CONTENT AMERICAS: US format distributor Small World IFT has inked a deal with Spanish production company Miraveo for the rights to Romanian gameshow format Win Your Country.
The deal, sealed during Content Americas in Miami this week, will see the A Coruña-based Spanish firm adapt the format locally and produce a pilot to find a Spanish buyer.
The format tests contestants’ knowledge of their own province, country or state, competing with representatives from other parts of their country. The show was originally created by Bucharest-based Zucchero Media and aired on Romanian broadcaster TVR2 for more than 200 episodes.
Small World pick up the format back in 2017 and has produced an English-language pilot. In 2018, the company teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg’s One Hoe Productions and Red Arrow Studios’ 44 Blue Productions to develop a US version of the quiz show.
“This is a huge opportunity for us to spread the word about the format in a big European market,” said Small World co-founder Tim Crescenti. “44 Blue still has the US option.”
Crescenti was in Miami this week to host the inaugural Content Americas Corpo Pitch on Tuesday, the winner of which will be announced this evening.