Banijay Entertainment’s Football Island scores first order from RTL’s Videoland

Football Island was unveiled at the London TV Screenings

RTL’s streamer Videoland in the Netherlands has commissioned a local adaptation of Banijay’s sports-themed format Football Island.

The unscripted survival-sport format was created by Banijay Benelux-owned SimpelZodiak in coproduction with Southfields and will be among Banijay Entertainment’s priority titles at next week’s Mipcom.

The format sees a group of former footballers drop into a remote tropical location where fame is stripped away and survival is the ultimate game.

This commission follows the show’s unveiling at the London TV Screenings earlier this year.

SimpelZodiak specialises in adventure reality and factual entertainment for linear and VoD platforms. The company is behind local versions of global hits including Survivor, MasterChef and Hunted and its other credits include Good Luck Guys, Your Home Made Perfect and Ik Vertrek.

Netherlands-based Southfields produced sports documentaries include No Guts No Glory FC Utrecht 50 Years for Videoland; All-in: Team Jumbo Visma for Amazon Prime and VTM; Young Orange Opens the Doors for Insight TV and ESPN; and Hansie for ESPN and Disney+.

Southfields also provides live sports coverage across Dutch and international football, motorsport and combat sports, including Eredivisie (men’s and women’s), Keuken Kampioen Divisie, UEFA competitions, MotoGP and Bellator MMA, for broadcasters such as ESPN, Ziggo Sport, Spike TV, and Talpa, as well as club channels PSV TV and Ajax TV.

Banijay Entertainment’s slate of formats for Mipcom also includes Let’s Play Ball, Villa of Temptations, Foodish and Lost & Found in the Lakes.