How Well Do You Know Your Country?

week 42 / 18 October 2012

HOW WELL DO YOU

KNOW YOUR COUNTRY? Erland Galjaard on RTL 4’s ﬂ agship show Ik Hou Van Holland

Germany France United States The Netherlands Unter Uns launches Nicolas de Tavernost X Factor gets Spin offs for The transmedia web series on M6’s new season new hosts Voice Of Holland ratings week 42 / 18 October 2012

HOW WELL DO YOU

KNOW YOUR COUNTRY? Erland Galjaard on RTL 4’s ñ agship show Ik Hou Van Holland

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“In television, we mustn’t be presumptuous” Groupe M6 / RTL Radio p. 9

New hosts for The X Factor FremantleMedia North America p. 10 Interactive family entertainment RTL 4 (The Netherlands) Living The Voice Of p. 4 - 6 Holland experience to the full RTL 4 p.11

Enex expands to Latin America Big Picture Enex p. 13 p. 12

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NEWS PEOPLE p. 14 - 15 p.16 - 19 On 20 October, RTL 4 kicks off the new season of Ik Hou van INTERACTIVE Holland. Backstage talked to Erland Galjaard about the FAMILY programme and asked what makes it so popular. ENTERTAINMENT

The Netherlands – 18 October 2012 RTL 4

Linda de Mol

4 Imagine a Saturday evening show unlike any other: a mixture of quiz, game and panel show. But in a whole lot of humour and related everything to one topic: your home country. What you end up with might be something like: Ik Hou Van Holland. The show is presented by Linda de Mol, a celebrity in the Netherlands who is also popular in Germany due to Traumhochzeit and other shows broadcast on RTL Television. “You need a strong host for this kind of show,” says Erland Galjaard, Programme Director at RTL 4. “And we got one in Linda.” She is supported by two fellow hosts: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge and Guus Meeuwis who head the two panels. Team Jeroen and Team Guus consist of three Dutch celebrities from different generations – one in their twenties, one in their thirties and one in their forties – who each compete against one another in various kinds of games.

“These games are mostly knowledge-based,” explains Galjaard. “Like ‘Spelling’ for example, which can turn out to be quite hilarious when a celebrity does not know exactly how a word is spelled.” Other games include questions about famous television moments or about Dutch history.

Galjaard explains: “The twist is: Everything is Erland Galjaard, Programme Director of RTL 4 related to the Netherlands. But not in any kind of political sense – this is not about nationalism programme and in May 2010, readers of the whatsoever. This show is about the Dutch people TV guide magazine Televizier voted Ik Hou Van and Dutch history.” Holland the best Dutch show of all time. In recent seasons, the format attracted an average of 2.5 mil- The most interesting part of the show is not lion viewers. This October, the show enters its tenth only watching celebrity candidates struggling at season – or fi fth year. Starting 20 October, every supposedly easy questions, but to play along at Saturday several guests will join in the Ik Hou Van home. “People sit at home in front of their TV set and Holland games to test their knowledge in the area of try to spell the words for themselves, for example,” Dutch fi lm, music, sports and spelling. says Galjaard. “It’s very interactive with the viewers. You’re challenged to play along.” “Every season, there are new games and slight changes to the show to keep it interesting for When the show launched in 2008, RTL 4 was still viewers,” says Galjaard, but refuses to say what broadcasting Idols and was not as popular in terms will be new on Saturday. “You’ll just have to watch of audience shares as today. “I wanted to build up a the show,” he smiles, but does hint at the kind of balance to the talent shows we air on Fridays,” says surprises that await the viewers. In the previous Galjaard. “We wanted to gather the whole family in season a new game called “The cake” was front of their TV screens, but not just for the talent introduced. “Imagine a boring birthday party, the shows: something to balance them, a bit of variation. kind of party where everyone is sitting around So we tried out new formats and in the end, Ik Hou talking, but not much else is happening,” Erland Van Holland was what we came up with.” Galjaard explains. “We took this setting and gave the participants a cake. Now they had to answer “When we launched this show about fi ve years a question and if they answer it correctly, they are ago, we took a risk, but it turned out well. Today, allowed to pass the cake to the next person.” The it is one of the most popular shows on Dutch exciting part: the cake is manipulated with a bomb television,” says Erland Galjaard. In January that goes off after three minutes. When it does, the 2009, it won the “Beeld en Geluid Award” candidate with the cake in his hands has – obviously (Light and Sound Award) as best entertainment – lost the game. “As you can imagine, this creates

