week 42 / 17 October 2013 TESTING GROUNDS How in-house collaboration in the Netherlands creates international number one shows Germany / France France Luxembourg Israeli show Téva supports the Live! Planet People: franchise Rising Trophée Roses des RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg’s Star comes to Sables in Morocco new interactive talk RTL Television show and M6 week 42 / 17 October 2013 Téva supports the Trophée Roses TESTING GROUNDS How in-house collaboration in the Netherlands creates des Sables international number one shows Téva Germany / France France Luxembourg Israelis show Téva supports the Live! Planet People: franchise Rising Trophée Roses des RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg’s Star comes to Sables in Morocco new 2.0 talk show p. 9 RTL Television and M6 Cover The jury and presenter (far left) of Everybody Dance Now! Publisher RTL Group 45, Bd Pierre Frieden L-1543 Luxembourg Editor, Design, Production RTL Group Corporate Communications & Marketing k before y hin ou T p r in t backstage.rtlgroup.com backstage.rtlgroup.fr backstage.rtlgroup.de QUICK VIEW Israeli show franchise Rising Star comes to RTL Television and M6 RTL Television / M6 p. 8 Sharing Experiences: How RTL Nederland and Blue Circle collaborated on Téva supports Everybody Dance Now! the Trophée Roses RTL 4 des Sables p.4–7 Téva p. 9 Live! Planet People: RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg’s new 2.0 talk show RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg p. 10 SHORT NEWS PEOPLE p. 11 p.12 - 13 Produced by FremantleMedia subsidiary Blue Circle, the first season of Everybody Dance Now! premiered on RTL 4 in February 2013 and became an instant hit with audiences. Backstage talked to Zehra Alp, Executive Producer at Blue Circle SHARING and Erland Galjaard, RTL Nederdand’s Programme Director about EXPERIENCES bringing the dance contest to Dutch TV screens… and beyond. The Netherlands – 17 October 2013 RTL 4 Everybody Dance Now! finalists Dutch Soul Supply 4 Like the majority of talent shows, Everybody Dance Now! (EDN) involves several thousand contestants auditioning in front of a jury and competing for weeks in a bid to win the coveted prize in a suspense-filled final. Been there, done that? In an interview with World Screen in September, FremantleMedia CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz said: “Our job as producers is to make sure our shows still feel relevant and surprise people, and make sure we find great talent, and that we’re true to what the shows are about.” Twelve-year-old Justen Beer, winner of Everybody Dance Now! season one Once again the Netherlands has proved to be a good testing market for formats. For Galjaard, RTL Nederland Programme Director: “Not only are we a very well-known test market, but also a market that develops new formats. We launch a lot of new shows that we air in key timeslots with the aim of turning them into hit formats. EDN is a Erland Galjaard, Programme Director at RTL Nederland good example, as is The Voice of Holland, which we developed in cooperation with Talpa.” Alp adds: The new show EDN clearly meets these criteria, as “Programmes destined for broadcast on RTL 4 proven by its ratings. Throughout its first season, during key timeslots have to be of exceptional the show – which aired on RTL 4 from February to quality. As the Dutch public is generally spoiled with April 2013 – was watched by an average 1.4 million good television, they have a very critical eye.” viewers every Friday evening and attracted 26 per cent of the key target group of shoppers aged 20 to The show’s concept surely contributes to the 49. 1.9 million viewers tuned in for the finale. Despite Dutch public’s fondness. Contestants are not having big shoes to fill -– the Friday evening slot also professionals or semi-professionals. Anyone who features The Voice, The Voice Kids, The X Factor believes they are a skilful dancer, whether ballet, and Got Talent – the dance contest did a great job hip-hop, ballroom, breakdancing, can audition; and keeping viewers interested week after week. there is no age limit. During the auditions and the live shows, if the jury likes the performance, the dance EDN is an original format jointly developed by floor on which the contestants perform turns green, Blue Circle with RTL 4. As the channel was if the hopefuls fail to convince them, it turns red. looking for a new family entertainment show for their key Friday evening slot, EDN seemed the perfect Galjaard confirms: “The show welcomes every fit. Like all successful FremantleMedia formats, type of dance talent and focuses mainly on EDN is also “travelling around the world now,” storytelling. This is what makes it appealing for a says Executive Producer Alp. “The contest is now broader audience.” Zehra