Banijay Group is the world's largest independent content creation Group for television and multimedia platforms. Banijay Group is present in 16 territories.
Banijay Group is the world's largest independent content creation Group for television and multimedia platforms. Banijay Group is present in 16 territories.

Tag Archive: Germany

  1. All Against 1 Returns to ProSieben

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    Brainpool, a Banijay Group company, today announced All Against 1 (Alle gegen Einen) will return to ProSieben for a second series. The commission follows a successful first run, which saw the interactive, studio-based entertainment format pull almost 1.5m viewers and push up the network’s audience share.

     

    All Against 1 pits one hopeful contestant against the nation. In each episode the challenger and viewer answer identical questions via the show’s dedicated app. This game show is for everyone as the questions are not based on knowledge but outlandish stunts and experiments. How long can a free diver hold their breath inside a shark tank? How many children will it take to pull a 16-tonne truck? What’s the top speed reached by a caravan when it falls 50 metres? The answers are literally anyone’s guess…

     

    The money is banked by whoever is closest – the individual playing alone or the collective answer from the nation. However, it all comes down to who is nearest the answer on the final question. If the individual outsmarts the nation, they take home the jackpot, but if the nation wins, one lucky viewer is selected at random and claims the money!

     

    All Against 1 was created by Banijay Nordic’s Nordisk Film TV Denmark and Nordisk Film TV Norway, and remains an ongoing hit on DR1. Adapted across six territories, the format has also enjoyed success in Norway via NRK1, Finland via Nelonen and France via France 2.

  2. Banijay Germany Acquires Good Times

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    Banijay Germany, part of Banijay Group, today confirms the full acquisition of production entity, Good Times. The deal sees the independent label join the Germany group, sitting alongside Banijay Productions and Brainpool. Company founder, Sylvia Fahrenkrog-Petersen, will remain at the helm of the business as Managing Director and producer, overseeing its slate and all operations.

    Marcus Wolter, CEO Banijay Germany comments: “Good Times has been synonymous with successful daytime formats and strong in-house developments in the field of factual entertainment and social docu for many years. I am personally pleased that Sylvia Fahrenkrog-Petersen has chosen us as a partner since the brand is a perfect addition to the current genre portfolio for Banijay Germany. Through the acquisition, we are welcoming a new family member, which has the potential to grow and thrive within our group.”

     

    Sylvia Fahrenkrog-Petersen adds: “Banijay offers all the prerequisites of a great new home for Good Times. My team and I can now access a strong format catalogue and finally market our own ideas worldwide. Working in a large international network, is an exciting challenge for us, which we accept with enthusiasm.”

     

    Good Times was founded in 1998 in Berlin by Sylvia Fahrenkrog-Petersen and has been based in Cologne since 2000. Offering a plethora of genres, the business produces docu-soaps, reports, coaching formats, scripted reality, and fiction for various television stations accross Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Titles include Mein Lokal, Dein Lokal – Der Profi kommt (Kabel Eins), Der Trödeltrupp – Das Geld liegt im Keller (RTL2), Dinner Party – Der LateNight Talk (Sat1), Armes Deutschland (RTL 2), Unser Kiosk – Trost und Prost im Viertel (Kabel Eins).

  3. Show&Factual expansion: BRAINPOOL recruits Fabian Tobias to the Management

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    Another creative mind for BRAINPOOL TV: Fabian Tobias is joining the Management at Brainpool where, beginning in July, he will be responsible for the Show&Factual segment.

     

    BRAINPOOL Managing Director Marcus Wolter remarked: ‘Fabian Tobias is an outstanding and versatile producer and a real asset to our company. He brings a special strategic knowledge of formats, topics and talents, and I’m delighted that he’s going to be contributing all this to Brainpool in future, thus extending our substantive portfolio. It’s our pleasure to have him on board from this summer, and we look forward to working with him.’

     

    Fabian Tobias, Managing Director Show&Factual: ‘In the German television landscape, Brainpool is a one-of-a-kind entertainment firm. It represents not only successful partnerships with great artists, but also entertainment formats at the highest level of quality. Like no other production company, Brainpool manages to delight audiences over and over again with award-winning programming. I’m very much looking forward to working with Marcus, the entire team and the artists of this special traditional company. My motivation is to extend the already-powerful portfolio by adding new, outstanding fun stuff – for the German market and beyond.’

     

    The move marks a restructuring of Brainpool’s Non-Fiction area, which will consist of three pillars in future: Comedy&Light Entertainment and Lucky Pics (a joint venture with Luke Mockridge) under the leadership of Godehard Wolpers; Raab TV with all the ideas and projects by producer Stefan Raab; and the new Show&Factual area.

     

    Until February 2019, Fabian Tobias was in charge of the ‘Show & Factual’ department at TV production firm Endemol Shine. In that capacity, the TV producer, who grew up in Solingen, was responsible, among other things, for successful formats such as the RTL shows ‘Wer wird Millionär?’, ‘Zahltag – ein Koffer voller Chancen’, ‘Lego-Master’ and ‘The Wall’; for VOX hits ‘Hot oder Schrott’, ‘6 Mütter’ and ‘Hubert & Matthias – die Hochzeit’; and for the Sky cooking competition ‘MasterChef’ and the NETFLIX show ‘Comedians of the world’. With a diploma in media economics, he began his television career back in 2001 and produced successful formats for a variety of production firms and stations, among them ‘Klein gegen Groß’ (ARD), ‘Zeig mir deine Welt’ (ARD, Bayerischer Fernsehpreis [Bavarian Television Award] for host Kai Pflaume), ‘Hell’s kitchen’ (Sat.1), ‘Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus’ (RTL), ‘Kaum zu glauben’ (NDR) and ‘Das Superhirn’ (ZDF).