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Voting has now closed for the sixth annual C21 Format Awards in association with Frapa, with the top five shows in each category now going through to the final judging stage.
This year, 100 formats made the online final and during the event more than 9,000 votes were cast. A final jury of 12 of the world’s most influential formats buyers is now considering which show out of the five finalists in each category will take home an award.
This year’s judges:
The awards will be presented on Wednesday October 10 at a gala ceremony from 18.30 to 20.00 at ClubC21 during Mipcom 2012. The finalists in each category are as follows…
Best Factual Entertainment Format
Finalists:
Who’s Been Sleeping in My House?
From ABC Commercial
Every home has a story to tell. Who’s lived there? Who’s eaten there? Who’s slept there? Archaeologist Adam Ford reveals the rich past and living history of some of Australia’s most intriguing houses.
Master Key
From Armoza Formats
Master Key is an original format that breathes life into beloved classical music pieces, allowing them to come alive before today’s viewers.
Lovetown
From BBC Worldwide
A unique social experiment changing lives.
The Pitch
From All3Media International
Take your seat in the boardroom for an inside look at the world of advertising. Each episode sees two top creative advertising agencies go head-to-head as they pitch for a major new contract with huge financial gains to be had.
Son of a Brief – An Advertising Makeover
From Showethica Lda
The Son of a Brief is an advertising guru who visits small business owners candidly commenting on their (poor) ads and changing their logos and ads with the help of a top advertising agency.
Best Competition Reality Format
Finalists:
Your Face Sounds Familiar (Tu Cara Me Suena)
From Endemol
The show where today’s stars pick up where the original music legends left off.
Master Class
From Keshet International
Music talent show for children singing old classics with only positive reviews and without elimination.
Jail Birds
From Film.UA Group
The goal is to help ex-convicts in their rehabilitation efforts and to find suitable jobs for the winners of the show. The focal point is to create circumstances in which the clash between a stereotypical inmate and an honest average person would be most obvious.
Fashion Star
From Electus International
Featuring host and executive producer Elle Macpherson along with celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos, the series will give 14 unknown designers the chance to win a multimillion-dollar prize to launch their collections in three of America’s largest retailers: Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue. Each week, the winning designs will be available immediately online for America to buy and in stores the next day.
Design for Iceland
From Sagafilm
Nine passionate designers get the chance of a lifetime to design fashionable yet functional wear for a top outdoor and workwear brand. They embark on a gruelling competition for their dream job but only one gets hired.
Best Comedy Format
Finalists:
Twentysomething
From ABC Commercial
Whether it’s finding out how you got home last night or what to do with the rest of your life, the twentysomething world is filled with massive highs, heart-breaking lows and plenty of drinks in between.
World Series of Dating
From All3Media International
Hilarious gameshow format that sees gorgeous men compete for the affections of beautiful women. Romance becomes a competitive sport, complete with over-the-top commentators and technical analysis.
Money From Strangers
From All3Media International
How much money would it take for you to make a fool of yourself in public? Money from Strangers tests how far the public will go for cash. As the money goes up, so do the laughs as the tasks get more outrageous, daring and embarrassing.
Impractical Jokers
From NorthSouth Productions
A hidden-camera show in which four comedians compete in the most embarrassing dares imaginable. And whoever loses gets punished in the most mortifying challenge ever.
Holland In Da Hood
From Eyeworks
Some people are just born in the wrong place. And with the rising global popularity of hip-hop culture, more and more wannabe gangsta rappers from small towns around the world yearn to make it as a star. They’re bad, fierce and the world is waiting for them… so they believe. The only thing they are missing is the opportunity. So, we are going to help them by bringing them to the one place they think they belong: the birthplace of hip-hop, the ‘hood.’
Best Studio-Based Gameshow Format
Finalists:
The Money Pump
From Dori Media Group
The Money Pump is an innovative primetime gameshow featuring two contestants fighting together against The Money Pump – over 1,000,000 shekels – by solving eight trivia questions. The contestants are playing as a couple, but they each have to answer separately.
The Exit List
From Absolutely Independent
In the Exit List, contestants have to make their way through a 24-room maze that challenges them to memorise the answers to the questions they have to give in every room. If they manage to remember their entire Exit List of answers, they can escape the maze with a cash prize of up to £200,000. Each question gives them a single correct answer to remember for their list. But if they get it wrong, they need to remember all the four possible answers. How far do you trust you own mind?
Are You Normal?
