Aussie reality TV giant making new shows direct to YouTube
Australia’s biggest TV producer will create new shows specifically for YouTube.
The maker of Australia’s versions of MasterChef, Survivor, Big Brother, Married at First Sight and Gogglebox said it had taken inspiration from kids making content in their bedrooms.
The Australian TV giant, Endemol Shine, will create an interview show, a makeover show and of course a dating show direct for YouTube by way of its new distribution venture - called Resay.
Former Big Brother Australia contestants Marley Biyendolo and Tilly Whitfield will host the three new YouTube shows.
The new dating show is called Spicy Dates - two singles have a meal together, and each course of the meal is literally spicier than the last.
Biyendolo and Whitfield will also host an interview show, called Squirm Sessions. The interview subject can object to any overly invasive questions, but are punished thusly.
Glow Ups will be a makeover show, “tackling self-proclaimed geeks and the most ocker of Aussies”.
Deadline is told that redundancies have hit UIS globally in London HQ and in its Australia and L.A. hubs. We haven’t confirmed the number laid off but are told the percentage is in the single digits of overall headcount.
Interesting tid bit I found - Paul Fenech’s company is in creditors voluntary adminstration. Hope everything is OK, I love his work.
This story is a bit of a rip from The Aus’ story by Steve Jackson here, where he speaks with @blackbox
Buried in Annette Sharp’s News Corp column today is the news that My Brilliant Career will be remade as a TV series by Jungle Entertainment, with Screen Australia approving development funding. The Miles Franklin classic had been adapted into a movie in 1979 (directed by Gillian Armstrong) and as a theatre musical.
It’s the way they’ve wanted it since 1956.
If Nine and Seven had their way, there would be no regional stations. They conspired to get rid of NBN and WIN by restricting overseas programs - albeit to no avail, but they tried.
Packer wanted to bypass the regions with a satellite service. Hawke was so far up his arse that we got aggregation.
Aggregation made sure regional stations were dependant on Sydney and Melbourne.
The stations outside of Sydney and Melbourne do very little local content now, including the other state capitals AND our nation’s capital.
I am becoming increasingly convinced that the nation’s television industry needs a major review. We need to be diversifying where the programs are coming from, not centralising everything. Sydney is our nation’s bloated arsehole and Melbourne is not far behind. We need to be telling, not convincing, but forcedly telling our broadcasters to move elsewhere and play up the rest of the country. Diversify the operations.
I’m not holding my breath though.
Streaming has a lot to answer for in this respect.. I recall reading/hearing that ad revenue for network commercial TV across Australia has dropped by HALF in the last 15 years… you can’t hope to cop those sorts of losses and maintain production as it was.
May as well play the anthem one last time and shut down the transmitters. It’s only going to get worse.
The broadcasters have done nothing to build up a good reputation and its through doing shit like this that adds to the black marks against their names. And since they’re onour spectrum - either do the right thing by the community, or fuck off.
Not everything has to be located in Sydney. You can produce crap in other places, and it might even be cheaper.
And in some respects that may have been a more sustainable outcome - regional television had always been on the precipice financially and some of that comes back to the original adopted model that had quite possibly too many stations for the population (and population spread).
The problem has continually been that we allow the market to write the rules they operate under - so rather than serving communities, they serve self-interest.
This is a two-way street too - at a time of change, FTA elected to limit its evolution to try and meet the market rather electing to focus on rent seeking and protectionism, to shield owners from declining profits.