TALPA MEDIA AND CBV IN PORTUGAL ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

Media entrepreneur John de Mol's company Talpa and the renowned Portuguese TV producer CBV today announced the start of a 50-50 owned joint venture aimed at the Portuguese market. The new joint ventu... Read more...

SPANISH BOOMERANG TV GROUP PARTNERS WITH TALPA MEDIA

Media entrepreneur John de Mol's company Talpa and Spanish Boomerang TV Group today announced the start of a 50-50 owned joint venture aimed at the Spanish market. The new joint venture has the exclu... Read more...

DIVIDED SERIES TWO LAUNCHING ON ITV1 APRIL 2010

United they conquer....Divided they part. Following a successful first run last year, Divided is returning to ITV1 this April. Hosted by Andrew Castle; Divided is a general knowledge game show wit... Read more...

WARNER AND TALPA TEAM UP FOR FORMAT ADAPTION IN THE U.S.

Talpa Media, the Dutch holding company owned by media entrepreneur John de Mol, and Warner Horizon Television (WHTV), the U.S.-based alternative and cable series production unit of the Warner Bros. T... Read more...

SECOND SERIES 'DATING IN THE DARK' TO BE LAUNCHED ON ABC

ABC has ordered another six-episode season of last summer's reality competish, 'Dating in the Dark'. The show is expected to air this summer. The Talpa format 'Dating in the Dark' fol... Read more...

NEW BOARD COMPOSITION AT TALPA MEDIA

LAREN, the Netherlands, January 14, 2010 ─ Effective February 1, management at Talpa Media will have the following composition. Owner John de Mol will remain in charge of the development and pro... Read more...

TALPA MEDIA AND SHINE FRANCE ENTER PARTNERSHIP

Media entrepreneur John de Mol's company Talpa and the French branch of Shine Group today announced the start of a 50-50 owned joint venture aimed at the French market and French-speaking Belgium. Th... Read more...

‘DATING IN THE DARK' CONQUERS NORTHERN EUROPE

Talpa's hit format ‘ Dating in the Dark' will soon be on air in Scandinavia and Finland. KANAL 5 in Sweden, SBS TV in Denmark, Norway's NRK and SUB in Finland will bring the reality show ne... Read more...

2ND SEASON FOR ‘KNOW YOUR NATION’ ON DUTCH FAMILY STATION RTL 4

Talpa formats are dominating the Saturday night ratings on Holland's leading family station RTL 4. Next to ‘I Love My Country' hit show ‘ Know Your Nation' is a huge success. Last S... Read more...

RECORD-BREAKING LAUNCH 4TH SERIES 'I LOVE MY COUNTRY'

Launch 4th series 'I Love My Country' doubles channel's average market share. Last Saturday the first episode of the 4th season of Talpa's hit show 'I Love My Country' was launched with a 30.9%&n... Read more...

'VIPER'S NEST' WINNER 'BEST PROGRAM AWARD'

Last Friday 23 October, Talpa's drama/comedy series 'Viper's Nest' received the 'Gouden Televizier-Ring 2009', the award for best TV program in the Netherlands. The winner of the prestigiou... Read more...

'PRETTY SMART' VOTED BEST GAMESHOW AT MIPCOM

The Talpa hit show Pretty Smart is a winner of the C21 Media Award in the category Best Gameshow. This announcement was made last week during Mipcom in Cannes, and was based on votes from the C21 c... Read more...

UK LAUNCH 'DATING IN THE DARK' SUCCESSFUL

The hit format Dating in the Dark premiered on 9 September at 9 pm in the UK . The eight-part series is broadcasted by Virgin Media Television owned entertainment channel Living and pulled in ... Read more...

SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH FOR 'KNOW YOUR NATION'

Last Saturday, August 29, Talpa's new family entertainment show 'Know Your Nation' successfully premiered on RTL 4, the biggest family station in the Netherlands. The first episode achieved a market ... Read more...

'DATING IN THE DARK' WINNER FOR ABC, SET TO LAUNCH IN UK

Source: ABC, Nielsen   The first season of 6 episodes Dating in the Dark ended on 24 August. During its first-season run on ABC in the US , Dating in the Dark was the time-pe... Read more...

TALPA GOES LATIN WITH 'DATING IN THE DARK'

Today Talpa Distribution, part of John de Mol's media company Talpa Media Holding, announced a new commission by TV SBT Canal 4 in Brazil for Dating in the Dark. TV SBT has picked up a series of 1... Read more...

'GUESSTIMATION' RATINGS WINNER FOR BBC1

Last Saturday, July 11, Talpa's family entertainment show Guesstimation premiered on BBC1 in the UK. The first episode achieved a market share of 25.5% with 4.92 million viewers. BBC1 has an average ... Read more...

NEW FORMAT I'M COMING TO DINNER SUCCESFULLY LAUNCHED

The first episode of the Talpa format I'm Coming to Dinner premiered in the Netherlands on Monday the 6th of July on RTL 4 at 8 pm. The new show achieved a 21.7% market share in the 20 - 49 t... Read more...

'DATING IN THE DARK' TO PREMIERE IN THE UK THIS AUTUMN

In September Dating in the Dark will be launched on Living, part of Virgin Media. During 8 weekly episodes the UK will find out if love is truly blind.   Dating in the Dark is an experi... Read more...

FIRST SERIES 'DIVIDED' SUCCESFULLY LAUNCHED IN THE UK

Divided is aired on ITV1 every weekday at 17.00 hrs. It premiered on Monday the 18th of May.   On the thrilling gameshow Divided unanimous is the key word. 3 contestants join forces t... Read more...

GUESSTIMATION PICKED UP BY BBC ONE

This summer 8 x 40 minutes episodes presented by Nick Knowles will air primetime Saturday night on BBC One. Guesstimation, a National Lottery format for BBC One, is a fast paced, funny game s... Read more...

'DIVIDED' TO PREMIERE ON ITV 1 ON 18 MAY

Divided will premiere on Monday the 18th of May 2009. It will be broadcasted every weekday at 5PM on ITV1. There will be 30 episodes x 60 minutes.   Three strangers have one simple ta... Read more...

DATING IN THE DARK LAUNCHES 20 JULY ON ABC

‘Dating in the Dark' received a series pickup from US network ABC for the production of this new dating show. ABC picked up the back five episodes bringing the order to six including the pilot.... Read more...

'PRETTY SMART' SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED IN THE NETHERLANDS

Pretty Smart, Talpa's new funny quiz show, conquers every target group in The Netherlands The funny new quiz show is about how well men can estimate which answers women give to general knowledge q... Read more...

INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION FOR TALPA MEDIA

John de Mol: "It's all about content" INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION FOR TALPA MEDIA In the course of 2009 Talpa will open its own production subsidiaries in six of the world's leading television countri... Read more...

I LOVE MY COUNTRY (SPECIAL) WINNER IN ITS TIMESLOT

On the 29th of April there was a special long edition of I Love My Country: The Queensday Special. On this show there was a live National Lottery draw, with prizes ranging from 100,000 Euro to 29,7 m... Read more...