, which sees families compete to build the biggest towers of consumer goods, with the winning team taking home their stack—is a prime example. Or, the Endemol Shine format created around YouTube domino star Lily Hevesh, which Banijay sold for local adaptations to M6 in France and RTL 4 in the Netherlands., a Belgium variety entertainment format in which teams from different generations battle it out in a test of popular culture trivia.
ViacomCBS Networks International on Tuesday announced several new format deals for jokey, escapist fare, including an English version of its Quebecois Comedy Central formatfor Bell Media’s CTV Comedy Channel, and a second season order with Latin American network Teledoce for its comedy talk show formatwhich features comedians from different regions of the same country discussing current events.
"During the Trump era, day-to-day politics dominated the non-scripted news space, especially in America, but now that's moving a bit to the back burner and other issues are re-emerging. The biggest, clearly, is climate change," notes Jens Richter, CEO of Fremantle International, pointing to Fremantle's high-end doc, which follows arctic scientists enduring extreme conditions to discover the true impact of environmental degradation.
"Co-viewing has brought families together," he notes,"it might not be as intense after the pandemic but I think we'll see it continue for a while."