1. ONE NIGHT IN… DENMARK
Pineapple Entertainment, part of Banijay Nordic, is going to produce the first international version of One Night In… for the Danish channel TV2 Zulu, after premiering on Channel 4 the last 16th December.
The format sees comedians given the opportunity to run wild for one night in an iconic location, with no other visitors around (in the English version some sets were the Natural History Museum, Alton Towers and London Zoo). Completely unsupervised, the talent can roam free in some of the country’s best-known department stores, theme parks and other special places. The comedians can do anything they like, just as long as they’re out of the location before the cleaners arrive and the shutters go up the next morning. There are only a few rules: no sleeping and they must leave the location the same as how they found it, whilst completing a few challenges along the way.
It is of course difficult to judge this show ‘in itself’, because it’s all on the shoulders of the comedians (the show works only if they work); anyway it’s a pretty original concept, for the format landscape.
2. COME DANCE WITH MY FAMILY
The new dance competition series Come Dance With Me will premiere on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+ on Friday, April 15.
In each episode of this show, produced by CBS Television Studios and 3 Ball Productions, a group of talented aspiring young dancers, ranging in age from 9 to 15, are partnered with an untrained member of their family (mother, father, grandparent…) for a series of pair dance routines in different styles, with the assistance of professional choreographers, in a competition with other duos.
The two lowest-scoring teams will go head to head in a freestyle elimination dance-off, at the conclusion of which the judges will decide which goes forward in the competition and which goes home. The last team standing at the end of the season will take home a grand prize of US$100,000.
In this case, maybe an effective but not particularly original concept.
3. THE POWER OF COOKING
Cooking is a never-ending & evergreen trend, with hundreds of new formats launched every year in each part of the world. This week let’s present 2 new ones that are going to travel globally.
The first is The Next Restaurant: created by Studio Glam for Israeli broadcaster Reshet 13, the show was launched in January and Fremantle has recently acquired the global distribution rights.
Every week begins with an audition-episode: four contestants sharing a passion of setting up his or her own restaurant present their vision to the judges (the vision of the whole restaurant, not only of the menu/dishes). Each audition-episode ends with a winning restaurant, that opens to the public for an entire week, during which it receives its weighted score, based on the evaluations of diners, investors, restaurant critics and the four judges, who follow every step and element during this part. At the end of the series, the contestant who gets the highest total score will receive their dream restaurant for an entire year.
The second one is Fridge Wars, co-created and first produced by The Gurin Company and Canadian pubcaster the CBC and set to premiere on April 7th on the German free-to-air channel ProSiebenSat.1-owned Sat.1, with the title Kühlschrank öffne dich! (‘Open up, fridge!’), produced by Banijay-owned Endemol Shine Germany.
The rules are as simple as that: two celebrity chefs battle against one another to create meals from ingredients taken from the ordinary fridges of typical families.