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BBC Studios Launches First Kids Streamer In Korea BBC Studios has launched a streamer for children’s TV in Korea for the first time. The BBC Kids platform will feature the likes of Hey Duggee, Andy’s Global Adventures and Go Jetters. It will be available as a monthly subscription service on Genie TV…

EXCLUSIVE: John De Mol's Talpa has been on a run in the U.S. recently with The Floor and The Quiz With Balls both landing at Fox. Talpa Studios is now taking its latest European format No Way Back to buyers and has teamed up with survival expert Bear Grylls, his Banijay-backed production company The…

EXCLUSIVE: Eureka Productions, the company behind ABC's Holey Moley and Netflix's The Mole, and John De Mol's Talpa recently landed a U.S. version of Dutch format The Floor with Fox. The two companies have now teamed up again on another entertainment show from The Netherlands – The Quiz With…

Leonine's Fred Kogel To Be Feted In Zurich Leonine CEO Fred Kogel is to receive the Zurich Film Festival's Game Changer Award, which has previously gone to executives including Pamela Abdy, Patrick Wachsberger, Michael Barker and Tom Bernard. The Leonine boss will accept the award during the Zurich…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is set to adapt Dutch physical quiz show The Floor. The network has acquired the U.S. rights to the show, which comes from The Voice and Big Brother creator John De Mol and Eureka Productions, the company behind ABC's Holey Moley. The deal is a rare bright spot for the…

Last year, RTL's merger plans in France were halted by regulators and it has now suffered the same fate in the Netherlands. Dutch competition authority ACM has informed RTL Group and John de Mol's Talpa Network that it won't approve their planned merger of their channels. RTL Nederland and Talpa…

EXCLUSIVE: John De Mol is bringing his latest entertainment format to the U.S. The Big Brother and The Voice creator has teamed up with Holey Moley producer Eureka Productions for a U.S. version of The Floor, which is described as a Risk-esque entertainment show. The Floor is a physical quiz…

NBC has been unveiled as the network behind the U.S. version of John de Mol’s Million Dollar Island (working title), the high-stakes social experiment that will be produced by Stephen Lambert’s Circle and Gogglebox producer Studio Lambert. De Mol’s Talpa is producing the Dutch version, revealed exclusively by Deadline…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Lambert and John de Mol, two of the world’s greatest format-creators, are combining for the first time on UK and U.S. versions of de Mol’s Dutch format Million Dollar Island. Lambert’s Gogglebox and The Circle outfit Studio Lambert will produce the two editions, which are not yet attached to…

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…