Banijay International


Danish format set for Canada’s CBC

Canadian national broadcaster CBC has commissioned a local version of Danish entertainment format Comedy on the Edge. Danish broadcaster DR created the format and it will now run in English-speaking Canada on CBC following a deal with distributor Banijay International. The local version will be 13x30mins. Producer Frantic Films is attached to create the show […]

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Cruel critiques and manufactured conflict have been replaced by supportive smiles, warm hugs and a belief that shows should seek to transform someone’s prospects or help them grow emotionally in an ongoing raft of caring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 […]

Banijay readies Mentor for market

Distributor Banijay International is getting ready to launch Danish competition format Mentor at MIPCOM. The show debuted in Denmark on DR1 on August 30 in the prime Saturday 8pm slot previously held by The X Factor. Banijay Group-owned Nordisk Film TV co-developed the format with Danish musician and X Factor judge Thomas Blachman. It is […]

Bunim/Murray making Def Leppard doc series

US producer Bunim/Murray is making Living With Def Leppard, a documentary series following the rock band on tour. The Banijay-owned US producer will join forces with events firm AEG and the Hard Rock Hotel to make the series. There is not a broadcaster attached, but a Bunim/Murray rep told TBI the producer is pitching the […]

Eyeworks makes a Splash in South Korea

Eyeworks’ diving format Celebrity Splash is to launch in another territory, this time South Korea on broadcaster MBC. The new series will comprise 10 episodes and be produced by local prodco SM C&C. it will launch in the territory in August. The show, which launched in the Netherlands on SBS6 has also sold into France […]

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 […]

Banijay’s Opposite Worlds travels the globe

Banijay has sold its reality format Opposite Worlds into Turkey, Croatia and the Middle East and is setting up a production hub for further new versions of the show. The series has twenty contestants taking part in an elimination competition whereby they live in one of two worlds: the past, in which there is a […]

News brief: Banijay’s Stars in Danger dives into Denmark

Banijay International has shopped its Stars in Danger: The High Dive series to TV3 in Denmark. The Danish free-to-air broadcaster will air a four-episode version of the series, which has proved popular in international markets. TV3 will air its version in a primetime slot in its autumn schedule. In Scandinavia, the format has already been […]