TV format Development - Format Forward

Format Lab

The Development Team Moved to YouTube

The Wit's MIPCOM data shows a 62% fall in new formats travelling. The more interesting slide was about YouTube.

Format Forward title card reading how to pitch a TV show

ToolKit

How to Pitch a TV Show: The Unscripted Format Guide

Navy Format Forward title card reading The Friday Format Sweep, 25 September 2026.

Market Wall

Friday Format Sweep 25 Sept - Is the Box ITV's Failed format no 10?

Withholding the rules can work. Withholding the feedback doesn't. Hot or Cold vs The Box, and the rest of this week's new formats heading into MIPCOM.

A dismantled vintage television lies on a mortuary gurney in a dark forensic lab, illustrating Format Forward's Post-Mortem series on cancelled TV formats

Format Lab

Two Warnings From Nine Cancellations

Nine big-name UK entertainment shows. Nine one-series cancellations. The first Post-Mortem breaks down the two patterns that actually explain it.