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The X Factor won’t air on ITV in the UK this year as Simon Cowell figures out how to breathe new life into his once all-conquering talent show. Cowell recently signed a five-year deal with ITV for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, with the plan being to broadcast a final season of the latter in 2020. But Cowell…

The Got Talent format is heading back to China after Hunan TV partnered with Fremantle and Syco Entertainment. The broadcaster has ordered a 13-part series based on the format that will be known locally as Dian Feng Zhi (World's Got Talent) and will air in April. It comes after a local version of Got Talent aired on…

Glee’s Matthew Morrison is to star in Simon Cowell's British entertainment format The Greatest Dancer. The American actor, who has starred in a number of Broadway hits including Finding Neverland, will present the series alongside former Girls Aloud star Cheryl Tweedy and Strictly Come Dancing professional Oti Mabuse…

China is searching for its own young talent after digital platform Tencent ordered a local version of FremantleMedia and Syco's Kids Got Talent format. The streaming service is launching the show, dubbed Extraordinary Kid's Got Talent in China, this weekend. It is the latest youth-skewing version of the format, which…

Former Syco international chief George Levendis has resurfaced as COO of Turkish broadcaster Acun Medya. Deadline revealed that Levendis, one of the key executives responsible for the global roll out of the Got Talent and X Factor formats, has left Cowell's Syco Entertainment last month. He will become COO of Acun…

EXCLUSIVE: George Levendis, one of the key executives responsible for the global roll out of the Got Talent and X Factor formats, has left Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment. I hear his departure from the company, which is a joint venture between Cowell and Sony Music, is entirely amicable and Levendis, who was Head of…

Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment and Star China's Canxing Production have entered a three-year development deal aimed at large-scale global entertainment formats. The programs will be designed to appeal to Greater China with the potential for international distribution. Canxing has produced such series in the Middle…

The X Factor UK will air on AXS TV in the U.S. for a long time to come. The cable network has re-upped a multi-year deal with FremantleMedia International and Syco Entertainment to continue to broadcast The X Factor UK, and will premiere Season 13 of the hit reality music competition series on August 28 and 29. The…

Syco Entertainment has a new SVP. Simon Cowell’s joint venture with Sony Music said today it has handed the stripes to Tim van Rongen, who has worked on multiple countries’ versions of The Voice. He’ll join Syco in March and focus on broadening its business across the globe, seeking out new format commission…

Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment has bought Behind The Mask memoir by Killing Kittens sex club founder Emma Sayle for development as a TV series. Published by Harper Collins in 2014, the book details the outlandish lifestyle of Sayle, who runs 'Killing Kittens,' sex club, a business that organizes decadent events in…

Top reality star and producer Simon Cowell and his music, TV and film company Syco Entertainment have signed with WME. The agency will work on continuing to expand Syco's film, scripted and unscripted television departments as well as its music brands. For the past 14 years, since then-UK record executive Cowell made…

Sally Hessnice may have not been judged worthy to go very far on The X-Factor by Simon Cowell and gang two years ago but the singer isn't ready to exit stage left just yet. She filed a multi-claim complaint today against producers FremantleMedia North America, Cowell’s Syco Television and Blue Orbit Productions for…