MTV cancels 'Ridiculousness', RTL orders nostalgia-filled event show 'Hitster'. A week in unscripted content (45/2025).
Reality cooking format 'Come Dine with Me' from ITV Studios has reached its 50th version, with the newest local adaptation airing on Canal+ Magic in French-speaking Africa, Formatbiz reports.
New format 'The Key', created by RTL Studios, will be distributed by Sera Film Services. The game show combines luck with knowledge, as contestants pick keys for the correct answers — but only one of the 10 keys unlocks the prize money.
MTV's comedy clip show 'Ridiculousness' has been canceled. Variety reports that it was "one of the longest-running series in MTV history" and was heavily used in reruns, with over 1,700 episodes.
German streaming hit 'Celebrities Apart – The Ex Couples' will get a spin-off, 'Prominent verwandt', on RTL+. Instead of celebrity ex-couples, reality stars and their parents will get the opportunity to heal old wounds and form a team to win.
RTL has also announced a new, nostalgia-filled event show, 'Hitster'. Celebrities will test their musical memory and try to arrange the greatest hits of past decades on a timeline.
Launching this week is the new Banijay-produced prime-time reality show 'Die Abrechnung' (The Reckoning) on ProSieben Germany. It matches celebrities with their arch-rivals, who must work together to complete challenges.
Also debuting soon on TFX France is 'La Bataille', a new daily survival reality competition from Ah! Production. Reality pairs will face elimination and hierarchy challenges on a mysterious island.