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EXCLUSIVE: The Traitors continued on its path of global domination with 11 territory launches in 2023, unseating The Masked Singer as analysis firm K7‘s Format of the Year after four years of domination.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Talpa Studios, the company founded by “The Voice” and “Big Brother” creator John de Mol, has closed further territory sales for quiz-show format “The Floor.” Variety can also reveal that the show has been named by research organization K7 Media as the “Format to Watch” in its “Tracking the Giants” format sales report, which was released Saturday at MipFormats. The recognition is based on the show’s territory sales. K7 said: “’The Floor’ is the best-selling format in 2023 and early 2024 among all the unscripted formats that were newly created in 2023.

BBC Studios Launches First Kids Streamer In Korea

Keith Urban is joining the U.S. version of The Voice.

EXCLUSIVE: John De Mol’s Talpa has been on a run in the U.S. recently with The Floor and The Quiz With Balls both landing at Fox.

Busan Names Asian Contents & Film Market Director

Jay Pharoah (SNL, The Blackening) has been set as the host of Fox‘s new game The Quiz with Balls. The series is set to premiere this summer.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent RTL Group has reached a deal to sell RTL Nederland, the leading Dutch commercial TV group and owner of the local streaming service Videoland, to DPG Media, a multimedia company active in Benelux and Denmark. The sale of RTL Nederland is subject to regulatory approvals and a consultation with labor unions.

RTL Group is selling its Dutch business RTL Nederland for €1.1B ($1.2B) in cash.

Fox has set an early 2024 premiere date for its new game show The Floor, hosted and produced by Rob Lowe. The Floor, from Big Brother and The Voice creator John de Mol, will launch Tuesday, Jan. 2 at 9 PM on Fox.

Wynonna Judd will join The Voice as a mega mentor for Season 24, NBC announced today.

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Lowe is doubling down on his Fox projects.

EXCLUSIVE: Eureka Productions, the company behind ABC’s Holey Moley and Netflix’s The Mole, and John De Mol’s Talpa recently landed a U.S. version of Dutch format The Floor with Fox.

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a change at the top of Eureka Productions, the company behind unscripted series such as Fox’s Farmer Wants A Wife and Netflix’s The Mole.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is to adapt Dutch physical quiz show The Floor.

NBC’s musical competition series The Voice revealed Grammy winners Dan + Shay will be the show’s first-coaching duo for Season 25. The show is set to air in Spring 2024.

Reba McEntire will take a seat in one of the red chairs as a coach for Season 24 of NBC’s Emmy Award- winning musical competition series “The Voice” airing this fall. The country superstar, multimedia entertainment mogul and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, who served as a mentor in Season 23, will join returning coaches John Legend, Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani.The announcement was made during NBC’s upfront presentation to advertisers on Monday.“The Voice” is a presentation of MGM Television, Warner Bros.

BreAnna Bell After serving as Season 23’s mega mentor on “The Voice,” Reba McEntire is officially returning to Season 24 as a coach. The announcement was confirmed at NBCU’s upfront presentation on Monday. The Country Music Hall of Fame inductee joins veteran coach John Legend and returning coaches Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani. Season 23 returns on Monday, May 15 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with a two-hour semi-final. The top 8 artists will face off live for the first time in front of coaches for their chance at a spot in the finale. Viewers will vote for their favorite artist in real time, and the results will be revealed at the end of the show.

Country music star Reba McEntire, who’s coming off a role as mega mentor on Season 23 of NBC’s The Voice, has been promoted to judge for Season 24, taking over Blake Shelton’s red chair. She joins veteran coach John Legend and returning coaches Hiall Noran and Gwen Stefani. This will be the first season without Shelton, who announced in October 2022 that Season 23 would be his last.

MBC Readies Arab ‘Million Dollar Island’

Last year, RTL’s merger plans in France were halted by regulators and it has now suffered the same fate in the Netherlands.

EXCLUSIVE: John De Mol is bringing his latest entertainment format to the U.S.

NBC is leaving the island.

John De Mol’s ‘Million Dollar Island’ Set For Australian Remake On Seven

NBC has been unveiled as the network behind the U.S. version of John de Mol’s Million Dollar Island (working title), the high-stakes social experiment that will be produced by Stephen Lambert’s Circle and Gogglebox producer Studio Lambert.

NBC has partnered with Studio Lambert to bring “Million Dollar Island” to the U.S. In “Million Dollar Island,” based on Talpa’s international adventure reality format, 100 contestants compete and build alliances to stay on a remote desert island for up to 50 days — in hopes of winning their share of a $1 million prize. Each contestant is given a bracelet worth $10,000, which they gain and lose during the show’s challenges.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Dutch police have received five reports of alleged criminal abuse linked to “The Voice of Holland” talent show and some 20 reports of “inappropriate behavior and possible sexually transgressive behavior” by people linked to the show.The police statement on Monday revealed no further details of the complaints, citing privacy.The online investigative show “BOOS” — the Dutch word for “angry” — reported last month that it had received multiple claims ranging from an allegation of rape to sexually-tinted WhatsApp messages sent by two panelists on “The Voice of Holland” and its pianist and band leader.The show's former producer, media tycoon John de Mol, apologized and told “BOOS” that in his years as “The Voice of Holland's” producer he only received one complaint, and that was against the show’s pianist and band leader Jeroen Rietbergen, in 2019.Rietbergen was the partner of De Mol’s sister, the Dutch television star Linda de Mol. She ended their relationship and the popular talent show was taken off the air amid the allegations.

said during an interview that aired Thursday on the Dutch news magazine “Boos.” “I absolutely feel responsible,” he continued. “That doesn’t mean that I saw things and tried to cover them up, or condoned things that should not have been condoned.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The former producer of Dutch talent show “The Voice of Holland” apologized Thursday after allegations of sexually inappropriate conduct linked to the ratings blockbuster were aired. Police and prosecutors called reports of the alleged abuse “disturbing” and urged victims to come forward with their experiences.The online investigative show “BOOS" — the Dutch word for “angry” — reported that it had received multiple claims ranging from an allegation of rape to sexually-tinted WhatsApp messages by two panelists on “The Voice of Holland” and its pianist and band leader.Dutch media mogul John de Mol responded to the allegations in an interview during the “BOOS” show Thursday.

AMSTERDAM -- Dutch talent show The Voice of Holland has been taken off air in the Netherlands amid a sexual misconduct scandal that has cast a shadow over the future of the TV ratings juggernaut in the country where it was first conceived by media mogul John de Mol.The furor is one of the most serious #MeToo reckonings yet to hit the Dutch entertainment world and focuses on a show created in the Netherlands but broadcast in local versions around the globe.It also draws in a family considered television royalty in the Netherlands — the original creator De Mol and his sister Linda, a television star in her own right in the Netherlands and Germany who split from The Voice of Holland's pianist and band leader after he admitted sexual contact with some contestants.The Dutch scandal erupted after a local broadcaster's YouTube show called BOOS, the Dutch word for angry, contacted The Voice to say it has spoken to victims of “sexually transgressive behavior” and is planning a show about their allegations on Thursday.Even Prime Minister Mark Rutte has weighed in.“I think everybody is very shocked and it’s good that it is investigated,” he told Dutch daily De Telegraaf.Dutch broadcaster RTL, which airs The Voice of Holland, reacted swiftly, saying over the weekend that it was suspending the show.