Music Entertainment Formats Deliver for Zodiak

PARIS: Zodiak Entertainment has bagged sales on its music entertainment formats Twist & Shout and Stars on Stage across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Australia.

The one-hour musical talent-show Twist & Shout has been licensed by ATV in Turkey for 13 episodes and by the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation in the Middle East for eight episodes, where it will be produced Signature Productions. This is in addition to the two seasons currently in production in Indonesia and the Philippines. The prime-time singing show has been optioned in 12 territories since its launch last MIPCOM, including to Nine Network in Australia, Fremantle in Portugal, plus Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece and pan-regional SBS Broadcasting spanning Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The company is also in advanced negotiations with a partner in the U.S.

The celebrity-based prime-time hit Stars on Stage has now been licensed to National TV Channel Kazakhstan. A third season of 14 episodes has been commissioned with Channel One in Russia, where the show attracted a 27-percent audience share in its first episode. Stars on Stage has also aired in Armenia, Brazil, Belarus, India, Indonesia, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the Ukraine.

Matthieu Porte, the head of format sales for Zodiak Entertainment, said: “What great Zodiak Entertainment success stories these are. Twist & Shout is fast becoming Zodiak Entertainment’s next global hit. Similarly, Stars on Stage is on fire, it seems audiences can’t get enough of its fusion of music and celebrities.”