International colossus Fremantle has added to its huge leisure portfolio, securing worldwide manufacturing, improvement and distribution rights outdoors Japan to “Special Delivery,” a whacky enjoyable comedy recreation present co-developed by Amsterdam’s Blue Circle, a Fremantle firm, and Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), the highest Japanese producer and broadcaster.
Fremantle will convey “Particular Supply” to market at this week’s London TV Screenings, the most important European TV gross sales platform of the primary six months of the 12 months, the place the RTL-owned Tremendous Indie maintain a Feb. 27 upfront.
Billed by Fremantle as an “irresistibly enjoyable comedy competitors,” “Particular Supply” performs to Japan’s energy as an format export energy, Selection famous Monday: “high-concept leisure codecs constructed round easy recreation mechanics.”
Right here, comedians are despatched on hilarious missions to attempt to ship something, anyplace, anyhow. The parcels they acquire at Supply HQ are “absurd,” the locations “inconceivable” and the situations “ridiculous.” The web result’s “unpredictable deliveries that create most mischief, laugh-out-moments and immediately visible, viral-ready comedy,” Fremantle famous Tuesday, saying its deal on “Particular Supply.”
Commissioned for TBS in Japan, “Particular Supply” bowed this January in Japan, the place its debut episode ranked No. 1 in its time slot, scoring a 28% viewers share.
Performed by celebrities in Japan, the format might be tailored to completely different casting approaches worldwide, Fremantle famous.
“As a broadcaster identified for daring, creative comedy, TBS has been an distinctive inventive accomplice, and collectively we’ve formed a format that harnesses the originality of Japanese leisure into one thing with clear world potential,” stated Vasha Wallace, Fremantle EVP world acquisitions and improvement, world leisure. “There’s a sturdy urge for food worldwide for large, visible, laugh-out-loud comedy, and ‘Particular Supply’ has all of the substances to journey and join with audiences past Japan,” she added.
“We’re delighted to accomplice with Fremantle on ‘Particular Supply,’ and pleased with what the groups have created collectively in Japan. The format’s daring bodily comedy and playful competitors really feel universally entertaining, and we’re excited to see the format attain audiences internationally,” noticed Kentaro Fukuda, head of world IP studio at TBS.
Blue Circle is a 100% Fremantle subsidiary which is among the largest and most prolific Netherlands specialists in leisure, day by day present, sports activities and life-style programming, behind Dutch reversions of “Dancing With the Stars,” “Idols” and “X-Issue.”
TBS ranks as certainly one of Japan’s largest media conglomerates, with a bevy of worldwide format breakouts, similar to recreation present “Takeshi’s Citadel,” sports activities leisure actuality format “Ninja Warrior,” bought to 160 territories, and selection present “Enjoyable TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan,” which spawned “America’s Funniest Dwelling Movies.”
