Global Agency


Turkey: imports and exports

Following this week’s Discop Istanbul event, TBI speaks to Turkey’s main distribution companies about how changes in the domestic market are impacting their business, how they are dealing with the challenge of selling into the Middle East and how Turkish drama is becoming hot property in Latin America. A country of 20 million TV homes, […]

Global Agency says It’s Showtime

Turkey’ Global Agency s launching its latest format, It’s Showtime, at the Discop Istanbul market next week. The distributor plans to launch it at an event at Istanbul’s International Convention & Exhibition Center at 11am on Tuesday (February 24). The daily access primetime series searches for an ultimate lead singer by assessing their voice, stage […]

Euro nets awaken Shopping Monsters

RTL in Croatia and Albania’s Tring TV have ordered local versions of Turkish daily makeover format Shopping Monsters. Distributor Global Agency has sold sold a second season to RTL in the Netehrlands and Polsat Safe, via HotPot Media, in Poland. The stripped entertainment show is currently in production on its third season on M6 in […]

Supply and demand in Latin America

TBI and Eurodata TV look at the latest trends in TV viewing in Latin America and find that amid the still-popular classic telenovelas, the format is being reinvented and that a healthy market in imported drama from the Spain, the US and elsewhere exists Latin America remains a drama market, but the type of series […]

News brief: Global Agency takes Glam format

Turkey’s Global Agency has acquired distribution rights to Israeli format Dance With Me. The show comes from Studio Glam, and will soft-launch at NATPE in Miami later this month. The show sees amateur dancers perform 90 second routines in front of eight professionals, who then choose partners for a final round. Following the trend for […]

Keep Your Light Shining heads to Globo

Singing competition format Keep Your Light Shining has been picked up by Brazil’s biggest broadcaster, Globo. The format, which has been picked up by CBS in the US, has prospective contestants stand in a circle, in darkness, waiting to be given a few seconds to sing and win over judges and a studio audience. It […]

Global Agency pulls in Israeli game show format

Turkish distributor Global Agency has acquired international sales rights to Tug, a new Israeli game show format. The format comes from Red Arrow International-owned July August Productions, which create it along with Swedish producer Michael Rothschild, and Global Agency has picked up rights via the TV Format Fund, which launched in Israel last year. Tug […]

News brief: MBC to tell Celebrity Style Story

Middle Eastern broadcaster MBC has acquired Celebrity Style Story, a format from Global Agency-owned World Wide Entertainment. The pan-regional network is getting its own version of the show, which Thuderbird Films first produced for E! Canada. The format tells the story of celebrity’s style history using archive interview clips, red carpet footage and photos, with […]

Power’s Whiteman resurfaces at Marvista

Andrew Whiteman has joined US-based producer-distributor Marvista Entertainment following his exit from UK-based Power, which TBI broke news of in July. Whiteman (left) is one of two appointments Marvista has made as part of a push into European programme sales. Former IMC Vision and current World Wide Entertainment sales director Rod Rodrigo (below, right )has […]

Polish sale for Global’s Shopping Monsters

Global Agency format Shopping Monsters is getting a Polish remake. Polsat Café, which is part of broadcaster group Polsat, has licensed the format, and will launch its own version in September. The daily competition reality format sees five women compete to see who can get the best makeover in a limited amount of time and […]