This Time Next Year


Twofour strikes European sales for What Would Your Kid Do?

Twofour Rights has sold ITV’s What Would Your Kid Do? and This Time Next Year into Belgium and Eastern Europe. Medialaan is to make the Belgian version of Boomerang’s What Would Your Kid Do? for VTM, which will soon go into production and is to air in early 2019. The show – which challenges parents to guess how their […]

Twofour & ITV cousin to coproduce in US

Twofour Group’s US programming will have cousin ITV America (ITVA) attached as a coproducer from now on. A deal between ITVA and Twofour America means the former’s in-house arm, ITV Creative, will coproduce programmes and formats from the latter. Twofour’s US arm in turn gets access to ITVA’s infrastructure and resources. As a result, new […]

ITV expands This Time Next Year franchise

ITV has greenlit two more seasons of This Time Next Year. This Time Next Year was one of the format hits of 2016, travelling extensively before it even aired on terrestrial broadcaster ITV in the UK. The ‘time-travel’ show will go to two more runs, ITV revealed on Friday at the ITV Studios Formats Festival, […]

Benelux nets look fowards to This Time Next Year

Deals for hot UK format This Time Next Year don’t appear to be slowing as 2017 gets underway. RTL in Holland and VRT in Belgium have commissioned local versions of the show, which Twofour Rights sells internationally. The series was the objectively the breakout format of 2016, with a majority of executives polled in TBI’s […]

Studio Lambert hires TwoFour exec for new label

All3Media-backed Studio Lambert has created a shiny floor entertainment unit, and hired a top TwoFour Group creative to lead the prodco. Cat Lawson (pictured) will lead Gliiterbox as creative director, having most recently been head of entertainment at This Time Next Year prodco TwoFour. Glitterbox will have its own development team, but will also work […]

RTL, TV2 remaking Twofour format

Germany’s RTL and Denmark’s TV2 are to remake Twofour primetime ‘time-travel’ format This Time Next Year. Both version go into production immediately, with ITV Studios-owned United Production making a 6x60mins version in Denmark and ITV Studios Germany creating a 4x60mins show in Germany. Twofour parent ITV originally ordered This Time Next Year for its UK […]

Twofour bolsters sales team before market

Twofour Rights has hired Rob Bassett as its senior sales executive ahead of MIPTV next week. Bassett was most recently at Getty Images, and has also worked at distributors including Zodiak Rights, BKN and ITV. At ITV-owned Twofour he will cover Scandinavia, Asia, the Middle East and Israel. “We’re excited to welcome Rob ahead of […]