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Your complete round-up of news from Content Europe 2026

Content Europe delegates learn how to spot an international hit format early

YouTube could fix ‘broken’ kids’ industry if it paid just a little more per view

Kids execs face up to ‘broken’ industry and ‘market failure’ but vow to keep fighting

Kids’ pubcasters call on YouTube to invest in children’s content

Globo unveils latest microdrama Who is the Father of My Baby?, makes A Time to Love sale

Exploit off-screen opportunities and partnerships to drive format revenue, Content Europe told

UK’s BossaNova Media digs up historical exploration series Ruins Rise & Fall

Dori Media offering equity in paper formats in return for airtime, reveals Nadav Palti

Traitors India heads to BBC amid buoyant market for finished tape of hit format

France’s Fluent in 40 wins Content Europe’s inaugural format pitch contest

Use AI in your pitch but remember ‘people buy people,’ advises The Format Doctor

Hearst, Zig Zag pair for true crime series Rob Rinder: The Case I Can’t Forget

ZDF, TF1, TV4 share appetite for new IP and original formats at Content Europe

Catalan pubcaster 3Cat reshapes business model to share IP with producers

Ireland’s TG4 acquires Belgian format We’ve Got to Walk for local adaptation

Creator economy ‘key to the future of formats’ as distributors mine YouTube for IP

Smartphones continue to erode traditional TV’s market share – Omdia

Unscripted leads European buyers’ shopping lists, with France TV most prolific – Ampere

Banijay extends alliance with Japan’s Yoshimoto, seals format rights to The Laughing Throne

StudioCanal launches sales of interior design reality format Eyecatchers

Banijay takes worldwide rights to French digital-first format Stop the Train

BBC wildlife format Springwatch gets first int’l adaptation via Spain’s EITB

RTL Hungary, TV2 Denmark get wise to Nation’s Dumbest format

Portugal’s SIC lands Turkish drama from Eccho Rights as Content Europe launches

Finalists announced for Content Europe Global Formats Pitch Competition

Nippon TV to present Gyokuro Studio formats at Content Europe in Lisbon

CONTENT EUROPE PODCAST

Content Europe: All3’s Dug James divulges The Traitors’ secrets; BBC’s Sumi Connock, Fremantle’s Vasha Wallace, Banijay’s James Townley and Small World’s Tim Crescenti debate the future of formats

Apr 23, 2026 01:02:50

CONTENT EUROPE: From Lisbon, All3Media's Dug James – the man behind the global roll-out of The Traitors – discusses the format's incredible success and the tricks of adapting it for different markets [02:04]; BBC Studios' Sumi Connock, Fremantle's Vasha Wallace, Banijay's James Townley and Small World's Tim Crescenti on the latest challenges and opportunities shaping the formats business and where it's headed next [29:37].