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August gets distributor and new series order for Ella Bella

August Media has teamed with Cake for international distribution of preschool series Ella Bella Bingo, TBI can reveal. The kids content company is currently making the second season the show with its creators, Norway-based Kool Produktion. It is also understood that NRK has ordered an additional 52 episodes of the show ahead of delivery of […]

UK indie Tern hires former Zodiak exec, preps US expansion

UK independent producer Tern TV has recruited Ed Crick as its new creative director. Crick joins Tern having left UK producer Bullseye Productions, which is part of the Zodiak Media group, last December. At Bullseye, which makes shows including the UK version of Doomsday Preppers for Nat Geo, Crick was managing director. At Tern he […]

Zodiak teams with National Film and TV School for TV scholarship

Producer and distributor Zodiak Media has joined forces with the UK National Film and Television School and will start offering an annual TV production and entertainment scholarship. Zodiak will sponsor a student on the NFTS TV Producing and Directing Television Entertainment course in 2014 and 2015, with the first scholarship awarded later this year. The […]

Killer Karaoke hits right note for Euro broadcasters

Zodiak Media’s extreme singing competition format Killer Karaoke has sold to broadcasters in the Netherlands and Czech Republic soon after launching in Russia. The format, billed as “the evil adaptation of Zodiak’s Sing if You Can”, will launch in the Netherlands on RTL5 tomorrow produced by Zodiak Nederland, while the Czech version comes from Real […]

Denmark’s Mastiff buys Japanese gameshow format

Danish producer Mastiff has acquired rights to Japanese gameshow Exit from vendor Eccho Rights. The entertainment format comes from Japanese producer Kenichiro Akiyama and has broadcast in the territory on Nippon Television for three seasons. The format sees teams of contestants take on mental and physical challenges against the clock to escape from locked rooms. […]

Zodiak Americas’ Apploff deal ‘template for the future’

Zodiak Media’s US arm has created a partnership with Don’t Forget the Lyrics executive producer Jeff Apploff – a deal Zodiak says acts as a template for its stateside business. Under terms of the agreement with Apploff Entertainment, Zodiak and Apploff will work together on develop and create new unscripted formats. Apploff Entertainment will relocate […]

New partners for Jo Nesbo political thriller

Franco-German channel Arte and Zodiak Media’s French drama producer GTV have joined Norway’s NRK on an original political thriller series from acclaimed scriptwriter Jo Nesbø, TBI can reveal. The French companies are now onboard Occupied, a 10x45mins thriller from another Zodiak drama producer, Norway’s Yellow Bird, which is best known as the producer and rights […]

Zodiak launches clips division

Zodiak Media has launched a new archive division to exploit its clips library online. Zodiak Clips has already secured a deal with HD stock footage provider and will represent footage from the wider Zodiak Media portfolio and sales unit Zodiak Rights. It will also include content from the likes of Guinness World Records and RTL2. […]

Marathon takes French rights to German series Danni Lowinski

French producer Marathon has taken local remake rights to Red Arrow’s comedy drama series Danni Lowinski. Zodiak Media-owned Marathon will work on a French version of the show, which follows an unconventional hairdresser-turned-lawyer. It airs on free-to-air channel Sat.1 in Germany where it runs to four seasons. The CW had looked at US version although […]

Zodiak poaches Janet Robinson from ITV Studios

Zodiak Rights has recruited Janet Robinson as VP of sales & acquisitions, North America. She joins after a seven year tenure with ITV Studios Global Entertainment where she worked out of both the LA and London offices. At Zodiak Rights, the sales arm of Zodiak Media, she will focus on finished programme sales across the […]