France 2 to play its Joker

Pubcaster France 2 has commissioned a pilot of Turkish distributor Global Agency’s latest gameshow format, dubbed Joker.

The quizshow recently began airing on Turkish broadcaster TRT and raised the channel’s ratings by 300% in that slot, according to Global Agency.

French producer Hervé Hubert, which specialises in quizzes, made the pilot at TRT Studios, Istanbul, using three different presenters and three contestants from France.

Hervé Hubert recently teamed up with Global to produce Fizzio, a revamp of 1950s US gameshow Dotto.

Joker sees each contestant answer 15 questions with an allocation of 10 Joker wildcards, which they can use if they fail to answer a question correctly. For every right answer, they move higher up the money tree and for every wrong answer they move down.

Global Agency launched the format at Mipcom 2013 and is in negotiations with several countries including Italy and Spain.