Fresh from exiting Off the Fence Bo Stehmeier has landed a job at fledgling digital production and distribution business Factory Media. It emerged yesterday Stehmeier had left European distributor Off the Fence along with head of acquisitions Georgina Eyre. He has now joined Factory as director of rights and distribution. Reporting to founder and managing […]
Several broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe have acquired the Kitchen Nightmares format made famous by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The format is distributed by Optomen International, which has struck a deal with free-to-air broadcaster Nova in Bulgaria. In Romania, free-to-air broadcaster Pro TV will also run a local version of Kitchen Nightmares, in which […]
France’s TF1 is making a local version of UK format Great British Men with indie Pernel Media. TF1 Group has acquired the format from Optomen International. TF1 Productions will now coproduce a remake with Pernel, which has previously localised shows such as Cash Cab and Balls of Steel. The show is on its ninth season […]
NBCUniversal-owned cable net Bravo has acquired America’s Best Restaurant, a new series from Gordon Ramsay’s prodco One Potato Two Potato. The 11x60mins food competition series will be fronted by a “soon-to-be-announced top US chef and restaurateur”. It will pit some of the US’s top restaurants against each other to unearth which offers the best all-round […]
Spain’s Mediaset and Australia’s Nine Network are among new buyers of Gordon Ramsay’s latest series for Fox, Hotel Hell. TV Joj in Slovakia and Skjarrin in Iceland round of the new sales distributor Optomen International has secured for the show, which debuted in the UK on Monday on Channel 4. The show sees celebrity chef […]
Simon Cowell is the most successful TV executive of recent years; the man behind The X Factor and Got Talent, talks exclusively to Peter White about the television business, keeping formats fresh, his forthcoming moves into drama and his mother’s roast potatoes. “There was a point a couple of years ago, where you started […]
