US Boss gets Scandi sales, huge ratings 9 Feb 2010
Broadcasters across Scandinavia have acquired the US version of UK indie Studio Lambert's Undercover Boss, following its stellar premiere on CBS thanks to the Super Bowl.
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Mediaset confirmed as Breasts buyer 9 Feb 2010
Mediaset has been confirmed as the Italian broadcaster adapting Colombian telenovela Without Breasts There is No Paradise, after C21 broke news of the format deal last month.
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MEG moves NZ format to Canada 9 Feb 2010
Scandinavian distributor Media Entertainment Group's new formats arm has picked up its first format and struck a Canadian deal for the New Zealand property.
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BGoodMedia aboard All3's Cash Cab 8 Feb 2010
Prodco BGoodMedia, formed by the former head of FremantleMedia Belgium, has acquired rights to UK superindie All3Media's international formats catalogue for Flemish-speaking Belgium.
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Zodiak's Guillotine falls in Spain 4 Feb 2010
A Spanish broadcaster has picked up Italian gameshow format The Guillotine for local production, after a deal with London-based distributor Zodiak Entertainment Distribution.
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ITV Studios arranges Flemish Weddings 4 Feb 2010
ITV Studios Global Entertainment has landed two major deals in Belgium, picking up a commission for its fact-ent format Four Weddings and a 52-episode recommission for its Come Dine With Me format.
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Beazley beats it from the Beeb 3 Feb 2010
Jon Beazley, the BBC Entertainment production controller behind Strictly Come Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance, is leaving the UK public broadcaster next month.
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NBCU has Love affair in Spain, Italy 2 Feb 2010
Spanish and Italian deals have been secured for NBC Universal's dating format Age Of Love, the US studio has confirmed to C21, adding to the format's recent productions in Norway and Slovenia.
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Networks develop taste for Masterchef 26 Jan 2010
Shine International has sold cookery format Masterchef into seven markets, penning deals with broadcasters in Greece, Romania and New Zealand.
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BBC greenlights Initial gamer 27 Jan 2010
UK public broadcaster BBC1 has commissioned Total Wipeout producer Initial to make a Saturday evening gameshow in which contestants are physically ejected from the set.
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House stays at home for time being 27 Jan 2010
NATPE NEWS: The producers behind hit drama House have yet to make plans to adapt it for the international market, despite it recently being named most popular US television export.
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Globo's Love Story told in Central America 27 Jan 2010
NATPE NEWS: Brazilian distributor Globo TV International has closed a deal here in Las Vegas, licensing its new Emmy-winning US$50m telenovela India - A Love Story to a Panamanian broadcaster.
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Endemol opens LA distribution office 28 Jan 2010
Endemol Worldwide Distribution, the sales arm of the global production giant, is expanding its international reach, opening a US office and making two new appointments to run it.
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Spike eyes late-night chat 1 Feb 2010
Male-skewing US cable network Spike is moving into the late-night chatshow space with a commission from FremantleMedia-backed Original Productions.
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Love in a cold climate 2 Feb 2010
Most Latin American distributors are selling telenovela and other formats for local production. But have their plans to grow in this direction survived the recession? Ed Waller reports.
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Celeb Farm reaps good harvest for TF1 1 Feb 2010
Endemol France's revamped version of La Ferme Des Célébrités (Celebrity Farm) kicked off on French network TF1 on Friday with a respectable 30.8% market share.
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Israel's Truth retold around Europe 1 Feb 2010
Israeli drama The Naked Truth is heading into local production across Europe, a move its distributor said is earning series from the territory "well-deserved recognition."
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Metronome hires Nordisk exec 1 Feb 2010
Metronome Film & TV, the Scandinavian production group owned by Shine Group, has hired a Nordisk Film exec to be its head of acquisitions and business affairs for subsidiary Rubicon.
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RDF Rights takes a shine to Aussie content 27 Jan 2010
UK distributor RDF Rights has struck an exclusive format output deal with Shine Australia.
