Unscripted Slate · 2026
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O-1 Productions · New York
2026 · Stories That Cross Borders
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Ghosting isn’t just a harmless bad habit. It leaves people with unanswered questions, a lack of closure, and an axe to grind — on both ends of the ghosting. Six pairs — notice we say pairs and not couples — enter the house. In each pair is a ghoster and a ghostee. These aren’t your typical stopped-replying-on-Tinder stories. We’re talking partners of years who have vanished, far-flung lovers who didn’t go the distance, and other severe cases of someone being left hanging.
The FormatEach day intensifies the pressure. Truth Dinners force the conversations that never happened. Daily Challenges recreate the moment things derailed, reframed with hijinx but also honesty. Fiery confrontations and steamy dates surface accountability, remorse, chemistry, and the possibility — sometimes shocking — of reconnection.
Group activities and common areas mean sexy cross-pair dynamics could throw curveballs in our lovers-to-enemies-to-possible-lovers arcs — but the emotional engine stays inside each original pair. Who knows — maybe the villains are the tried and true, not those guilty of doing a disappearing act. Viewers will cringe, laugh, and maybe get their own form of closure along the way. Eliminations take place Big Brother–style until one triumphant couple remains. As rejection is felt, accountability is taken, and possible healing takes place — high emotions, fans edging to know more, and chaos will ensue.
forty-year-olds had never been married
forty-year-olds have never been married
We’re facing more than a loneliness epidemic — we’re facing an intimacy epidemic. The Pact will bring five pairs of singles in their late 30s together to explore their romantic connections. The biggest difference between this and every other dating show? Each pair is a set of long-time best friends who promised each other.
The season opens by investigating each single friend — how they date, why they’re single, what the pact meant when they made it years ago, and how approaching 40 transforms everything. Friends, exes, and family weigh in on a panel with raw honesty, setting the emotional stakes before the experiment begins. Once they move in together, promise rings are exchanged and pressure builds. Weekly stages include compatibility tests, interviewing each other’s past flames, kissing tests, lie detectors, and confronting long-buried misunderstandings. We’re speed-running these weary contestants through marriage.
The ticking clock to 40 adds real weight. The show dares to ask: can men and women be more than friends? It’s not so easy. As their 40th birthday approaches, they face their final choice: a genuine attempt at romance, an engagement, or closing the door forever.
Sponsorship: Jewelry brands for “pact rings” • Boutique hotels • Home & lifestyle • Hospitality partners
Influencing can look like a glamorous job — endless PR boxes, five-figure paydays for a single Instagram story, a steady stream of envy-inducing trips and parties. Yet many influencers insist it is harder than it looks. Which raises the question: are they tougher than we think?
Each episode drops a pair of influencers into one of the most unfiltered corners of the real workforce — the rush-hour chaos of a fast-food kitchen, cleaning out pig sties on a working farm, or learning the ropes at a sewage treatment plant. The audience gets an honest look at how these industries function, while our influencers get an honest look at how the rest of the world lives.
Every episode begins with a glossy introduction to our contestants. Before they depart, they receive a Predictive Score — similar to Naked and Afraid’s survival rating — factoring in prior experience, personality traits, and testimonials from friends who vouch for their grit. Then they are flown out and surprised with their placement. Cameras follow every uncomfortable moment, every small victory, and every meltdown. At the end of each episode, they are formally graded. Did they show up late to the fish-packing plant in full glam? Did they quietly step up and help a struggling dive bar improve its social presence out of genuine goodwill? Did they complain, adapt, quit, or surprise everyone? An added bonus: each contestant arrives with a built-in audience, creating organic promotional reach and cross-platform conversation.
That friend who dates the guy who is behind on child support. The girl who has cheated three times. The “soulmate” who cannot text back. Everyone has one. And if you do not — sorry, you might be it. Each season follows three pairs of best friends — straight, queer, and everything in between — as they navigate romance, loyalty, and control in real time. It all begins at a high-energy mixer where daters meet a room full of potential matches. Spliced between dancing, glamour shots, and flashes of flirtation, we watch as daters gravitate toward their usual types, while their best friends clock the quieter, safer, or unexpectedly promising options.
After the mixer, each dater selects two prospects and their best friend selects two more — plus one wildcard no one can place as a good egg or a bad egg. Each suitor competes not only for the dater’s heart, but for the approval of the fiercely protective bestie, watching from a stylized control room designed like the inside of their best friend’s mind. They can strategically stack the deck: send their best friend and the resident bad boy on a grueling freeway trash-pickup date, while arranging a candlelit wine tasting for the steady, wholesome contender.
