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Bake Off spin-offs on the rise in Europe

Local versions of the celebrity version of the Bake Off format will hit French and German screens for the first time after BBC Worldwide shopped the series to free TV broadcaster M6 and its German counterpart Sat.1 on the eve of the annual Showcase. Worldwide’s local units will make the shows, which were among several […]

Billy on the Street in Oz, India

Comedy game show Billy on the Street will air in Austrlia, India and Denmark following deals with distributor Red Arrow International. The show, which airs on Fuse TV in the US, has sold to The Comedy Channel in Australia, Comedy Central in India and TV2 Zulu in Denmark. In the series, comedian Cilly Eichner confronts […]

Fall TV season: overview and early trends

Julia Espérance, media consultant at Eurodata TV and service manager for the New on the Air (NOTA) programming service, analyses the top new shows from the latest TV season and finds that formats with a positive message or light-hearted in tone are winning eyeballs. Whether through comedy, challenge or music-based shows, broadcasters are still looking […]

Australia’s SBS buys pair of Nordic comedies

Australian channel SBS has acquired two foreign language comedies, one from Norway and one from Denmark. Hellfjord and Klown will both broadcast on SBS One in a bid to broaden the channel’s comedy scope. Hellfjord was produced for pubcaster NRK by Tappeluft Pictures and follows an Oslo police officer who is forced to work in […]