Karoline Spodsberg


New roles for Hansen, Spodsberg at Banijay Zodiak

Peter Hansen and Karoline Spodsberg have landed new roles at Banijay Zodiak Nordic, the new regional unit of the Banijay Group, which has just completed its merger with Zodiak Media. Hansen becomes CCO at the new business unit and Spodsberg COO, moves confirmed a day after Jacob Houlind became Nordic CEO and Johannes Jensen was […]

Houlind takes Banijay Zodiak Nordic top job

Jacob Houlind has been named group CEO of a merged Nordic division at fledgling super-indie Banijay Group. Houlind (left), previously CEO of Nordisk Film TV, will lead Banijay Zodiak Nordic, with Zodiak Nordic chief executive Johannes Jensen named VP and deputy group CEO. Banijay Zodiak Nordic will comprise the merged Scandinavian assets of Banijay Group […]

Banijay names Namiech as Spodsberg successor

Banijay International has named Emmanuelle Namiech as its managing director, For the past six months, she has been spearheading Banijay’s move into third-party distribution, but now immediately replaces Karoline Spodsberg as MD. This follows the news Spodsberg was moving to become Banijay Group’s COO for the Nordic region, a post she takes up after MIPCOM. […]

Banijay snags exclusive rights to TV Guide content

Banijay International has secured worldwide rights to content from US cable net TV Guide Network. The distribution deal gives Banijay rights to a 130-hour TVGN catalogue of originals and third-party shows that have gone out on the cable net, as well as to its upcoming first-runs shows. TVGN is owned by CBS and Lionsgate, both […]

Spodsberg to swap Banijay Int’l for Nordisk return

Banijay International’s managing director Karoline Spodsberg is to move up to COO of Banijay Group’s Nordisk Film TV. Spodsberg will make her swansong at Banijay’s sales arm, which she launched four years ago, at MIPCOM in October before taking on the new post. The COO role is a new position created as Banijay positions Nordisk […]

Content crunch – the fight for rights

As the pace of consolidation quickens, competition for rights is fiercer than ever. Stewart Clarke talks to distributors about the changing face of the business and how, in the hyper competitive world of TV, they are gaining access to content. First-look deals, overall deals, development deals, output deals, umbrella deals and pod deals: all are […]

Banijay pushes into finished with Namiech

The ex-managing director of Target Entertainment, Emmanuelle Namiech, is to work with Banijay International to push it further in finished programming. Banijay, which is best known as a formats distributor, plans to build into the finished programming English-language programming business and has recently secured several new series such as ABC Australia’s workplace reality show The […]

TV’s conscious effort

Cruel critiques and manufactured conflict have been replaced by supportive smiles, warm hugs and a belief that shows should seek to transform someone’s prospects or help them grow emotionally in an ongoing raft of caring sharing formats reports Andy Fry. There was a time between 2003 and 2009 when factual and entertainment formats seemed to […]

Reality round the clock

NBC’s large scale live event gameshow Million Second Quiz has ended after nearly 12 days of continuous competition and handing out the biggest prize in network history. But what does the show say about the future of the future of primetime reality shows? Jesse Whittock reports. Stephen Lambert’s London-based development team first conceived NBC’s Million […]

Formats to see in CEE

As NATPE Budapest gets underway, TBI speaks to the main players about selling formats into Central and Eastern Europe, breaking into emerging local territories and the booming market in constructed reality series Traditionally, the biggest buyers of formats in the CEE region have been Russia, Poland and Ukraine and while this triumvirate remain fertile ground […]