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EXCLUSIVE: Banijay’s Benelux division has been commissioned for a Lego Masters-style balloon-making competition format and an Into the Wild spin-off of global hit Hunted. As the global producer/distributor gears up for its London Screenings event on Wednesday, Benelux CEO Peter Lubbers unveiled Blow Up, an Endemol Shin…

Dom Bird, who was responsible for commissioning some of Channel 4's most recent hits including Hunted and Tattoo Fixers, is set to leave the British broadcaster. Bird, who is Head of Formats at the broadcaster, is exiting later this summer and is thought to be considering a move into production. He has been at C4 for…

Channel 4 surveillence format Hunted is being remade in France after local broadcaster RMC Découverte struck a deal with Endemol Shine. The superindie's Endemol Shine France will produce 12-part series Escape: 21 Jours pour Disparaitre to air later this year. The show, which was also remade in the U.S. by CBS, sees…

With NBC airing encores and ABC mainly in repeats, President Donald Trump was the big ticket Wednesday night with a one-hour special on the Disney-owned network. Hosted by ABC News anchor David Muir, the 10 PM President Donald Trump: The White House Interview (1.7/6) was the night’s top-rated and most-watched show…

Just like it did with Undercover Boss, which debuted behind the Super Bowl, CBS launched another unscripted series, Hunted, behind a big NFL primetime game. Following the AFC Championship, which drew a 13.4 adults 18-49 Live+same day rating and 41.3 million viewers in the non-time adjusted fast nationals, Hunted,…

The hunt is about to be on. Here is the first trailer for Hunted, CBS’ midseason competition series that follows teams of “fugitives” as they try to stay one — or three — steps ahead of their professional pursuers. The chase begin January 22, after the AFC Championship Game. Hunted follows nine teams of two in a…

CBS has scheduled its long-in-the-works competition reality series Hunted. The show, based on the UK format, is getting a high-profile launch pad — it will premiere immediately following the NFL's AFC Championship Game, on Sunday, January 22, at about 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. Hunted, in which ordinary people go on the run as…

Endemol Shine's real-life thriller format, Hunted, is getting a Chinese version. Endemol Shine China, in partnership with Shenzhen Satellite Television, will produce the adaptation. The format has gained traction since being introduced at Mipcom last year with local versions picked up by CBS in the U.S., as well as by…

Freeform has put in development Hunted, a drama series project from Mila Kunis and her Orchard Farm Productions. Separately, Orchard Farm has extended its first-look deal with ABC Studios for another year. Hunted, created and written by Hugh Sterbakov (Hell And Back), follows a young mother on the run following the…

Shine TV announced today it was upping Tanya Shaw and Tim Whitwell from creative director and head of programming to managing director and creative director respectively. The moves come in the wake of current managing director Kelly Webb-Lamb to leave the company at the end of the year. Shaw was previously…

Three weeks after the premiere of new UK reality series Hunted on Channel 4, CBS has picked up a U.S. version. The eye network has given a series order to the hourlong project, in which regular people go on the run and attempt to disappear as highly skilled investigators and trackers pursue them in a nation-wide…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. In the first Cinemax press conference at TCA in nearly 20 years, creator, exec producer and chief writer Frank Spotnitz and star Melissa George dropped by to promote the hotly-anticipated new original espionage series Hunted that premieres on the HBO sister network…