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Fox has signed on for more seasons of the Rob Lowe-hosted game show “The Floor” and the survival competition series “Extracted.”

“Extracted” has been greenlit for a second season, while “The Floor” has been renewed for Seasons 4 and 5.

According to the official series description, “‘Extracted’ features 12 untrained competitors attempting to survive extremely grueling conditions, perilous terrain, and the threat of fearsome predators in the unforgiving Canadian wilderness. Meanwhile, some miles away, their family members are locked down at a secluded headquarters watching them navigate their dangerous surroundings alone via a 24/7 live feed. The fate of each untrained contestant in the wilderness lies in the hands of their family members back in HQ. Each amateur survivalist’s family has the power to decide whether their loved one has what it takes to brave the elements and fight to be the last one standing, or whether the family will push the...

Exclusive: Rob Lowe’s heading back into the studio and a new group of survivalists are heading into the wilderness after Fox renewed unscripted series The Floor and Extracted.

The Floor has been renewed for Season 4 and Season 5 and Extracted returns for its second season.

The news comes ahead of Fox’s Upfront next week.

The Floor is a physical quiz show that sees contestants face off in quiz duels on a giant LED floor divided into a hundred equal squares, each representing its own field of knowledge.

In each episode, the first challenger, selected at random, must choose one of his or her neighboring opponents to go head-to-head in an epic quiz duel in the opponent’s category. The winner takes over the loser’s square, gaining valuable ground as they expand their territory, while the loser exits the game. The winner must then choose – do they continue on...

“Extracted,” the upcoming reality series on Fox about amateur survivalists left in the Canadian wilderness, might have the craziest video village of any TV show.

Not that it’s technically a video village. “Extracted” calls it HQ, where family members of the survivalists gather to watch surveillance footage (courtesy of cameras installed throughout the woods) and debate on if their relative is suffering enough to warrant extraction — and the loss of the $250,000 prize.

In an exclusive super tease, things seem to take a decidedly family therapy turn as those in HQ struggle to decide when enough is enough. Or, as a press release puts it, “Tensions mount and strategic alliances are forged, as the opposing families negotiate and compete to send essential lifelines and resources to their competitors in the wild, to help them endure the harsh conditions they are faced with. Pressure reaches a fever pitch as each family...

Prime Video shared the official trailer for upcoming Western drama series “The English,” starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer. All six episodes of the limited series will premiere on November 11 exclusively in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Nordics on Prime Video, following its November 10 UK premiere on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. The series is created by Hugo Blick, who also serves as an executive producer, director and writer.

The series follows aristocratic Englishwoman Lady Cornelia Locke, played by Blunt, and a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout named Eli Whipp, played by Spencer. They come together in 1890 middle America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood.

“The English” is produced by Drama Republic, a Mediawan company, and Eight Rooks. Blunt also serves as executive producer, alongside Greg Brenman for Drama Republic. Colin Wratten serves as a producer on “The English.” Global distribution is handled by All3Media Intl.

Exclusive: Sylvester Stallone, Bear Grylls and Endemol Shine North America have established a production partnership with plans to create high-adrenaline series.

The Rocky and Rambo star and the Man vs. Wild star and the Lego Masters producer are teaming up to create “genre-bending” adventure series.

Stallone will exec produce via his Balboa Productions, along with Kourosh Taj, his head of unscripted development and Carrie Keagan, while Grylls will exec produce for his Natural Studios, which is a joint venture with Banijay, alongside his co-ceo Delbert Shoopman. Sharon Levy and DJ Nurre will exec produce for Endemol Shine North America.

Balboa Productions is behind Taylor Sheridan’s Stallone-fronted Paramount+ series Tulsa King as well as feature films Samaritan and Rambo: Last Blood as well as Dazn feature doc One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz.

The Natural Studios was launched in 2019 and is responsible for series such as Disney+’s Running Wild and Netflix’s You Vs Wild.

Exclusive: Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions has formed a partnership with rising sports streaming outlet Dazn, starting with a series of feature documentaries under the banner One Night.

The pairing suits Dazn’s initial positioning in the U.S. as a home for boxing, though it’s a broad enough heading to encompass other sports narratives. The $20-a-month streaming service launched in the U.S. in fall 2018 but also operates in eight other countries, carrying games in many territories from leagues like the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. Stateside, Dazn made its biggest initial splash by grabbing exclusive rights to five years of Canelo Alvarez fights. It also streamed the biggest boxing upset in decades on June 1, when Andy Ruiz beat Anthony Joshua at Madison Square Garden.

Leveraging Stallone’s creation of the Rocky franchise, One Night films will look back at memorable nights in recent boxing history such as the Ruiz-Joshua bout.

Exclusive: Balboa Productions, the company founded by Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood, has brought on Kourosh Taj to head Unscripted Development and Digital Enterprises where his focus will be on identifying unscripted and branded content opportunities for the next-generation media company to produce.

In his new post, the 20 plus year industry vet will generate ideas internally and search for formats from the international marketplace.

Prior to joining Balboa, Taj was the co-founder and CEO of No Good Entertainment, a management and multi-platform production company and creators of the No Good TV digital video network. He’s also developed formats and produced TV projects for VH1, MTV, Epix, and Fox. His past work also includes implementing programming and marketing partnerships with Fox, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures.

Balboa currently has over two dozen unscripted projects in development in addition to several unscripted production partnerships for projects worldwide.

On the scripted side,...

Every day, advertisers are spending more money on web video. As an independent producer, how do you access this opportunity? The Caucus for Writers, Producers, & Directors, an alliance of television and new media content creators, explored this question with its latest panel "The Creative Independent and the Web," held yesterday morning at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The panel, moderated by Natpe President & CEO Rick Feldman, offered perspectives on the different pathways producers can get to the money by creating the content that advertisers are looking for. Lori Schwartz, Chief Technology Catalyst at McCann Worldgroup, explained that brands want to be involved in independent online video, but encounter difficulty discovering and connecting to the producers. "It's still the wild west out there," she remarked. For Tim Kring, Creator and Executive Producer of Heroes, finding a meeting with advertising agencies wasn't difficult for him. Still, he commented, the brands gave a significant...