Rising Star


Keshet boss signs up for MIPTV keynote

Avi Nir has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at MIPTV in April. Nir, the CEO of Israeli broadcaster and content business Keshet Media will speak on the opening Monday of this year’s market. Keshet had the buzziest format of the last market with interactive talent show Rising Star and at MIP Nir will talk […]

News brief: Telefe brings Rising Star to Argentina

Argentinian broadcaster Telefe has okayed a local version of Keshet International-sold format Rising Star. A 24x90mins run of the interactive singing talent show will launch in the fall of this year. Telefe already runs a version of Talpa format The Voice. Yesterday, Acun Medya was confirmed as buying Rising Star for Turkey, though no broadcaster […]

Rising Star blossoms in Turkey

Israeli singing format Rising Star has been picked up the prodco behind Turkish remakes of The Voice and Got Talent. Acun Medya will produce a local version of the talent show, which has already sold to the likes of ITV in the UK and ABC in the US. No Turkish broadcaster is attached at the […]

Analysis: Is Rising Star the new X Factor?

Rising Star has set the formats world alight with deals for local versions agreed in a host of the world’s biggest TV markets. The show was never far from the lips of the TV community at MIPCOM and has continued to dominate the conversation since. But is the Israeli-originated talent show the real thing – […]

Rising Star sold to Portugal

Portuguese commercial broadcaster TVI has become the latest broadcaster to acquire Rising Star. The Keshet International-distributed interactive talent contest has sold extensively around the world and deals have now been concluded in each of the largest TV territories in Western Europe. Bruno Santos, head of local programming at TVI said: “Rising Star is clearly one […]

Another deal for Keshet’s Rising Star

Brazil has become the latest territory to take hit format in the making Rising Star. The country’s largest broadcaster, Globo, has acquired the interactive talent format from its distributor Keshet International. The Brazilian broadcaster will produce and transmit the local version of the series. The Brazilian deal is the latest for the format inked by […]

Spanish broadcaster welcomes its Rising Star

Spain’s Atresmedia has acquired Israeli singing format Rising Star – the show’s second confirmed deal in two days. Atresmedia operates the Antena 3 and laSexta commercial broadcast channels and one of these will run Rising Star. Yesterday, the UK’s ITV confirmed it was to launch its own version of the format. That followed other agreements […]

News brief: ITV confirms Rising Star deal

UK broadcaster ITV has confirmed its commission of Israeli interactive talent format Rising Star. As TBI reported last month, ITV has become the latest channel to acquire the buzzy format following deals in Germany, France, Italy, Scandinavia, the US, Hungary and Russia. “ITV’s track record in launching globally successful music and talent shows makes it the […]

Hungary’s TV2 shoots for Keshet’s Rising Star

The number of channels picking up Keshet International’s new talent format Rising Star has grown again, with Hungary’s TV2 becoming the latest to take it on. The commercial channel has ordered a 14 episode local version, which will broadcast in fall 2014. Rising Star is already officially headed for ABC in the US, M6 in […]

US deal for Rising Star

ABC has ordered a ten-episode US version of Rising Star, the next-generation singing format distributed by Keshet International. The US broadcast network ordered the format from Keshet DCP, marking the first deal for the recently created joint venture between Israel’s Keshet and Dick Clark’s US prodco. Rising Star will bow next summer on ABC and […]