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Banijay
Banijay Entertainment S.A. (formerly Banijay Group and later Banijay) is a French multinational television production and distribution company which is the world's largest international content producer and distributor with over 130 production companies across 23 territories, and a multi-genre catalogue containing over 185,000 hours of original programming. Headquartered in Paris, the company was founded in January 2008 by Stéphane Courbit, former president of Endemol France, and has risen since its inception, to become a €3.2bn turnover business. It is a subsidiary of Banijay Group N.V., based in Amsterdam. The company has expanded over the years through multiple acquisitions, including its purchases of Zodiak Media in 2016, Endemol Shine Group in 2020, when it adopted its current name, and Beyond International in 2022. The group's non-scripted television formats include '' Big Brother'', ''Survivor'', ''Deal or No Deal'', '' Temptation Island'', ''MasterChef'', ''Don't Forg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banijay Kids & Family
Banijay Kids & Family (formerly known as Zodiak Kids, Zodiak Kids Studios and Zodiak Kids & Family) is a French television production company owned by Banijay Entertainment based in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The company was originally founded in February 2011 by Zodiak Media bringing together its children's production companies under one roof. Benoît Di Sabatino is CEO. History In September 2005, Marathon Media announced that they've made a merger deal with the French division of the British-based European private firm Bridgepoint Capital who owns French TV production group Tele Images, to create the biggest major production and distribution group based in France with Tele Images' subsidiaries GTV Productions and Adventure Line Productions producer of '' Fort Boyard'' being part of the new group along with Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel continuing to hold their stakes in Marathon's animation division. The following year in January 2006, Marathon Media had completed their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemol Shine Group
Endemol Shine Group B.V. (stylized as EndemolShineGroup) was a Dutch production and distribution company of scripted and non-scripted content, responsible for programmes such as '' Big Brother'', '' Deal or No Deal'', '' The Money Drop'', '' Fear Factor'', ''MasterChef'', '' Your Face Sounds Familiar'', '' Peaky Blinders'', '' Black Mirror'', '' Humans'', '' Grantchester'' and '' Tin Star''. In 2018, Endemol Shine Group had 700 productions on air across 270 platforms and channels. K7 Media report's Tracking the Giants: Top 100 Travelling TV Formats 2018-19 also recognized Endemol Shine Group as the production and distribution company with the most travelled formats in 2018. Formed in 2015 through a merger of Dutch television studio Endemol and Elisabeth Murdoch's UK-based studio Shine Group, Endemol Shine Group companies included Dragonfly, Kudos, and Princess Productions. It also included Shine TV which was founded in 2001 by Elisabeth Murdoch; and Metronome Film & Televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zodiak Media
Zodiak Media was a Swedish and later French global independent television group with up to 45 companies covering fiction, entertainment, and animation, spread across 15 countries, including France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Spain, the Nordic countries, and Russia. The group merged in February 2016 with Banijay Group, which then became the world's leading independent producer of content for television and multimedia platforms. Zodiak Rights, the international distribution arm of Zodiak Media, now a Banijay Entertainment company, is one of the leading distributors on the international market. Its catalogue has over 20,000 hours of programming. History The Zodiak Media group was formed by the successive acquisition of television production companies under the impetus of the Italian De Agostini: Magnolia and Marathon Media in 2007 (Italy, Spain and France), Zodiak Television in 2008 (Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia), RDF Media in 2010 (United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banijay UK Productions
Banijay UK Productions Limited, trading as Banijay UK, is a British production company. Since 2020, the company has been a subsidiary of Banijay Entertainment. Banijay UK incorporates a number of production brands, including Artists Studio, Darlow Smithson Productions, House of Tomorrow, Initial, Remarkable Entertainment (previously Brighter Pictures and Cheetah Television), Tiger Aspect, Tigress Productions, Zeppotron, and their digital divisions: Endemol Games and Endemol Digital Studio. After entering a joint venture with 21st Century Fox, additional companies under the new Endemol Shine UK umbrella include Dragonfly, Kudos, and Princess Productions (now defunct). The various television production brands specialize in a broad range of genres including entertainment, reality series, drama series, specialist factual, arts, live events, music entertainment, documentaries, youth shows, and comedy. In the United Kingdom, Banijay UK is mostly known for producing ''Big Brother'' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond International
Beyond International Limited is an international television and film production company with operations in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. The company is involved in the creation and international distribution of television, feature films and ancillary products. The company has an extensive television program catalogue of over 5,000 hours and covers all genres including drama, feature films, comedy, children's, reality, and documentary programs. The company was formed in 1984 to produce the science and technology magazine program '' Beyond 2000'', a commercial reworking of the program ''Towards 2000'' which aired on the Australian public broadcaster ABC. ''Beyond 2000'' was later rebooted in 2005 as '' Beyond Tomorrow''. Other notable programming produced and/or distributed by Beyond include ''MythBusters'', '' Deadly Women'', '' Beat Bugs'' and '' Highway Thru Hell'' (most of which is now owned by Banijay Entertainment). History The company was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screentime
