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Six finalists vie for Best Returning Format award

Formats from South Korea, Australia and the UK are among the finalists competing for the Best Returning Format award in the International Format Awards 2020, which is organised by C21 in association with FRAPA, EMC and MipFormats.

The International Format Awards will be presented online this year with a digital event that runs between June 10 and 25, sponsored by All3Media International, ITV Studios and Sony Pictures Television. The finalists in each category of the awards will be revealed daily until June 23, with the event taking place ‘as live’ online on June 25 at 7am PST/10am EST/3pm BST/4pm CET.

Finalists in the Best Returning Format category this year include six shows from three countries – South Korea, Australia and the UK – encompassing the genres of cookery, singing, challenge and physical game.

The format from South Korea needs no introduction: The Masked Singer. The hottest K-format of the past two years has garnered headlines and commissions alike, including cracking the lucrative US network primetime market, where it airs on Fox. MBC produces and broadcasts the South Korean original and distributes the format internationally.

From Australia is competition series LEGO Masters, Endemol Shine’s Australian production for Nine Network based on the UK format that Tuesday’s Child produced for Channel 4. Endemol Shine Group distributes the format internationally.

Returning shows from the UK account for the remaining four formats in this category, with one apiece for broadcasters ITV, Channel 4, BBC2 and UKTV-owned Dave.

The ITV show is Who Bares Wins, in which celebrities get naked for charity, performing a strip routine in front of a live audience. Indie prodco Spun Gold TV produces the show, while All3Media International distributes it worldwide.

Channel 4, the UK public network behind so many travelling reality formats over the years, has added The Great Bake Off to its list. The show, a talent search to find the country’s best amateur baker, which previously aired on BBC1 and BBC2, is from Love Productions and is distributed internationally by BBC Studios.

The BBC2 finalist is MasterChef, also in the ever-popular cookery genre. The classic show sets out on a nationwide quest to find the best amateur cook in the country, and is produced by Shine TV and distributed by Endemol Shine Group.

Rounding out the finalists in this category is Taskmaster, a show that airs on Dave but is heading to Channel 4 later this year. From Avalon Television, the show sees the Taskmaster and his assistant set five comedians a series of bizarre, tricky and often ingenious tasks. It is distributed internationally by Avalon Distribution.

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