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Peacock has revealed the five international soccer superstars looking for love in the new Original dating series Love Undercover. The first three episodes premiere Thursday, May 9, followed by new episodes 4-6 on Thursday, May 16, and the final batch, episodes 7-10, on Thursday, May 23.

The new series features Premier League stars Jamie O’Hara (36—United Kingdom), Ryan Babel (36—Netherlands), and Lloyd Jones (27—United Kingdom), as well as Olympic Gold Medalist Marco Fabián (33—Mexico), and soccer royalty Sebastián Fassi (29—Mexico). The series’ voiceover is by comedian and podcaster Jared Freid.

Today’s athletes are mega stars with extreme wealth, giant fandoms, and lavish lifestyles. You could even call them royalty. And naturally, with any royal story, a fairytale is never too far away.

Love Undercover is a modern-day fairytale meets buddy comedy about an elite group of international soccer stars who come to the United States on a secret quest for true love.

Peacock is heading into a summer of love.

The streamer has renewed Queens Court, from Will Packer, for a second season, and is bringing back Love Undercover and Love Island USA this summer.

Queens Court is back with three new celebrity queens who embark on a journey of a lifetime to find their King by dating 22 confident, successful men. Guided by Hollywood couple hosts, Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete, the Queens must let go of past heartbreak, embrace new connections, and find a man worthy of sharing their throne.

It is produced by Will Packer Entertainment and Lighthearted Entertainment with Rob Laplante, Jeff Spangler, Will Packer, Richard Brown and Leola Westbrook-Lawrence exec producing.

Elsewhere, Love Undercover, which follows a small group of international soccer stars who come to the United States on a secret quest for true love, will premiere on the streamer on May 9.

The series is produced...

Between America’s Kidz Got Singing, Homonym! and Sports Shouting, Tina Fey’s NBC comedy 30 Rock had a penchant for on-the-nose reality creations, but the jewel in its crown was Milf Island featuring “25 super-hot moms, 50 eighth-grade boys and no rules.”

This isn’t too far from the plot of Back in the Groove, Hulu’s new dating format hosted by Taye Diggs.

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The series, which debuted today and is being stripped through the week, follows three single women in their 40s, all stuck in the grind of their everyday lives, who check into The Groove Hotel to find love. However, there are mommy issues,...

Hulu is offering a first look at its new dating show hosted by Taye Diggs.

Back in the Groove will follow three women in their 40s, stuck in the grind of their everyday lives, who will check into The Groove Hotel, a resort on an island of the Dominican Republic. The goal is to rediscover their youth, live joyously, and hopefully find love with men half their age.

The special four-night premiere event kicks off Monday, December 5 with two episodes, on Hulu. Two all-new episodes will be available to stream daily through Thursday, December 8.

The show marks the first unscripted Hulu Original series under the Walt Disney Television Alternative Banner. There will be eight episodes.

The three women are Sparkle, a 43-year-old from Atlanta; Steph, a 41-year-old from Miami, and Brooke, a 42-year-old from Los Angeles.

The series is executive produced by showrunner Elan Gale, Bill Dixon, Sonya Wilkes, Evan Wilkes,...

Hulu is getting into the love business with a new unscripted show hosted by Taye Diggs.

Back in the Groove will follow three women in their 40s, stuck in the grind of their everyday lives, who will check into The Groove Hotel, a resort on an island of the Dominican Republic. The goal is to rediscover their youth, live joyously, and hopefully find love with men half their age.

“As the saying goes, you can’t fall in love with someone else until you fall in love with yourself!” according to the Hulu announcement. “At the Groove Hotel, these three women will have the opportunity to do both! Whether they find the perfect fling, friendship, true love, or something in between, this is their chance to take charge and break through the double standards older women face every day. And they’re going to have a lot of fun doing it!

Hulu has given a series order to “Back in the Groove,” a reality dating series hosted by Taye Diggs.

“Back in the Groove” follows three single women in their 40s who feel stuck in the grind of their everyday lives. They check out of their comfort zones and into The Groove Hotel, a magical resort in the Dominican Republic, where the goal is to rediscover their youth, live joyously, and find love with men half their age. Playing on the saying that “you can’t fall in love with someone else until you fall in love with yourself, at the Groove Hotel, the women have the opportunity to do both. Between flings, friendship, true love, or something in between, “Back in the Groove” aims to give older women a chance to take charge, break through double standards, and have fun doing it.

The series leads are Sparkle, a 43-year-old from Atlanta; Steph,...

When the popular HGTV reality TV series “My Lottery Dream Home” hit the screens in 2016, one of the challenges it faced was getting lottery winners seeking to buy a new home to appear on the show. “We reached out to close to 1,000 lottery winners, and we got 10 to appear on our first season,” said Michael Krupat, the Senior Vice President of Development for 7Beyond.

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However, over the years, the show has become so popular that it has attracted several applicants. “Once other winners saw the show and how it was about wish fulfillment and making people’s dreams become a reality, people were more willing to take part. “Lottery winners don’t really need the exposure, and they don’t need the money to participate. The truth is they have great stories to tell, which appeals to them,” Krupat added.

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Exclusive: Anonymous Content is aggressively bolstering its unscripted television slate with a slew of new projects including music, sports, cooking, dating and documentary series.

The company has unveiled an unscripted and non-fiction development slate featuring seven projects. It comes after the hire of former NBCUniversal exec Jessica Grimshaw as SVP of Unscripted Films, Television and Podcasts last April.

Projects include The Balloon World Cup, based on a real-life contest organized by Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué, medical scam series Death Brokers, Deepfake Dating, an adaptation of food book Gastro Obscura, Lance Bangs’ music series I Don’t Belong Here, Billie Jd Porter’s It’s Different for Girls and a project about Factitious Disease Disorder (full details below).

Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and Grimshaw will executive produce the projects for Anonymous Content.

“We’re working with a world class group of directors, producers and journalists to develop unscripted projects around compelling characters,...

First the Us, now the UK- the Seven Network is expanding its production footprint.

Seven has launched London-based production company 7 Wonder, a joint venture with former Maverick Television executives Alexandra Fraser, Liza Abbott and Simon Ellse. Its mandate is to produce programmes and formats initially for the UK television market.

This follows the formation last October of the 7Beyond joint venture with Beyond International, which aims to develop and create shows and formats for the Us. That office is headed by Michael Krupat, senior VP of development.

.Our success is built on our ability to create and own compelling content and to deliver that content to the biggest audiences across our media platforms,. said Seven West Media CEO Tim Worner.

.7 Wonder underlines a key part of our strategy for today and in the future: the expansion of our presence in the production of content..

Fraser was joint CEO at Maverick...

Australia’s Seven Network and MythBusters producer Beyond Productions are partnering in 7Beyond, a new venture to create programming initially designed for the North American market. Michael Krupat, formerly Svp Development and Branded Content at Ryan Seacrest Productions, has been named Svp Development and Sales at the new company which has opened a Los Angeles office. Content generated by 7Beyond will be co-produced by Seven Productions and Beyond Productions, and distributed internationally by Beyond Distribution. Seven was Oz’s most-watched television network in 2013. This year, its Seven Productions business will commission, create and produce nearly 700 hours. Its credits include My Kitchen Rules, House Rules, and veteran soap Home And Away. Scripted formats out of Oz have been popular this year with the Sony TV/Fedora Entertainment-produced remake of Rake to debut midseason and the adaptation of A Moody Christmas being exec produced by Doug Ellin.