Lisa Perrin


SBT Brazil to revive Endemol Shine’s Deal or No Deal

Endemol Shine gameshow Deal or No Deal is returning to Brazil after a seven-year absence. The show, which last aired in Brazil between 2006 and 2011, will be on SBT later this year. SBT also aired the show last time round (four seasons, 250 episodes). Overall, Deal or No Deal is set to return to […]

Show of the week: Big Bounce Battle

Big Bounce Battle promises to be one of the most fun new formats at MIPTV this year. The show, originally from Endemol Shine Netherlands and for German network RTL via Endemol Shine Germany, uses the growing global trend for trampolining and parkour as the centre point of its USP as a format. “It seems like […]

Endemol Shine rejigs Creative Networks team

Endemol Shine Group (ESG) has restructured Lisa Perrin’s Endemol Shine Creative Networks unit, TBI has learned. The division, which is based in London and Amsterdam, has rejigged along genre lines, which has resulted in new teams and the exits of long-serving Netherlands-based producers Marieke Frank and Wil Kilsdonk. The teams – now comprising a manager, […]

Endemol Shine Asia chief exits in rejig

Endemol Shine Asia (ESA) managing director Fotini Paraskakis (pictured) is leaving her role, as part of a regional restructure. Endemol Shine Group CEO Sophie Turner Laing said in a note to staff the changes would see the business now focused on regional productions from various hubs around Asia. With Paraskakis leaving in mid-2018 after a […]

Heritage hunter

Lisa Perrin oversees the global rollout of the world’s largest formats collection. The CEO of Endemol Shine Creative Networks discusses new digital buyers, IP ownership challenges and why some heritage programmes may never be bettered. Jesse Whittock reports. The formats world is in a constant state of flux, with new market entrants such as Netflix, […]

RTL sees Benefits in Endemol Shine format

Germany’s RTL has become the first network to order a local version of Endemol Shine Group’s social experiment format The Big Benefits Handout. Endemol Shine Germany will produce the German series, which is based the British series for Channel 5 that Endemol Shine-owned Dragonfly created. The series will see hard-up families given €25,000 (US$29,000) in […]

Authentically survival

Survival shows are nothing new, but the last few years have seen the genre go into overdrive, with titles like Naked And Afraid, Alone, Running Wild, Hunted and The Island proving real-life endurance tests are popular around the world, reports Andy Fry. Ask TV executives why survival shows are proliferating and they will tell you […]

The Hunt is on for Endemol Shine in Cannes

Endemol Shine International will launch manhunt reality format Hunted at MIPCOM. The show debuted on Channel 4 in the UK earlier this month and sees a team of investigators attempting to track contestants who attempt to go off the grid, evading the nationwide hunt for them. The series opener had a 12.4% market share on […]

Endemol Shine Group: the story so far

The enormous distribution group created by the merger of Endemol, Shine Group and Core Media is taking shape, with a raft of new appointments, executives leaving the business and former staffers turning up elsewhere. Here are the key appointments at the new super group. Endemol Shine Group has been shaping up under CEO Sophie Turner […]

Boelhouwer to exit Endemol Shine formats unit

Iris Boelhouwer will exit Endemol Shine Group, as the company merges its creative networks units and splits out formats distribution. Boelhouwer (left) was Endemol’s managing director, creative operations before the merger of her firm, Shine Group and Core Media. However, she has decided to leave after she oversees the integration of her old division with Shine […]