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International Format Awards 2025 -
Finalists Showcase

The leading awards for the global format business

INTERNATIONAL FORMAT AWARDS 2025 FINALISTS SHOWCASE

The International Format Awards celebrate the most innovative and popular formats from around the world. The finalists are selected by a judging panel of leading buyers, commissioners and producers from across the international television industry.

This showcase brings together this year’s finalists across all categories, highlighting the creativity, storytelling and global impact of the standout formats of 2025. Join us at MIPCOM in Cannes on October 12th to celebrate this year’s winners between 5.30 - 7pm at Hyde Beach, 45 Boulevard de la Croisette, Cannes.

Browse the categories below to see the shows in this years showcase!

Best Brand-Driven Format

This category celebrates formats produced in collaboration with brands, where commercial partnerships are essential to the show. These shows can blend entertainment and brand storytelling, proving how creative and commercial alliances deliver formats that resonate.

Best Digital-First Format

Digital-first formats are designed for streaming and online platforms, harnessing interactivity, immediacy, and shareability to reach global audiences - where storytelling is shaped by technology and community engagement.

Best Factual Entertainment Format

This category recognises formats that bring real lives, cultures, and lifestyles to the screen in new ways. Mixing insight with entertainment, these shows uncover everyday stories and unique perspectives.

Best Comedy Format

Comedy formats highlight the power of laughter in unscripted entertainment. From improvisation and panel shows to sketches and hidden camera stunts, these programmes thrive on wit, timing, and personality.

Best Reality Format

Reality formats capture unscripted lives, social experiments, and transformations, from makeovers to relationship journeys. By combining authenticity with narrative structure, they reveal human behaviour in ways that are relatable, dramatic and surprising.

Best Scripted Format

Scripted formats demonstrate how strong stories travel, with dramas and comedies adapted to reflect different languages and cultures. This category recognises the first remake of a scripted format in a new territory.

Best Studio-Based Game Show Format

Studio-based game shows are built around quiz, challenge, and performance elements, energised by live audiences and charismatic hosts. These formats combine entertainment and competition to keep viewers engaged, whether through knowledge, luck, or physical skill.

Best Competition Reality Format

Competition reality formats put contestants through high-stakes challenges in pursuit of prizes, recognition, or life-changing opportunities. Whether driven by strategy, skill, or sheer determination, these formats showcase human ambition and resilience.

Best Host of a Television Format

A great host brings personality, presence, and warmth to a format, guiding contestants and audiences alike. This category recognises on-screen talent who elevate shows through charisma, humour, or authority, becoming inseparable from the formats they front.

Best Returning Format

Returning formats is the most challenging category to win, for formats that continue to deliver success year on year. These shows prove the ability of long-running franchises to evolve and remain relevant, across generations of viewers.