Format

Today, ITV Studios welcomed buyers to its eighth annual Formats Festival at London’s iconic Roundhouse venue, with brand new entertainment, reality, game show and quiz formats presented alongside some of its mega hits such as The Voice and Love Island, at its biggest formats event yet.

For the first time since ITV Studios’ restructure, over 200 buyers learnt more about its newly-combined catalogue, which will represent Talpa Media, Israeli formats creator Armoza Formats, Twofour and the existing ITV Studios unscripted format catalogue. Newly commissioned shows and development ideas from across the group were presented, including from Possessed, 12 Yard, Potato and Armoza.

Attendees heard about a variety of innovative new formats across the morning, from green-lit shows including 12 Yard’s Comedians Giving Lectures, which is returning for two more series on UKTV’s Dave channel in the UK, and Potato’s Beat The Chasers, to recently launched formats such as Armoza’s Queens of Love and an early look at exciting new launches for later in 2020.

These new shows join ITV Studios’ growing slate of huge international hit formats, which include some of the best-known brands out there; The Voice, the most successful format of the last decade now commissioned in 70 territories worldwide, the award-winning, record-breaking Love Island, now in 15 territories from the U.S. to Australia and across Europe, The Chase, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year and was most recently commissioned in Spain, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, returning for its 20th series in the UK later this year and Come Dine With Me, the award-winning evergreen format which has been produced locally in over 40 territories across the globe.

Following the reorganisation of ITV Studios' international and commercial division, Global Entertainment, which is headed up by Meijs and has its Headquarters in the Netherlands, brings together international unscripted format sales and exploitation across the group under one roof. Meijs’ team are known for their expertise in managing shows which attract large audiences with significant global commercial potential and monetize content, through a number of different ways, including brand licensing, merchandising, commercial integration and digital and social activity.


THIS IS A SELECTION OF NEW ITV STUDIOS FORMATS FOR 2020

RAT IN THE KITCHEN
One kitchen. Six cooks. If they can work together then they build money for the team bank. But what happens when there’s a rat in the kitchen?! One chef is secretly trying to sabotage the team and if they succeed in getting the team bad reviews from the judges, then the rat takes home the cash.
There’s a Rat in the Kitchen. What are YOU gonna do?


REVOLVER
In this tense, visual gameshow, contestants can win £100.000 with the spin of a giant needle. Answering questions to win spins, they build their bank, aiming for that all-important number. But if they go one pound over, or one pound under, they leave with nothing! It's £100.000… or bust. Just like life, you can use knowledge and strategy to increase your chances - but at the end of the day, you'll also need some luck!


LET LOVE RULE
In this slow dating show, singles have a serious chance of finding long lasting love.. by immediately living together on the first date. Two singles will be living together for at least 24 hours in a luxury apartment. During this genuine experiment on love, which can last up to 5 days, we will find out if sparks fly...


SITTING ON A FORTUNE
Sitting on a Fortune is a high stakes, high tension quiz that sees six contestants battle it out for a chance to take home a £100.000 cash prize – IF they can find themselves sitting in the right place, at the right time. Only those that are literally in the money seat, at the front of the line, can give the final correct answer…
#Who’llTakeTheChair