List of Banijay production studios

Banijay is a French multinational production and distribution company founded in January 2008 by Stéphane Courbit. Headquartered in Paris, Banijay stands as the world's largest content producer and distributor; home to over 120 production companies across 22 territories, and a multi-genre catalogue boasting over 88,000 hours of original standout programming.

While Banijay set up some in-house studios itself, such as its namesake Banijay Productions, the company has acquired several production studios, including Bunim/Murray Productions and Screentime, as well as the assets of Zodiak Media and Endemol Shine Group. Banijay's studios often cooperate with each other on some projects, sharing different development duties. For example, The Tunnel saw two studios from the United Kingdom and France working together.

Adventure Line Productions
Having been founded in 1972, Adventure Line Productions (ALP) has grown substantially, exploiting the legacy of Jacques Antoine (Fort Boyard, Treasure Hunt). Today, the label is one of France’s leading production companies, known for its creativity and its production expertise in Adventure: Fort Boyard, which is still on air and rating well after over 30 years; Survivor, which is a huge success even after more than 20 seasons; and Treasure Map, which had a strong re-launch in 2018. The company is also well-known for its original IP (L’Aventure Robinson, Minikeums, Happy Hour and The Desert Forges, which was produced internationally for the UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway) and adaptations of international hit formats (Are You The One?, Nation’s Brightest, Popstars, Wife Swap, Undressed). ALP produces content for all French terrestrial broadcasters, including DTT, cable and satellite channels.

Banijay Productions
Banijay Productions was founded in 2008 by two veteran French producers, Alexia Laroche-Joubert and Lionel Vialaneix, both formerly from Endemol France. Now led by Florence Fayard, the company specialises in reality programming and factual entertainment. Its top-rated formats include the wildly successful reality franchise, Les Ch’tis/Les Marseillais, known internationally as Party Workers, which has continually broken records for W9 over almost 20 seasons and a number of spin-offs. Other hits include: A season at the Zoo and its various spin-offs for France 4, and the adventure competition, Good Luck Guys, another successful brand for W9.

BPF is also known for adaptations of international successes: Temptation Island, Popstars and Weakest Link.

Banijay Production Media
Banijay Production Media (formerly Air Productions) was founded in 1993 by Nagui, one of France’s most popular hosts and a frequent winner of viewers’ choice awards. The company got off to a great start with the production of long-running live music show, Taratata, which continues to be broadcast over 30 years later. Building on its strong foothold in music-based programming, over almost three decades, the company has expanded its repertoire and it now stands as a premium producer of game and entertainment programming.

The company has produced French versions of many third-party titles, mostly with Nagui as host, including The Vault, Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and Everybody’s Equal. In recent years, the company has also developed a number of successful in-house formats for its primary broadcast partner, France 2. These include Hands Off, Chef!, Honey, The Exception and Let’s All Play.

Nagui can be seen daily on daytime television as the face of France’s longest-running game show, Hold on to Your Seat, and in an access slot with daily episodes of Don’t Forget the Lyrics. The company has also diversified into fiction, with a short-form series, Previously, the prime-time one-off, 3 Femmes en Colère (3 Angry Women), as well as many new developments.

Banijay Studios France
Banijay Studios France 's aim is simple: bring together talent and support them to develop and produce high-quality fiction that is innovative, entertaining, and relevant to today’s society. Over the years, BSF has strengthened their reputation through top brands including Versailles (Canal+), Occupied (Arte),The Red Shadows(C8), and more recently, Mouche (Canal+), based on UK hit series, Fleabag (created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and produced by Two Brothers Pictures). The leading French players in scripted production will this year produce two seasons of Skam France (France TV Slash), having been one of the first adapters of the critically-acclaimed Norwegian format (created and written by Julie Andem), now approaching series 5 and 6.

Led by Alban Etienne, the two companies have a team of recognised producers which develop and produce content for both French and international audiences. In 2020 alone, the teams will devise and deliver a range of shows including: Germinal, Walkyries, 30 vies (based on the original series written and created by Fabienne Larouche) and Eternal City, to name a few.

Endemol Shine France
Endemol Shine France (formerly Endemol France and Shine France) is a major player in the creation, production and distribution of audiovisual and digital content, of all genres and for all screens. It benefits from the power of its catalogue of formats and its international distribution network to assert itself as a leader in the fiction, flow and digital sectors.

