Discovery Italy To Adapt BBC Studios Formats; Irvine Welsh’s ‘Crime’ Sells; Ex-BBC & YouTube Exec To Conde Nast – Mip TV Briefs
deadline.comDiscovery Italy To Adapt BBC Studios Formats ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ And This Is MY House’Discovery in Italy has commissioned local-language versions of The Great British Sewing Bee and This is MY House after striking deals with distributor BBC Studios.
Reality competition show The Great British Sewing Bee, originally from Love Productions, will be known as Tailor Made – Chi Ha La Stoffa?, with local producer Blu Yazmine producing ahead of a June debut on streamer Discovery+.
A linear debut will follow on Real Time. This is MY House, in which celebrities guess whose home they are seeing, was created by Richard Bacon and Nick Weidenfeld and made by producer Expectation for BBC1, will be renamed Questa è Casa Mia and aired on Real Time next month.Irvine Welsh’s ITVX Drama ‘Crime’ Sells GloballyA host of broadcasters have bought Britbox/ITVX’s Irvine Welsh-created police drama Crime.
CBC (Canada), RTE (Ireland), VRT (Belgium), POLAR+ and CANAL+ Group (France) and Magenta TV (Germany) are among the buyers, with US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand rights going to Britbox, which is operated separately to the UK streamer of the same name.
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