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Toba Media launches #SayWhat?! FAST channel

Toba Media, a venture studio founded by Floris Bauer and Van Toffler that builds and invests in new media brands and channels, has announced the launch of #SayWhat?!, a reality-driven, always-on FAST channel featuring raw social experiments, outrageous challenges, and candid storytelling designed for audiences craving real and unfiltered entertainment. Created in partnership with CUT […]

April 30, 2025

Netflix orders WWE: Unreal reality series

WWE and Netflix have announced that WWE: Unreal, a new reality series, is coming to the streaming platform this summer. For the first time ever, the series will allow fans to step into the WWE writer’s room and outside the ring with some of the biggest WWE Superstars, where the drama is often just as […]

April 22, 2025By Nik Roseveare

ITV retiring ITVBe; launching ITV Quiz

ITV2 is set to become the linear home of all of ITV’s most popular reality series as they move from the retiring ITVBe brand to the digital channel in June. The likes of The Only Way is Essex of The Real Housewives of Cheshire will join a schedule of returning formats and new commissions which […]

April 16, 2025

Banijay launches The Osbournes FAST Channel

Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of content powerhouse Banijay Entertainment, has announced the launch of The Osbournes FAST Channel, in a move that will see the iconic reality series made available on free ad-supported services. The Osbournes launches this April on Rakuten TV, LG Channels, Xumo Play, TCL, VIZIO, Sling Freestream, Plex, Anoki and […]

April 15, 2025

Next Gen NYC coming to Hayu

Next Gen NYC will be available to stream on reality platform Hayu from June 4th. Viewers can join the next wave of New Yorkers as they as they conquer the concrete jungle and navigate the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. The series will follow Ariana Biermann, Riley Burruss, Ava Dash, Emira D’Spain, Shai Fruchter, […]

April 14, 2025

ITV acquires The Box format

ITV has acquired the rights to the Norwegian TV format, The Box. The high octane adventure reality show debuted in Norway earlier this year, and places a cast at the mercy of a programme  hat could take them anywhere to do anything. The contestants are placed in boxes and transferred to different locations, before being […]

February 11, 2025

Virgin TV adds 2 new reality FAST channels

Virgin Media O2 has announced the launch of two new reality TV FAST channels, in collaboration with ITV Studios, on Virgin TV. Virgin TV customers with a Stream, V6 or Virgin TV 360 box can immerse themselves in popular reality shows with round-the-clock episodes, all at no extra cost. The new FAST channels launching are: […]

February 4, 2025

TOWIE, Real Housewives to celebrate milestones on ITV in 2025

ITV has announced a slate of both new and returning commissions across its reality offering for 2025, with two of its biggest reality franchises celebrating milestone years. The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE), produced by Objective Entertainment 0 part of All3Media’s Objective Media Group, will mark a monumental milestone as it celebrates fifteen years on […]

January 30, 2025

The Traitors returns to BBC on New Year’s Day

The third season of The Traitors will launch on January 1st on BBC One and iPlayer. This award winning reality series, hosted by Claudia Winkleman returns on New Year’s Day, welcoming a new group of strangers to play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £120,000. The […]

November 29, 2024

Hayu commissions The Real Housewives of London

Hayu – the all-reality, SVoD service from NBCUniversal – has announced the commission of its first original series. Produced by Monkey, The Real Housewives of London will be the next instalment in the popular franchise and will premiere on the service in late 2025. The announcement was made during the first-ever Hayu FanFest held at […]

October 28, 2024