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A year after launching his latest company, Big Brother and The Voice creator John de Mol is taking out what he hopes to be a successful global format with Marble Mania on the heels of a promising launch for the celebrity marble-racing show in his native Netherlands. In each self-contained episode of the…

John De Mol has been responsible for creating many of the world's most successful entertainment formats including Big Brother and The Voice. His company's latest creation is music talent format House of Talent, which De Mol's Talpa hopes can be just as globally successful. The show, which launches on Holland's SBS6 on…

Sophie Turner Laing, boss of Endemol Shine Group, is to receive a special award at this year's International Emmys. CEO Turner Laing is to receive the International Academy’s 2018 Directorate Emmy® Award at the event, which is held in New York on November 19. The award is to recognize her work overseeing Endemol Shine…

ITV is aggressively chasing unpaid debts in China relating to the local version of Talpa's The Voice. The British broadcaster, which owns John De Mol's Dutch producer and distributor, has revealed that it is "vigorously" pursuing £30M (US$41M) from Chinese company Talent Television and Film Co after a breakdown in the…

Big Brother creator John de Mol is tackling a new type of social experiment. At Mipcom today, Talpa unveiled details of Lost In Translation, billed as a first-ever global reality format. The ambitious show drops 12 contestants on a remote island where they must work together to build a boat, get to the mainland and…

British commercial broadcaster ITV, the home of shows like The Voice and and The X Factor, said it's expecting a 7% year-on-year drop in fourth-quarter ad revenues due to increasingly cautious advertisers and the current uncertain political climate. On Thursday, the company reported a third-quarter fall, which it had…

ITV Studios and Talpa's new connected game show, 5 Golden Rings, has received orders from ITV in the UK and the Netherlands' SBS6 with air set for early 2017. The primetime format keeps it all in the family with ITV Studios' partner Possessed co-creating the series with Talpa in what is the first joint development by…

Banijay Group has set drama veteran Takis Candilis as Head of Scripted. In the newly-created role, Paris-based Candilis will be directly in charge of Banijay's scripted production company in France and will oversee the entire scripted production business for the Banijay Group which recently merged with Zodiak Media…

Entertainment One has denied press reports that it has been the subject of a takeover approach from Brit broadcaster-producer ITV. In a statement, eOne reps said, “"Entertainment One notes the press speculation regarding a potential offer. No approach has been received by eOne," in a note to the London stock market…

In 2010, John de Mol’s Talpa entered the crowded singing reality series competition space with The Voice. Despite facing established incumbents such as American Idol (and its international incarnations), The X Factor and Star Academy, The Voice was able to break through and is now the top singing reality series in the…

ITV’s seemingly insatiable acquisitions appetite continues with the announcement that the company has bought Boom Supervisory Limited, the holding company of Brit TV production banner Twofour Group, from majority shareholder LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group. ITV will pay an initial cash…

ITV has closed a deal to acquire 100% of Talpa Media B.V., the Netherlands-based production company behind reality shows The Voice, The Voice Kids, Utopia, I Love My Country and Dating In The Dark for $530 million in cash. That is considered an initial payment to Talpa owner, Big Brother creator John de Mol. The final…