From All3Media International
Is it normal to kiss your grandma on the lips? Have you ever had a wee in the shower? This fabulously fun gameshow asks the public what they get up to when no one’s looking as they try to answer that most difficult question of all: Are You Normal?
Trust
From Banijay International
In this suspenseful studio quiz format, two complete strangers must work together to answer trivia questions. The more they get right, the more cash they amass – but there’s a catch. At some point in the game, during a nerve-wracking face-to-face round, the partners are transformed into opponents and one of the two will double-cross the other, taking the winnings to date and leaving their former ally with nothing.
The Bank Job
From Endemol
The Bank Job is a TV event giving contestants the chance to pull off the ultimate heist and walk away with a life-changing sum of money. Who will be the first to get rich and get out?
Best Brand-Driven Format
Finalists:
Find My Past
From Lion TV
Find My Past is a genealogical 10-part series for the Yesterday channel in the UK, in which three ordinary people find out how they are linked to one iconic moment in British history through their ancestors.
Fashion Star
From Electus International
Featuring host and executive producer Elle Macpherson along with celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos, the series will give 14 unknown designers the chance to win a multimillion-dollar prize to launch their collections in three of America’s largest retailers: Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue. Each week, the winning designs will be available immediately online for America to buy and in stores the next day.
Design for Iceland
From Sagafilm
Nine passionate designers get a chance of a lifetime to design fashionable yet functional wear for a top outdoor and workwear brand. They embark on a gruelling competition for their dream job but only one gets hired.
Out of the (Set-Top) Box
From Showethica Lda
Out of the (Set-Top) Box is a branded entertainment comedy series where four comic talents take on the marketing department of the TV-internet-telephone provider MEO by Portugal Telecom to create a memorable advertising campaign for the brand.
The Tara Sharma Show – Diaries of a New Mum
From Jack in the Box Worldwide
The Tara Sharma Show – Diaries of a New Mum is a peek into Tara’s life as an actor and a new mother that captures her adventures around the world with her son Zen, capturing the joys of parenting.
Best Scripted Format
Finalists:
Hollywood Girls
From Can’t Stop Media
Caro has been through an abrupt break-up a few days before her wedding and Ayem got into an argument with her mother.
Pobres Rico (From Riches to Rags)
From RCN Television
The Ricos are linked to the Siachoques and their lives are intertwined forever. They will understand that it’s not money that produces happiness but love, solidarity and union. There is no need to be attached to material things or to luxuries but to enjoy life with all its good and bad. After all, being rich is not about having the most but about needing the least.
Day & Night
From All3Media International
Constructed reality goes urban in the youthful smash hit from the genre’s leader, Filmpool. With its mix of wild and diverse characters, it proved an instant hit with viewers in Germany.
Street Justice
From Armoza Formats
Israel’s break-out crime drama Street Justice blurs the lines between legality and justice in a series packed with non-stop action, explosive stunts, gun fights, gritty crimes, car chases, dangerous romance and more.
The Kitchen Musical
From Small World IFT
The Kitchen Musical is a mouth-watering dramatic musical TV series packed with hit songs, delicious recipes and vibrant choreography, set in the fast-paced and cutthroat world of culinary arts.
Best Multi-Platform Format:
Finalists
Who’s In, Who’s Out
From Sony Pictures Television
The ground-breaking talent show format within an interactive drama.
50 Things You Have to Know
From Keshet International
A new big-money gameshow and a true television event. Viewers at home as well as the couples competing in the studio play for a big prize as they test their knowledge and learn about the most common, fundamental terms (the “things”) every person needs to know in today’s world.
Sing Date
From Shine International
Sing Date is a unique new format where people look for love by singing to each other online. From a host of potential online partners, one lonely heart chooses three people to duet with ‘webcam to webcam’, performing to karaoke tracks in their own homes. From these three she must choose just one to meet face to face in the Sing Date studio. It’s a huge internet phenomenon, now it’s an addictive TV show. The show is packed with great human stories, classic love songs and it’s very funny. Sing Date delivered a 54% week-on-week increase in audience for Sky Living HD and is #1 on the UK’s top entertainment magazine ‘Heat Hot List’.
Interview á la Carte
From Eurostar Media Group/La Cometa TV
A new spin-off from the interview genre, which combines aesthetic and technological resources making it the interview of the 21st Century.
Fashion Star
From Electus International
Featuring host and executive producer Elle Macpherson along with celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos, the series will give 14 unknown designers the chance to win a multimillion-dollar prize to launch their collections in three of America’s largest retailers: Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue. Each week, the winning designs will be available immediately online for America to buy and in stores the next day.