Endemol Shine Fiction
Endemol Shine Production is Endemol Shine France's division dedicated to the creation, development, production and distribution of audiovisual stream programs in all genres (Entertainment, Factuals, Reality, Game Shows) and for all screens. Its activity as an audiovisual producer leads it to create and develop licensing programs around our strong brands, through content from our programs and our derivative products, on all existing supports: gaming (online / offline), publishing, board games, etc.

Endemol Shine Production
Endemol Shine Fiction is Endemol Shine France's division dedicated to the creation, development, production and distribution of fiction. To do this, it relies on different producers and labels respectively defending editorial and artistic lines with different and complementary sensitivities. Endemol Shine Fiction is also developing a co-development and co-production activity in fiction in France and abroad.

H20 Productions
H2O Productions was founded by media personality Cyril Hanouna, well-known in France as a comedian, TV and radio host. H2O’s flagship production is the daily live hit Touche pas à mon poste, known internationally as It’s Only TV, most popular panel show in France. The humorous, self-reflective and satirical show holds a daily slot on the DTT channel C8, where viewing numbers grew weekly since its launch, becoming a flagship show for the channel. It’s Only TVis also very successful when broadcasted as a Prime Time Format and has been adapted in Lebanon and Italy.

The company is well known for its abundant creativity in studio-based entertainment shows, with a long list of proven hits in daily and prime time slots as well as a wide range of creations (Very Bad Luck, The Big Wishaway, Ultimate Star Quiz,…) with some of them being adapted worldwide (Battle Zik, ..).

In 2019, the company launched its first Scripted show, Les Ombres Rouges.

KM Production
Founded in 1994 by Renaud Le Van Kim, KM Production is a highly versatile television production company which specialises in high-quality content productions: current affairs programming, documentaries and large-scale live promotional events. The company was originally known for producing France’s best-rated daily talk show, Le Grand Journalon Canal+, which, for over 10 years, featured interviews with Hollywood celebrities and senior French politicians.

KM Production was established as an expert in news and talk shows via long-running title, 28 Minutes, a daily success on Arte.

Now led by Antoine Baldassari, the business has extended its expertise into new genres, with high-end factual content for the main French channels TF1 & France 2 (Eat Well For Less, Vets/Firemen Revealed, The Genealogists) and many documentaries for a large scope of channels (Carlos Le Chacal, Inside Lehman Brothers…)

Among the brands most successful productions are also the coverage of the annual glamorous openings and closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival, and the French national film awards, La Nuit des César.

Non Stop People
Non Stop People is the first 24/7 news channel entirely dedicated to stars and celebrity news. Launched in 2012 in France on CANALSAT (DTH), Non Stop People completely renewed the celebrity news theme, producing continuous celebrity news updates and covering international and local stars. With an editorial team of more than 40 journalists, the channel broadcasts from a TV studio in the centre of Paris. Aimed at a 25-49 female audience, Non Stop People is populated with premium content including hard news around the clock, exclusive shows and glamourous events coverage. Constantly innovating; the brand has adapted the traditional TV format(s) to all new media environments, producing exclusive content for linear (TV), as well as non-linear platforms (web/mobile/tablet/OTT…).

Talent Lab
Talent Lab is a celebrity marketing agency representing media celebrities, models, TV hosts, Miss and digital influenceurs. Our motto : Find a suitable and personalized solution adapted to your communication. At the begining Talent Lab was created by Sylvie Tellier. The agency is born to help ex-Miss France in the management of their image, their fame and to offer possibilities of collaborations with celebrities from the whole French media environment. Among the celebrities that we represent you can find: Camille Cerf, Christophe Licata, Flora Coquerel, Marine Lorphelin which evolve in our various fields of activity as ambassadors, muses and influencers.

Give an exceptional dimension to your events by inviting our experts of public speaking. According to your targets and to your objectives we will find you an adapted and personalized solution to lead your strategy to success. Among the brands and the customers who trusted us, we count Franck Provost, Kiko or Bioderma.

