New music talent show 'Het MAX Orkest' scores in the Netherlands, while 'Villa of Temptations' is a success in Germany. The week in unscripted TV (37/2025).
Dutch pubcaster Omroep MAX has partnered with Talpa Studios to create a new prime-time music talent show 'Het MAX Orkest'. The format gives musicians aged 50+ a chance to earn a place in an orchestra, culminating in a concert. The show performs strongly on NPO 1, with a 6.6 rating/27.7% share in August, per NMO data (6+, live+7).
The first season of a new reality show 'Villa of Temptations' from Banijay Entertainment was a success. It did well on Sat.1 Germany in linear viewing, showed solid growth in time-shift according to dwdl.de, and performed strongly on streaming platform Joyn. The show sees 14 celebrities move into a seemingly idyllic paradise for two weeks – but with no glamour, no beds, and no showers.
Competing German media group RTL also boosted the reality genre in streaming this summer, offering shows such as 'Celebrities Apart – The Ex Couples', 'Are You the One?', 'Princess Charming', and 'Ex on the Beach' among others.
Seven.One Studios will re-develop TBS Television's format 'Match My Moves', based on a segment from a Japanese show. In the original concept, contestants must perfectly copy dance routines in a very short time.
Nippon TV has unveiled new formats: 'Mega Catch', a game show where players must grab massive flying objects without dropping them; 'Secret Little Assistant', where kids sneak into their parents' workplaces and try to help without getting caught; and 'Big Bad Bluff', a reality game show turning fairy tales into mind games of bluff and strategy.
BBC One has given a full-season order to a new quiz show from the makers of 'The 1% Club'. 'Wisdom of the Crowd' sees contestants take on the collective knowledge of the crowd, trying to beat it to take all the money. BBC Studios will handle format sales.
Channel 4 UK has ordered 'Apocalypse' (ITV Studios), which sends a group of ordinary people to an abandoned town to survive for 28 days without running water, heating, or electricity.
Coming up in the next few days: the French version of the relationship experiment 'Love Is Blind' and the chef competition 'Next Gen Chef' on Netflix. Plus, classic rapid-fire quiz show 'Weakest Link' from BBC Studios changes channel in the U.S. and and debuts a celebrity version Monday on Fox.