International large Fremantle has added to its huge leisure portfolio by securing the manufacturing, improvement and worldwide distribution rights exterior of Japan for Particular Supply, a unusual and enjoyable comedy sport present collectively developed by Fremantle firm Blue Circle of Amsterdam and high Japanese producer and broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS).
Fremantle, Europe’s largest TV gross sales platform for the primary half of this yr, will deliver ‘Particular Supply’ to market at this week’s London TV Screenings, with the RTL-owned Superindie holding a pre-sale on February twenty seventh.
Touted by Fremantle as an “irresistibly entertaining comedy contest,” “Particular Supply” showcases Japan’s power as a format exporter, Selection stated Monday, noting that it’s “a high-concept leisure format constructed round easy sport mechanics.”
Right here, a comic is distributed on a hilarious mission to ship one thing, wherever, anyway. The packages collected on the supply headquarters are “outrageous,” the locations “unimaginable,” and the situations “ridiculous.” Fremantle introduced the deal for “Particular Supply” on Tuesday, saying the top result’s “an unpredictable supply that creates most pranks, laugh-out-loud moments and immediately visible, viral-ready comedy.”
Commissioned by Japan’s TBS, “Particular Supply” aired in Japan in January of this yr, with its debut episode rating No. 1 in its time slot, with a viewership score of 28%.
The format, which options Japanese celebrities, might be tailored to completely different casting approaches all over the world, Freemantle stated.
“As a broadcaster recognized for daring and authentic comedy, TBS has been a wonderful artistic associate and collectively we now have formed a format that transforms the originality of Japanese leisure into one thing with world potential,” stated Vasha Wallace, Fremantle’s vice chairman of worldwide acquisitions and improvement, International Leisure. “There is a sturdy urge for food for giant, visible, laugh-out-loud comedy all over the world, and ‘Particular Supply’ has all of the substances to attach with audiences past Japan,” she added.
“We’re delighted to associate with Fremantle on ‘Particular Supply’ and are pleased with what our workforce has created collectively in Japan. The format’s daring bodily comedy and playful competitors are universally entertaining, and we sit up for the format reaching audiences all over the world,” stated Kentaro Fukuda, head of worldwide IP studios at TBS.
Blue Circle is a completely owned subsidiary of Fremantle and is among the Netherlands’ largest and most prolific specialist corporations within the area of leisure, day by day exhibits, sports activities and life-style programming, and is behind the return of Dancing with the Stars, Idol and The X Issue to the Netherlands.
TBS ranks as considered one of Japan’s largest media conglomerates with quite a few breakthroughs in worldwide codecs, together with the sport present “Takeshi’s Fortress,” the sports activities leisure actuality format “Ninja Warrior,” which was offered in 160 territories, and the range present “Kato-chan and Ken-chan’s Enjoyable TV,” which spawned “America’s Funniest House Movies.”