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5 a suspenseful atmosphere – with the tension and So far, the production company Talpa has sold the time pressure – making the celebrity candidates show to more than 30 territories, including France, give wrong answers to questions they would usually Germany and the UK. Erland Galjaard: “John de have no problem with,” says Galjaard. Mol told me just yesterday that the BBC has ordered a ﬁ rst season of I Love My Country, as it is called In the upcoming season of Ik Hou Van Holland, internationally to be broadcast on BBC One.” Also candidates include guests like presenter Nicolette available in the Netherlands: a board game that van Dam, comedian Dennis van de Ven, actor viewers can play at home. Daniël Boissevain, sailor Marit Bouwmeester, actress Birgit Schuurman, actor Frank Lammers, So what’s the next? “I want to increase the show’s presenter Stacey Rookhuizen, singer Frans interactivity,” says Galjaard. “We’re currently Bauer, former Playboy editor Jan Heemskerk, the working on a new concept. I could imagine doing a RTL Boulevard presenter Albert Verlinde, presenter quiz show with, say, 100 questions. The audience Reuben Nicolai, actor Jeroen Spitzenberger and has a tablet computer, and so do users at home stylist Maik de Boer. who can download an app to their personal tablet. So both the audience in the studio and at home can compete with a candidate or with one another. If this works out, it may be the ﬁ rst really interactive game show in TV history. That is something I personally would like to see.”

Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Linda de Mol and Guus Meeuwis (from left to right)

6 UNTER UNS LAUNCHES NEW TRANSMEDIA WEB SERIES Grundy UFA / RTL Interactive

With the ﬁ ve-part web series Des Jägers Herz Grundy UFA and RTL Interactive set out to show how the telling of stories can successfully be interwoven between internet and television. Germany – 12 October 2012

Stefan Franz playing Rolf Jäger

The web series Des Jägers Herz, produced by Grundy UFA’s Digital Drama department, runs from 22 October 2012 for a period of ﬁ ve weeks. In parallel to the Unter Uns storylines on TV the ﬁ ve-part web format can be seen exclusively on RTL.de. However, the episodes will not only be a big deal on the internet – from mid-April 2013, fans of the series can look forward to Des Jägers Herz being a key element of the Unter Uns storyline on TV. Grundy UFA Digital Drama and RTL Interactive are thereby creating a series in which parallel web and TV storylines dovetail with each other.

Guido Reinhardt, CCO and Producer at Grundy UFA: “Des Jägers Herz is a small masterpiece of transmedia storytelling: the concept of an exclusive internet narrative strand that becomes a central element in the storyline of the TV series Unter Uns breaks down media boundaries and points the way to where serial storytelling is headed.”

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7 Rolf Jäger in Des Jägers Herz

Matthias Büchs, Head of Online/Mobile/Teletext at RTL Interactive: “On linear TV, our daily series tackle topics for an audience of millions every day. And we regularly extend the formats on our digital platforms with separate storylines. This exciting new series will have the audience following the format not only on their TV screens, but also on the internet.”

The web series follows the fate of Rolf Jäger who, after murdering the policewoman Rebecca Mattern in the series, records his emotions ranging from anger, loneliness and deliriousness via webcam from his place of exile in South American. Over ﬁ ve episodes, users and viewers are given an in-depth look into Rolf’s states of mind and his inner turmoil in his hideout. We only ﬁ nd out more information about Rolf’s fate during the Unter Uns anniversary week, broadcast on RTL Television from 26 November 2012.

The ﬁ ve episodes of Des Jägers Herz can be watched online every Monday on RTL.de from 22 October 2012 – with the exception of the ﬁ fth episode, which will be available on Friday 23 November. The Des Jägers Herz episodes on RTL.de will be announced in each preceding TV broadcast of Unter Uns.

