Dori Media Group is heading to MIPCOM with a dating format built for broadcasters hungry for relationship TV with a sharper hook. The company is introducing New Love, a new unscripted romance format from Fremantle-owned Abot Hameiri, to the international marketplace as buyers continue to hunt for fresh reality concepts with export potential.
The pitch is direct and easy to understand: four single women are placed into accelerated 72-hour live-in experiences with carefully selected strangers. Instead of swiping, texting, or stretching awkward first dates across weeks, the format pushes contestants into a compressed emotional pressure cooker where chemistry, compatibility, and real-life habits are tested almost immediately.
New Love Dating Format Heads to MIPCOM
New Love arrives at a time when dating shows remain a reliable engine for TV networks and streaming platforms. From social experiments to destination romances and matchmaking formats, audiences continue to watch people navigate love under unusual conditions. What makes this format stand out is its short, intense structure: 72 hours is long enough for cracks to show, but brief enough to keep the pace moving.
For international buyers at MIPCOM, that kind of clean format engine matters. A dating show needs to be adaptable across territories, affordable enough to produce at scale, and simple enough for viewers to grasp within minutes. New Love appears designed with those needs in mind, offering producers a setup that can be localized with different casts, cultural norms, and broadcast styles.
How New Love Moves Beyond Dating Apps
The core idea behind New Love taps into dating fatigue. Many singles are tired of app-based romance, endless messaging, and matches that never become meaningful in-person connections. The show flips that behavior by moving participants straight into a shared environment, where curated matches must deal with daily routines, expectations, awkward silences, and emotional openness in real time.
That 72-hour clock gives the format its urgency. Viewers are not just watching whether two people flirt; they are watching whether attraction can survive proximity. Do they cook together? Do they clash over personal space? Do conversations deepen after the cameras catch the easy charm wearing off? Those questions are the stuff of strong unscripted TV.
Why Dori Media and Abot Hameiri Could Attract Buyers
Dori Media Group has long worked across scripted and unscripted international content, and Abot Hameiri brings proven reality and entertainment production experience. With Fremantle behind Abot Hameiri, New Love also enters the market with a recognizable industry connection at a major content-buying event.
MIPCOM remains one of the most important venues for television distribution, format sales, and international partnerships. A concept like New Love could appeal to free-to-air channels, cable networks, and streaming services looking for a relationship format that can be produced as a local version rather than simply acquired as a finished series.
Where Can You Watch New Love?
At this stage, New Love is being launched to buyers at MIPCOM and does not yet have a confirmed broadcaster, TV channel, or streaming platform for audiences. That means it is not currently available to watch in the US, UK, or EU unless and until a local network or streaming service acquires or commissions the format.
If a deal is announced, the show could eventually appear as a localized version on a regional TV channel or streaming platform, depending on the buyer. For now, New Love is best understood as a new international dating format entering the global TV marketplace.
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