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Cris Abrego has been appointed as Banijay boss across the U.S. and Latin America. The 51 Minds Entertainment co-founder has scored the top job on this side of the pond after Banijay closed its acquisition of Endemol Shine. He becomes Chairman of the Americas, Banijay and President and CEO, Endemol Shine Holdings…

EXCLUSIVE: Keeping Up With the Kardashians producer Bunim/Murray has teamed with nascent producer and financier Shopify Studios to develop a docuseries about disable entrepreneurs. Deadline understands that the two companies are working up Born For Business, a project that follows four entrepreneurs with physical…

Keeping Up With The Kardashians producer Bunim/Murray Productions is to introduce data and analytics into its pitches after investing in digital marketing accelerator Shareability. The Banijay-owned producer has invested in the Marina Del Rey-based company to bolster its projects before they are brought to networks…

EXCLUSIVE: Rupert Dobson is exiting his development executive post at American Ninja Warrior producer A. Smith & Co to join fellow reality TV producer Bunim/Murray as SVP Development. He will be tasked with developing formats for broadcast networks and streaming platforms, and will report to Entertainment and…

Nickelodeon is bringing classic British family gameshow The Crystal Maze to the U.S. The Viacom-owned network has ordered a local version from The Real World and Keeping Up With The Kardashians producer Bunim/Murray Productions and RDF Television, which makes the UK version for Channel 4. The show, which was created…

European superindie Banijay Group is making its first original move into scripted drama in the U.S. with a joint venture between two of its biggest production companies. Keeping Up With The Kardashians indie Bunim/Murray Productions has teamed with Wallander producer Yellow Bird Sweden to launch Yellow Bird U.S. with H…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Bunim/Murray co-president Jeff Jenkins is teaming with 3 Ball Entertainment to launch Jeff Jenkins Productions, a full-service content and production company aiming to create unscripted docuseries and formats, including celebrity-based projects, for linear and digital platforms. Jenkins will run the…

Those murmurings earlier this year that Lindsay Lohan was planning to star in a reality series for MTV might be gaining traction. Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Project Runway and Citizen Rose producer Bunim-Murray Productions has reportedly come aboard to team with her on a potential show. The New York Post‘s Page…

The Happy Wheels video game app hit the ground bleeding in 2010 and has been played more than a billion — with a “B” — times since. Now it’s making the natural progression to animated series, which will go live November 15 on go90, Verizon’s mobile streaming app. And here’s the first trailer for the cartoon-gory…

The Culture Club singer is moving from London to Los Angeles, and he believes you’ll want to follow the action. Boy George and his manager Paul Kemsley are teaming Bunim/Murray Prods and producer Cindy Cowan to develop a docuseries chronicling said relocation. The trio will exec produce along with Bunim/Murray's Gil…

Reality show Utopia created a kind of dystopia for other producers when Fox cancelled it in November after less than two months. The social experiment in building a new society, based on a show from the Netherlands, “was badly cast and executed,” Bunim-Murray Productions chairman Jonathan Murray told the annual NATPE…

Machinima has named former Bunim/Murray Productions executive Daniel Tibbets as Chief Content Officer, a new role in the gamer-oriented online-video network. The move is one of several in a change-filled few months at Machinima, which this year has laid off much of its sales staff, seen several executives go and…