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News round-up: GWR Studios & WeShort strike content pact; TVNZ orders ‘My Kitchen Rules’; OneGate Media to shop Prime’s ‘Deadlock’
By
Karen Gilchrist
GWR Studios & WeShort strike content pact
GWR Studios, the newly launched production arm of Guinness World Records, has struck a new content partnership with WeShort, the on-demand entertainment platform dedicated to short-form content.
The development agreement will see GWR Studios work with WeShort to create new original short-form series to stream exclusively on WeShort’s platform in 2023.
WeShort will also become the first platform to debut Guinness World Records Shorts (10 x 10-minutes) this December. The series celebrates the heart-warming stories behind the record attempts of the most amazing people on our planet. WeShort acquired the global rights (non-exclusively) at MIPCOM last month.
Karen Gilchrist, VP of Television and Digital for Guinness World Records, said: “GWR Studios has a fantastic track record of creating compelling short-form content and this partnership is a brilliant opportunity to showcase the achievements of our record holders, brought to audiences through the talent and passion of our dedicated filmmakers.”
My Kitchen Rules
TVNZ orders ‘My Kitchen Rules’
TVNZ has ordered a local version of Banijay format My Kitchen Rules.
Screentime New Zealand will produce the culinary competition, which sees teams travel the nation and attempt to out-dine each other from their own homes.
The contestants will compete under the gaze of renowned chefs and restaurateurs Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge, who will take their judging seats at the head of dining tables around the country. The show will launch on TVNZ 2 in 2023.
The adaptation forms part of Banijay Rights’ new agreement for the Seven Network’s My Kitchen Rules Australia, with TVNZ securing the series long term – including the broadcast of the current 12th season which launched on Channel 7 and 7plus in Australia in August. The series will broadcast this week on TVNZ 2 and TVNZ+.
German Crime Story: Deadlock
OneGate Media to shop Prime’s ‘Deadlock’
OneGate Media has taken global distribution rights for German Crime Story: Deadlock, Neue Bioskop Television’s new scripted true-crime series for Prime Video.
Based on a true story, the 6 x 45-minute series follows the investigation of an unusual kidnapping in Hamburg 1992, where the main suspect, a furrier called Raik Doormann claims to have been in collusion with the kidnap victim. Yet after questioning by the police inspector Nela Langenbeck, contradictions from the witness statements and hidden messages from missing women begin to emerge.
Despite considerable resistance from her male colleagues, inspector Langenbeck begins to investigate on her own and is drawn deeper and deeper into the case.
The series will stream on Prime Video from January 2023. OneGate Media is the exclusive sales partner for the international distribution of the series.
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