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New TV show planned to find Arab leader

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REALITY SHOW: The company headed by NashwaAl Ruwaini is planning a version of popular Canada show.

A Gulf-based production company has won the rights to adapt a popular Canadian reality TV show for audiences in the region.

The Canadian Broadcast Company's Next Great Prime Minister is a big hit and follows the fortunes of four young people as they are put through a series of challenges in a bid to show they have what it takes to be the country's leader.

Now Abu Dhabi-based Pyramedia, which is led by award-winning TV personality Nashwa Al Ruwaini, is planning to produce a similar show in the Arab world, renaming it The Next Great Leader, which will focus on four Arabs between the ages of 18 and 25.

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Pyramedia is among the largest and most successful production companies in the Middle East, creators of programmes such as the Million's Poet and Prince of Poets for Abu Dhabi TV and the Nashwa talk show on Dubai TV.

Since forming in 1998, Pyramedia has established a strong global presence with offices in London, Cairo, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and New York.

The Canadian version of the show, Canada's Next Great Prime Minister, features a jury made up of high profile political personalities and former prime ministers, including Paul Martin, who was Prime Minister between 2003 and 2006.

The winner of the show, which started in 1995 to provide a national forum for young Canadians to put forth innovative proposals for a more prosperous country, gets $50,000.

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