ITVS lines up Frauds, Celebrity Sabotage for Mipcom

ITV Studios has unveiled its Mipcom slate with Lifted Entertainment’s Celebrity Sabotage leading the format line-up, while spy thriller Betrayal and Jodie Whittaker-starring Frauds front the scripted slate.

Celebrity Sabotage was produced by ITVS-owned Lifted for ITV and features contestants who think they are competing in a reality gameshow to win an incredible prize.

Actually, their moves are being watched by a team of celebrity saboteurs who carry out missions to disrupt their success.

ITVS’s format slate also includes Nobody’s Hero and Lifted’s show Nobody’s Fool, which sees contestants fate being determined not by how smart they are, but by how smart their fellow contestants think they are.

Contestants must outwit each other in challenges and daily quizzes that test various aspects of intelligence.

Other formats headed to Cannes include South Shore’s treasure hunt show Worlds Apart, which debuts on Channel 4 in the UK on 7 October, and quizzer Time is Money, produced for ITV.

Thriller Frauds, produced by Monumental Television for ITV in association with ITV Studios, leads the scripted slate.

The co-production with TeamAkers debuts in the UK on 5 October and is set in Spain, with Suranne Jones and Whittaker starring as two con-women pulling off a high-stakes art heist.

ITVS is also taking Eagle Eye Drama’s crime and culinary drama A Taste for Murder to Mipcom, alongside Mammoth Screen’s Betrayal and Two Weeks in August, which is produced by Various Artists Limited for BBC and comes from producers of I May Destroy You.

Unscripted offerings include Operation Dark Phone: Murder By Text, which Broadcast International yesterday revealed has sold around the world, as well as Plimsoll Productions duo Extreme Earth (w/t) and Secret Garden, and Northern Pictures’ Ages of Ice.

Ruth Berry, managing director of global partnerships & president of Zoo55 at ITVS said the slate “is built for global appeal, spanning everything from bold formats with mischievous fun to high-stakes premium drama and compelling non-scripted titles.”