First Dates


Shiver hires De Moraes after TwoFour exit

Shiver has hired the creator of The Choir and First Dates Ana De Moraes as group creative director, after her departure at TwoFour earlier this month. De Moraes left her role as head of formats at TwoFour, which is now restructuring its development team. She will work together in the newly created role with Shiver […]

De Moraes exits as Twofour restructures development team

Formats veteran Ana De Moraes is leaving UK-based Twofour Group, which is restructuring its development team under Jonny Coller. Former BBC creative director De Moraes has been with Twofour since February last year, butis now  exiting. Her role as head of new formats is not being directly replaced. Coller is stepping up from head of […]

Twenty Twenty CEO to join ITV Studios’ Shiver

Tim Carter, Twenty Twenty’s current CEO, is set to join ITV Studios’ factual label Shiver as managing director. He will lead the label with offices in London, Manchester and Leeds, and oversee approximately 300 hours of production a year. Carter will work on shows such as Come Dine With Me, Peston on Sunday and The […]

Warner Bros. nabs Endemol Shine exec for Oz

Warner Bros. International Television Production’s Austrlian arm has a new managing director. Michael Brooks will join Warner from Endemol Shine USA, where he was senior VP, programming and executive producer of series such as MasterChef, MasterChef Junior and The Biggest Loser. In August, WBITVP tapped Endemol Shine for another exec, bringing Shaun Murphy in to […]

Channel 4 courts First Dates spin-off

UK broadcaster Channel 4 is expanding its relationship with popular romance format First Dates. The pubcaster has commissioned First Dates Hotel, a 6x60mins spin-off series in which the original shows Fred Siriex, a restaurant maître d’, and his team host singletons on blind dates at a boutique hotel in the French countryside. A new format […]

NZ net latest to go on Warner’s First Dates

New Zealand commercial broadcaster TV2 is the latest channel to remake UK reality series First Dates. The network has commissioned Warner Bros. International Television Production New Zealand to create the local version, which is currently casting. The Australian First Dates, which goes out on Seven Network, has been a ratings success and is soon to […]

Twofour poaches BBC exec for formats

TwoFour has hired Ana De Moraes as its new formats chief. The seasoned formats exec joins UK prodco and distributor TwoFour from the BBC where she was brought in, in February 2014, by former television chief Danny Cohen as creative director. At TwoFour she takes a newly-created role, and has been tasked with growing the […]

Warner Bros. merges UK prodcos

Warner Bros. has merged its UK prodco Watershed TV with its larger counterpart Twenty Twenty. Under the new structure, Watershed will retain its branding but operate within Twenty Twenty. Both are part of Warner Bros. Television Production UK. Mark Rubens will continue as managing director of Watershed and will join the senior creative team at Twenty […]

Channel 4 adds Twofour producer to factual team

UK terrestrial Channel 4 has appointed Twofour Broadcast’s David Brindley to its factual commissioning team. Reporting into deputy head of factual Nick Mirsky, Brindley (left) will work on developing major multi-part doc series and maintaining returning programmes such as 24 Hours in A&E and First Dates as commissioning editor. He will work alongside co-commissioning editors […]