EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle is taking a Love is Blind–esque Danish format to the London TV Screenings wherein singletons attempt to discover love utilizing simply sight and sound.
Fremantle label Robust has produced Sense of Attraction and the present might be shopped to potential patrons within the capital in a fortnight’s time.
In Sense of Attraction, singletons attempt to discover real love utilizing solely two senses. However they’ll’t use the 2 senses on the similar time, so after they see one another they’ll’t converse and after they converse they’ll’t see each other.
The present has shades of Netflix hit Love is Blind, wherein single women and men develop into engaged earlier than they’ve even seen one another. That smash format has aired for six seasons on Netflix and been remade in a lot of territories.
Denmark has a wholesome historical past of originating large codecs and the likes of Married at First Sight was birthed within the nation.
Sense of Attraction is the one newly-announced present on a Fremantle London TV Screenings slate that additionally consists of Amazon Prime Video format Sizzling Mess Summer season, which just lately dropped on the streamer and sees celebration animals tricked into occurring vacation to Zante earlier than being informed they need to run the island’s busiest pool bar so as to reform.
On the docs entrance, Fremantle is taking exhibits produced by Kim Kardashian and Drake within the type of Elizabeth Taylor: Insurgent Celebrity [working title] and A Transient Historical past of the Future, the latter of which follows futurist Ari Wallach’s surprising journeys world wide.
Fremantle International Leisure Director Andrew Llinares stated the non-scripted slate is “actually broad and adaptable for the present panorama.”
“With Fremantle’s best-in-class manufacturing expertise and unscripted know-how, we now have exhibits that may work for all platforms and budgets,” he added.
In scripted, Fremantle is bringing one other Amazon present, Lux Vide’s Costiera [working title], which is helmed by Adam Bernstein (30 Rock), together with the BBC’s upcoming Nightsleeper thriller starring Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders). There are additionally second seasons of the BBC’s The Responder and Wreck, Canada’s Sullivan’s Crossing and the ultimate season of My Sensible Buddy.
“In a aggressive and altering world market, you need to stand out,” stated Jens Richter, CEO Business and Worldwide, Fremantle. “Not solely is that this slate of exhibits extremely wealthy and compelling, nevertheless it proves as soon as once more that Fremantle is the house of nice expertise, nice manufacturing values and nice partnership.”
Fremantle’s screenings occasion takes place on Friday March 1 and it’s certainly one of 40 distributors coming to the English capital for the largest screenings but. Deadline revealed final week that MIPTV organizers are in superior talks to relocate that Cannes market to London subsequent 12 months.