Hat Trick International unveils new formats for MIPCOM
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| 13 October 2022
Factual and scripted distributor Hat Trick International (HTI) has added two new entertainment formats to its MIPCOM roster in the form of Strangers on a Plane from Strawberry Blond for Channel 4 and Screen Grab from Beezr for BBC Scotland.
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Tapping into the fact that the world is opening up after the pandemic and people are hungry to start holidaying again, Strangers on a Plane follows five strangers who compete to prove they can holiday better than anyone else. The travellers jet off to the same popular holiday destination with each taking control of the group’s activities for 24 hours. Everyone has a different idea of what makes a good holiday but these strangers on a plane will need to please not just themselves but other complete strangers.

Billed as the show that gives families the tools to fight bad tech habits, Screen Grab sets out to solve an array of issues caused by our rocketing use of technology. In every self-contained episode, an expert host meets a family in need of help. Dispensing practical tips, tricks and advice, the expert not only identifies and helps solve the screen habits that are ruining lives but helps to uncover the underlying problems that can lead us to hide behind our devices.

“Both Screen Grab and Strangers on a Plane are well-timed formats that, in their different ways, are perfect for our post-pandemic world. We’re all using technology more, especially at home, and that’s creating very real problems,” said Sarah Tong, director of sales at Hat Trick International. “Screen Grab is not only entertaining, but it offers sound advice on how to live healthily alongside technology and break with the tyranny of ‘always on’. Meanwhile, as we all start to travel again, what could be more appropriate than a holiday competition in which contestants compete in who can holiday best?”

At MIPCOM, Strangers on a Plane and Screen Grab are joined by other HTI formats which includes Australian hit Hard Quiz as well as Hat Trick Production in-house titles Dinner Date, Rich House Poor House, Whose Line is it Anyway? and Have I Got News For You.