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Lyrics revived in syndication 25 Jan 2010
NATPE NEWS: Twentieth TV has done a deal to bring a new syndicated version of Don't Forget the Lyrics to US syndication, despite the format being dropped by the Fox broadcast network last summer.
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CBS renews Survivor, Race 25 Jan 2010
CBS has ordered further seasons of its Emmy-winning reality franchises Survivor and The Amazing Race, marking the 21st and 22nd seasons for the former and the 17th for the latter.
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Chile takes out Fremantle format 25 Jan 2010
NATPE NEWS: Chilean broadcaster Megavision has bought rights to FremantleMedia's dating format Take Me Out and will be producing its own version later this year.
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Missionaries convert to Banijay 25 Jan 2010
Banijay has picked up international distribution rights to French network TF1's new format Opération Tambacounda (aka The Missionaries), which successfully launched on Friday.
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French, Spanish nets get into Chloe's Closet 25 Jan 2010
NEWS BRIEF: International distributor Moonscoop has reeled off three more deals in Europe for its high-definition animated kids series Chloe's Closet, including networks in France and Spain.
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Babyfoot's Bingo Banko goes Nordic 25 Jan 2010
Danish format creator Babyfoot has sold the rights to its new primetime entertainment series Bingo Banko into Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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Schiller Street moves to South Africa 21 Jan 2010
ProSiebenSat.1's distribution arm SevenOne International has sold German improv comedy format Schiller Street into South Africa, and a localised version is set to debut on a pay-broadcaster.
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All3Media talks Turkey 21 Jan 2010
Family Connections, the comedy gameshow format devised by 15-month-old Dutch indie White Smoke Media, is being produced in Turkey, its parent company All3Media International has told C21.
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US net bags Caracol telenovela rights 21 Jan 2010
Another Colombian comedy telenovela format is heading into the English-speaking US market, as one of the Big Four broadcast networks picks up remake rights to 2007 series New Rich, New Poor.
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Endemol France signs up Loribel pair 20 Jan 2010
French presenters and producers Laurent Bataille and Pascal Fontaine have signed exclusive television host deals with Endemol France after their company went bankrupt.
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Endemol France, TF1 renew partnership 20 Jan 2010
French broadcaster TF1 and Endemol France have signed a new two-year programme supply agreement.
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Toac, Moving Target arrange Speed Date 20 Jan 2010
NEWS BRIEF: Madrid-based start-up Toac has hooked up with the Netherlands' Moving Target Media for a second time, agreeing a Spanish option for its dating format Speed Date.
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GSN alumni lands ITV deal 19 Jan 2010
LA-based ITV Studios has signed an overall production deal with Escalate Television, the 18-month-old production company set up by the former senior VP of programming at US cable network GSN.
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The battle of the Simons - round 3 19 Jan 2010
Details of the future plans of unscripted TV's two Simons emerged today, with Cowell launching a new joint venture with Sony Music and Fuller's start-up XIX valued at a whopping £100m (US$164m).
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Zig Zag set for formats shift 19 Jan 2010
UK production company Zig Zag is to move its focus from factual programming to formats, following the completion last week of its acquisition by France's Banijay Entertainment.
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Sparks cooks up Swiss format 19 Jan 2010
Scandinavian format alliance Sparks Network has signed a distribution deal with Swiss broadcaster SF for a cooking competition series.
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ITV Studios gets an Eiffel of Paris 19 Jan 2010
ITV Studios is expanding into France, opening up a new production centre in Paris – its seventh international outpost – and appointing a local formats specialist to head it.
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Lifestyle hungry to dine out again 18 Jan 2010
XYZnetworks' The LifeStyle Channel has commissioned a second series of Come Dine With Me Australia, ahead of the first season premier tonight.
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VH1 Classic tunes up for rock reality 15 Jan 2010
US music network VH1 Classic has unveiled its winter slate, highlights of which include a rock reality series from Mark Burnett Productions.
