TVFORMATS
Formats Trending This Spring
Last month saw the launch of several new high-profile format treatments, including the rebooted
Wipeout on TBS in the U.S. The show garnered some 59,000 Instagram followers, with hosts John Cena and Nicole Byer each having their own dedicated social media following: 15 million and 680,000 followers, respectively. The revival of the physical game show that aired on ABC from 2008 to 2014 features contestants competing in wildly creative and hilariously out-of-the-box obstacle courses.
“TBS wanted it to be a little more athletic than it was in the past,” Matt Kunitz, co-creator and showrunner of
Wipeout, told
TV Formats Weekly of the reboot. “So we worked on a balance between athleticism and humor. They wanted decision points, so on many of the obstacles, the contestants have to make choices: this route or that route. You don’t get to sit and watch previous people run the course. You have to look at the course and think, if I go t
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