ABC revived 'Match Game', while Sony's 'Wheel of Fortune' continues strong in Italy. In Australia, 'My Reno Rules' was announced. A week in unscripted content (31/2025).
'Love Island USA' season 7 set a record as the biggest season for any Peacock original, with 18.4 billion minutes viewed across all devices, The Hollywood Reporter notes.
'Love Island' also helped launch a new show, 'Next Gen NYC', which premiered on Peacock on the same day. Deadline/NBCUniversal report that "about a third of the Love Island USA audience also watched Next Gen NYC within 35 days of premiere." 'Next Gen NYC' is a young-skewing Bravo original about the next wave of New Yorkers.
Classic game of fill-in-the-blank, 'Match Game' by Fremantle, was revived by ABC in the U.S. The premiere delivered a solid 0.37 Live+Same Day rating among Adults 18-49 at 9:00 PM, with a lead-in from 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' at 0.38.
Format classics remain popular in other markets too. Formatbiz highlights that 'Wheel of Fortune' "regularly achieves audience shares above 25%" in weekday access on Canale 5 Italy. The format is also active in Hungary, airing on TV2 weekdays at 8 PM (with a 2.8 rating / 8.8% share among 18-59s last week, according to Nielsen data).
Reality show 'The Farm' from Fremantle travels to Mexico, as TV Azteca orders a local celebrity version. The format has a strong global track record, having been adapted in more than 30 countries, C21Media reports.
A new renovation competition, 'My Reno Rules', has been announced by Seven and 7plus in Australia. The show sees two neighbouring rundown houses transformed, and promises a grand finale in which two lucky Aussies will win the homes. Banijay Rights owns the format rights.
Primitives' dating reality format 'Love on the Road' got its first foreign remake, launched last week on Telia Play in Lithuania. The show follows adventurous singletons on a road trip, encountering romance, roadblocks, and "everything in between." It was originally developed for NPO3 in the Netherlands, where it has been renewed for a second season coming this November.
Premiering this week is the first foreign version of 'The Box'. The reality competition format by Seefood TV has drawn attention from both industry media and format buyers since launching in January in Norway, and now arrives with a local version on TV 2 Denmark.