Format

Red Arrow Studios International has closed some deals with multiple broadcasters for its new hit format, Stranded on Honeymoon Island, just over two months after launching the show to the international marketplace at London Screenings.

Germany’s SAT.1 and Portugal’s SIC, as well as Australia’s Seven Network, are set to produce local versions of the new adventure dating format. An additional commission has been concluded with a broadcaster in the Netherlands and others are in final stages of negotiation.

The adventure reality show was created by Snowman Productions, which also created dating phenomenon Married at First Sight. The Copenhagen-based production company (part of Seven.One Studios and a sister company to Red Arrow Studios International) will manage a production hub in Southeast Asia, to facilitate the year-round filming of new local versions of the show.

Initially commissioned by Belgium’s VTM, the program made its successful on-air debut in March. The premiere posted a market share of 46% in the main target demo 18-54 and an even more impressive 51% market share in the 15-34 demo, doubling the broadcaster’s average market share that month. The following episodes continued to grow both audience and market share, performing significantly above channel average and outperforming across all demos.

Tim Gerhartz, Managing Director at Red Arrow Studios International, said: “We are delighted with the response to Stranded on Honeymoon Island: to sign up four broadcast partners in just a few weeks is an astounding start for a new format, it’s one of the fastest travelling dating reality formats of recent times. After years of increasingly dramatic reality shows, we have seen a growing demand for more authenticity, and Stranded on Honeymoon Island truly delivers a heady combination of real-life experience packaged with the gloss of exotic escapsim. The format brings together two reality subgenres – dating and adventure – to create a truly unique, fast-track relationship experience and we are looking forward to seeing it roll out around the world.”

In the format, four couples are matched by experts following a speed dating event, but they don’t know which partner has been chosen for them until they see them at the intimate commitment ceremony. Immediately after committing themselves to each other, they are dramatically abandoned on their own deserted tropical islands for the adventure of a lifetime.

On these remote beaches, relationships are soon put to the test as the couples live together and fend for themselves with few resources. Abandoned and alone, they must communicate and collaborate to get by. After two weeks the couples are separated and return to civilization, where they must make a life-changing decision: will they renew their commitment and stay together, or will they go their separate ways?