained, offering an in depth, often pick up, a vintage race transporter, a 70’s LIFESTYLE chopper, a 50’s tractor, or a 1928 boat tail satirical and quintessentially journey into the Wolseley racer, the possibilities of vehicles that fascinating world of discovering, restoring can be featured are limitless. Each episode and most importantly using some iconic Completed programme also available starts with a good rummage around a shed or vintage vehicles. “picks” away to see what can be done to Duration: 60 minutes restore and upcycle them in order to increase Scheduling: Daytime their value.
Originating territory: UK The restored items are then shown to the delighted owners before the price the experts Broadcaster: Channel 4 got or a value puts on them is revealed. Producer: HCA Entertainment and Yeti Media
Winner of a RTS Daytime Programme In this property and lifestyle format, a couple Award in 2017. of experts travel around the country in search of unwanted possessions they can transform into desirable and valuable new items, raising money for their owners.
Every episode starts with the two presenters being invited into two barn owner’s properties. The two experts pick several items while they explain their history and potential value.
From rusty motorbikes to tarnished tea pots, valuable medals, stopped clocks, discarded garden ornaments and 20th centenary collectables, the experts take their selected
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In the format, viewers will follow Derek and his Duration: 30 or 60 minutes eclectic group of friends as they band together Scheduling: Primetime to save the home from closure by any means, whether it is putting on a hilariously dreadful Originating territory: UK cabaret night, or speaking from the heart in Broadcaster: Channel 4 moments of pure poignancy.
Producer: Derek Productions The original UK version starred Ricky Gervais (The Office, An Idiot Abroad) as "Derek", Karl The scripted format Derek offers a Pilkington (An Idiot Abroad) as "Dougie", David mockumentary-style comedy drama Earl (Cemetery Junction) as "Kev", and Kerry that follows a quirky group of nursing Godliman (Mascots) as "Hannah". home workers.
At the group's core is Derek Noakes, a tender, Award nominations for the UK version: innocent man who loves animals, game shows, • Ricky Gervais nominated for a Golden and autograph hunting (though he can not Globe Award for Best performance remember who most of them belong to). by an Actor in a Television series, Derek takes great pleasure in messing around Comedy or Musical in 2014. with mopey caretaker, Dougie, and his • Nominated for a Primetime Emmy unemployed, slobbish friend, Kev. Meanwhile Award for Outstanding Lead Actor
the home's dedicated manager Hannah has a in a Limited series or Movie in 2015. SCRIPTED great affection for Derek's sweet selflessness • Nominated for a Primetime Emmy but has a woefully unlucky love life. Award for Oustanding Lead Actor in Completed programme also available a Comedy series in 2014. Derek's love for the people he cares for, and Already produced in the UK and in the US! who care for him, is evident in everything • Nominated for a OFTA Television Duration: 60 minutes "Shock Treatment, Edgy 999 comedy is he does. Vulnerable to ridicule due to his Award for Best Actor in a Motion Scheduling: Primetime not for the faint-hearted" (The Sun) child-like naivety and social awkwardness, his Picture or Miniseries in 2012. friends are always on hand to support him. Originating territory: UK "Sirens does well at focusing on the serious problems of everyday life on and Broadcaster: Channel 4 off shift, with a lot of knob gags, bare bums and OMG cringes" (The Guardian) Producer: Daybreak Pictures The UK version of Sirens was Sirens is a darkly comedic drama format nominated for a GLAAD Media Award exploring love, friendship, sex and the for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2015. meaning of life from the jaded perspective of a team of paramedics.
For our three paramedic heroes, death makes you horny, optimism is biologically induced, and love is just an imbalance in your brain chemistry. With a warped sense of humour and the inability to hold down relationships, in this unique format inspired by Tom Reynolds’ book "Blood, Sweat and Tea", the characters find the mysterious complexities of the human species easy to decipher.
The question is: once they have finished saving other people's lives, will they be able to salvage their own?
The characters from Sirens are defined and developed with very clear personality traits. The scripts are easily edited making this format adaptable for all markets and territories.
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irrevocably shifted as he witnesses his wife’s Duration: 60 minutes political career soar. In his desperation to cling Scheduling: Primetime to power, he risks destroying everything he holds most dear. Originating territory: UK This is a unique primetime format that will keep Broadcaster: BBC Two audiences on the edge of their seats. Producer: Daybreak Pictures The original UK version starred David Tennant (Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Broadchurch) as The Politician's Husband is a gripping scripted "Aiden Hoynes", and Bafta award winning drama format that explores what happens in a actress Emily Watson (War Horse, The Theory Of political marriage when the wife becomes Everything, Apple Tree Yard) as "Freya Gardner". more successful than her husband.
A senior politician, is happily married to a A US version is currently in development. junior politician who has consistently put her own career ambitions on hold for the sake of Emily Watson won a Golden FIPA at the her husband’s career and their family. When his Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming for her role career path to the top comes to an abrupt halt, SCRIPTED as "Freya Gardner" in a fiction. the power balance within his marriage is
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