This Week in Unscripted TV…

19/6/26

Headlines 📰

Fox Corp to acquire Roku in $22bn deal 🔗

Commissions 💵

• “Simon Says” reality competition series from Bunim/Murray for Netflix 🔗

• “Undercover Lover” for Amazon Prime from SimpelZodiak 🔗

• “Bullseye” recommissioned for ITV from Bright Entertainment 🔗

• “The Reluctant Traveler” recommissioned (Twofour, Apple TV) 🔗

• “Children of Minab” for Sky News from Full Story Films 🔗

• Channel 5 commissions “World Cup Uncensored” and “The Royals Uncensored” for immediate distribution (Wake Up Production) 🔗

• Channel 4 renews “Jasmine Harman’s Renovation in the Sun” from Double FTV 🔗

• “Bad Boyfriends” commissioned in Germany for RTL+ from Filmpool 🔗

• “Fear Factor: House of Fear” commissioned in Finland by Ruutu (Banijay Finland) 🔗

• “Holey Moley” commissioned for Prime Germany and TF1 France from Fremantle 🔗

• Netflix and iHeart Radio Vodcast partnership expands with “Suite 305” with Lele Pons, “The Martha Stewart Podcast” and “Sibling Rivalry” with Oliver and Kate Hudson 🔗

• “TFI Friday Unplugged” renewed on Channel 4 🔗

• “Setting the Tempo” WNBA documentary from Rock’n Robin Productions and Maximum Effort 🔗

Deals 🤝

• TF1 content now available on Netflix 🔗

• Muse Entertainment and The Walrus enter first-look development deal for documentary and unscripted programming 🔗

• Radial entertainment secured rights to “History Unsolved: The Investigation Files” (Blue Ant Studios) and “Fatal First Dates” (Perpetual Entertainment) 🔗

Moves 🧳

• Lucy Gulliver joins Insanity 🔗

• Alex Lindsay, Hannah Colins and Ashleigh Henry join BossaNova Media’s sales team 🔗

• John Godfrey to depart SBS 🔗

• Mark Garner moved from Executive VP to consulting role at A+E Global Media 🔗

• Carlyn Staudt to depart Blue Ant Media 🔗

• Fergal Keane sets up docs indie 🔗

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