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Fuller exits CKX to launch new company 14 Jan 2010
Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls, American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, has left 19 Entertainment and launched a new outfit outside of 19 parent company CKX.
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Change at the top for Talpa 14 Jan 2010
John De Mol's Talpa Media is restructuring its boardroom and has appointed a new CEO, with the current incumbent stepping aside to become chief operating officer.
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Endemol renews My Family option 14 Jan 2010
Endemol has renewed its option to produce gameshow format My Family Vs The Nation in Germany.
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Susamuru Sparks interest in Finland 13 Jan 2010
Format distribution alliance Sparks Network has added a Finnish production company to its roster of international members.
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ITV Studios inks Chinese formats deal 13 Jan 2010
Chinese broadcaster Hunan Television and UK producer ITV Studios have agreed to develop and license entertainment and other unscripted formats to air on Hunan Satellite Television.
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TF1 adopts Missionaries position 13 Jan 2010
Production group Telfrance is launching a teen coaching adventure format on French network TF1 this month, to be distributed abroad by its international sales arm 2001 Audiovisuel.
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BBCWW formats chief exits 12 Jan 2010
BBC Worldwide director of international formats Colin Jarvis is stepping down after 30 years, leaving one of the top jobs in global television distribution open.
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Comarex acquires Bechini formats 12 Jan 2010
Comarex, the distribution arm of Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca, has secured worldwide distribution rights to a number of programme formats from director Leonardo Bechini.
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The battle of the Simons - round 2 11 Jan 2010
Today's news that Simon Cowell is to quit American Idol to launch his UK format The X Factor in the US next year has left those in the unscripted TV business scratching their heads, writes Ed Waller.
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Cowell quits Idol to launch X Factor USA 11 Jan 2010
Simon Cowell has quit American Idol in order to focus on the launch of his UK format The X Factor in the US next year. His role as judge on this year's series of Idol will be his last.
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ITV to raise curtain on opera format 11 Jan 2010
UK commercial network ITV1 is to air an unscripted six-part format in which international popstars try their hands at opera.
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Fox drops Genius over integrity concerns 8 Jan 2010
Fox has pulled upcoming children's gameshow Our Little Genius from its schedule days before launch, due to concerns about the show's "integrity" from producer Mark Burnett.
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Post-Super Bowl slot for CBS's Boss 22 Dec 2009
CBS has confirmed that its production of UK reality format Undercover Boss will debut at around 22.00 on February 7, after the Super Bowl.
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Food Network star to be Perfect host 21 Dec 2009
US chef and Food Network star Guy Fieri has been tapped to host NBC's upcoming primetime gameshow Perfect 10, slated to air next year.
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Dragons fly into Saudi 18 Dec 2009
Sony Pictures Television has licensed business entertainment format Dragons' Den to a Saudi Arabian TV network – the first time an international format has been sold into the country.
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Harrington exits ITV 17 Dec 2009
ITV Studios Global Entertainment head of format sales and acquisitions Jennifer Harrington is leaving the company at the end of this month.
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French Star Academy could live on 17 Dec 2009
French network TF1 has kept the door open for its Star Academy format to return, after apparently revealing that it faced the axe.
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Spanish net gets into Rehab 17 Dec 2009
Two Spanish broadcasters have acquired a pair of formats from distributor Zodiak Entertainment.
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Shine, Talpa partner in French venture 17 Dec 2009
Shine Group's French arm and Jon de Mol's Dutch distributor Talpa Media have entered into a joint venture targeting the French market.
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TLC still doesn't know what to wear 17 Dec 2009
NEWS BRIEF: The TLC cable channel has ordered a new season of UK fashion makeover format What Not to Wear from BBC Productions in New York.
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Moving Target moves formats 15 Dec 2009
Amsterdam-based format house Moving Target Media, the firm behind Rose d'Or nominated Breakout, has optioned two of its properties into Russia and Spain.
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Spanish gameshow debuts in Italy 15 Dec 2009
NEWS BRIEF: Spanish gameshow format The Sting (aka El Golpe) has been sold into Italy, where Endemol has been tapped to produce a local version.
