Banijay Reveals Shine Fiction

The French scripted label Endemol Shine Fiction has rebranded as Shine Fiction, which has inked its first development deals.

Shine Fiction is led by Dominique Farrugia, who has been in the post since November 2020. The company is building a pipeline of premium content for the French market that has international potential.

Shine Fiction signed a deal with talent agent Camille Trumer, giving the company the rights to adapt best-selling novels by Pierre Lemaitre. The writer is behind multiple hit thrillers, which are now available for development into TV series by Shine Fiction, alongside two other book adaptations with authors.

The company has a number of projects for French broadcasters in the pipeline, including a four-part series for M6 and a 90-minute special for France 2.

Farrugia, managing director at Shine Fiction, said: “Shine Fiction is set to be the home for the very best talent in France, and these development deals are evidence of our high-end ambitions. Television adaptations of literary successes are hugely popular globally, and without a doubt, our deal with the master of suspense Pierre Lemaitre will become a premium series to leave audiences gripped, both here in France and internationally.”