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What next in the Netherlands?

From Big Brother to The Voice via Deal or No Deal and Splash! Dutch producers have proved time and again that they know how to construct an international television hit. But do deep budget cuts at the public broadcast group and the increasing influence of international content threaten the Netherlands’ status as a creative powerhouse? […]

Canadian channel seeks format Utopia

Canada has become the sixth territory to get a local version of Talpa Media’s buzzy social experiment format Utopia. Rogers Broadcasting-owned City TV scored the deal with distributor Talpa International, and is planning to launch its English-language show this autumn as part of its fall/winter schedule. Utopia launched in the Netherlands on SBS6, which is […]

News brief: Dutch Wentworth handed new sentence

SBS6’s Dutch remake of FremantleMedia Australia prison drama Wentworth has been handed a second season. Celblok-H was confirmed for another run earlier this week ahead of season one’s upcoming finale. It currently ranks as SBS6’s top rated drama of the year. Celblok-H is a remake of Foxtel’s Australia drama Wentworth (pictured), which itself is a […]

Talpa format is Utopia for Turkish channel

Talpa Media’s reality format Utopia will be produced in Turkey for media tycoon Acun Ilıcalı’s network TV8. The format – in which a group attempts to forge a new society over a year – has sold to Ilıcalı’s Acun Medya, which will produce and broadcast the local version. Acun Medya has already adapted Talpa formats The […]

SBS6 to remake prison drama Wentworth

SBS6 in Holland is set to become the second international broadcaster to remake Australian women’s prison drama Wentworth for a local audience. The show will premiere on March 6 with producer FourOne.Media, which is a part of the FremantleMedia International family that sells the format, attached to produce. The Dutch-language show will be known as […]

International deals for That Awkward Moment comedy format

German broadcaster WDR, part of pubcaster ARD, and SBS in the Netherlands have picked up new comedy format That Awkward Moment. The comedy sketch show recreates real-life awkward moments. It was originally created by production firm Dedsit for Belgium’s Flemish commercial broadcaster VMMA, which put it out on its 2BE channel. It was a big […]

Eyeworks makes a Splash in South Korea

Eyeworks’ diving format Celebrity Splash is to launch in another territory, this time South Korea on broadcaster MBC. The new series will comprise 10 episodes and be produced by local prodco SM C&C. it will launch in the territory in August. The show, which launched in the Netherlands on SBS6 has also sold into France […]

Endemol sells Happily Divorced to German Turner channel

Turner’s female-skewed German channel Glitz has acquired comedy series Happily Divorced. It has picked up the series from Endemol’s programme sales arm and it will air across German-speaking territories. Nadja Raoufi, acquisitions & dubbing manager Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, CEE & Russia at Turner Broadcasting System said: Happily Divorced has it all, the star power […]

Banijay wins Popstars format dispute with Talpa

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that Talpa cannot launch ‘The Next Popstar’ format under that name because it is too similar to ‘Popstars‘, the format ultimately owned by Banijay. The District Court of The Hague issued a ruling yesterday that the title of the upcoming Talpa talent show was too similar to that […]