This Week in Unscripted TV…

29/5/26

Commissions 💵

• “Ingenious” a Channel 4 competition celebrating British invention from Curve Wales 🔗

• “Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men” for BBC from Cardiff Productions 🔗

• Disney+ commissions SailGP docuseries from Maximum Effort “Bonds Flying Roos” and their co-owners Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds 🔗

• “How to Get Filthy Rich” for Channel 4 from Mindhouse, led by Gary Stevenson 🔗

• Zinc Media Group to produce “Stars of Science” in the Middle East 🔗

• RTVE commissions Spanish adaption of “Inside Therapy” (WBITVP) 🔗

• Prime Video Canada slates reality competition “Surrender” from MEM 🔗

• Vodcast “The Breakfast Club” from iHeartMedia to stream daily on Netflix 🔗

Formats 📄

• Banijay Entertainment gains global rights from Happy Sherriff for “The Comedy League” 🔗

Deals 🤝

• Netflix and Spotify strike distribution deal for Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” video podcast 🔗

• Wheelhouse acquires Anomaly Entertainment 🔗

Moves 🧳

• Lucy Roberts and Francesca Newington join the UKTV acquisitions team 🔗

Thank you so much for reading! See you next week. 👋