New formats are hitting the international market. CJ ENM, Fremantle, Warner Bros., Banijay, and Keshet announce their latest launches. A week in unscripted content (40/2025).
Dating reality show 'Farmer Wants a Wife' by Fremantle continues to deliver strong results in major European markets. The current French version on M6 surpasses a 25% share in the commercial demo FRDA-50 (ozap.com news), while the Polish version outperforms pubcaster TVP1's benchmarks with double-digit shares both total and in the demo.
In other news from Poland, BBC Studios' entertainment format 'Dancing with the Stars' maintains hit status with its latest season on Polsat, according to wirtualnemedia.pl.
Distributors have announced new additions to their format catalogues. CJ ENM introduces friendship-driven matchmaking show 'Date My Friend', where celebrities introduce friends they believe are genuinely good matches.
Warner Bros. brings to market 'Reality Kings on Safari', where a group of male reality stars trade likes and luxury for survival in the wild, 'World's Wildest Race', which sends celebrity teams on the ultimate road trip challenge, and prime-time quiz 'The Final Circle', which tests brainpower.
Banijay Entertainment's new formats include 'Let's Play Ball' (already renewed for season 2 in the Netherlands), where teams transport a gigantic ball across various terrains, and transformative factual format 'Wild Reckoning with Bear Grylls', recently commissioned in the UK.
Keshet International spins off its game show 'Boom!' into 'Boom! Heist Mode', where two teams race to crack cash-stuffed safes.
Prime Video partners with RTL in Germany on a local version of 'Gladiators'. The show will premiere in 2026, first on Prime Video and later on RTL+ and linear TV, dwdl.de reports. The classic sports competition format is also active in the UK on BBC and preparing for a U.S. revival.
Prime Video is also preparing its first dating show in Spain. 'Esto no es un dating' will feature 100 diverse participants searching for love in a theatre.
RTVE Spain adapts the culinary competition format 'Top Chef' from NBCUniversal and jumps straight to a spin-off with 'Top Chef VIP Just Desserts', where celebrities compete to become top pastry chefs.
Indie prodco Pig & Horse Productions is developing the digital-first talent show 'Europe's K-Pop Odyssey', which follows a Europe-wide search for the next K-Pop superstars, according to FormatBiz.