Every day people end up in bureaucratic messes. Forms and letters pile up on their kitchen tables.. With nowhere left to go, these people turn to Beyond Reason, the TV-show that supports them in tackling their case. The successful business woman (Annemarie van Gaal) represents the aggrieved party; she knows all the ins and outs. First, the victims are given the opportunity to find recourse with the right authority—on their own. They are secretly wired with a headset so that the program team can offer support on the spot.
Will they be able to handle the situation themselves?

What if one decision could send your life in a completely different direction?
Being a stay-at-home mother is an all-consuming career – and while most moms are wonderfully fulfilled by this choice, other women may wonder about the dreams they left behind. The Secret life of a Soccer Mom takes a stay-at-home mom and gives her a chance to secretly live the life she gave up to raise her family.

Each hour-long episode profiles the story of a mom as she experiences what her life could have been like if she had chosen to juggle career and family. They give a Soccer Mom a chance to get back into the careers they left behind. At the end of the week (if they fulfilled the job accordingly) they will be offered a job.
If you could do things differently, will you do so? Will she choose for her family or will she choose for the job??

Challenges, records and bets are timeless and always exciting to watch! In the show ‘Challenge Me!’ people show challenges of which they think that are unique!! But… don’t we all sometimes think: “I can do that, and maybe even better…?” That’s exactly what this show is about.
Challenges and bets are won, records are broken in this spectacular prime time entertainment format!

Road Back to Love is a reality program with an exciting starting point: a family is ‘kidnapped’ and dropped at an unknown location, far from home. They are given a large camper and assigned the task of finding their way back home—and back to each other. During the emotional journey home, the presenter interviews, examines, and confronts. Key words are emotion, sincerity, and identification. Road Back to Love is a feel-good reality series that’s a must for every viewer with an affinity for the word ‘relationship’!

Children rule in the toughest family game! Let’s beat the family!
In Rootz, two competing families from completely different backgrounds defend their family honour. This game show is high comedy for parents, kids and audiences. The game starts off with ten family members in each team. The family’s most junior member decides which relative plays in which round. This youngster receives only a cryptic description of what comes next; the family’s smarty-pants must delegate the best candidate for the next round. Only viewers know what’s coming: they get to see the full challenge that lies ahead.
Can a 83-year old grandma beat a grandchild in a text-messaging competition? Rootz reveals it all!

Did you ever wonder how movie stunts work? Moreover, who’s behind those stunts?
10 brave, aspiring and amateur candidates are challenged. Who will become the true STUNT HERO? The task: rehearse and master a variety of dangerous and difficult action stunts under real film-set conditions. The candidates are judged by a high-brow jury including a well-known movie director and a film or action star. Every week, one candidate is forced to leave the team. There’s relief and triumph, anger and exhaustion!
This format guarantees goose bumps!
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Policemen, housewives, surfers, and many others posing on a calendar—naked! For charity purposes of course…In The Calendar of the Year, ordinary people like policemen, housewives, and secretaries will create their own nude calendar in this reality contest. The aim is to raise as much money as possible for a charity chosen by the contestants. Each episode offers insights in two different groups of candidates. We see them in their daily lives; learn more about their motivation for joining the show; and see them posing in their birthday suits (i.e. nude!). For most of these people, the last time they were photographed naked was as babies. Not only do they expose their bodies: they also expose their feelings, doubts and fears.
You’ll never want this year to end!
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It is nothing but pure and genuine entertainment, a great show full of surprising performers and performances for a broad audience. It’s a line-up of amazingly diverse acts that follow each other as they try to win the praise of the audience.
Almost Famous is entertainment for all of us!
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Sit back… and turn up the volume on your TV! Get engulfed by the massive wave of singing: more than 30 voices, all battling for the title of the nation's Best Choir. Let yourself be swept away by the wall of vocal power produced by various choirs, each with its own story, in this enchanting TV show which will guarantee goose bumps!
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A well known personality presents his or her mother or father. The only problem is, there are four of them! Our panel must find out who is the one and only real mum or dad. Just looking at the faces and comparing them is one possibility, but is it safe to make a decision based only on looks?
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People who are looking for their relatives turn to “Lost without a trace” to find answers. In an often emotional journey, people on this exciting program search for missing persons all over the world.
A network of agents worldwide helps finding the lost relatives.
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Do you remember your very first love?
Two persons who where connected in the past, tell their view on the relationship that they had but no longer exists. When they are talking about the time the two of them shared, they relive there relationship and unanswered love are brought forward in front of the viewers. This genuine program brings people together that due to life lost contact. A guaranteed ratings hit!
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In P.A. for a Day our host lends her services as a personal assistant to a different boss in every episode. Bosses are always people who have been very successful in their own industry, and interesting personalities. The P.A. is hilarious, looks fabulous and is not exactly your typical personal assistant.
Although her working methods are unconventional, not one boss has ever fired her!
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Real life law cases are presented in Smith’s Court and undergo the scrutiny of two groups who are affiliated to the case.
Can they come to an agreement on the original verdict?
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In the award winning format Teen Scene, teenagers exchange their lives for a number of days in which they find out that they are not merely changing there homes, parents and friends but also lifestyles, traditions and habits only to be confronted with their own limitations and short-sightedness.
Unique with this format is it’s spin-off program on the younger target 3rd channel: Teen Scene XL.
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MTV Italy, who has chosen for a rock version of The Prison Choir, will record it’s final on Monday the 21st of April. 300 prisoners, journalists and special guests will witness a unique concert. The strong choir will be supported by a live band and very famous artists such as: Alex Britti (very well famous rocker and bluesman), 3 elements of Negramaro (the most important Italian band), Max Gazze’ (a very clever musician), Fabri Fibra (the most important Italian rapper), Meg (the only female…) and Roy Paci (he played also with Manu Chau). Never seen before! Let the Prison rock!
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In this hectic and nerve-racking race against time, two candidates are pulled out of normal life and take part in an exhilarating game that takes place in a world beyond the one we all know. Candidates who are in, can win a substantial amount of money, namely € 25.000!
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Every office has hidden talents! Two hosts visit two companies. They surprise the employees, from the office assistant to the mail room and the director, on a search to singing talent. One company will compete against the other while singing, dancing and performing in many ways.
Fun for all!
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A 125' prime time format for a scripted comedy panel show.
The 100 subjects are presented in blocks of 5, each of them introduced with a little ironical branding, some supplemented with personal funny statements of different celebrities.
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Afraid of spiders, snakes, birds?
In ‘Viva Victoria’ four participants are confronted with their worst nightmares. They are each put through three increasingly difficult challenges to try and overcome their phobia.
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3Koma:
Ruth Martinez / The Calendar of the Year, The Prison Choir

Dahl TV:
Maurice Dekker / CIA

Eye2Eye Media:
Jacco Doornbos / Miss Ability, Daddy’s First Steps

GRB Entertainment:
Marielle Zuccarelli / The secret life of a Soccer Mom

Kontra:
Bruno Seemann / Stunthero

MasMedia:
Jenny Puzelik & Marijke Schaaphok / Battle of the Choirs, Let’s Go Bowling, Challenge Me

NCRV:
William Hoes / Beyond Reason, Rootz, Like Father Like Son, The Singing Office, Almost Famous, We Wonder Why

ParkLane:
Willem Brom / The Phone

Prime Productions:
Wolfgang Link / The Top 100 Most Annoying…

Sputnik TV:
Ingeborg van ‘t Hoof / Viva Victoria

Tuvalu:
Duurt Holman / UR

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