‘Married At First Sight’ Producer Kinetic Content Secures Rights To Belgium Comedy Format ‘Taboo’

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EXCLUSIVE: Kinetic Content, the Red Arrow Studios company behind Lifetime’s hit Married At First Sight, has picked up the U.S. rights to a buzzy Belgium comedy format that confronts social ta…

Created by Belgium-based Panenka and made by Dutch production outfitsees a comedian spend time with people that society has judged too taboo to laugh about. He or she then performs a stand-up routine, where the vulnerable people are in the audience and are the subject of the punchline.

The show, which has been nominated for an International Emmy, launched last year in Belgium on Dutch language broadcaster VRT één and tackled issues including terminal illness, obesity, blindness, and mental illness. It was the highest rating entertainment premiere in VRT één’s history and garnered praise for helping normalize issues surrounded by shame or bigotry.that it was special,” said Karrie Wolfe, EVP of Development at Kinetic.

 

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