Fox to check back in to Mentorn’s Paradise Hotel

The Fox US network is set to reboot Mentorn USA’s Paradise Hotel, fifteen years after it first aired the reality dating format, Broadcast understands.

A predecessor to shows such as Love Island, Paradise Hotel is an elimination format set in glamorous hotel in which singeltons couple up to stay in the show.

It last aired in the US in 2008, but versions still air across Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark and Norway).

The new US reboot is expected to be stripped across the Fox network as a major event and recruitment for a showrunner for the new version is underway.

Fox president of alternative entertainment Rob Wade is understood to be behind the reboot. British-born executive Wade previously worked at BBC Worldwide and has been showrunner for Dancing with the Stars and a producer of The X Factor and America’s Got Talent.

Mentorn managing director Celia Taylor, Tinopolis director of content David Mortimer, and A Smith & Co boss Arthur Smith are understood to have played key roles in the project, which is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars.

As with the 2003 version, it will be a co-pro between Mentorn USA and fellow Tinopolis company A Smith & Co.

The project follows on the heels of CBS ordering a US remake of Love Island from ITV Studios and is set to be part of the Fox network reshaping its slate.

The broadcaster will strike out as an independent entity following the sale of its production and other assets to Disney and is likely to put a greater emphasis on live, sports and entertainment than on scripted programming, as it will no longer own a scripted studio.

In the summer, it announced three new unscripted series: The Masked Singer, Spin The Wheel and Mental Samurai, and it recently aired Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back.

Paradise Hotel debuted on Fox in 2003 before moving to Fox Reality and MyNetworkTV for a second series in 2008. It is thought other new international versions are also in the offing.

In the UK, Channel 5 aired the US version back in 2003.

Both Fox in the US and Tinopolis declined to comment.