Warner Bros Producer Ricochet & ‘Masked Singer UK’ Maker Bandicoot Devise Post-Lockdown Dating Shows

Peter White Television EditorAmazon has ordered an immersive reality dating format from The Circle and Undercover Boss producer Studio Lambert.The streamer has picked up the eight-part untitled series from the All3Media-owned producer.

Pulse Films, the U.K. banner behind recent Sky smash Gangs of London —launching on AMC later this year —is flexing its unscripted muscles, and is set to produce a documentary about how hair shapes Black experiences in modern Britain.

Peter White Television EditorA spin-off of The A Word and a con-artist thriller from Chernobyl producer Sister are two of the latest dramas ordered by British public broadcaster the BBC.Both projects will air on flagship network BBC One but what is more remarkable about the pair of orders is that both involve emerging writers and in the case of The A Word spin-off, disabled writers.Ralph and Katie focuses on two of the characters from Peter Bowker’s The A Word.The series follows Ralph, played by

The Office dragged on into nine interminable seasons. The British original? Fourteen episodes and done.

The Masked Singer took the UK by storm last year and now it’s set to return to ITV for a second series.I’m A Celeb’s Joel Dommett will return to host the show alongside Rita Ora, Davina McCall and Jonathan Ross, the panel of celebrity super sleuths who try to work out who is behind the mask.There is huge new twist though as another famous face has been added to the panel.BAFTA award-winning comedian Mo Gilligan, who recently starred on Celebrity Gogglebox, is set to join the show as a fourth

Jake Kanter International TV EditorKen Jeong has dropped out of the UK version of The Masked Singer due to coronavirus travel restrictions, meaning ITV has added BAFTA-winning British comedian Mo Gilligan to the lineup.As revealed by Deadline on Monday, Season 2 of The Masked Singer will go into production for ITV next month, with producer Bandicoot TV recording the show in front of a live studio audience.Jeong, who also works on the Fox version of the Korean format, said he was sad not to be

different than a traditional dating show,” Williams told TheWrap. “We advertised it as the ultimate test to your relationship…I was really keen that they have to be genuine couples of some length and merit.” Unlike most series, the show’s first break-ups happen at the very start of the show rather.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterGlasgow-based Synchronicity Films, which has credits including ABC/BBC miniseries The Cry, is opening Melbourne-based offshoot Synchronicity Australia.Former BBC Drama Development Producer Ruth Underwood has been hired to head up the new outfit, which has locked its debut project as a TV adaptation of The Cry writer Helen FitzGerald’s upcoming noir thriller Ash Mountain.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Masked Singer is preparing to take to the mic again for ITV in September.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorIt’s a story that sounds like it belongs in a This American Life podcast. A young TV producer mysteriously vanishes while filming on the Gold Rush franchise for Discovery in the abandoned mines of Idaho County, ID.