8 “IN TELEVISION, WE MUSTN’T BE PRESUMPTUOUS” Groupe M6 / RTL Radio

Groupe M6 CEO Nicolas de Tavernost was Yves Calvi’s guest on RTL Radio. A variety of subjects were discussed, including the channels’ ratings for the start of the new season and the launch of D8. France – 15 October 2012

“A good season debut for M6, W9 and the other channels. Things are going well, but it’s an everyday battle,” says Nicolas de Tavernost, when asked about the ratings for the month of September – the best season debut since 2006. Host Yves Calvi also asked him if the goal for M6 – the only major channel to increase its ratings – is to beat TF1. “Our goal is to move closer as quickly as possible, and Nonce Paolini knows I often say this. When we’re both leaders in prime time, I don’t get the impression he’s all that pleased. It’s a fair competition, in which we’re moving ahead,” de Tavernost explains. “Our project is not Nicolas de Tavernost to move ahead of TF1, because that would be presumptuous. And in television, we mustn’t be presumptuous, or we risk crashing. For a long time, we were the little channel. Now we estimate that – especially in prime time and access prime time – we can challenge TF1. But it will be very difﬁ cult to move ahead of it, that’s for sure.”

In response to the question about whether the launch of D8 annoys Mr. de Tavernost, he says, “One must always respect one’s competitors, and we respect the Canal Plus group. It almost annoyed me. We’re in fairly good spirits about it, considering the Berlusconian launch that we witnessed, the extraordinary promise to create a major channel, and the results. We knew they’d take La Nouvelle Star if we didn’t renew it. We decided not to renew it. It’s time to move on to something else.”

In conclusion, the CEO expressed his opinion on the extension of the licence fee to secondary residences: “It’s a little bizarre. The fee is increasing for all of the French, who don’t have a choice. It would have been fairer to raise the VAT on pay television, and not to raise – or even to lower – the licence fee on free television. It’s a political decision that I ﬁ nd extremely curious, especially if this money is also used to bring in programmes that compete unfairly with the other channels.”

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9 NEW HOSTS FOR THE X FACTOR FremantleMedia North America

Television personality Khloé Kardashian Odom and TV host and actor Mario Lopez will host the second season of The X Factor in the US, and will make their debuts when the live broadcasts kick off on Fox in November. North America – 21 November 2011

Khloé Kardashian Odom began her career as a television star and has helped build the incredible Kardashian family brand on E, while Lopez started in entertainment as a young actor and has appeared on TV, ﬁ lm and Broadway, and currently hosts the entertainment news magazine show Extra. Simon Cowell said, “The worst kept secret in Hollywood is out, Mario and Khloé are our hosts. They will debut on our ﬁ rst live The new hosts, Mario Lopez (left) and show in November and I couldn’t be happier.” Khloé Kardashian Odom “I’m so thrilled to become a part of The X Factor family,” said Kardashian Odom. “I’ve been a big fan of the show and look forward to working with Simon and all of the judges. It’s going to be so much fun!”

Mario Lopez added: “I’m very excited to be joining The X Factor team. I love the show, and I’ve been a big fan of Simon Cowell and the judges for a long time. Khloé and I have been friends for years and I know we’ll be a great team and have a blast.”

The New York Times best-selling author (Kardashian Konﬁ dential) married NBA superstar Lamar Odom on 27 Sept 2009. The two shared their wedding in their very own two-hour E Entertainment special, A Kardashian Wedding. This, like her family’s hit reality show on E, Keeping up with the Kardashians, was a record-breaking hit.

Mario Lopez hosts the nationally syndicated entertainment news show, Extra. He is also the host of the nationwide Clear Channel radio show, An avid boxing fan, Lopez is a recurring commentator on HBO’s boxing programmes and recently produced a documentary based on the sport, entitled Champ.

The X Factor is produced by FremantleMedia North America and Syco Television.

10 LIVING THE VOICE OF HOLLAND EXPERIENCE TO THE FULL RTL 4

Since 14 October 2012, RTL 4 has been broadcasting the new show The Voice Of Holland: Singing Sunday. Since 17 October 2012, it will broadcasts a new season of The Voice Of Holland – Real Life further enhancing The Voice Of Holland experience. The Netherlands – 17 October 2012

The new weekly show The Voice Of Holland – Real Life, presents the daily lives of this season’s contestants. In the ﬁ rst four episodes the candidates will look back and comment on their ‘blind auditions’ as well as the ‘battles’. For instance, in the episode that premiered on 17 October, Leona Philippo, Nicola Ebbink and Omri Tindal opened up and viewers got the opportunity to know them up close and personal. Some performing in local clubs, others spending time with their families and friends. Each week in The Voice Of Holland – Real Life, each candidate also talks about her/his Leona Philippo, contestant battles coming up, the preparation and shares her/his feelings about of The Voice Of Holland the performances.