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Reality bites as budgets shrink 15 Dec 2009
A new study shows that although global production volume is steady, budgets are getting tighter. And the main trend is for TV to show real life, writes Marie-Agnès Bruneau.
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TF1 axes Star Academy 15 Dec 2009
French broadcaster TF1 is dropping its flagship talent reality format Star Academy (La Star Ac) after eight seasons.
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BBC talks Talkback exec into new job 14 Dec 2009
UK pubcaster the BBC has hired a TalkbackThames executive to be its head of format entertainment development.
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ITV's Znak poached by LA prodco 10 Dec 2009
Natalka Znak, ITV Studios' controller of factual entertainment, is leaving the UK broadcaster she's called home for 17 years after being poached by a major Los Angeles indie.
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New C4 series uses Japanese ingredients 10 Dec 2009
UK terrestrial Channel 4 has commissioned RDF Scotland subsidiary IWC Media to create a weekly cook-off series based on a Japanese format.
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Living issues invite to Four Parties 9 Dec 2009
UK cable network Living TV is following up its reality format Four Weddings with a spin-off series focusing on 21st birthday parties.
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RDF USA chief Coelen quits 11 Dec 2009
Chris Coelen has resigned as CEO of RDF Media USA, announcing his departure just hours after ITV exec Natalka Znak was named as the company's new executive VP.
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GSN reveals Hidden Agenda 11 Dec 2009
US gameshow channel GSN has commissioned the man who brought Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to the US to produce a new hidden-camera gameshow for January.
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Gervais's sidekick gets Sky1 series 8 Dec 2009
UK satcaster Sky1 HD has commissioned indie Mentorn Media to produce an 8x60' documentary travelogue featuring Ricky Gervais's podcast collaborator Karl Pilkington.
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Nordisk endurance format treks to ITV1 10 Dec 2009
Scandinavia's Nordisk Film TV World has been commissioned to coproduce a version of its reality endurance format 71 Degrees North for UK broadcaster ITV1.
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Scandi nets wooed by Talpa format 10 Dec 2009
Four broadcasters in Scandinavia have picked up Talpa Media's format Dating In The Dark.
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Endemol scores US dating show 9 Dec 2009
Endemol USA has been greenlit by a US network to produce a dating show with a twist: the women choose their partners from a line of men who pass by on a moving conveyor belt.
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Gurin, Coyote have a hand in NRJ12 commission 9 Dec 2009
The first fruit of the alliance between Los Angeles prodco Gurin Company and France's Coyote Conseil is now in production and will air on French DTT channel NRJ12 before Christmas.
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Russia to open Boarding School 9 Dec 2009
A Russian production company has struck a deal with Imagina International Sales to create a Russian version of Globomedia TV format El Internado (The Boarding School).
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Shine cooks up French MasterChef 9 Dec 2009
A French commercial network has commissioned Shine France to adapt popular BBC1 cookery competition format MasterChef – the prodco's first major undertaking since being launched in the summer.
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Sweden spins Wheel of Fortune again 8 Dec 2009
Popular gameshow Wheel of Fortune is making its comeback in Sweden next year after an absence of nearly two decades.
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SPT has a laugh with Korea's Sunjin 4 Dec 2009
Sony Pictures Television has linked up with Sunjin Entertainment in Korea to develop and produce a scripted comedy series for local broadcasters.
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Germany's got The X Factor 4 Dec 2009
Ratings-winning talent show The X Factor is heading to Germany, after rights owner FremantleMedia completed a deal that will see a local version of the show airing on two German channels.
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HGTV draws up plans for next Design Star 4 Dec 2009
The executive producer of US reality series Survivor and The Apprentice has been commissioned by home and lifestyle net HGTV to create the fifth season of Design Star.
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Choir creator adds voice to Studio Lambert 4 Dec 2009
Studio Lambert has poached The Choir and Brat Camp creator Jamie Isaacs, who left UK indie Twenty Twenty Television this week in a management restructure.
