Immediate Release: Tuesday 2
April 2024
STV Studios' Bridge of Lies format set to travel
stateside with bumper order from Game Show
Network
Hit STV Studios quiz show format,
Bridge of Lies,
will soon be challenging audiences across the pond, as US
broadcaster Game Show
Network has placed a bumper order of 100 episodes of the
show, to launch in June.
The series will air under the local
title, Beat the
Bridge, and will be hosted by actor and presenter,
Cameron Mathison
(General Hospital,
Home &
Family).
It will feature an enormous
interactive bridge that dares players to cross by stepping on the
right answers to challenging trivia questions. Each step forward
puts money in the team's bank, with bonus money for each successful
crossing. However, the team gets to keep the money only if it can
"beat the bridge" by returning one of its players back across
before time expires in an exciting end game.
Bridge of Lies, hosted by
Ross Kemp, has proven
popular with UK audiences since it was first commissioned by BBC
Daytime in 2021 as part of a competitive initiative to find new
quiz formats made in Scotland. It has since been recommissioned
twice, with two primetime series featuring celebrity contestants
also commissioned for BBC One.
The programme currently airs in 16
territories, and a local version in Spain - El peunte de las mentiras - was a hit
for public broadcaster La 1 in 2023.
Beat the Bridge is a Game Show
Enterprises Studios production with Ed Egan as executive producer
and Sabrina Hybel Snow as co-executive producer. Josephine Brassey,
Gary Chippington and David Mortimer serve as executive producers
for STV Studios.
The US deal was brokered by STV
Studios, which retained the rights to format sales in the US and
Australia. International format sales elsewhere are handled by BBC
Studios Distribution.
David Mortimer, Managing Director of STV Studios and executive
producer of Beat the
Bridge, said: "We're so excited that our
much-loved UK quiz format has found a home across the pond, and
delighted that Game Show Network has such faith in the show to
place an order of this size.
"Beat the Bridge has all the ingredients that have made the
format so popular in other territories: nail-biting gameplay,
enthusiastic contestants, and a brilliant host in Cameron Mathison.
Bringing Bridge of Lies to America is just the latest step in the
format's international success story, and I'm looking forward to
seeing the response to Beat the Bridge from US audiences when it
launches in June."
ENDS
Media
Contact
Stephen Innes, STV Studios -
stephen.innes@stv.tv
About STV
Studios
STV Studios is one of the UK's
leading producers of scripted and unscripted content and Scotland's
biggest production group. Led by David Mortimer, the group has an
impressive track record of success across drama, entertainment and
factual, working with the world's biggest broadcasters and
streamers including Apple TV+, BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Sky
and Warner Bros. Discovery. STV Studios was
named Production Group of the Year at the prestigious Edinburgh TV
Awards in 2023.
In July 2023, STV acquired Greenbird
Media's expansive network of independent production companies,
significantly increasing the number of creative labels in the STV
Studios family.
STV Studios' in-house drama,
entertainment and factual teams have produced hundreds of hours of
critically-acclaimed, conversation-starting television, including
Apple TV+ thriller Criminal
Record (a co-production with Tod Productions); BAFTA and
International Emmy award-winning TV film Elizabeth Is Missing (BBC One);
nail-biting quiz format Bridge of
Lies for the BBC in the UK and sold internationally; iconic
Saturday night gameshow Catchphrase (ITV); and a number of
much-loved auction-based series including The Yorkshire Auction House for Warner
Bros. Discovery and long-running BBC daytime hit, Antiques Road Trip.
Recent successes for labels within
the STV Studios family include Two Cities TV's gripping police
drama Blue Lights for BBC
One; headline-making Channel 4 comedy chat show Late Night Lycett (Rumpus Media); hit
international format LEGO
Masters (Tuesday's Child), which has aired in 20 territories
across the globe; and Primal Media reality series The Underdog: Josh Must Win for E4,
which is also being adapted for US audiences as part of a
development deal with NBCUniversal. A number of exciting new
productions are coming soon, including Tuesday's Child
entertainment event The Fortune
Hotel for ITV.
