The latest roundup also covers new launches, format deals, and adaptations from major players including Banijay, ITV Studios, Keshet International, and TV Asahi. A week in unscripted content (17/2026).
'Nation's Dumbest' from BBC Studios expands with commissions from RTL Hungary and TV2 Denmark. It is a comedy game show nobody wants to win; celebrities aim to be eliminated as quickly as possible and avoid being crowned "the nation's dumbest".
Another BBC Studios format, 'Wisdom of the Crowd', gets a German version this month on RTL. The quiz show sees contestants take on the collective knowledge of the crowd, trying to beat it to take all the money.
New Banijay Entertainment primetime format 'Staying Alive' launches this week on ProSieben Germany. The music entertainment show uses technology to create duets between current artists and icons from music history.
ITV UK premieres 'The Neighbourhood', an ITV Studios format that sees families and households compete for a life-changing cash prize in a street-sized reality game.
Banijay will sell format rights for the digital adventure game 'Stop the Train'. The show, originating on YouTube, is set on a moving train, where contestants compete in challenges across themed carriages, aiming to reach the locomotive.
The company will also represent Yoshimoto Kogyo's musical-chairs-style game 'The Laughing Throne'. Comedians circle a set of chairs and challenge others on an assigned theme if left without a seat.
TV Asahi, home of 'Ranking the Stars' and 'Song vs Dance', launches a new initiative in its Sunday night slot, developing more formats with international adaptation appeal.
'Fluent in 40' wins the Global Entertainment Formats Pitch contest. The travel competition format sees contestants in a foreign country aiming to become as fluent as possible in the native language in just 40 days to win.
C21Media reports that StudioCanal is launching sales of the interior design reality format 'Eyecatchers'.
Keshet International introduces a new emotionally driven entertainment format, 'Who Wants to Start?'. Celebrities who share one defining life experience are placed in a single room for a raw conversation, discovering their shared connection.
More commissioning news: Digital creators will compete for a spot in a movie in 'Hollywood Shot House'; 'Deal or No Deal' returns to the Philippines and Turkey after longer breaks; the entrepreneurial competition '60 Day Hustle' (Fremantle) will get a Singaporean version; the dating reality format 'Love Island' (ITV Studios) travels to Norway; and Primitives' athletic competition format 'Eternal Glory' gets a team-based spin-off in Norway.