Screentime is an Australian television production company, which develops and produces scripted and unscripted television programs in Australia and New Zealand. The company has produced numerous popular series including '' Popstars'', the '' Underbelly'' format, '' RBT'' and '' Janet King''. In 2012, French company Banijay Entertainment acquired a majority stake in Screentime. History The company was formed by Bob Campbell and Des Monaghan with Capital Investment Group in 1996. Screentime's first production was New Zealand talk show ''5.30 with Jude'' on TV One which ran for three seasons. In 1999, Screentime bought the format rights to talent competition '' Popstars'' from its New Zealand creator, and went on to sell and co-produce adaptations of the format internationally. In 2002, it was estimated that Screentime earned 20 percent of revenue generated from '' Popstars: The Rivals''. In 2012, Banijay Group purchased a controlling stake in Screentime, giving Screentime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brainpool TV
Brainpool TV GmbH is a German television production company located in Cologne. History It was a subsidiary of VIVA Medien AG between 2001 and 2006, until a management buyout in January 2007, now owned by Banijay. The film '' Stromberg – The Movie'' was crowdfunded with €1,000,000 in one week by 3,000 fans in December 2011. In June 2015, Brainpool announced a layoff of 80 employees at the end of 2015, due to Raab's announced retirement from the television industry. However, the Cologne Labor Court deemed some layoffs to be unjustified and thus invalid. At the beginning of 2019 it was announced that Banijay Germany CEO and shareholder Marcus Wolter had been appointed as the new managing director. In June 2020, Banijay took over the rest of the shares. Productions * Die Harald Schmidt Show (until July 1998, from then ''Bonito'') * Die Wochenshow * TV total * Ladykracher * Elton.tv * Rent a Pocher * RTL Promiboxen * Der Bachelor * Anke Late Night * Stromberg * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Survivor (franchise)
''Survivor'' is a reality competition, reality-competition television franchise produced globally. The show features a group of contestants deliberately marooned in an isolated location, where they must provide basic survival necessities for themselves. The contestants compete in challenges for rewards and immunity (reality television), immunity from elimination. The contestants are progressively eliminated from the game as they are voted out by their fellow contestants until only one remains to be awarded the grand prize and named the "Sole Survivor". The British television producer Charlie Parsons developed the format for ''Survivor'' in 1992 for Planet 24, a United Kingdom television production company; the Swedish version, which debuted in September 1997 as ''Robinson (TV series), Expedition Robinson'', became the first ''Survivor'' series to be broadcast on television. Since its launch in 2000, the flagship Survivor (American TV series), American version of ''Survivor'' ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Courbit
Stéphane Courbit (born 28 April 1965) is a French businessman in the sector of media and television. In 2022, his net worth was estimated to be €2,200 million euros. He was listed as the 56th-richest man in France. Biography Beginnings Stéphane Courbit graduated from the ISG Business School of Paris and the University Institutes of Technology of Valence. In 1990, he took part in the talk show, '' Ciel, mon mardi !''. At the end of the show, he met the host, Christophe Dechavanne, and made him a show proposal. Christophe Dechavanne hired him as an intern at its production company Coyote where Stéphane Courbit became the producer of shows such as ''Combien ça coûte ?'', ''Coucou c'est nous !'' and ''La Première Fois''. Audiovisual production In September 1993, he made a brief appearance on TF1 to work on the show ''TV Vision'' produced by Charles Villeneuve. In the spring of 1994, he collaborated with the French TV presenter Arthur with whom he created the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MasterChef
''MasterChef'' is a competitive cooking show television format created by Franc Roddam, which originated with MasterChef (British TV series), the British version in July 1990. The show aims to discover the culinary talent of chefs of varying skill levels, through a series of cooking challenges, watched over by various acclaimed food critics and chefs. Dave Ross commissioned the show for the BBC and gave it the name; he had already produced ''Masterteam'', a quiz show hosted by Angela Rippon, and worked on the long-running ''Mastermind (British game show), Mastermind'', and so the name was a continuation of that. The format was revived and updated for the BBC in February 2005 by executive producers Roddam and John Silver with series producer Karen Ross. The revived format is sold internationally by Banijay. Its first international adaptation was ''MasterChef Australia'', which began in 2009. The show has since been adapted in several other countries. Format The show's format h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Brother (franchise)
''Big Brother'' is a reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999 and subsequently syndicated internationally. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "HouseGuests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The name is inspired by Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), Big Brother from George Orwell's novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', and the housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, they are voted out of the house (usually on a weekly basis) until only one remains and wins the cash prize. , there have been 508 seasons of ''Big Brother'' in over 63 franchise countries and regions. English-language editions of the program are often referred to by its initials ''BB''. Premise At regular intervals, the housemates privat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
