Format News: Strong Starts for French 'Most Wanted' and Dutch 'Hitster'

Formats from Talpa Studios and Fremantle have launched in new international markets. Global Agency's 'The Greatest Duo' has been sold to Endemol in Italy, marking its first international sale. A week in unscripted content (44/2026).
Most Wanted, M6

Talpa Studios' 'Most Wanted' enjoyed a strong start in France. The double-episode launch achieved 27% and 28.7% shares in the commercial demo FRDA-50, according to Puremédias. In this arced reality competition, celebrities escape from prison and must evade a tech-equipped team of hunters. M6 has scheduled it as a three-week prime-time event.

Another promising start: the Dutch version of 'Hitster' debuted with over 1 million viewers (a 6.2 overnight rating, according to NMO data) in Saturday prime time on RTL 4. Celebrities test their musical memory and try to arrange the greatest hits of past decades on a timeline in this nostalgia-filled show from Fremantle.

Global Agency's 'The Greatest Duo' has been sold to Endemol in Italy as its first international market. The competition format tests relationships through music. Couples, relatives and friends start together, but individual scores can pull them apart, creating a dilemma: stay together or choose another partner for a chance to win.

Netflix Korea announces 'We Go High', a K-pop girl group audition project set at an arts high school, following students striving to take their talents to a bigger stage.

Banijay Entertainment's format 'Fear Factor' has inspired a scripted adaptation and will be reimagined as a horror series for the vertical video platform My Drama.

Banijay's game show 'Minute to Win It' will return to Argentina on Telefe after a five-year break. Talpa Studios' game show 'The Floor' is getting a Czech version on TV Nova.

Premiering soon: the French version of 'The Imposter' (All Right Media), a quiz where knowledge, strategy and deception collide, on TF1; and a German celebrity version of 'Eating with My Ex' (Fremantle) on Paramount+, reuniting former couples for one final meal as they confront their breakup.