Season 3 Announcement for Canada’s Ultimate Challenge
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Insight Productions and The Gurin Company are thrilled to announce that production has begun on Season Three of CANADA’S ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. The format was completely reinvented for Season Two, and was greenlit for a third cycle even before the series finished airing. More twists, more challenges, and more excitement await this […]
Gurin Company and Japan’s Fuji TV partner on life-exchange format The Swap Project
MIPTV: Phil Gurin’s distributor TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE) is launching comedy social-experiment format The Swap Project on the international market this week. The format is co-developed and co-owned by Los Angeles-based TGC GE, which launched in 2023, and Japan’s Fuji Television Network. The Swap Project debuted on Fuji TV in February in 60-minute episodes […]
Phil Gurin: Hungrier, Leaner and Ready
One of the big news on the international TV scene this year was Phil Gurin’s announcement that he is launching TGC Global Entertainment with the goal to represent premium formatted content, factual entertainment and documentaries. Several months later, the veteran format creator is ready to launch his new venture at the biggest business event of […]
TGC Global Entertainment Expands into Asia-Pacific
Rosemond Perdue to spearhead push into world’s fastest growing market • APAC sales to focus on Heavy But Rich, The Singing Bee and Fridge Wars Los Angeles-based TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE), the global distribution company launched by format veteran Phil Gurin to represent premium formatted content, has recruited Asia-focused marketing, sales and distribution […]
Gurin gives the lowdown on TGC Global Entertainment, the writers’ strike and AI
Today we hear from US format veteran and Frapa co-chair Phil Gurin about his new LA-based distribution outfit TGC Global Entertainment, why he’s backing the US writers’ strike, and his fears about the impact of AI on TV. Tune in to C21FM by CLICKING HERE. US format veteran and Frapa co-chair Phil Gurin, president and CEO […]
Don’t Let the Fire Die
I challenge anyone reading this newsletter to tell me things aren’t broken. Ask any 25 people if they still love the business, twenty people will say they hate it, and the other five are lying. That’s not because there is a lack of creative energy, nor is it because people in the content business have […]
TGC Global Entertainment staffs up for expansion
Gurin’s Los Angeles-based distributor recruits global sales network Los Angeles-based TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE), the global distribution company launched in January by format veteran Phil Gurin to represent premium formatted content, factual entertainment and documentaries, has added a string of international sales agents to its growing team. The new team members, who have been […]
Gurin’s view from between the battle lines
As the strike action by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) continues to polarise the industry, it’s unusual to find somebody with a foot in both camps. As president and CEO of LA prodco The Gurin Company and member of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, you wouldn’t immediately think Phil Gurin would […]
Phil Gurin launches new distribution firm to shop formats, unscripted series
US format veteran Phil Gurin, president and CEO of The Gurin Company, has launched a LA-based global distribution company to represent premium formats from some of the world’s leading producers.
The Gurin Company to represent unscripted content from Ukraine’s Film.UA
MIPCOM: LA-based formats specialist The Gurin Company is to represent unscripted programming from Ukrainian indie Film.UA Group in the US and other international territories. Under the deal, announced on day one of Mipcom here in Cannes, The Gurin Company will select Film.UA formats and readymade properties that have international potential and provide development, distribution and […]
