Unscripted News: Nippon TV Adds 'Fake City' and 'The Kitchen Trust' to Its Catalogue

Rabbit Formats' new show 'You Should Hear Yourself' has launched in Denmark. A week in unscripted content (46/2026).
Fake City, Nippon TV

Nippon TV adds two new formats to its catalogue, both piloted earlier this year in Japan. In game show 'Fake City', an entire city is a game board, and celebrities must spot changes made to it overnight by a team of "fakers". In cooking competition 'The Kitchen Trust', elite chefs have 15 seconds to plan a dish and 30 seconds to order a key ingredient. Providers then have 72 hours to deliver it, and teams are judged on both ingredient quality and cooking technique.

New show 'You Should Hear Yourself' launched on DR1 Denmark. Couples stuck in conflicts invite cameras into their homes for 30 days, review the footage with the help of experts, and finally step onto a theatre stage to re-enact their own arguments. Rabbit Formats handles format sales.

'The Drop' from Talpa Studios and Signal.Stream is getting a German version, launching later this month on Joyn and ProSieben. Celebrities spend several nights in locations believed to be haunted and undergo challenges while confronting their fears.

More commissionings: Prime Video Poland adapts 'Roast in Peace', an Italian roast comedy format staged as a funeral ceremony. TV2 Hungary orders the strategic reality competition 'The Mole' from Primitives. Celebrity figure-skating competition 'Dancing on Ice' from ITV Studios has been commissioned for a live Czech-Slovak version on CME channels next year.

Banijay's social experiment reality format 'The Circle', previously on Netflix in the U.S., moves to Hulu, where the new version launches this week. It will feature celebrities playing alongside civilians, and viewers will be able to influence the game in real time.

Also launching: 'Win the Mall' on Netflix, which sees players compete to outshop, outsmart and outlast one another in a mall-based reality competition.

Rose d'Or announces the finalists for its 65th awards. The winners will be revealed on November 30.