The Top 20 returning TV formats of the last decade, ranked on renewals rather than ratings. The Rise of the Super Format The Top 20 returning TV formats of the last decade, ranked on renewals rather than ratings. TL;DR Ratings are not published everywhere. Revenue is almost never disclosed.
Seven territory reports on the 2026 format market. What "downturn" really means in each, before Edinburgh and MIP.
What does a good BBC commissioning system actually look like? Not hit rate, but how cheaply it finds failure and what it's still creating five years on.
The Top 20 returning TV formats of the last decade, ranked on renewals rather than ratings. The Rise of the Super Format The Top 20 returning TV formats of the last decade, ranked on renewals rather than ratings. TL;DR Ratings are not published everywhere. Revenue is almost never disclosed.
Seven territory reports on the 2026 format market. What "downturn" really means in each, before Edinburgh and MIP.
A structured failure analysis of your format, before you spend a penny developing it. Every format that failed looked fine on the day it was greenlit. That is the problem. Nobody commissions something they expect to fail. The reasons were there, in the document, in the first meeting, but they
Why The Neighbourhood failed before it aired, and how the Shared Script Test exposes whether a reality format rests on lived experience or nostalgia.
Why do TV formats fail? Three failure models, from The Neighbourhood to Limitless Win to Cash Cab, and a diagnostic checklist for format developers.
The Traitors stripped to its six core mechanics. A format developer's teardown showing which parts of the engine you can reuse, and how to avoid a clone.
Sky's ITV takeover leaves ITV Studios standalone right as Banijay and All3Media merge. What it means for format creators pitching new shows.
How to Make a living Creating Formats, or who pays your mortgage
The Chase Around The World borrows brand recognition from The Chase and format DNA from Race Across the World. Is that clever risk-managed development, or a rip-off? A format development breakdown.
There is a quiet problem in unscripted development. We talk about new ideas, new platforms, new buyers, new technology and new audience behaviour. Then we often develop as if the old system still controls everything. The old system had a familiar shape. You found an idea, shaped it into a
We need to talk about what a "format" is now, in this changed world of making stuff for people to watch.