EXCLUSIVE: Israeli game show format Raid The Cage is heading to the U.S. Deadline understands that CBS has ordered a remake of the show, which comes from Sony Pictures Television.
The order is the latest high-profile unscripted order, after Fox bought Dutch format The Floor, and comes as reality producers start to see a pick-up in big-ticket alternative orders.
We hear that the show had been in development for several months and wasn’t a direct result of the writers strike. However, CBS President and CEO George Cheeks told Deadline recently that it has “about four or five reality shows that we’re getting ready and we might do more” after saying that the fall schedule is going to be “very reality-heavy”.
Deadline recently revealed that CBS had ordered Lotería Loca, a Mexican bingo-style game show hosted and exec produced by Jane The Virgin star Jaime Camil, as well as a reality remake of Josh Duhamel’s Buddy Games.
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