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Eco Heroes Experience · TV format

The show is what happens when adults answer.

An unscripted factual format. A class of 9–17-year-olds writes its own unfiltered questions about a real challenge in their world. A hero answers them on camera, and then meets the children in person. Nothing scripted.

October 2026eco-heroes.org/experience/tvGirona, Spain

The idea

Children ask. Adults answer. Everyone watches.

Most programmes about the world's big challenges are adults explaining things to children. This format turns it round: the children set the questions, and the adults who shape the problem, or are trying to fix it, have to answer them, first on camera and then face to face.

The questions are never filtered or rewritten. That is the one rule the format cannot break.

Children carrying baskets together, from the Eco Heroes picture books

At a glance

One format, built to travel.

  • Genre

    Unscripted factual. Children 9–17 on screen; parents and grandparents on the sofa.

  • Duration

    26' standard or 45–52' family prime time; short-form digital cutdowns built in.

  • Episode engine

    The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals: one goal per episode, a multi-season horizon.

  • Key scene

    The Mirror Moment™: the hero watches the children's reactions, live. Nothing scripted.

  • Adapts everywhere

    Hero, school, language and goal are local in every territory; the five-phase structure never changes.

  • Editorial support

    Eco Heroes holds the exclusive worldwide licence to publish the 17-book illustrated series, one per goal, for the education sector.

The Confrontation Loop™

Five phases, every episode.

The same spine each time, so the audience always knows where they are and the tension builds towards the meeting.

  1. Question Bank BuilderA class writes its own questions. Nobody filters them: that is the rule.
  2. Hero InterviewThe hero answers the children's questions on camera.
  3. Confrontation MomentThe children who wrote the questions face the hero in person.
  4. The Mirror MomentThe hero watches the children's filmed reactions, live, cameras on the hero's face.
  5. The School ReturnThe answers go back to the classroom and become a mission.

One episode · illustrative 26' structure

From a question to a mission in half an hour.

  • Cold open. The challenge, seen through the children's eyes in their own town.
  • Question Bank. The class writes and chooses its questions, on camera.
  • Hero Interview. The hero, on location, answers them one by one.
  • Confrontation. Children and hero meet; follow-up questions, unscripted.
  • Mirror Moment. The hero watches the children's reactions to the answers.
  • School Return. The class turns what it learned into a mission at home and in school.

Timings are a design proposal for a 26' slot; the 45–52' version gives each phase more room and adds a family-at-home strand.

Title card of the Goal 1 mission video: No one left behind. Beat poverty together.

The season engine

Seventeen goals. Seventeen books behind them.

Each episode takes one Sustainable Development Goal, from poverty and hunger to climate, oceans and peace. Every goal already has a licensed picture book, a one-minute mission video in two age versions and a lesson plan, so each episode starts from finished, checked material and leaves a classroom resource behind.

  • Cover of The Tree Woman
  • Cover of The Banker to the Poor
  • Cover of The House of Hope
  • Cover of The Children's House
  • Cover of Isabel's Bright Ideas
  • Cover of The Water Man
  • Cover of A Furrowed Brow
  • Cover of His Mother's Gaze
  • Cover of The Maths Game
  • Cover of The Sower of Dreams
  • Cover of The Dog that Said Woof
  • Cover of A Chicken Thigh
  • Cover of His Name is Murphy!
  • Cover of Glasses to Another World
  • Cover of Exodus
  • Cover of The Torch of Peace
  • Cover of A Huge Problem

Beyond the screen

The episode ends; the mission starts.

  • Every episode closes on the same mission the children took on, so viewers at home can do it too.
  • The Eco Heroes platform is live today: picture books, 442 captioned mission videos, an adventure game, trivia and 51 lesson plans in 13 languages.
  • Teachers get a ready lesson for the episode's goal; families get the home mission.
  • Home-viewer participation (trivia, QR, messaging) is part of the format design.
Children and a grandfather planting together in a courtyard, from the Eco Heroes picture books

Local in every territory

What changes, and what never does.

  • Local every time

    The school, the children, the hero, the language and the goal's local face: a farmer, a doctor, a mayor, a water engineer, a company director.

  • Fixed every time

    Unfiltered children's questions, the five phases in the same order, the Mirror Moment™, and a mission that goes back to school.

The platform the format draws on already runs in thirteen languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Danish.

Status

A format design, stated plainly.

  • 0episodes filmed
  • 0broadcasters or production partners attached
  • 17licensed picture books the format is built on
  • 442mission videos that exist today

No footage has been produced, no broadcaster or production partner is attached, and no audience figures exist. Format notes and episode run-downs are available on request. The format, its structure and its named elements (the Confrontation Loop™ and the Mirror Moment™) belong to Eco Heroes.

Next step

Let's talk about the format.

Broadcasters, producers and co-production partners: Karim Zouhdi, founder · [email protected] · +34 607 918 200 · eco-heroes.org/contact. The wider Eco Heroes overview is at eco-heroes.org/experience.

Eco Heroes International SLGirona, Spain© 2026

Eco Heroes International SL · Girona, Spain · [email protected] · eco-heroes.org/contact. Where this document describes a television or animated series, it describes a concept: nothing has been filmed or produced and no broadcaster or distributor is attached.