Six International Formats To Watch In 2023: Balloon Artists, Wilderness Temptation And Country-Sized Obstacle Courses
deadline.comIt’s been another year of format fun in television, with Banijay’s Dutch mystery competition series The Traitors emerging as a new global hit, especially in the UK on the BBC, while the likes of Big Brother and Survivor have fronted a reboots commissioning revival that has divided entertainment producers, buyers and sellers.
As the year comes to a close and the world heads into 2023 under threat of recession and belt-tightening, Deadline has placed six new formats that could help shape the genre in the spotlight.
As is often the case, programs from the Netherlands dominate, with three on our list, while others hail from the UK and Canada. Tempting Fortune (UK/North America) Dropping contestants into the wilderness as a device for a reality format is nothing new, but dropping them into the wilderness to reach a gold chest bursting with £1M ($1.2M) is — especially when they’re presented with tantalizing and enticing temptations along the way.
Over three weeks, each time they succumb to the offer of a creature comforts, a big chunk of the shared prize pot is removed. Channel 4 and Roku are teaming for the first time on the “noisy and provocative social experiment,” which London-based maker Voltage TV is calling “the ultimate test of our willpower and self-restraint.” Voltage TV CEO Sanjay Singhal says the show “asks questions about what we value the most in life,” while UK-homed distributor Cineflix Media CEO of Rights Tim Mutimer adds: “It taps into the dilemmas that confront us all, wherever we live around the world, in a highly entertaining format with scale, impact and mischief.” For Voltage and Cineflix Rights, both best known for their pedigree in docs, the show marks a push into unscripted formats.
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