Terrence Films
Led by Director, Stéphane Meunier and Producer, Bertrand Cohen, Terence Films is a Scripted production business focused on creating television, feature films and branded content for the French market. Established in 2005, the critically-acclaimed business is behind over 225 hours of high-quality Scripted programming. To date, Terence Films has produced Les Innocents for TF1 and now Amazon Prime; award-winning Cut!, a co-production with Banijay Studios France and Adventure Line Productions for France O ; and multi award-winning Fortunes for Arte and France 2. Most recently, the company has launched production on OPJ, South Pacific (20×52’), a cop series for France Télévisions.

Banijay Finland
Banijay Finland has established its spot within the country’s top three non-scripted production companies by producing numerous hit prime-time shows including The Voice of Finland, The Best Singers, Temptation Island, Dancing With The Stars, Paradise Hotel and Have I Got News For You?. Inaddition to producing local versions of some of the world’s biggest titles, the business has also bought a number of its own hit formats to-air, such as Chefs Around The World, Idiomatic and the Heikki Paasonen Show.

Endemol Shine Finland
Endemol Shine Finland Oy has been providing entertainment to Finnish TV viewers since 2000. We produce content for a wide variety of TV channels and brands. Our best known programs include: Big Brother, Altar Dating, The Wall Finland, Couch Potatoes, Biggest Dropper, Ladies, Cooks War, Villa & Hussie, Homely, MasterChef and many more.

Zodiak Finland
Since being founded in 2000, Zodiak Finland has widely been considered one of the leading independent television production companies in the country.

The company has a long tradition of producing drama and is behind big hits including: Cuckoo’s Nest, Frozen Hearts and Brothers and in 2013, the company produced its first feature film, Jill and Joy. Since then, Zodiak Finland has successfully produced three other feature films: Jill and Joy´s Winter, Look of a Killer and Jill and Joy and Mysterious Stranger.

Poland
Endemol Shine Poland (also known as Endemol Shine Polska), Banijay's production arm in Poland is one of the most prominent TV production companies in the Polish market operating since 1997.

In over 20 years of experience, we have produced thousands of hours of top-quality TV content both on local and international commissions. Apart from creation and production service, ES Poland is also known for developing innovative technology and software for productions.

From primetime entertainment shows to the most fearless reality series, Endemol Shine Poland is dedicated to invent, create and produce content that enthralls and inspires.

Switzerland
B&B Endemol Shine is Banijay's Swiss production arm, and is a 50/50 joint venture between the Freddy Burger Group (FBM) from Zurich and Banijay. B&B Endemol Shine offers the unique combination of a purely Swiss company with the know-how and resources of a large group in the back. Its customers include SRF, 3sat, TV24, Sat.1, ProSieben, 3plus and FIFA. We also produce content outside of classic television formats. These include, for example, individual company videos or diverse online and social media content.

Initial
Initial is one of the UK’s leading entertainment content creators and producers. The company is behind productions such as Big Brother, Total Wipeout, Tenable, The Almost Impossible Gameshow, Big Box Little Box and Soccer Aid, which has so far raised over £17 million for UNICEF.

Voted number 2 in the best places to work in TV, Initial prides itself on being a supportive, collaborative and fun workplace that attracts top talent from across the industry.

IWC Media
IWC was formed in 2004, and its been making a huge range of hit TV programmes out of its Glasgow and London offices ever since. The business is driven by a passion for great ideas, vivid storytelling, and working with the best teams to deliver its vision to the screen. IWC brands include Location, Location, Location, Scotland’s Home of the Year, Secret Scotland with Susan Calman, The Big Scottish Book Club, Britain’s Most Historic Towns, and many more shows that demonstrate the breadth and depth of its output.

Kudos
Kudos is one of the world’s leading television production companies. A team of individuals – passionate programme makers who specialise in scripted content. Kudos works with the best global talent to create, develop and produce popular, innovative, award-winning drama and comedy series. Recent work includes Deadwater Fell (Channel 4), Grantchester (ITV), Responsible Child (BBC2), Deep Water (ITV) Tin Star (Sky Atlantic/ Amazon) and Humans (Channel 4 / AMC). The Tunnel (Sky Atlantic), The Boy with the Topknot (BBC 2), Gunpowder (BBC 1), Man in an Orange Shirt (BBC 2), Broadchurch (ITV) and Apple Tree Yard (BBC 1).

