NBCUniversal streamer Peacock has ordered a second season of psychological adventure format The Traitors, less than a month after the show’s launch. Based on the Dutch series De Verraders, the first season of the US adaptation launched on 12 January and saw 20 contestants come together to complete a series of challenges with the objective […]
BBC Scotland doc tackles ‘Ice Cream Wars’ BBC Scotland has commissioned indie Two Rivers Media to produce a series about a vicious gang war that tore through the tough housing estates of Glasgow in the early 1980s. The Ice Cream Wars (2 x 60-minutes) will use archive, first-hand testimony and high-end dramatic reconstruction to tell […]
Netflix is ramping up its Korean output with a new horror series and has confirmed a survival reality commission from Studio Lambert and Raw TV. : The Grey is being adapted from Hitoshi Iwaaki’s eponymous manga comic and has Hellbound’s Yeon Sang-ho attached to direct and write. The live-action series, which is being produced by […]
Channel 4 (C4) in the UK has commissioned a local version of History Channel’s survival show Alone and a new social experiment format from The Circle prodco, Studio Lambert, among a swathe of new programming. ITV Studios-owned The Garden will make the first UK version of Alone, which will see ten contestants dropped into the remote Northern […]
Welsh pubcaster S4C has commissioned new ob-doc series More Than Daffs And Taffs and announced it is open to producer tenders for a local language version of reality format Gogglebox. Carlam Ltd will produce the 6 x 30minute More Than Daffs And Taffs (working title), which will follow reality TV stars, each with their own connection to […]
US network NBC has ordered a local version of Talpa’s new reality adventure format Million Dollar Island. All3Media-backed Studio Lambert will produce this adaptation of the Dutch series, after partnering with Jon De Mol’s Talpa in January to take the format into both the US and the UK. Million Dollar Island is a high-stakes social […]
ITV Studios (ITVS) has hired Studio Lambert exec Julie Clark to lead production for its UK-based drama labels. Clark becomes director of production for ITVS’s UK labels and will work across Happy Prince, Jeff Pope’s Factual Drama brand and Patrick Spence’s scripted studio, home to recently launched 5 Acts. Her remit also covers Tall Story […]
Format industry heavyweights Stephen Lambert and John De Mol have struck a deal to take the latter’s Million Dollar Island show into the US and the UK. The adventure reality format, which has been created by De Mol’s Talpa, will be produced in the US and the UK by Lambert’s All3Media-backed firm Studio Lambert. Both […]
The UK’s BBC and NBCUniversal (NBCU) in the US have followed their recent unscripted format pact by announcing a double commission of Dutch psychological adventure format The Traitors. The UK show has been ordered by Kate Phillips, director of BBC Entertainment, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, while Jenny Groom, EVP of entertainment unscripted content […]
ITV orders Mercurio drama ITV in the UK has ordered crime thriller DI Ray, which has been written and created by Maya Sondhi (Line Of Duty), stars Parminder Nagra, and is being produced by Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television. The four-parter is set in Birmingham, UK and follows a police officer who takes on a case […]