Eliminations alternate between the dater’s picks and the best friend’s picks. We watch the dater either learn their lesson or force their best friend to accept they cannot control everything. After the finale, a reunion revisits the couples and suitors once cameras are gone. Who stayed? Who spiraled? Just as important: has the experiment strengthened the friendship, or exposed cracks that were always there? The tone blends heightened humor reminiscent of a Japanese prank show or MTV’s Parental Control and Next, with the revolutionary authenticity of Love is Blind.
Sponsors: Beauty & Fashion • Dating Apps • Beverages • Hospitality
Competition • Luxury Events • Design
Project Runway meets MasterChef at Kardashian scale. Aspirational. Competitive. Visually intoxicating.
One brief. Multiple designers. Completely different worlds.
Sofia Richie’s wedding weekend. Stormi Jenner’s birthday parties. The viral TikTok bat mitzvah with the fifty-thousand-dollar balloon arch. What do they all have in common? The moment the photos hit the internet, every detail is dissected — outfit changes, custom dance floor patterns, party favors, lighting design. Millions of strangers judging as if they were on the guest list.
Welcome to The Grand Event, where elite event designers compete to reinterpret the same luxury brief through radically different creative lenses. Instead of pitching concepts, designers must fully execute their vision. No mood boards. No soft launches. The build itself is the audition.
Episode BriefsWe follow every stage: conceptual sketches, lighting design, floral architecture, fabrication, vendor negotiations, menu development, and crisis management. Budgets are massive. Timelines are brutal. Emotions run high. Caterers panic. Couples spiral over the shade of ivory. Designers take creative risks that could either break the internet or break their reputations.
Sponsorship: Décor brands • Floral retailers • DTC brands • Fashion brands • Liquor & Food
Dating Format • Twist
Contestants searching for real love. Open. Vulnerable. Hoping.
Actors hired to play roles — delivering chemistry, conflict, mystery on cue.
The audience has no idea who is who. Neither does the lead.
The Real Thing turns the biggest critique of dating shows — “they’re not there for the right reasons” — into the entire premise. The lead searches for love among contestants where some are real and some are actors hired to play roles… and crucially, the audience doesn’t know either.
Each episode operates like a premium dating format — romantic one-on-ones, tension-filled group dates, emotional breakthroughs. But embedded in the cast are performers delivering story: irresistible chemistry, conflict, withdrawal, mystery. Viewers constantly question: Was that genuine? Was that performance? Was that a moment of a real breakdown… or a real breakthrough?
If an actor reaches the finale and wins the lead’s heart, they receive a prize — and must decide publicly whether their feelings are real.
Sponsorship: Premium beauty & fashion brands • Cocktail partners
DOCKET NO. O-1–RR–2026 • THE HONORABLE COURT OF SHARED LIVING
A Comedic Tribunal for the Domestic Chaos of Modern Shared Living
Roommate Rules is the comedic tribunal for the domestic chaos of modern shared living. Real roommates bring real disputes to a judge who settles it all with sharp humor and binding rulings.
Before each hearing, vérité footage inside the apartment reveals the truth: passive-aggressive Post-its, the sink-standoff stalemate, the “shared groceries” no one agreed to share. During the tribunal, the judge lays down solutions ranging from chore redistribution to rent adjustments to formal roommate agreements. A 30-day follow-up reveals whether harmony returned… or if the household imploded again. It’s messy, cathartic, and painfully relatable.
Sponsorship: Cleaning brands • Food delivery services • Home organization lines • Renter’s insurance
EMERGENCY BROADCAST • SOCIAL EXPERIMENT • SURVIVAL FORMAT
Ten preppers move into a mansion built for the apocalypse — and immediately watch it fall apart. Weekly simulated catastrophes force them to ration, rebuild, negotiate leadership, and confront the moral core of survival: cooperate or hoard? A hidden saboteur pushes paranoia to the edge.
Dark comedy and raw psychology collide as alliances fracture, egos clash, and fear shapes strategy. Challenges escalate from improvised engineering in Grid Down week, to the desperation and diplomacy of Contaminated Water week, to the moral reckoning of Moral Evacuation week — where contestants choose who temporarily loses access to resources.
Sponsorship: Outdoor gear • Survival tech • Solar & utility brands • Water filtration