New Red Arrow formats “Kiss Bang Love” and “The Day the Cash Came” prove global hits
Munich, 21 October, 2015. Red Arrow International has announced that new MIPCOM 2015 formats “Kiss Bang Love” and “The Day the Cash Came” have been secured by Seven Network Australia and a wealth of other territories.
Following its high-profile launch at MIPCOM 2015, Red Arrow International has licensed “Kiss Bang Love” to eight territories in total including Seven Network in Australia, plus Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland. "The Day the Cash Came" has been licensed to four territories worldwide including Endemol Shine Australia for Seven Network, and to Belgium and the Netherlands.
“Kiss Bang Love” is the provocative new dating experiment from the creators of “Married at First Sight” and is currently in production by RedSeven Entertainment for ProSieben Germany. “The Day the Cash Came” is a bold new real-world social experiment produced by CPL Productions for BBC One.
Brad Lyons, Director of Production Seven Network, said: “Both 'Kiss Bang Love' and 'The Day the Cash Came' are noisy social experiments and we are excited to bring them to Australian audiences. In what was a very buoyant MIPCOM these were the stand out formats and we are excited to be working again with our friends at Red Arrow and Endemol Shine.”
Henrik Pabst, Managing Director of Red Arrow International said: “We have had an exceptional year for formats, with the breadth and quality of our shows proving a massive draw to broadcasters and producers. We are delighted that Seven has picked up these two new formats - from the moment we announced ‘Kiss Bang Love’ and ‘The Day the Cash Came’ the level of interest has been unprecedented, and I am delighted that they are now travelling the world.”
About “Kiss Bang Love”
“Kiss Bang Love” is the provocative and radical new dating experiment created by Snowman Productions Denmark and produced by RedSeven Entertainment for ProSieben Germany. Research shows that kissing is a powerful tool in our search for the right partner, and the average single person kisses 15 people and has at least 2 one-night stands before falling in love. “Kiss Bang Love” puts this to the test as a group of single people in search of love agrees to take part in this radical new TV experiment.
About “The Day the Cash Came”
“The Day the Cash Came” is a real-world social experiment for the BBC produced by CPL Productions that tests the idea that people on low incomes should be trusted to make their own decisions about how they're helped financially. In the show families living below the poverty line are gifted a year's salary in one lump sum of cash by an anonymous benefactor – no strings attached. They can spend it in whatever way they choose: will they decide to blow it all on a spending spree, or spend the money wisely and invest in their long-term future?
Further territory details will be announced shortly.
About Seven
Seven is Australia's most-watched broadcast television platform. Seven – with three broadcast channels, Seven, 7TWO and 7mate – continues to lead in primetime, building on its market-leading performance over the past eight years. The network also dominates across breakfast and morning television. The network is expanding its presence in media, driving its leadership in the creation of content and delivering that content anywhere, anytime to the biggest audiences. The company is expanding its presence in the further delivery of its video and publishing content beyond its three digital broadcast channels and across an array of platforms, including live-streaming of its broadcast television platform from 1 December and its commitment to Hybrid Broadband Broadcast Television. Seven is also expanding into SVOD with Presto, a joint venture with Foxtel in Australia. Seven is now creating more content than at any time in its history and is expanding its presence in international content production with the formation of two new international production companies: 7Wonder and 7Beyond. These two new businesses underline a key part of its strategy for today and in the future: the expansion of our leadership in the production of content. Seven is a key business of Seven West Media, Australia's leading integrated, multiple platform media company which has a market-leading presence in broadcast television, magazine and newspaper publishing, and online. The company is the home of many of Australia's best performing media businesses – Seven, 7TWO and 7mate, Pacific Magazines, The West Australian and Yahoo!7, and the biggest content brands including My Kitchen Rules, The X Factor, Home and Away, Sunrise, the Australian Football League, the Olympic Games, Better Homes and Gardens, marie claire, New Idea, Who, The West Australian, Presto, the West Australian, Presto and PLUS7.
About Red Arrow International
Red Arrow International is a world-leading TV distributor of scripted, factual and formatted shows from Red Arrow's global group of production companies, outstanding third-party producers and digital-content partners.
Red Arrow International is a major co-producer of global entertainment, providing substantial production financing for scripted and non-scripted projects. Recent international highlights include: “Bosch” (Amazon) and “Married at First Sight” (A&E/FYI).
With offices in Munich, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, Red Arrow International has a truly global reach and distributes acclaimed, quality content to over 200 territories worldwide.
Led by Henrik Pabst, Red Arrow International is part of Red Arrow Entertainment Group, made up of 13 production companies across 7 countries; the Los Angeles based MCN, Collective Digital Studio (CDS); and creative partnerships and joint ventures with STV, Sync Media, The Imaginarium Studios and United Artists Media Group (Mark Burnett / Hearst).
Red Arrow Entertainment Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, one of Europe's leading media groups.
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