UCM participants’ news: Crack Them Up will travel to Australia and Vietnam; Sony Pictures Television bought rights to the French format Run & Buzz

Australian company Essential Media and Vietnamese Dien Quan bought rights to create local versions of Ukrainian TV format Crack Them Up, originally produced by Studio Kvartal 95. International distribution of Studio Kvartal 95 formats is done by Eccho Rights, which is located is Stockholm (Sweden).

The show was premiered on Inter TV Channel in February 2011. The seventh season of the show is airing on1+1 Channel by today. Succesful local adaptations of the format are released in Russia (first on Russia 1 Channel, in future on STS), Kazakhstan (NTK Channel), Belarus (ONT Channel), Lithuania (Baltijos TV) and China (Jiangxi Channel).

International TV production and distribution company Sony Pictures Television (division of Sony Pictures Entertainment) has picked up format rights to a new French game show Run & Buzz from Paris-based Newen Distribution.

Run & Buzz, which was launched in April at Mip TV, features 12 contestants who listen to clues and then have to rush to a buzzer on the other side of the studio to answer the question.  If any of participants doesn’t know the right answer he can wait for a tip, however that means that he’ll has to run the ‘buzz chair’ distance much faster. Everyone has a choice, whether to wait for a tip or to trust his own knowledge. Winner gets $100,000.

Local versions are already in the works with HMO Productions in Turkey, GloboMedia Group in Spain, TeveMedia Group in Benelux and Zodiak in Russia.

Now Newen, a subsidiary of Telfrance run by Laetitia Recayte, has sold the format to SPT to produce versions for its international channels.

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