Banijay Completes Acquisition of Sony Photos Tv Germany

ACQUISITION/REBRANDING

Banijay‘s deliberate acquisition of Sony Productions Movie und Fernseh Produktions GmbH Germany (Sony Photos Tv Germany) from Sony Photos is now full. Following customary closing circumstances, Banijay Germany has secured 100% stake within the firm. The label, based in 1995, will now function as Noisy Photos GmbH, with Astrid Quentell and Mirek Nitsch remaining in management positions.

Sony Photos Tv Germany’s profitable exhibits embrace “Die Höhle der Löwen,” which has been on Vox since 2014; drama-comedy “Der Lehrer,” which has performed 9 seasons on RTL and gained quite a few awards; and ZDF crime collection “Heldt.”

Based in 2018 by Marcus Wolter and Banijay, Banijay Germany now has greater than 1,200 staff. Main titles embrace “Tatort Dresden, Schlag den Star” (“Beat the Star”), “TV Complete,” “Wer wird Millionär?” (“Who Desires to be a Millionaire?”), “Kitchen Not possible,” “The Masked Singer” and “Promi Massive Brother” (“Celeb Massive Brother”).

Wolter stated: “Sony Photos in Germany is understood for high-quality scripted titles, a powerful catalogue, and profitable unscripted productions like ‘Die Höhle der Löwen.’ On this basis, we have now each religion that the Noisy Photos workforce will probably be one other hit-maker within the Banijay Germany household.”

Astrid Quentell, MD of Noisy Photos, added: “We’re thrilled to be a part of Banijay. Trying to the long run, we need to preserve the energy of our impartial label, with continuity in our productions on the one hand, and recent impulses derived from inventive exchanges throughout the brand new household on the opposite.”

TENNIS

Amazon Prime Video and the LTA, the U.Okay.’s governing physique for tennis, have launched Prime Video LTA Youth Ladies, a multi-year program to coach coaches throughout the nation to ship classes and steerage particularly designed for ladies. Emma Raducanu‘s historic victory on the U.S. Open final yr was the catalyst for this system. The initiative fulfils Prime Video’s promise to reinvest the funds from sharing the published of the 2021 U.S. Open closing with Channel 4, into British ladies’s tennis.

Raducanu stated: “I’m extraordinarily happy to see the funds generated from the U.S. Open closing go in direction of this new program, which is a step in the proper route to convey extra younger women into the game and can proceed to assist a shiny future for girls’s tennis on this nation. As an envoy of LTA Youth, it’s nice to see a complimentary program take form and hopefully convey some extra success.”