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Formerly | Zodiak Productions (2007–2008) Zodiak Entertainment (2008–2010) Zodiak Media Group (2010–2012) |
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Industry | TV production |
Founded | 2007 |
Defunct | 2016 |
Fate | Acquired by, merged with, and folded into Banijay; some assets retain the Zodiak name |
Successor | Banijay |
Headquarters | Paris, France |
Area served | Worldwide |
Divisions | Zodiak Active Zodiak Americas Zodiak Belgium Zodiak France Zodiak Kids Zodiak MEAA Zodiak Nederland Zodiak Nordic Zodiak UK Zodiak Russia |
Subsidiaries | Adventure Line Productions Bwark Productions The Comedy Unit GTV Productions IWC Media Jarowskij KM Productions Magnolia Mastiff RDF Television Red House Sol Productions TeleAlliance Touchpaper Television Yellow Bird |
Zodiak Media was a global independent television group with up to 45 companies covering fiction, entertainment, and animation, spread across 15 countries, including France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Spain, the Nordic countries, and Russia.
The group merged in February 2016 with Banijay Group, which then became the world's leading independent producer of content for television and multimedia platforms. [1]
Zodiak Rights, the international distribution arm of Zodiak Media, now a Banijay Group company, is one of the leading distributors on the international market. Its catalogue has over 20,000 hours of programming. [2]
The Zodiak Media group was formed by the successive acquisition of television production companies under the impetus of the Italian De Agostini: Magnolia and Marathon Media in 2007 (Italy, Spain and France), Zodiak TV in 2008 (Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia), [3] RDF Media in 2010 (United Kingdom and United States) [4] and Bwark in 2011 (United Kingdom).
Zodiak Kids, a subsidiary specializing in family and youth programs, was created in 2014.
In July 2015, Banijay Group and Zodiak Media announce their merger. [5] The merger is effective on February 23, 2016. [6] Banijay Group then becomes one of the world's leading content producers. [7]
Among the programs produced by Zodiak Media: Being Human , the supernatural series produced for the BBC and SyFy US; Wallander ; the Millennium Trilogy ; the French series Sous le soleil , and Versailles , in co-production with Capa and Incendo for Canal+.
Zodiak Media is also the originator of the formats Koh-Lanta , Fort Boyard (Adventure Line Productions), The Secret Millionaire , The Best Singers (Swedish), and Location, Location, Location .
Zodiak Kids' catalogue includes programs such as Waybuloo , Totally Spies! , Rekkit Rabbit , Mister Maker , and Gormiti .
Totally Spies is a French anime-influenced animated spy-fi series created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel mainly produced by French company Zodiak Kids & Family Studio France, with seasons three to five being co-produced with Canadian company Image Entertainment Corporation, and the seventh season by French company Ollenom Studio. It focuses on three teenage girls from Beverly Hills, California, who work as undercover agents for the World Organization of Human Protection (WOOHP).
Tele Images Productions was a French television production company established in 2001 by Groupe Tele Images that produces children's television programs in animation and live-action. It has been part of Zodiak Kids Studios since 2015. It shut down in 2016, after Zodiak Kids merged with Banijay Group, who now owns the rights to the studio's entire catalogue.
Beyond International Limited is an international television and film production company with operations in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. The company is involved in the creation and international distribution of television, feature films and ancillary products. The company has an extensive television program catalogue of over 5,000 hours and covers all genres including drama, feature films, comedy, children's, reality, and documentary programs.
Nigel Pickard is a British television executive who oversaw the creation and launch of, amongst others, the BBC's children's channels, CBBC and CBeebies and as director of programmes at ITV, was responsible for commissioning some of the UK's most popular shows. He also worked for Zodiak Media, one of the largest independent producers in the world and is currently a Director of Nevision.
ITV Studios Limited is a British multinational television production and distribution company owned by the British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-party broadcasters, and is based in 12 countries across 60 production labels, with local production offices in the UK, US, Belgium, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Israel, France, Spain and Scandinavia.
