All Banijay articles – Page 62
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Features
Global formats: scaling the format heights
From naked dating to mountaineering and feel-good prank shows, Peter White provides a rundown of the hottest international properties and the biggest emerging trends.
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News
Tiger Aspect & Kudos to share Amazon & Netflix secrets
Tiger Aspect and Kudos executives will share their experiences of working with Amazon and Netflix at the Broadcast Commissioning Forum, while Channel 5 programming chief Ben Frow will reveal his shopping list.
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News
Shine TV boss to step down
Shine TV managing director Kelly Webb-Lamb is to leave the indie at the end of the year.
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Ratings
Hunted tracks down 1.4m average
THURSDAY: Hunted and Cradle To Grave bowed out on series lows, as The Apprentice fell by almost 1m from Wednesday’s opener.
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News
Channel 5 to get tough with NQIs
Channel 5 intends to become stricter when striking deals with non-qualifying indies and will write to its biggest suppliers imminently to outline its new position.
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Endemol Shine Group’s battle for independence
Endemol Shine Group chief executive Sophie Turner Laing has encouraged the company’s 120 global production companies to compete against one other in a bid to foster creativity within the newly merged mega-indie’s “loose federal” system.
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Channel 5 cooks up weekend format to rival Saturday Kitchen
Channel 5 is to go head-to-head with BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen with a two-hour live magazine show for Saturday mornings.
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C4 locks up fixed-rig prison doc
Channel 4 will give a young offenders’ institute the fixed-rig treatment in a hard-hitting documentary series earmarked for 2016.
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Features
Sophie de Bodisco, senior trade advisor, France
UKTI’s consumer, creative and digital services team lead in Paris talks scripted formats, the Canal+ regime change and the quest to find a French Borgen
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Ratings
ITV2’s Almost Impossible Gameshow struggles
THURSDAY: ITV2’s Almost Impossible Gameshow started slowly, while Chris Tarrant went back on his travels for Channel 5.
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News
Tiger Aspect promotes drama duo
Tiger Aspect executives Will Gould and Frith Tiplady have been promoted to joint managing directors of the producer’s drama division.
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CBS tracks down US version of Hunted
Channel 4’s off-grid format Hunted is being developed in the US by Endemol Shine Group’s North American arm.
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News
Princess sizes up YouTube talent to boost its slate
Princess Productions is eyeing vlogging talent to bolster its factual entertainment slate, following its deal to produce a 12-hour Stand Up To Cancer event for YouTube.
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News
Irish indie exits Banijay
Irish indie Screentime ShinAwil has undergone a management buy-out from international production Banijay.
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News
Tiger developing BBC2 drama on vigilante Jews
Tiger Aspect Productions and New York-based Tenafly Film Company are developing a BBC2 and NBC drama about a group of vigilante Jews who fought fascism in Britain after World War II.
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News
Charlie Brooker seals Netflix deal for Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker has inked a deal with Netflix for a 12-episode run of dystopian drama Black Mirror – although the UK and Ireland rights surrounding the series are yet to be resolved.
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Ratings
Celebrity Big Brother final draws 2m
THURSDAY: The final of Celebrity Big Brother peaked with a crowd of 2m but was unable to match recent climaxes to the Channel 5 format.
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Features
UK distributors: growth on pause
UK distributor revenues have fallen by 5.2% year on year, according to the Broadcast Distributors Survey 2015.
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News
Endemol Shine leapfrogs FMI
The Endemol Shine Group merger has helped its recently unified distribution division leapfrog Fremantle Media International to become the second-largest sales house in the UK, according to Broadcast’s Distributors Survey 2015.
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News
Endemol Shine loads first PC game
Endemol Shine UK has moved into PC gaming for the first time – launching a ninja fighter months after offloading games division Bossa Studios.