We are also in production with Code 404 (Sky) and Two Weeks to Live (Sky).

RDF Television
RDF Television is one of the largest production companies in the UK. With offices in West London and Bristol, the company was founded in 1993 and it has since established an outstanding reputation for producing popular and innovative programmes across Entertainment, Factual Entertainment, Comedy, Documentaries, Daytime and Features. RDF has enjoyed huge success across all the network broadcasters, with hits including the critically-acclaimed The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 Year Olds for Channel 4, Eat Well For Less? and Shop Well for Less for BBC One, 6 Puppies And Us for BBC Two and 100 Year Old Drivers for ITV. The business has also worked with a host of the industry’s key digital channels such as Nat Geo, UKTV and MTV. Some of RDF’s leading formats are made out of its Bristol based label, RDF West, its entertainment label Fizz and Wonder and Little Wonder.

Most recently, RDF’s Fizz brought back primetime entertainment hit The Crystal Maze and Shipwrecked for Channel 4.

RDF West
RDF West, RDF's Bristol-based division, was established in 2006 under the creative leadership of Mark Hill. It has since become one of the UK’s most successful regional production companies, producing over 200 hours of network factual television every year for most of the UK’s principal broadcasters, including consumer factual BBC1 series Eat Well For Less? and Shop Well for Less? and long running Daytime shows such as Dickinson’s Real Deal.

Fizz
RDF’s entertainment label Fizz was created in 2015 and has already enjoyed major commissions with UKTV (Humble Pie), Discovery (Undressed) and most recently Channel 4 with the return of The Crystal Maze and Shipwrecked. The team also produce daytime smash hit quiz show, Tipping Point, for ITV.

Tiger Aspect Productions
Tiger Aspect Productions is internationally recognised as one of the UK’s most successful and prolific independent television producers. The company portfolio includes Children’s/Animation, Comedy, Drama, Entertainment and Factual/Features genres. The company creates a wide range of critically acclaimed and award-winning programming for all the UK’s major terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadcasters. In addition our creative output now enjoys high profile internationally through commissions for major foreign networks. Tiger Aspect programmes are shown by a host of broadcasters in hundreds of territories.

Our programming is built on our relationships with the best on offer in UK talent. The company’s belief in nurturing and supporting creativity on every level means that Tiger Aspect consistently attracts the ultimate in on-screen, writing and production talent.

Zeppotron
Formed in 2000 from a core of the writing and production team behind The 11 O’Clock Show, Zeppotron has always had comedy at its heart, and a name that people find difficult to spell. Over the years we went from passing the time by pretending to run a van hire business to winning some actual commissions. Charlie Brooker’s cult website TV Go Home became a TV series as did the Innovations catalogue parody, Unnovations. More commissions soon followed and Zeppotron now finds itself with a portfolio of non-scripted and scripted comedy hits including Would I Lie to You? (BBC One), 8 Out of 10 Cats (C4), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4), Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night (C4), The Mash Report (BBC Two), Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC Two) and The Rack Pack (BBC iPlayer original feature film). Along the way we made Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe (BBC Four), The Law of the Playground (C4), Space Cadets (C4), Spoons (C4), A Touch of Cloth (Sky 1), You Have Been Watching (C4), John Cooper Clarke presents Clarkie’s Christmas Crackers (BBC Arts), the first series of Black Mirror (C4) and much, much more.

Zeppotron has a reputation throughout the industry for making brilliantly produced, high quality comedy and comedy-entertainment shows. The company attracts the very best talent, both on and off-screen, and pride themselves on being a company that broadcasters can trust and that people like to work for.

Banijay Studios North America
Banijay Studios North America opened its Los Angeles-based headquarters in April 2014, and creates original network, syndicated, and cable programming, as well as developing Banijay Group’s format hits for the U.S. market. The label was launched by television innovators David Goldberg and Caroline Baumgard, the executives who created, produced, and shepherded some of the most successful unscripted formats in the world, including Big Brother, two-time Emmy Award® winning series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Deal or No Deal, Fear Factor, award-winning fan-favourite Wipeout, and the Emmy Award®-winning hit syndicated daytime series, Steve Harvey. Now led by Goldberg, the company develops original content across multiple genres and is a well-capitalized, creative company that further expands Banijay’s footprint in the U.S.