Alp adds: “Everyone can being broadcast in Thailand. Italy will follow next try their luck, either as a solo or as a group, aged year, and channels in Russia and Vietnam also 5 or 82. We had ballroom dancers, free runners, expressed interest at Mipcom.” folk dancers, rock n roll dancers just to name a few. This brings a large variety of contestants to the Next > 5 EVERYBODY DANCE NOW SEASON 1 The show was broadcast on RTL 4 in prime time from 22 February to 12 April 2013 Twelve-year-old Justen Beer beat competition from other talented dancers and won the coveted €25,000 prize The American producer/dancer/ choreographer Dan Karaty, familiar to audiences as a judge on So You Finalists Flexx ‘N Squad Think You Can Dance, actress/singer/ presenter Lieke van Lexmond, and stage, all with their own story, hopes and dream. actor/presenter/dancer Jan Kooijman For instance, one of the contestants, a 30-year-old make up the judging panel baker named Andreas, always loved to dance but no one except his mother believed in him. When he The show’s host is Chantal Janzen arrived for auditions, nobody saw a dancer in this big-boned boy, and yet he wowed the jury and the Season 2 will be broadcast in 2014 audience. They all loved him and he was among the twelve who had the chance to make it to the finale.” Even though it bears the same name as a dance contest created in 2012 Besides EDN, Blue Circle and RTL Nederland collaborate on many other formats, among them by FremantleMedia Australia, it is Holland’s Got Talent, RTL Late Night, Een Dubbeltje completely different from its Australian op z’n Kant, 112 Ooggetuige and Take Me Out. namesake So, does being part of the same Group ease the collaboration? It does, according to Zehra Alp: “We have been producing prime-time formats for RTL for a very long time. We respect and trust each other, which contributes tremendously to our successful partnership.” RTL Nederland’s Programme Director concludes: “Sharing our experiences as well as joining our efforts is crucial, as besides contributing to the renewal of our programming it allows us to constantly innovate and remain the market leader.” Next > 6 DID YOU KNOW? Blue Circle is FremantleMedia’s Dutch subsidiary and produces television shows for the Dutch market. The company specialises in entertainment, reality and infotainment After Blue Circle had operated as a subsidiary of the current RTL Nederland (formerly Holland Media Groep) for several years, HMG sold its shares (50 per cent) in Blue Circle (formerly Holland Media House) in 2004, and FremantleMedia became the sole shareholder Willem Zijlstra is the company’s Managing Director More info 7 ISRAELI SHOW FRANCHISE RISING STAR COMES TO RTL TELEVISION AND M6 RTL Television / M6 RTL Television and M6 acquired the rights to the Rising Star franchise from Keshet International, the distribution and production arm of Israel’s Keshet Media Group. Germany / France – 14 October 2013 Rising Star was a surprise hit in Israel The popular prime time talent show with integrated social network links was the surprise hit in Israel (Channel 2), scoring audience shares of up to 49 per cent in September of this year. Viewer involvement via social networks in Israel was also impressive with more than 2.3 million votes via the ‘second screen’. Rising Star involves talented singers competing for a record deal and a great career. The concept combines all the elements of a classic music talent show – what sets it apart is the unprecedented voting method. Instead of traditional telephone voting, TV viewers use a mobile app to cast their votes in real time during the performance – visible to both the artist and the audience. The candidates begin their performance in front of a large LED wall that separates them from the audience and the judges. The profile photos of viewers or judges who vote for the candidate appear on this big screen. The more convincing a candidate’s performance, the more faces of supporters he or she will see. Only when a certain percentage of votes is reached does the LED wall rise up, giving the candidate a clear view of the studio, the judges and the audience. Frank Hoffmann, Managing Director Frank Hoffmann, Managing Director at RTL Television, says: “Rising at RTL Television Star has all the elements of a classic music talent show, but takes the familiar genre of talent shows to a new level. The new interactivity makes it more exciting, more emotional both for the candidates and for the audience. The viewers are part of the show and hence even closer to the action, thanks to the unprecedented social media integration.” 8 TÉVA SUPPORTS THE TROPHÉE ROSES DES SABLES Téva The Trophée Roses des Sables (Roses of the Sands trophy), which is Europe’s top rally reserved for women, is being held from 10 to 20 October 2013.