It’s been another year of format fun in television, with 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)
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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...
Tempting Fortune (UK/North America)
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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...
- 12/26/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Karine Vanasse (Cardinal) have been cast as the leads in an English-language adaptation of time travel drama Plan B for Canada’s CBC.
Adapted from the Radio-Canada French-language drama created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet and set in Montreal, Plan B is billed as high-concept, gripping and intimate psychological drama about a man on a desperate and relentless quest to save his relationship – and by extension, his whole world.
Adams plays Philip, who discovers how to go back in time, giving him the chance to save his relationship with love of his life Evelyn (Vanasse), his law firm and his dysfunctional family. But he soon realizes that even the smallest choice has repercussions — as uncontrollable as they are unexpected — on his life and the lives of others.
Quebec-based Kotv, which produces the original series, is attached to the adaption and will be...
Adapted from the Radio-Canada French-language drama created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet and set in Montreal, Plan B is billed as high-concept, gripping and intimate psychological drama about a man on a desperate and relentless quest to save his relationship – and by extension, his whole world.
Adams plays Philip, who discovers how to go back in time, giving him the chance to save his relationship with love of his life Evelyn (Vanasse), his law firm and his dysfunctional family. But he soon realizes that even the smallest choice has repercussions — as uncontrollable as they are unexpected — on his life and the lives of others.
Quebec-based Kotv, which produces the original series, is attached to the adaption and will be...
- 6/1/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
TORONTO -- Veteran Canadian sportscaster Don Wittman, a mainstay for a half-century on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., died at 71 years of age Saturday after a long battle with cancer.
Wittman, who joined Canada's public broadcaster in 1961 after an early career in radio, called virtually every professional sport. He also was the voice of the CBC during Olympic telecasts, beginning with the 1964 Innsbruck games.
Wittman most famously called Canadian Ben Johnson winning the 100 meters gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a prize taken away days later after Johnson tested positive for steroids.
Wittman later called the 100 meters gold medal performance by Canadian Donovan Bailey at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. He also was on hand to cover the terrorist attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics for Canadians.
The veteran sportscaster was inducted into the CBC Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 9. He leaves behind his wife Judy, daughters Karen and Kristen, and son David.
Wittman, who joined Canada's public broadcaster in 1961 after an early career in radio, called virtually every professional sport. He also was the voice of the CBC during Olympic telecasts, beginning with the 1964 Innsbruck games.
Wittman most famously called Canadian Ben Johnson winning the 100 meters gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a prize taken away days later after Johnson tested positive for steroids.
Wittman later called the 100 meters gold medal performance by Canadian Donovan Bailey at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. He also was on hand to cover the terrorist attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics for Canadians.
The veteran sportscaster was inducted into the CBC Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 9. He leaves behind his wife Judy, daughters Karen and Kristen, and son David.
- 1/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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