Brad Lyons, Seven Network’s director of production, has resigned after 20 years at the company. Lyons will depart the Australian broadcaster at the end of the year. The Australian first reported that the exec will take voluntary redundancy. The exec joined Australia’s Seven Network in 1997 as head of infotainment, and took on a range […]
Australian commercial network Nine has reportedly agreed to stop broadcasting its cooking competition series The Hotplate. This comes after the format became the centre of a dispute with Seven Network, which claimed the show was strikingly similar to its popular show My Kitchen Rules. The Australian Financial Review reported Nine has agreed to stop broadcasting […]
British terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4 is brining Australian cooking competition format My Kitchen Rules back to the UK. The network has commissioned a 30x60mins version of the show, My Kitchen Rules UK, which Network Seven-backed prodco 7 Wonder Productions will produce. Sky Living ran the show, which has been a huge hit for Seven in […]
Seven West Media has posted a massive loss of A$1.89 billion (US$1.34 billion) in its 2015 full-year results. Despite SWM’s commercial channel, Network Seven, leading the Australian free TV ratings for the ninth year in a row, various impairments relating to TV licences saw earnings plunge into the red. Excluding these ‘significant items’ that totaled […]
Australia’s two biggest broadcasters are locked in a legal battle over their showpiece cooking formats. Seven Network has taken arch rival Nine to court this week, alleging that its new series, The Hotplate, is a copy of its own cooking competition series My Kitchen Rules. Seven is demanding the Nine series, which is produced by […]
FremantleMedia UK producer Boundless has appointed a managing director to replace Patrick Holland, who is to become head of documentary commissioning at the BBC. Hannah Wyatt (pictured) has been named MD, having previously been creative director. The BBC recently hired Holland as one of three new commissioning editors sought after a restructure. He will remain […]
Endemol Shine International has hired a head of acquisitions who will in part replace the departed Georgia Brown. Simon Cox has taken on the post at Endemol Shine Group’s global sales arm. He takes on duties previously covered by Brown, who was senior VP, acquisitions but exited to join FremantleMedia International as SVP, scripted, earlier […]
Australian free-to-air broadcaster Seven Network has ended the 2014 ratings year on top, beating perennial rival Nine into second. Nine, however, was quick to claim it had triumphed in the key 25-to-54 (31.9%), 18-to-49 (32.3%) and 16-to-39 (32.8%) demos in the main urban areas. Seven took an overall 30.4% share in 2014 with Nine in […]
Endemol’s distribution arm has sold cooking series My Kitchen Rules into Belgium. VMMA/VTM have acquired all five seasons of the finished cooking competition show and six seasons of its predecessor My Restaurant Rules are being made locally. The format was created by free-to-air Australian network Seven. The finished version and format are distributed by Endemol […]
The parent firm of Australian broadcaster Seven Network has swung back into profit after reporting growth in its TV business. Full-year revenues at Seven West Media’s broadcast unit, which includes Seven and its affiliated linear and on-demand channels, has grown 3% year-on-year to A$1.3 billion (US$1.2 billion) – 70% of entire group sales. Earnings before […]
