Love Island is heading back to Australia for a second season and is in "active" pre-production in the U.S. as the reality entertainment format wowed buyers in Cannes this week. The ITV Studios format was one of the most talked about entertainment formats at Mipcom, helped largely by six of the international cast…

In a move that took international markets by surprise overnight, Australia’s Nine Entertainment announced a $3 billion takeover of Fairfax Media. The TV net will take a controlling 51.1% stake in the newly merged company, which will be renamed NEC, or Nine Entertainment Company. The deal creates the country’s largest…

Sam Chisholm, the New Zealand-born television executive best known for launching Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB, has died aged 78. Chisholm, a "pugnacious" figure in both the Australian and British television industries, was widely credited as one of the key figures in securing the English Premier League rights for Murdoch's…

The Amazing Race Sprints North To Canada CBS’ The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan announced tonight that viewers north of the border can look forward to their own The Amazing Race Canada that will air on Canada’s CTV, which has licensed format rights from Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The Amazing Race Canada will…

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney. The debt-ridden private equity owners of the Nine Entertainment Co. are poised to sell the ACP Magazines division after meeting with potential buyers including Germany's Bauer Media Group, the Sydney Daily Telegraph reports. That suggests the rumored $A3 billion…

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney The hedge fund which bought Australia's Nine Network and magazine group from James Packer for $A5.5 billion in 2007 and has since struggled to pay down the debt may have find a lifeline- although it may be forced to take a sizable haircut.  Hollywood mogul Harry Sloa…