RTL 4 broadcasts every Sunday afternoon since 14 October 2012 the new interactive talentshow, The Voice Of Holland: Singing Sunday. Presented by Winston Gerschtanowitz, the 10-episodes-show allows viewers at home – who have downloaded the The Voice Of Holland: Singing Sunday app – to sing a duet with his or her favourite act, and win a homeconcert performed by the ﬁ nalists. The participating viewers live the same experience as the main show’s participants, in fact they perform in front of an audience and a jury, who turns around if it likes what its hears. Get further information on the show

11 ENEX EXPANDS TO LATIN AMERICA Enex

Enex is expanding its activities to Latin America. At the Annual General Meeting, the members announced the addition of new TV stations from Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala and Puerto Rico. Luxembourg – 15 October 2012

Covering a region from Scandinavia to North Africa and from Ireland to Afghanistan, Enex organises the exchange of video footage with accompanying editorial information and transmission services for its members. The organisation, founded in 1994, currently has 30 full members, including RTL Group channels, Sky News in Great Britain, CBS in the United States and TBS in Japan.

Henning Tewes Enex’s members are commercial TV providers that command a leading position in their respective markets, as well as strong news stations. The newly incorporated TV broadcasters are TV Caracol, Ecuavisa, TV Azteca Mexico, TV Azteca Guatemala, TVN Panama and WAPA.

Enex Managing Director, Henning Tewes, announced to the representatives of more than 60 news providers: “We will continue on this path of globalisation and continue to add more member stations in Asia and Africa.”

12 Record ratings for record-setting jump As many as 7.10 million viewers tuned in for N-TV’s live broadcast of Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive from an altitude of 39 kilometres on 14 October, for an audience share of 27.9 per cent. In Belgium, Plug RTL’s audience share among viewers aged 15 to 34 peaked at 50 per cent – a new record. SHORT NEWS 1/2

Nico Hofmann and Jan Mojto to ﬁ lm an adaptation of Hitler’s First War Teamworx

After international TV movie hits such as Dresden, Sturmﬂ ut, Operation Walküre, Hindenburg and Der Turm, Nico Hofmann and Jan Mojto are now planning an international TV mini-series about Adolf Hitler. Germany – 5 October 2012

New partnership UFA Sports

The International World Games Association (IWGA) and UFA Sports signed an extensive international marketing cooperation. UFA Sports will act as consultant and the exclusive international marketer of the IWGA. Germany – 15 October 2012

Transporter picks up speed RTL Television

The pilot of the new action series scored good audience shares and was the German number one during prime time. RTL Television came ﬁ rst in the daily audience shares, too. 17.3 per cent of viewers aged 14 to 49 tuned in. Germany – 15 October 2012

New Ludia app Ludia

Ludia and BBC Worldwide Digital Entertainment & Games have announced the launch of The Weakest Link & Friends app for I-Phone, I-Pad and I-Pod Touch, now available for download in the app store. North America – 16 October 2012

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A humour contest on the Web M6 Mobile

M6 Mobile by Orange challenges Internet users who dream of directing a video on Dailymotion with Mister V, one of France’s rising stars in web humour. France – 17 October 2012

The standard throughout the campaign RTL-TVI

The 2012 Belgian communal and provincial elections took place on Sunday 14 October. RTL-TVI devoted more than seven hours of live coverage to the results and came out a winner that day, as demonstrated by the good ratings. Belgium – 17 October 2012

From one record to the next RTL-TVI

On 15 October 2012, the latest auditions for Belgium’s Got Talent gathered 709,300 viewers (36.8 total audience share). It was the televised talent show’s best performance since its launch on 10 September. Belgium – 17 October 2012

There’s no stopping them now W9

Season 3 of the Ch’tis: Les Ch’tis débarquent à Mykonos, airing on W9 since 3 September 2012, continues to score high with audiences, one episode after another. On 11 October, the new episode drew 773,000 viewers, setting an audience record. On that day, the channel was, by far, the DTT leader with a total audience share of 6.3 per cent. France – 17 October 2012

15 PEOPLE THOMAS DUHR IP Deutschland Germany – 16 October 2012

Thomas Duhr (48) has been appointed Deputy Head of Interactive at IP Deutschland with effect from 1 November 2012. He will report to Paul Mudter, Head of Interactive, in his new role.

