For fans of John de Mol: what to watch, read & play next

Winning television's biggest prize turns one man's life upside down — competition as chaos with dark comic undertones.

An ex-footballer must navigate an entire city turned into a board game to save his brother.

A tennis coach engineers her husband into a world champion, then signs him up for a humbling comeback event.

Reality Winner returns home and is met by federal agents — surveillance and exposure with real-stakes tension.

A kids' soccer team chases a freestyle cup title in their biggest tournament yet.

A homeless football tournament gives marginalised players a stage — competition as dignity and connection.

A womaniser's deal with a mayor spirals into comic mismatches and ulterior motives.

A would-be director has 48 hours to find the perfect groan of pain — filmmaking as absurdist game.

Britain's latest Big Brother cycle: housemates under constant cameras, voted out one by one.

Portuguese housemates isolated from the world under 24/7 surveillance, competing for the prize.

Brazilian coaches hunt raw vocal talent in blind auditions, judging on voice alone.

The original Dutch blind-audition singing contest where coaches compete to build the strongest team.

Sixteen players split into teams each month, but only one individual walks away with €100,000.

Spain's blind-audition singing contest: talent judged on voice before coaches ever see the performer.

Canadian housemates under constant surveillance compete socially for a $100,000 grand prize.

Seven strangers from different backgrounds share a city apartment — the foundational real-world social experiment.

All the adrenaline of the official 2019 MotoGP season — motorcycle racing competition at its most intense.

Official 2013 MotoGP game with TV-style presentation and photorealistic circuits.

A narrative game set under an authoritarian broadcast regime where surviving means performing for the cameras.

MotoGP 17's managerial career mode puts you in charge of a team across a full championship season.

Dynasty mode and season play let you build and manage an NBA franchise across multiple years.

Compete across MotoGP, Moto2, and Moto3 classes on 18 circuits to claim the 2015 world title.

A short experimental game described as something to be experienced rather than simply played.

Perform stand-up before a live audience that votes you off — comedy as real-time elimination contest.

An experimental graphic novel set during a soccer match where the reader reconstructs the story.

A chess endgame manual covering every piece and pawn scenario from winning position to drawn table.

Four teenagers sign up for their own reality TV show and discover how the format reshapes their lives.

A reporter profiles a reclusive ex-boxing champion for a magazine's Sexiest Men Alive issue.

Burnt-out Andrew Blake leaves England and reinvents himself as a butler in rural France.

A fictional memoir weaving SNL days and rural Canadian upbringing into an invented biography.

A detective has one day to find two missing people and a killer — relentless time pressure throughout.

A comprehensive account of the universe's physical laws, from mathematics to quantum gravity.