Phil Gurin’s TGC Global Entertainment taps Kelly Shek for MENA, APAC sales
LA-based TGC Global Entertainment has added ex-All3Media exec Kelly Shek to its global sales agent network. Shek will oversee sales and acquisitions for the Middle East, North Africa and Asia Pacific for the international distribution company, established by US format veteran Phil Gurin to represent premium formatted content. She brings almost two decades of sales […]
ITV scoops Format Awards treble in Cannes, two awards for Banijay
MIPCOM: UK commercial broadcaster ITV was the big winner at the International Format Awards in Cannes this evening, taking home three separate prizes. ITV’s first win came in the Studio-Based Gameshow category, which was won by Parents Evening, fronted by comedian Romesh Ranganathan and produced by his Ranga Bee Productions for ITV1. The format sees […]
TGC GE Adds New Dating Formats from Elixir to its MIPCOM Slate
TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE) has acquired the international rights to a slate of digital-first dating formats from Elixir, the new Los Angeles-based digital media company that creates network-quality reality shows for YouTube. The titles include “Date on a Plate”, “First Dates in Bed”, “Red Flag Green Flag” and “Talent Crush.” Phil Gurin, founder, president […]
TGC GE gets international rights to digital-first dating formats from Elixir
LA-based distributor TGC Global Entertainment has acquired the international rights to a slate of digital-first dating formats from Elixir, which launched earlier this year to create reality shows for YouTube. Date on a Plate features four singletons – but only from the neck up. The contestants’ heads emerge from under giant silver cloches, whereupon they […]
TGC GE Brings Norwegian Format Code Red: The Lighthouse to MIPCOM
TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE) has acquired the international rights to a brand-new reality competition format – “Code Red: The Lighthouse” from Norwegian broadcaster NRK. Bente Sagplads, head of international formats and program sales at NRK said: “’Code Red: The Lighthouse’ is a truly Nordic take on the survival competition genre – cinematic, character-driven, visually striking, […]
TGC Global Entertainment acquires NRK’s Code Red: The Lighthouse
LA-based distributor TGC Global Entertainment has acquired the international rights to NRK in Norway’s forthcoming reality competition format Code Red: The Lighthouse. Known as Kode Rød: Fyret in its native Norway, the format is a survival competition series in which 10 celebrities are stranded on a remote island with nothing but a lighthouse and each other. […]
International Format Awards 2025 finalists revealed, Gold Award announced
The finalists in the International Format Awards 2025 have been unveiled, following online voting by a panel of the world’s leading format commissioners, buyers and producers. The International Format Awards are a coproduction between C21Media, FRAPA, the Entertainment Masterclass and Mipcom. The awards will be presented between 17.30 and 19.00 on Sunday October 12 at […]
Format luminaries Phil Gurin and Lisette van Diepen to step down from FRAPA board
Phil Gurin and Lisette van Diepen will step down from the board of the Format Recognition and Protection Association (FRAPA) later this year. Gurin, who is president and CEO of prodco The Gurin Company and founder of specialist format distribution company TGC Global Entertainment, has served on the FRAPA board for 16 years, most recently […]
Formats agency FRAPA appoints three execs to board as Jan Salling and Mike Beale step down
Format rights protection agency FRAPA has appointed Adam Steinman, Pascal Dalton and Maria Chiara Duranti to its advisory board, as Jan Salling and Mike Beale step down. Salling, who is head of BBC Studios Nordics, formats and production, has been co-chair of FRAPA for 10 years, while Beale, MD of ITV Studios, creative network, has […]
Phil Gurin’s TGC GE stocks up on Swedish, Nigerian formats for trip to London
Los Angeles-based TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE) has inked format acquisition deals with SVT Sales, the commercial arm of the Swedish public broadcaster SVT and Nigeria’s Bafot Studios. TGC GE, the international distribution company launched by US format veteran Phil Gurin (Shark Tank, The Singing Bee), has bagged the formats in time for its outing […]