NBCU Looks To Build ‘The Wall’ In International Markets With Plans For European Production Hub — MIPCOM

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EXCLUSIVE: The Wall is getting a big international push here at MIPCOM with plans afoot for a new European production hub and fresh international deals for the gameshow format in the offing.

Season 6 has just wrapped in the U.S. and is in post before airing on NBC. Andrew Glassman, who had the original idea for the show, and Toby Gorman, Universal Television Alternative Studios President (UTAS), have broken down their plans to boost the show’s profile outside the U.S. “We feel like now is the time to bring it back, not just in one country, but multiple at the same time,” Gorman said about the format. “There are territories where it’s done really well, and for whatever reason it’s had a break, and we believe there is an opportunity to bring it back.

Whether it’s bigger, whether it’s a daytime strip, we’re looking at everywhere individually, but the plan is that almost certainly we will build a hub in Europe for multiple territories because we’ve got so much interest.” Glassman had the original idea for the show, which was created and produced by his Glassman Media and LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment in association with UTAS.

Both he and Gorman talk about the ability to scale the format up or down – in the U.S. it’s a big-ticket show with big money prizes, but internationally more modest versions have been stripped and made at different price points.