Fox Leisure Group is popping again time with a brand new worldwide format pilot titled Younger Once more. The present comes from The Masked Singer creator Wonwoo Park and makes use of tech to de-age senior contestants who then embark on dates as youthful variations of themselves.
Nathalie Wogue, SVP, International Codecs, at Fox Leisure Group shared a sneak peek on the present throughout a Deadline-moderated session with different codecs execs, which passed off on the morning of the first-ever MIP London.
Fox is out to market with the format and searching for companions. Notably, the present isn’t essentially destined for the Fox broadcast community and will find yourself getting made in a world market first.
Fox has a first-look improvement deal with Wonwoo Park, who introduced it the concept, Wogue defined.
“The Masked Singer continues to be one in every of [the Fox network’s] greatest exhibits, and likewise the one which’s consultant of our DNA. Wonwoo Park got here with this concept of a giant actuality relationship present with senior individuals who, utilizing AI, will be capable to date as their youthful selves,” Wogue mentioned as she launched a teaser clip.
Wogue advised the packed MIP London room that Fox is eager to take dangers and can purchase off paper. It can then work up concepts into trailers or pilots, which is what has occurred with Younger Once more. “Once we began it was actually only a log line,” she mentioned of the Wonwoo Park format. “We actually labored lots on making it one thing very visible and one thing that might actually match our DNA of a robust, loud present.”
The pilot was filmed with U.S. contestants in Australia. Wogue mentioned that the inventive thought has to come back first however Fox is more and more seeking to shoot overseas, which permits it to forge worldwide partnerships in addition to making use of tax credit and incentives provided in lots of territories. U.S. exhibits for Fox together with Identify That Tune, Subsequent Stage Chef and The Ground are already filmed in Eire.
