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Mark Burnett
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NBC greenlights full A.D. series
US broadcast network has given the greenlight to a 12-episode run of The Bible follow…
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News brief: US Survivor reaches 30
CBS has commissioned two more seasons of evergreen competition reality series Survivor, taking it into…
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Mark Burnett cooking series On the Menu for TNT
Turner-owned cablenet TNT has given the greenlight to a new cooking series from The Bible…
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Rewriting The Bible
Television’s most consistent independent producer Mark Burnett tells Jesse Whittock about the success of History…
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Burnett, Branson go to space with NBC
NBC is continuing to bet big on primetime with the commission of a competition reality…
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Mark Burnett plots third-party sales, Beyond the Bible follow up
Mark Burnett’s prodco One Three Media is moving into third-party sales for the first time,…
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NBC preps miniseries slate including Clinton bio, Rosemary’s Baby
NBC is working on a slate of miniseries that includes a biopic of Hilary Clinton…
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Mark Burnett project launches new digital venture
Smokebomb Entertainment founders Daniel Dales and Jarrett Sherman have launched a new digital venture and…
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Miniseries strike back
A few years ago, it looked like scripted miniseries were heading for the scrapheap. With…
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Mark Burnett gameshow headed for Canadian channel
Canadian channel CHCH has commissioned a local version of a new Mark Burnett-developed gameshow. Local…
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Channel 5 believes in The Bible
Channel 5 has acquired hit US miniseries The Bible. The UK free-to-air broadcaster has bought…
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The Bible gets 11.7 million for finale
The concluding episode of History’s biblical miniseries The Bible pulled in 11.7 million viewers, 3.8…
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Talpa USA raids Endemol and Mark Burnett for senior staff
Talpa hired several new staff, poaching executives from Endemol and Mark Burnett’s One Three Media….
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SVT buying spree includes The Bible and Bates Motel
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has acquired mega-hit miniseries The Bible. It has picked up the…
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The Bible beats The Walking Dead in epic ratings battle
The latest instalment of The Bible on History narrowly edged out The Walking Dead on…
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The Walking Dead trumps The Bible; both beat the networks
The Walking Dead and The Bible were the most-watched shows on US TV on Sunday…
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The Bible and Vikings deliver epic ratings for History
US cable network History said its Mark Burnett-produced series The Bible delivered 14.8 million viewers…