Thomas Duhr joins IP Deutschland from United Internet Media AG, where as Executive Sales Manager he was in charge of managing the business as well as overseeing Sales Service & Operations and sales management, and was also formative in building the company. After completing a degree in biology and economics at the University of Cologne, Duhr began his career with the Handelsblatt publishing group. After holding various responsible positions in the publishing group’s product management department, in 2000 he became a founding Director of the Internet TV start-up beTVeen.com AG. In 2002, he joined what was then Web.de AG, Karlsruhe – the precursor of the current United Internet Media AG – as Executive Sales Manager. Thomas Duhr Thomas Duhr is Vice Chairman of the European industry association IAB Europe. He has also served as Chairman of the AGOF (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online Forschung) and Executive Director Online of the ag.ma (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Anayse) since 2008, and is currently Deputy Chairman of the OVK.

Paul Mudter, Head of Interactive at IP Deutschland, says: “Thomas Duhr is just the right man for the expansion of our interactive marketing activities: he possesses wide-ranging experience both in operations and in the strategic department and will help advance us on our expansion course.“

16 PEOPLE LEX BOOST AND MAARTEN TIMMERMAN RTL Nederland The Netherlands – 12 October 2012

Lex Boost Maartin Timmerman

Lex Boost will joined RTL Nederland as Manager of dating Miinto’s new Managing Director Maarten Timmerman website Pepper while Maarten Timmerman became will be in charge of the development of the online Manager Director of online fashion platform Miinto. fashion platform’s concept on the Dutch market. Timmerman has extensive experience in Online In his new function 39-year-old Boost will be in charge of Marketing and Sales. In 2010 he created the online the further development of the website. He will actively concept The Zubani Beachwear Company op. Before contribute to its strategy besides its commercialisation. that he worked as a Commercial Manager at Reed Before joining RTL Nederland, Lex Boost worked for Business Media and was a Sales Manager at Dell. Paperlinx as their Global ebusiness Development Manager. Prior to this he held various positions in companies such as Logica CMG, KPN and Mobile Broadcast Company.

17 PEOPLE A NEW CONTRACT FOR BRITT AND YMKE RTL Nederland The Netherlands – 17 October 2012

Britt, Paul Cormont and Ymke (from left to right)

Britt and Ymke have signed a new, exclusive contract with RTL 5.

Originally known to audiences as candidates on Take Me Out and reality starlets on Echte Meisjes in de Jungle, Britt and Ymke have since become proper and popular TV presenters. After the travel format Britt en Ymke en het mysterie van..., the two women will be given their ﬁ rst talk show starting 23 October: Britt en Ymke stellen vragen, on which they ask their colleagues and other celebrities questions about the Netherlands.

Paul Cormont, Channel Director at RTL 5, says: “In Britt and Ymke, we have gained two unique talents, each with their own qualities and personality. Britt is fully in the picture, especially now that she’s been nominated as Talent of the Year, but Ymke is just as talented. We have a lot planned with them, so I’m delighted that they signed the contract.“

Britt: “I can hardly believe it; we have a new contract with RTL 5. My dream has come true – for the second time. I’m very grateful to RTL 5.” Ymke is also happy: “I really enjoyed the TV world over the past year. I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved at RTL 5 and look forward to what lies ahead.”

18 PEOPLE MARC LINSTER RTL Lëtzebuerg Luxembourg – 12 October 2012

Marc Linster

Marc Linster, RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg journalist, has died following a long illness. He was 53.

He was known for his sport and cultural columns on the Luxembourg radio station before becoming Editor-in-Chief.

Marc Linster began his career in 1984 as a reporter for RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg. In 2000, he went to work in the socio-cultural sector of radio as a journalist at Soziokulturelle Radio 100.7, before returning to RTL Lëtzebuerg as the radio station’s Editor-in-Chief. He stepped down from his position in 2010, for health reasons.

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