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Aussie producer preps Comcast celeb format 3 Dec 2009
An Australian production company has started work on Comcast International Media Group's weekly celebrity news format E! News Asia.
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Denmark descends into Hell's Kitchen 3 Dec 2009
Danish pubcaster TV2 has commissioned a local version of ITV Studios' Gordon Ramsay reality format Hell's Kitchen.
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Sparks fly in the US, Poland 3 Dec 2009
Format distribution alliance Sparks Network has told C21 of a slew of new deals in Indonesia, the Middle East, Poland and the US, weeks after signing up a new Swedish member, OTW Entertainment Television.
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Canadian prodcos join forces 2 Dec 2009
Two major production houses in Canada have partnered to create a production, distribution and merchandising company.
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Poland's Next Top Model has legs 1 Dec 2009
Polish terrestrial TVN has commissioned a local production company to adapt the Next Top Model format.
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Living gets Ugly with new ITV format 27 Nov 2009
Virgin Media TV-owned UK diginet Living has commissioned ITV Studios to make a primetime entertainment format called My Ugly Best Friend, from the same creatives behind Four Weddings.
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Strix chooses Home Delivery option 25 Nov 2009
Strix Television has optioned its lifestyle/entertainment format Home Delivery – SOS Design Edition, currently on air on Sweden's TV3, into France and Spain.
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The changing face of formats 23 Nov 2009
Izzet Pinto, MD of Turkey's Global Agency, reveals the current hot formats in Turkey and how the country's formats industry has been affected by the slump.
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Fremantle pins down Crash 23 Nov 2009
FremantleMedia format acquisitions chief Vasha Wallace reveals that 'feel-good' and 'track record' are the key phrases when it comes to pushing formats during an economic slump.
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2waytraffic moves like Michael 23 Nov 2009
Sony's 2waytraffic has acquired international rights to Michael Jackson-inspired tribute show Move Like Michael and has made its first deal with SBS6 in Holland.
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Nova TV still sweet on Forbidden Love 23 Nov 2009
Bulgarian broadcaster Nova TV is extending its affair with FremantleMedia telenovela format Forbidden Love, acquiring rights to a second season.
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Sparks lands Baluba replacement 23 Nov 2009
Scandinavian format exchange Sparks Network has added a new Swedish member to replace Baluba, which left following its acquisition by the Northern Alliance Group.
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Russia remakes Fremantle's Quizmaster 23 Nov 2009
Channel Russia is lining up its own local version of hit German gameshow 5 Against The Quizmaster after licensing the format from FremantleMedia.
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DRG grabs BBC1's Secret Fortune 19 Nov 2009
UK-based production house Digital Rights Group has acquired worldwide rights, excluding the UK, to new BBC1 entertainment format Secret Fortune.
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Zebra wins Spanish format orders 19 Nov 2009
Spanish indie Zebra Producciones has won commissions for two formats from the catalogue of now-defunct Canadian firm Distraction Formats, landing orders from a Spanish terrestrial.
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Ukraine votes in Yes Minister 19 Nov 2009
Popular UK 1980s comedy Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister has been sold into Ukraine, with a terrestrial channel planning its own version of the scripted format.
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Nets buy up Zodiak's Best House 18 Nov 2009
Networks in France, New Zealand and Eastern Europe have acquired a host of programmes from Zodiak Entertainment Distribution.
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Fremantle names Danish CEO 17 Nov 2009
FremantleMedia has appointed a former TV3 programming director as the CEO for Blu, its Danish production arm.
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The changing face of formats 16 Nov 2009
Macarena Rey, MD of BocaBoca Productions in Spain, reveals how the economic slump has affected the country's formats market and the entertainment genres that remain hot in the territory.
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Digital threatens a clip round the ear 16 Nov 2009
Bill Rudgard, joint MD of UK indie Raw Cut Television, reflects on how YouTube and the advent of high definition will affect the market for TV video clips.
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