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Big Brother (Danish TV Series)
''Big Brother Danmark'' was the Danish version of the international reality television franchise '' Big Brother'' created by producer John de Mol Jr. The series debuted on Danish television in January 2001 and was axed in June 2014, due to poor ratings. The show first aired two regular seasons on ''TvDanmark2'' (Now Kanal 4) in 2001. The series returned once again in 2003 on ''TvDanmark2'', first with a celebrity season called "''V.I.P''.", later that year ''TvDanmark2'' aired the first regular ''Big Brother'' season in nearly two years. In 2004 ''TvDanmark2'' aired one season before the show was paused indefinitely. The season was a celebrity season and was called "''Reality Allstars''". In 2007, it was announced that Modern Times Group Modern Times Group (MTG) is a digital entertainment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. It formed from the media holdings of investment company Investment AB Kinnevik, Kinnevik, which in 1997 was distributed to the company stockholders. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality Competition
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World (TV series), The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series ''Survivor (franchise), Survivor'', ''Idol (franchise), Idol'', and ''Big Brother (franchise), Big Brother'', all of which became global Franchising, franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature the gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanal 5 (Danish TV Channel)
Kanal 5 (''Channel 5'') is a Danish subscription television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The station is broadcast to Denmark by satellite from London, showing mainly films, American drama shows and sports. Kanal 5 aired the Danish version of '' So You Think You Can Dance''. Kanal 5 owns the Danish broadcast rights to show Spanish football from La Primera Division, and along with Canal Digital it shares the rights to show English Premier League football. Kanal 5 has bought the rights to show the James Bond movies. At the end of the year, it became the first Danish channel to broadcast a simulcast in high definition. Kanal 5 is distributed through cable and satellite. Kanal 5 lost a large part of the channel's viewers in 2020 after a dispute with YouSee, which led to the channel disappearing from YouSee's TV packages. Therefore, Kanal 5 is now only received by around 31.6% of Danes. Self-produced programs on K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bickham
Thomas Bickham, also known as Tomboy (born 29 March 1975 in Værløse), is a Danish drag queen, stylist, hairdresser, designer and television personality. Career Bickham trained as a clothing operator. As a 19 year old he started working as a drag queen. He has participated in the Danish television shows ''Big Brother VIP'' (Denmark) 2003 (which he won), '' The Lyrics Board'' and ''De Fantastiske 5'' (Danish version of Queer Eye), as well as several television advertisements. He released the album ''Ok 2 B Gay'' in 2006, using the alias Tomboy. Awards LGBT Denmark awarded him "homo of the year" for his 2003 participation in ''Big Brother VIP''. References External links * Thomas Bickhamofficial YouTube channel Fra dragqueen til kirkesanger''Kristeligt Dagblad ''Kristeligt Dagblad'' is a Danish newspaper in Copenhagen. The paper was founded in 1896 and is still circulation in the 2000s. It was founded with a Christian orientation. History and profile ''Kristeligt Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Danmark
Kanal 4 (''Channel 4'') is a Danish subscription television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery It was launched in 2006 as the successor of the former TvDanmark. The station is broadcast to Denmark by satellite from London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ..., showing mainly films, US and drama shows, therefore allowing for more lenient advertising rules as compared to broadcasting directly from Denmark. History On 24 November 1984, Kanal 2 launched in Copenhagen in an attempt at breaking DR's television monopoly. By 1991 the station was owned by the Scandinavian Broadcasting System. The stations that shared the same programming (Kanal 2, Vestsjællands TV, TV Næstved, TV Fynboen, TV Aarhus, TV Aalborg) were re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DR (broadcaster)
DR (), officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR shares many of its organisational characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union. Bjarne Corydon will become the Director-General of DR in August 2025. DR was originally funded by a media licence, however since 2022, the media license has been replaced by an addition to the Danish income tax. Today, DR operates three television channels, all of which are distributed free-to-air via a nationwide DVB-T2 network. DR also operates seven radio channels. All are available nationally on DAB+ radio and online, with the four original stations also available on FM radio. History DR was founded on 1 April 1925 under the name of ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SBS Discovery Media
