EXCLUSIVE: ITV Studios is kicking off MIPCOM Cannes this morning with a spate of format deals and the addition of Fox Reality Channel reality show Solitary to its catalog.
Among the deals are a Spanish agreement for A Party to Die For, the fiftieth territory launch for Come Dine With Me, a New Zealand buyer coming in for The Chase and a second season of My Mum Your Dad in Brazil.
In Spain, Atresmedia has become the become the latest buyer of murder mystery guessing game show A Party to Die For, which was initially crested by ITV Studios Netherlands and Talpa Studios. This comes after local launches in the Netherlands and France.
ITV Studios Iberia is producing the Spanish version ahead of a launch on Atresmedia next year. The format sees celebrities are invited to a glamorous party, only to find that one of them has been ‘murdered’ before the event begins. The remaining guests must use their detective skills to solve the mystery and uncover the culprit, with viewers playing along via an app.
Come Dine With Me has launched a fiftieth version with Canal+Magic launching Come Dine With Me Africa (French Speaking). Produced by Mediawan Group’s 909 Productions, the season will run to 40 episodes. The format, an evergreen in the ITV Studios catalog, sees four players take turns to cook for the others, with the best ranking winning a prize. It originated in the UK, where it is now made for Channel 4 by ITV Studios-owned Multistory Media and has a spin-off, Come Dine With Me Teens.
Meanwhile, game show The Chase is headed into a 22nd territory after New Zealand’s TVNZ ordered a local version. ITV Studios Australia will make the show, which is scheduled to begin on November 3 on TVNZ1 and streamer TVNZ+. Another British format, it is for ITV and made in the UK by Potato, which is set to merge with 12 Yard Productions in 2026.
Finally, relationship format My Mum Your Dad has been recommissioned in Brazil, where Globoplay has ordered a second season. Formata will again produce, following single parents on journeys to find love, with the secret involvement of their grown-up children. The Greg and Haley Daniels-created format was originally for HBO Max in the U.S., with ITV Entertainment producing in association with Rombola Entertainment.
‘Solitary’ pick-up
As ITV Studios welcomes press for an annual MIPCOM breakfast today, ITV’s production and sales arm has announced the acquisition of Solitary, the controversial social experiment format that was originally for the Fox Reality Channel, which shut up shop 15 years ago.
In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts. They are guided only by Val, an ever-present computer entity, as they face relentless physical and mental challenges until the last one standing claims the prize.
The series was previously remade in Germany for ProSieben and in Brazil on SBT, but has remained in solitary confinement for many years now. ITV Studios will be aiming to change that this MIPCOM.
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