Scripps lines up lifestyle

MIPTV: Scripps Networks International, the global channels and distribution arm of the US networks operator, is in Cannes this week with more than 2,000 hours of lifestyle programming on its slate.

Scripps brought distribution of its programming back in-house ahead of Mipcom last year and is back in the South of France this week shopping content from its portfolio of channels, which includes HGTV, DIY Network and Food Network.

The food category is led by All Star Academy (8×60’), from Relativity Real for Food Network. The culinary competition show pairs 10 home chefs with professionals to complete challenges in hopes of winning a US$50,000 grand prize.

Also on the slate is another Relativity series, Kitchen Inferno (8×60’), in which contestants are given a choice at the end of each cooking round whether to take the money or continue competing.

Renovation series Fixer Upper (three seasons totalling 39×60’), from High Noon Entertainment, and Orion Multimedia’s Tiny House, Big Living (14×30’) lead the Scripps home and garden slate.

In the travel genre, Scripps is shopping Big Crazy Family Adventure (9×60’), from Dick Clark Productions; Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations (13×30’), from Tremendous! Entertainment; and Booze Traveller (15×60), from Karga Seven Productions, which takes cocktail connoisseur Jack Maxwell around the world to discover exotic drinks.