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Shine Group
Shine Group was a British international television production and distribution group with 26 production companies across 12 countries creating scripted and non-scripted content in the global marketplace.
Shine Group companies included award-winning genre specialists such as U.K.-based Kudos (drama), Dragonfly (factual), Princess Productions (entertainment and multi-genre) and Shine TV (factual and factual entertainment); U.S. producer Shine America (formerly Reveille); and Metronome Film & Television, the Nordic region’s largest production group. The group also includes Shine 360°, a group-wide ancillary and commercial rights division, Shine International, the dedicated international sales and distribution arm and unscripted formats division Shine Network.
Shine International distributed a catalogue of more than 4,000 hours of broadcast content to more than 200 territories worldwide as of the end of 2013. Internationally distributed shows from the Shine group include MasterChef (now produced in over 40 territories), The Biggest Loser, One Born Every Minute, Minute to Win It and crime drama The Bridge, which was adapted in both the U.S., and the U.K. and France in 2013.
Shine has established businesses in Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Portugal and has expanded into the children’s genre in a joint venture with Teletubbies and In the Night Garden... co-creator Andrew Davenport. Shine also has a digital and direct to consumer business through social gaming producer Bossa Studios and the online original content producers ChannelFlip.
Shine was founded in 2001 by Elisabeth Murdoch following her departure from BSkyB the previous year.
In December 2006, Shine Productions announced that they're in advanced negotiations to acquire three British production companies Kudos, Princess Productions and Firefly Film & Television (now Dragonfly) to create a single British production powerhouse group with the three production companies will retain their brands and operate as four separate entities after the merger is completed.
In November 2007, Shine Group announced that they're finalizing a deal to acquire American independent production company Reveille Productions from its founder Ben Silverman that could expand Shine Group's operations into the United States for $200 million. A year later in February 2008, Shine Group announced that they've completed their $200 million acquisition of American production company Reveille Productions and became Shine Group's first acquisition outside of the UK with Reveille Productions being branded as Shine Group's American division along with Reveille's distribution arm being renamed to ShineReveille International as Shine Group's new international division.
In July 2008, Shine Group announced that they launched a film production joint-venture with Arnon Milchan's American-based producer New Regency which was named Shine Pictures with the venture being held by Shine Group CEO Elisabeth Murdoch and New Regency co-chairmen Bob Harper and Hutch Parker.
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Shine Group
Shine Group was a British international television production and distribution group with 26 production companies across 12 countries creating scripted and non-scripted content in the global marketplace.
Shine Group companies included award-winning genre specialists such as U.K.-based Kudos (drama), Dragonfly (factual), Princess Productions (entertainment and multi-genre) and Shine TV (factual and factual entertainment); U.S. producer Shine America (formerly Reveille); and Metronome Film & Television, the Nordic region’s largest production group. The group also includes Shine 360°, a group-wide ancillary and commercial rights division, Shine International, the dedicated international sales and distribution arm and unscripted formats division Shine Network.
Shine International distributed a catalogue of more than 4,000 hours of broadcast content to more than 200 territories worldwide as of the end of 2013. Internationally distributed shows from the Shine group include MasterChef (now produced in over 40 territories), The Biggest Loser, One Born Every Minute, Minute to Win It and crime drama The Bridge, which was adapted in both the U.S., and the U.K. and France in 2013.
Shine has established businesses in Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Portugal and has expanded into the children’s genre in a joint venture with Teletubbies and In the Night Garden... co-creator Andrew Davenport. Shine also has a digital and direct to consumer business through social gaming producer Bossa Studios and the online original content producers ChannelFlip.
Shine was founded in 2001 by Elisabeth Murdoch following her departure from BSkyB the previous year.
In December 2006, Shine Productions announced that they're in advanced negotiations to acquire three British production companies Kudos, Princess Productions and Firefly Film & Television (now Dragonfly) to create a single British production powerhouse group with the three production companies will retain their brands and operate as four separate entities after the merger is completed.
In November 2007, Shine Group announced that they're finalizing a deal to acquire American independent production company Reveille Productions from its founder Ben Silverman that could expand Shine Group's operations into the United States for $200 million. A year later in February 2008, Shine Group announced that they've completed their $200 million acquisition of American production company Reveille Productions and became Shine Group's first acquisition outside of the UK with Reveille Productions being branded as Shine Group's American division along with Reveille's distribution arm being renamed to ShineReveille International as Shine Group's new international division.
In July 2008, Shine Group announced that they launched a film production joint-venture with Arnon Milchan's American-based producer New Regency which was named Shine Pictures with the venture being held by Shine Group CEO Elisabeth Murdoch and New Regency co-chairmen Bob Harper and Hutch Parker.