To date, the company has been responsible for Temptation Island for USA Network, Child Support for ABC, the reboot of Wife Swap for Paramount and Don’t for ABC.

Bunim/Murray Productions
Bunim/Murray Productions was co-founded in 1987 by Mary-Ellis Bunim, a soap opera producer, and Jonathan Murray, who had built his career in news and documentaries. Since then, television networks and viewers have looked to the company for groundbreaking, unprecedented and unforgettable reality entertainment. The Emmy® Award-winning company is widely credited with creating the reality television genre with its hit series The Real World (31 seasons for MTV). BMP continued to innovate with the first reality game show, Road Rules (MTV), in 1995; the first reality sitcom, The Simple Life (E!), in 2003; and the first reality soap opera, Starting Over, in 2003. Whether documenting the lives and loves of the MTV generation or writing scripted dramas grounded in relatable life experiences, BMP is continually expanding its innovative body of work across primetime, syndicated and cable television, feature films, documentary films, digital and social media platforms. Over the past two decades, Bunim/Murray has won numerous awards and industry accolades, including Primetime and Daytime Emmys, TV Guide Awards, New York Festival Medals as well as People’s Choice, Critics Choice and Teen Choice Awards. The company joined Banijay Group in 2010.

Endemol Shine North America
Endemol Shine North America delivers world-class content and compelling storytelling to multiple platforms in the U.S. and across the globe. ESNA produces hit series such as Big Brother, Ink Master, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, LEGO Masters, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Biggest Loser, Swamp People, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Below Deck, Below Deck: Mediterranean, T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle, Trading Spaces, Deal or No Deal, LOL, and the upcoming launches of Utopia, Wipeout, Ripley, Build Me Up, and Súbete a Mi Moto.

Mexico
Endemol Shine Boomdog is the Spanish-language division of Banijay America, developing and producing original content for the U.S. Hispanic and Mexican TV markets. The division was formed in November 2017, when Endemol Shine Latino joined forces with Mexico City-based production company Boomdog to form Endemol Shine Boomdog.

Endemol Shine Boomdog produces some of the top unscripted and scripted series in the region, including “Mira Quien Baila” (Univision), “MasterChef Latino” (Telemundo), “MasterChef Mexico” (TV Azteca), “Me Caigo de Risa” (Televisa), “Chumel con Chumel Torres” (HBO), “Nicky Jam: El Ganador” (Netflix), "Se Rentan Cuartos" (Comedy Central Latin America), "Minuto Para Ganar VIP" (Telemundo), breakout hit “Quien es la Mascara” (Televisa), “Subete a Mi Moto” (Amazon Prime), "Don't" (TV Azteca) and "Tu Cara Me Suena" (Univision).

Brazil
Founded in 2007, Endemol Shine Brasil (formerly Endemol Brasil) has become one of the largest independent production houses in the country with global hits, high quality standards and creative potential. With its committed and multi-talented team, Endemol Shine Brasil has changed the content perspective in Brasil, creating new business models and content ecosystems, where ideas turn into profitable businesses across multiple platforms.

Whether selling licenses or producing local versions of globally successful formats, Endemol Shine Brasil has business agreements with all of the top broadcasters and streaming platforms in the country. Big Brother Brasil, Globo’s smash hit since 2002, is licensed by Endemol Shine and MasterChef Brasil’s successful linear and digital windowing strategy has become a model for producers around the world.

Endemol Shine Brasil is also behind many of the region’s top unscripted and scripted series including:

The Wall (Globo, Telefe, Chilevisión, Canal 10, Caracol Televisión), All Together Now (Record TV and Caracol Televisión), Deal or No Deal (SBT), Family Food Fight (SBT and Amazon Prime), The Four (Record TV), Dancing With The Stars (Record TV), as well as upcoming documentary O Que Você Vai Fazer Amanhã?.

Alongside advertising agencies and local and multi-national companies, Endemol Shine Brasil has also developed new business models for branded content, turning client’s messages into innovative entertainment formats. Cabelo Pantene – o reality, sponsored by P&G, O Próximo Número 1 Villa Mix, sponsored by AB Inbev, and Eisenbahn Mestre Cervejeiro, sponsored by Heineken, are tailor-made original unscripted series that integrate both artistic and commercial needs.