The agreement underpins the company's success in finding authentic, story-driven formats that draw and maintain an audience across languages, territories, and platforms.
Heading into Mipcom, A+E Networks has announced a number of deals from its formats division with media companies from regions across the UK, Australia and EMEA commissioning new or returning seasons of formats.
A self-shot survival competition series, Alone, is picked up by Channel 4 for a brand-new iteration of the format to be produced by The Garden. The six-part series will see ten contestants dropped into the remote Canadian wilderness, equipped with only a handful of basic tools. Each must survive the harsh elements alone.
Speaking about the deals, A+E Networks’ SVP head of sales, Americas and formats Ellen Lovejoy, said: “A+E Networks is proud to come to Mipcom with a catalogue boasting compelling, universally resonant formats that tap into the zeitgeist of the moment and have already found repeat success with audiences all around the world. These latest commissions from such exceptional, innovative producers and broadcasters prove that A+E’s slate of formats sets us apart from what’s currently out there, and we’re very much looking forward to introducing them to our treasured partners.”
Alone Denmark, titled Alene I Vildmarken, will return for the seventh season and the series was also commissioned by top Australian broadcaster SBS for a version produced by ITV Australia earlier this year.
Following years of critical and rating success, as well as awards recognition in the US and UK, A+E Networks has partnered with RaiPlay and the innovative production company Yam112003 to bring the first non-English language version of The Rap Game to Italy early in 2023.
Additional recent successes for A+E Networks formats include a fifth season commission for Forged in Fire, where bladesmiths re-create historical edged weapons in a cutthroat competition, in Latin America, as well as two seasons of primetime ratings success for Top Dog on RTL in Germany. Top Dog, titled Der Beste Hund Deutschlandsim, is a competition format that features extraordinary dogs and their owners competing for nose-to-nose on a supersized canine obstacle course.
