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Talpa Media
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Fox’s Utopia experiment over
US broadcaster Fox has cancelled big-budget social experiment format Utopia. Just two months after the…
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RTL4 sees The Big Picture
Dutch-based broadcaster RTL4 has become the first network to commission a version of Israeli-created game…
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Discovery weighs SBS Netherlands move
Discovery is understood to be considering a move for the SBS free-to-air broadcast business in…
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SBS names Sanoma exec as CEO
Dutch broadcaster SBS Broadcasting has appointed Peter de Mönnink as its new CEO, as part…
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Ziad Kebbi on SPT Arabia departure
Ziad Kebbi says it was his departure from Sony Pictures Television Arabia, which both sides…
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Sony scales back Middle East production, Kebbi exiting
Sony Pictures Television Arabia’s president Ziad Kebbi is exiting the business as part of a…
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Talpa poaches FremantleMedia exec in int’l restructure
John de Mol’s Talpa Media has re-hired FremantleMedia’s Diana Buddingh for a newly-restructured international division,…
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News brief: SBS6 continues to see Danni Lowinski
Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS6 has ordered a third season of its remake of German scripted…
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Spodsberg to swap Banijay Int’l for Nordisk return
Banijay International’s managing director Karoline Spodsberg is to move up to COO of Banijay Group’s…
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Canadian channel seeks format Utopia
Canada has become the sixth territory to get a local version of Talpa Media’s buzzy…
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Talpa’s de Mol predicts major prodco consolidation
John de Mol has predicted “further centralisation” will lead to between three and five consolidated…
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De Mol’s Talpa launches branded prodcos in Europe
John De Mol’s Talpa Media is launching branded production bases in the UK, Italy and…
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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…
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Fox prepares for Utopia
Big Brother creator John de Mol’s hot new reality format Utopia has been bought by…
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Pair of appointments at Talpa
Shashi Baboeram Panday and Barry Masclee have been appointed CFO and chief corporate officer respectively…
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Mike Darnell lands top Warner Bros. unscripted role
Former Fox reality guru Mike Darnell has joined Warner Bros. in a wide-ranging role that…