'Physical: 100' franchise expands on Netflix. Production of the Swedish version has started, following the previously announced Italian, Mexican, Asian, and US versions. This high-stakes competition format tests raw strength and endurance of 100 contestants from different genders, age groups, and athletic backgrounds.
Netflix also announces 'Outlast: The Jungle', a strategic survival game where contestants must outlast not only the jungle, but also the psychological and social challenges posed by their competitors.
Following the UK launch, the high-stakes survival reality competition 'The Hunt' from Seven.One Studios has launched in Germany on Joyn and ProSieben. Contestants are dropped into a vast, unforgiving forest to play the ultimate real-world game of hide-and-seek.
'The A-Talks' from Can't Stop Media reaches its 21st territory with a commission from Nelonen in Finland. The format invites celebrities to take part in very special interviews, facing a group of journalists with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
In other commissioning news, spin-off dating format 'First Dates Beach Club' from Warner Bros. Discovery will get its first international version in the Netherlands on NPO Start, following 16 seasons of the original 'First Dates'. Banijay's 'MasterChef' returns to Chile, where it last aired in 2019. MTV-native dating reality format 'Are You the One?' from Paramount will get a Czech version on streamer prima+ and TV Prima.
British Channel 4.0 launches a new digital format, 'Random or Related?'. Stars meet a lineup of strangers, one of whom is a distant family member they have never met before.
Sports trading-card trivia show 'Chasers' debuted on YouTube. Celebrities answer trivia questions to identify cards related to their lives.
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