Banijay UK Productions Limited, trading as Banijay UK, is a British production company. Since 2020, the company has been a subsidiary of Banijay.
Zodiak Kids & Family is a worldwide French television production company based in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The company was originally founded as Marathon Productions, by Olivier Brémond and Pascal Breton in February 1990, and Vincent Chalvon-Demersay joined the team in 1999 to develop Marathon's animation programming, along with David Michel. The company was best known for the animated series Totally Spies! and Martin Mystery.
Michael Andrew Carrington, is an Australian broadcast media executive who is currently Director, Entertainment and Specialist at the ABC based in Sydney, New South Wales. He oversees all national radio, television, and digital services including ABC TV (ABC1), ABC TV Plus (ABC2), ABC Me, ABC Kids plus ABC iview, ABC Listen, ABC Kids Listen, ABC Classic FM, ABC Jazz, ABC Country, and Radio National.
The Comedy Unit or known sometimes as just Comedy Unit is a Scottish company that produces sitcoms, comedy sketches, live shows and other comedy productions. It began life as an in-house BBC department in 1983 under the auspices of Producer Colin Gilbert and became an independent production company in 1996 when Gilbert and business manager April Chamberlain left the BBC. By 2001 they had an annual turnover of £2 million a core staff of 12 employees. They have produced radio and television shows that were aired on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio Scotland.
Adventure Line Productions, part of Banijay, is a French television production company which specialises in creating adventure gameshows and adapting international formats for French television channels such as Survivor.
Yellow Bird is a Swedish film and television production company. In 2003 Danish producer Ole Søndberg and Swedish author Henning Mankell started a collaboration on a series of television films based on Mankell’s famous fictional detective Kurt Wallander and Yellow Bird was born. The success of the initial Wallander films was followed by Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, Liza Marklund’s Annika Bengtzon series as well as the British version of Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh.
All3Media Limited is a British worldwide independent television, film, and digital production and distribution company based in London, England. The All3Media group comprises more than 50 production and distribution companies and labels from across the United Kingdom and all other parts of Europe, New Zealand and the United States.
De Agostini S.p.A. is an Italian holding company that coordinates the strategic operating companies De Agostini Editore, De Agostini Communications, IGT, and DeA Capital, and makes financial investments, among which the main investment is a minority stake in Assicurazioni Generali. It is active worldwide in 4 sectors: publishing, media and communication, games and services, finance. It was founded in 1901 by geographer Giovanni De Agostini in Rome, and later moved to Novara.
Marco Bassetti is an Italian manager and entrepreneur, with a degree in Social and Political Sciences.
Endemol Shine Group B.V. was a Dutch production and distribution company of scripted and non-scripted content, responsible for programmes such as Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, The Money Drop, Fear Factor, MasterChef, Your Face Sounds Familiar, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror, Humans, Grantchester and Tin Star.
Banijay S.A. is a French multinational television production and distribution company which is the world's largest international content producer and distributor with over 130 production companies across 21 territories, and a multi-genre catalogue containing over 180,000 hours of original programming. Headquartered in Paris, the company was founded in January 2008 by Stéphane Courbit, former president of Endemol France, and has risen since its inception, to become a €3.2bn turnover business. It is currently a subsidiary of FL Entertainment N.V., based in Amsterdam.
Stéphane Courbit is a French businessman in the sector of media and television.
David Frank was the CEO of Dial Square 86 and the chairman of The RightsXchange, which is an online marketplace for TV rights. He was the founder of RDF Media and the onetime CEO of Zodiak Media SA. He was also Chairman of Mint Digital, a digital product development studio in London and New York, and Objekt Films, a London-based film and video content creation company.
Matthew Frank is a British television executive who is currently CEO of The RightsXchange, a new online marketplace for secondary TV rights. Matthew was formerly the CEO of RDF Rights and of Zodiak Rights and is also a company director of Dial Square 86