Warner Bros. Discovery Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. The division is responsible for managing the collection of their cable and satellite networks around the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. History WarnerMedia EMEA As Turner Broadcasting System Europe In 1985, Ted Turner launched a European division in London, England, which would reach across the Middle East and African regional feed. Rebranding as WarnerMedia In 2019, Turner EMEA would be moving to its new headquarters in Old Street, Shoreditch, London. The new headquarters would have more office space, allowing room for the company's European operations to expand, and a brand new custom-built CNN newsroom. The remaining division was later rebranded as WarnerMedia EMEA by 2020. Discovery Networks EMEA It started out with the launch of the Discovery Channel in Europe in 1989. In mid-2007, Discovery Networks Europe was split into two separate branches, Discovery N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SBS TV (Denmark)
SBS Broadcasting Group (SBS), formerly Scandinavian Broadcasting Systems, was a European multinational media group, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses in Northern, Western and Central and Eastern Europe. It became the second-largest broadcaster in Europe. History SBS was founded by Harry E. Sloan in 1989, who bought a stake in the Danish station Kanal 2 (a local station in Copenhagen, now Kanal 4) and Norwegian TVNorge. In 1991, Sloan bought the Swedish Nordic Channel, which was soon renamed Kanal 5 and became the third-largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company was originally known as "TV1", but was renamed "Scandinavian Broadcasting Systems" in 1991. After expanding into Benelux and Eastern Europe, the name was changed again, this time to SBS. By July 1994, the time of the CC/ABC-Disney merger, Capital Cities/ABC owned 23% of SBS. In March 2005, SBS acquired C More Entertainment, a Nordic pay tv ... [...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] |
Paradise Hotel (franchise)
''Paradise Hotel'' is a franchise of reality television series. The series follows a group of contestants who live in a hotel. One contestant is eliminated each week. The franchise started with the American version, which began airing in 2003. A second season was shown in 2008, and in 2019, ''Paradise Hotel'' got a third season. In August 2019, the broadcaster of the show, Fox, cancelled it. Locations Sweden The first two seasons of the Swedish version of ''Paradise Hotel'' aired on TV4 in 2005, one in the spring and one in the fall. One of the contestants of season one, Sofia Hellqvist, later married the Swedish Prince Carl Philip. A third season aired on TV6 in 2009, followed by a fourth season that started to air November 15, 2010 on TV6. Season four was the last season to be aired on TV6 as the following seasons were aired on TV3. A fifth season started on November 18, 2013 on TV3. Aina Lesse and Jesper Johansson won, with Johansson throwing the ball at 200,000 Swedish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV3 (Denmark)
TV3 is a Danish pay television channel owned by Viaplay Group. It was separated from the earlier Pan-Scandinavian version in 1990. Unlike its main rivals, DR and TV 2, the channel does not broadcast from Denmark but from the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan .... This excludes the channel from the rules in Denmark that apply to advertising, meaning TV3 interrupts programming with commercial breaks. The channel has aired many American and British series. References External linksOfficial site {{Danish television channels 1990 establishments in Denmark Modern Times Group Television stations in Denmark Television channels and stations established in 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Times Group
Modern Times Group (MTG) is a digital entertainment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. It formed from the media holdings of investment company Investment AB Kinnevik, Kinnevik, which in 1997 was distributed to the company stockholders. It is a strategic and operational investment holding company, managing a portfolio including gaming companies InnoGames and Ninja Kiwi, and digital network company Zoomin.TV. Kinnevik AB, Kinnevik distributed the MTG shares to its shareholders in 2018 and in 2019 MTG distributed shares in the newly founded Nordic Entertainment Group (now Viaplay Group) to its shareholders following the strategic transformation into a global digital entertainment company. Structure Since July 2015, MTG's digital presence was expanded through a number of acquisitions. In 2015 MTG bought 74% of the shares in Turtle Entertainment, a top-tier esports tournament operator, owning brands such as Electronic Sports League (ESL). MTG then acquired 51% of the shares in Zoomi ... [...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] |
