Studio Lambert has promoted Tim Harcourt and Tania Alexander following the success of Channel 4’s Gogglebox, and poached NBCUniversal’s Jack Burgess. Harcourt (pictured) has been upped to creative director from head of development. NBCU’s head of development for its London-based factual entertainment team, Burgess, is moving in to replace him. The reunites the two executives […]
All3Media Holdings, the parent company that houses All3Media and its production companies, posted turnover of £507.6 million and EBITA of £60.5 million for the year to August 31, 2013. This compares with with £473 million and £64.1 million the previous year. All3 said the earnings figure reflected investments in digital producer Little Dot Studios and […]
Rumblings that the ob doc trend is stifling creativity on both sides of the Atlantic have divided the factual programming industry. Is the genre coming to the end of its cycle, or is it simply evolving, asks Jesse Whittock The commissions of History’s Pawn Stars and American Pickers in 2009 and 2010 respectively ushered in […]
US broadcaster Fox is set to air a local version of horror gameshow format Release the Hounds, TBI has learned. The US Release the Hounds commission has not been officially announced by Fox, but the US network is expected to confirm it shortly. The order will be a major coup for Gogglebox Entertainment, the UK […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has ordered a full series of horror gameshow Release the Hounds. The full 6x60mins series will go out on ITV2 channel later this year and will have celebrities as well as regular contestants. The star names have yet to be confirmed. It will be made by Sony-backed UK prodco Gogglebox. ITV2 […]
Outline Productions has poached Studio Lambert’s head of format development Shona Baldwin. At UK-based independent producer Outline, she will be head of development. At Studio Lambert Baldwin led the entertainment and factual format development team, creating programming for broadcasters across the UK and USA and working on series including Gogglebox and Million Second Quiz. Prior […]
Ukrainian national broadcaster ICTV has acquired a local version of Studio Lambert format Gogglebox. ICTV’s in-house team will create a 12x60mins version of the factual entertainment show, in which fixed rig cameras capture the TV-watching public’s responses to the week’s television programming. The news comes after Chinese broadcaster Jiangsu Satellite TV also ordered a local […]
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 […]
Huaso Film/TV Digital Production, the Sony Pictures Television-backed Chinese prodco, has got a new show away in the country and secured a recommission of another of its titles. It has cut a coproduction deal with leading satellite broadcaster Zhejiang Television for a local version of Breakaway the gameshow created by SPT’s UK prodco Gogglebox. In […]
US network Bravo has commissioned a local version of the Studio Lambert’s British unscripted format Gogglebox (pictured). The show, known locally as The People’s Couch, will launch as a half-hour thre-episode series on the NBCUniversal-owned cable channel at 11.30pm ET/PT on Sunday, October 6. Each episode will follow real people as they watch the week’s […]
