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We now pronounce you series and premiere date. Lifetime has set January 13 for the three-hour Season 12 debut of its reality-nuptials stalwart Married at First Sight, which has relocated to Atlanta for 2021. The cable net also said today that its latest Kevin Frazier-hosted MAFS: Matchmaking Special will premiere…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the largest orders ever, Lifetime has picked up six new seasons — Seasons 12-17 —  of its flagship reality series Married at First Sight. Additionally, Lifetime has greenlighted a new spinoff series, Married at First Sight: Unmatchables with an eight-episode order and has given a blind commitment…

EXCLUSIVE: More Married at First Sight is coming to Lifetime. On the heels of the highest-rated season finale in Married at First Sight franchise history, the network has acquired Married At First Sight: Australia for premiere in the U.S. The 36-episode import, featuring 12 couples, including one same-sex duo, will…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has given a green light to Married At First Sight: Couples Cam, new spinoff to hit reality series Married at First Sight. The series order comes as the network adapts to the new production realities forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Married at First Sight: Couples Cam will be self-shot by the…

The 2010s was the decade that foreign-language television broke through the global ceiling and got Hollywood to notice the quality of content coming from all corners of the world. While Danish drama The Killing (Forbrydelsen) and French thrillers Braquo and Spiral began inching the door open in the “aughties,” hyper…

Married At First Sight producer Snowman Productions is going global with a new international development division. The Red Arrow Studios-owned business is launching Snowman Global, which is designed to bolster its Danish format production operation into a global development and production label. It will work with…

EXCLUSIVE: Kinetic Content, the Red Arrow Studios company behind Lifetime’s hit Married At First Sight, has picked up the U.S. rights to a buzzy Belgium comedy format that confronts social taboos. Created by Belgium-based Panenka and sold by Dutch outfit Lineup Industries, Taboo sees a comedian spend time with people…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has ordered two new seasons — Seasons 10 and 11 — of its flagship reality series Married at First Sight, which is getting supersized with more couples and longer episodes. The news comes a week after the Season 9 Decision Day finale of the Kinetic Content-produced show last week hit a series…

Lifetime is adding two more spinoffs from its popular Married at First Sight franchise this fall and adding more episodes of Live PD Presents: Women on Patrol as the net expands its unscripted slate. The A+E Networks-owned cable channel said at TCA today that it has ordered Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island and …

ABC has Shondaland Thursday, NBC has Chicago-branded Wednesday, now Lifetime is set to unveil Real Love relationship Tuesdays, beginning this summer. Anchored by breakout docuseries Married at First Sight, the new relationship block will air from 9-11 PM starting in July. Married at First Sight will kick things off on…

FYI’s docuseries that pronounces couples legally wed on their initial meeting is headed back to the altar. The cable net has greenlighted a fifth season of Married at First Sight, set this time in Chicago and premiering next year. The Season 4 finale airs Tuesday night, with a reunion special set for November 1. The…

FYI has greenlighted 12 episodes of Married at First Sight: Second Chances, a spinoff that will follow Married at First Sight Season 3’s David Norton and Vanessa Nelson as they get another shot at finding lifelong love. Production begins immediately in Atlanta, GA, with the series slated to premiere in 2017. In Season…