Studio Lambert, Channel 4 Earn Wins at International Format Awards

Studio Lambert, owned by All3Media, snagged prizes for Squid Recreation: The Problem and The Traitors at MIPCOM‘s Worldwide Format Awards in Cannes on Sunday evening.

Squid Recreation: The Problem was utterly impressed by the smash hit South Korean collection on Netflix, adopting the identical recreation for a actuality present produced by Studio Lambert and The Backyard. This system gained greatest competitors actuality format on the ceremony on France’s south coast. The identical firm additionally took dwelling the award for greatest returning format prize for its U.Okay. model of The Traitors.

Elsewhere, Fremantle was awarded greatest comedy format for the Portuguese TVI present Freeze, and Banijay‘s Upside Down, produced by Endemol Shine Nederland for Videoland, gained the best-studio based mostly format prize.

The U.Okay.’s Screendog Productions gained within the factual leisure class for drama-factual format The Jury: Homicide Trial, which aired on Channel 4 and was distributed by Blue Ant Studios. Channel 4‘s E4 additionally gained in the very best actuality format class with Underdog: Josh Should Win, produced by STV Studios’ Primal Media.

Banijay Rights CEO Cathy Payne picked up this yr’s Gold Award in recognition of her a long time of service and contribution to the distribution enterprise. “I’m so honored to obtain this, however it’s actually a group effort that features the gross sales groups at Banijay Rights and the inventive groups at Banijay Leisure, particularly Lucas Inexperienced and James Townley, for creating codecs which can be capable of journey the world,” Payne stated.

She added: “In addition to being solely the fifth lady and third Australian to obtain the Gold Award, I used to be informed I’m the primary from the distribution facet of the enterprise. Nevertheless, I all the time see distribution as a inventive endeavour so I’m joyful to see the rising position of distribution within the codecs enterprise acknowledged. … The previous 18 months have been a problem for everybody, after the streamer recalibration, financial woes and the affect of all the brand new digital platforms. Endurance could be an acceptable time period.”