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There are already plenty of competition formats on the BBC, but there could still be a territory that would light up with a competition. Not, however, food or craft. And there’s a challenge to find a new shape to competition programming.


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On BBC Three, competition formats are not wanted. But there is a call for big reality ideas. Naked’s The Rap Game has been a great success. Up next is BBC Studios’ Hungry for It with Stacey Dooley (yes, it’s a competition format). There’s also room for reality on BBC One, but it needs to be distinct from BBC Three.


The factual entertainment team is keen to find new talent, asking for surprising voices. Perhaps this could be done by bringing well-known faces across from realms like sport, reality, politics or social media.


On BBC Two, in particular, there’s a focus on reinventing funny, in the absence of travelogues. Ideas might be inspired by the success of the Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan or Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - both light treatments with big questions at their heart.


LIGHTING UP NON LINEAR


Across all genres, there’s a need for thumping three-parters to work as box-sets on iPlayer, with that all- important social insight to qualify as public service. Spun Gold’s Inside Monaco: Playground of the Rich was a huge ratings winner, with the first episode peaking at just over five million. It’s being followed up by three-parter Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich. Also coming up is South Shore’s three-parter Freddie’s


First Eleven (w/t), where Freddie is forming a talented cricket team with underprivileged kids.


iPlayer is also building destination hubs, such as science programming, which will be bolstered by the new Brian Cox series Universe and Chris Packham’s Earth. Recently announced seven-parter Asia (w/t), from the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, is another.


Celebrities have been a consistent way into finding broad audiences for difficult subjects. Katie Price: Harvey and Me attracted an audience of over five million, while actor Cerrie Burnell anchored Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain from Blast! Films. In a similar vein, Flicker Productions is making one- off film Ellie Simmonds: A World without Dwarfism, examining a new


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