All3Media CEO Jane Turton has offered a glimpse as to what the merger with Banijay will look like when it likely clears the antitrust review process. The merger, which is set to go through by late summer, will see Banijay boss Marco Bassetti take the reigns as CEO while Turton will stay on as deputy […]

Paramount+ has landed on an unlikely source for its next big reality series. The streamer is set to follow Big John, the social media sensation who went viral with his epic Chinese takeaway orders and now famous catchprase, “Bosh!” Meet the Fishers [working title] will follow Big John, his wife Charlotte and their kids including […]

EXCLUSIVE: Raw Creative Director Liesel Evans is exiting the Tinder Swindler producer after nearly a decade. Evans, whose credits include Disney+’s In Vogue: The 90s and ITV’s The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed, is staying on for a while working on current and unannounced projects. Succession plans will be revealed in due course. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Neal Street, the production outfit behind Sam Mendes’ Beatles movies, is expanding in TV and theater with a pair of newly-created development roles. Ed Cripps, a former development chief at The Crown producer Left Bank, joins as Development Producer while Will Mortimer takes on the role of Theatre and TV Executive. Cripps is charged […]

EXCLUSIVE: Star Wars star John Boyega will speak for the first time about being one of the last people to see Damilola Taylor alive in a BBC documentary about the tragic death of the 10-year-old. Taylor was fatally stabbed in 2000 in a stairwell in Peckham, South East London, just metres from his home. Boyega, […]

Buyers are going to get a first look at ten international drama series that Series Mania has identified as global hits-in-the-making, with gnomes, Nazis, gamers, fertility clinics and the British PM all in the mix. There is a show from the producers Sherlock, another backed by HBO, and amid a mostly European selection, a Japan-Singapore […]

Good afternoon Insiders, thanks for joining for another week where news has been coming thick and fast. Keep reading, and sign up here. Banijay & All3 Come Together “The name of the game”: In the end it came together quickly. Consolidation is the word of 2026 so far and we took a break from probing […]

ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall has rejected concerns that the newly announced Banijay-All3Media merger leaves ITV Studios subscale, while also pushing back against reports that the company’s talks with Sky over the possible sale of its Media & Entertainment business have lost momentum – telling journalists the two sides remain “actively engaged.” McCall made the […]

Jeff Zucker and Marco Bassetti had their eyes on the same prize two years ago. Now they get to run it together. Zucker’s RedBird IMI and Banijay have struck a deal valued at $8 billion to merge All3Media with Banijay, which is headed by Bassetti as CEO. The transaction will bring together All3Media shows and […]

Jeff Zucker has told Deadline the merger of Banijay Entertainment and All3Media will create the biggest independent player on the international TV production and distribution scene. “This is the world’s largest independent media content company by catalog, by hours, production, by any measure, with an enterprise value of $8BN and equity value of $5BN,” Zucker […]

The deal between Banijay and All3Media to create a European media powerhouse is done. The pact, which has been in the works for some time, will bring together the producers of series including The Traitors, Big Brother, Survivor, Peaky Blinders and Gogglebox as well as movies including Hamnet. Officially, Banijay Group and RedBird IMI, the […]

Six years after buying out Endemol Shine in the thick of the pandemic, Banijay (“Big Brother,” “Peaky Blinders”) is about to close its merger deal with All3Media (“The Traitors”) to form an even bigger production powerhouse, Variety has confirmed. The joint entity would have around $6.65 billion in combined revenues based on 2024 figures, allowing the […]

“The only upshot of the whole deal would be synergies and distribution,” mused one ex-All3Media executive of the Banijay-All3 merger when news first emerged last month. The Reuters report revealing talks between French-headquartered behemoth Banijay and RedBird-owned production giant All3 – soon confirmed via a statement from publicly-listed Banijay – in some senses took the […]

EXCLUSIVE: ITV has unveiled trailer for Gone, George Kay’s psychological drama starring Eve Myles and David Morrissey. Set against the backdrop of a prestigious private school, a foreboding forest and the quiet sprawl of Bristol, Gone follows local Headmaster Michael Polly (Morrissey), who becomes the prime suspect in his wife Sarah’s disappearance. An upstanding member of the […]