Show of the week


Show of the week: Are You the One?

A glut of new dating formats launched at MIPTV, and at first glance Are You the One? looks like another to add to the list. Not so, according to Caroline Beaton, senior VP, international programme sales, Viacom International Media Networks. “It’s not a dating show, it’s a social experiment about love,” she says. “I don’t […]

Show of the week: Dropped

The show: Dropped The producer: Mastiff Sweden The distributor: Zodiak Rights The broadcaster: TV4 (Sweden) Format: 1x60mins/1x90mins Concept: Back to basics reality-adventure format Joel Karsberg, chief creative officer of Zodiak Nordic, says Dropped came out of a desire to simplify the often over-thought world of reality TV – and specifically to bring a more authentic […]

Show of the Week: The Sixties

To call the US in the 1960s a broad canvas is an understatement. The decade that ended the global view of America from the white picket fences of the post-War era encompassed so many seminal moments that single docs on the subject often don’t cut muster. That’s part of the reason Jeff Zucker and his […]

Show of the week: Turn

There are several spy dramas in TV land at the moment but Turn is the only one set during the US Revolutionary War. The show is based upon the Alexander Rose novel Washington’s Spies: America’s First Spy Ring. In the story, Abe (Jamie Bell) is a farmer living in Long Island who with his friends […]

MIPTV Hot Pick: Game of Chefs

With a whole heap of competition reality series adopting a much lighter, supportive tone than shows of the past, ITV Studios Global Entertainment is placing a bet on Game of Chefs, a series that will sit in the heart of that canon. “The original title was Mentor Chefs; it’s warmer and more nurturing [than many […]

Show of the week: Close Up Kings

Close Up Kings is a street magic meets travelogue series bowing on Discovery’s international networks. The show came about after producer Zig Zag was working on a US pilot for another magic series, Troy (now on Channel 4 in the UK). The Close Up Kings – Magic Balay, Loki and Johnny Blaze – are a […]

Show of the week: Klondike

Klondike was Discovery Channel’s first move into drama and is distributed internationally by Entertainment One. Discovery has had a lot of success with unscripted shows about gold and gold digging such as Gold Rush, but this will be the channel’s first original scripted series. Based on the Charlotte Gray novel Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich […]

Show of the Week: The Link

Based on a board game created by game designers Tristan Hyatt-Williams, Ben Drummond and Dean Tempest – collectively Linkee – The Link is a 25-episode access prime gameshow series for BBC One in the UK in which contestants answer questions, which, each round, add up to create the answer to a larger question. Warner Bros. International […]

Show of the week: The Game

Having created and written supernatural successful youth drama Being Human, Toby Whithouse may have been expected to stick to the world of werewolves, ghosts and vampires. What he actually did is make The Game, a Cold War spy series for a mainstream audience. “Toby is a big name as a writer/creator and the BBC were […]

Show of the week: Road to Revolution

Road to Revolution is a multiplatform project that tells the stories of the families and individuals affected by the demonstrations and uprisings that, starting in 2010, swept the Arab World and became collectively known as the Arab Spring. The brainchild of a trio of Portuguese journalists – Tiago Carrasco, Joầo Henriques and Joầo Fontes – […]

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