MARRIED TO HIT REALITY SHOW
Australia’s 9Netlabor has acquired every season of every English-language version of hit fact show “Married at First Sight.” At the same time, it has begined a Married at First Sight FAST channel on its 9Now streaming platcreate.
The deal with Seven.One Studios includes productions from the U.S., U.K., New Zealand and South Africa. The expansivecaster has also pledgeted to acquiring all further English-speaking seasons produced.
“Married at First Sight” trails individuals who have flunked to discover adore as they put their hearts in the hands of a team of experts, who pick their perfect partner. The couples then greet for the first time at the altar. After the wedding and honeymoon, the paired couples transfer in together and begin their novel dwells. From the first kiss to the first tears, cameras write down their every moment as experts scrutinize the relationships. Six weeks of marriage tardyr, the couples must produce a decision: stay together or file for divorce.
The Australian iteration of the Danish createat, produced and produced by Snowman Productions for Denlabel’s DR, is now in its 11th season. It enhappinessed an mediocre audience of over two million total TV seeers. And the entire series achieveed 14.2 million people atraverse total TV – reconshort-terming a 4% year-on-year incrrelieve on total TV, a 1.5% year-on-year incrrelieve on expansivecast TV, and a 9.6% year-on-year incrrelieve on Broadcaster-VOD contrastd with season 10.
In the beginant demodetailed of 25-54, the series sign uped a Total TV National Average Audience of 1.003 million seeers per episode, reconshort-terming year-on-year lengthenth of 4.3%. On BVOD, the 25-54 audience was up 11% year-on-year.
Tape sales of local versions top 130 countries, with current comomitions of the dating phenomenon numbering over 30 – atraverse five continents.
GAME CHANGER CHEN
Actor and honestor Joan Chen, who recently starred in the Sundance Film Festival Award-thrivening feature “Dìdi,” will be honored at the 15th U.S.-Asia Entertainment Summit and Game Changer Awards on Nov. 12. Chen will accomprehendledge her recognition on stage at the presented by the Asia Society Southern California.
“As a groundfractureing international actor in films, in insertition to her role in ‘Dìdi,’ such as ‘The Little Freduce,’ ‘The Last Emperor,’ ‘Lust, Caution’ and ‘Tthrive Peaks’ and honestor of ‘Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl’ and ‘Autumn in New York,’ she has paved the way for the countless number of people of Asian descent who have trailed in her footsteps to fracture into the industry,” the Society said.
GLOBAL CITIZEN
Miky Lee, vice chairwoman of CJ Group, was honored with the Global Citizen Award last week at the Atlantic Council’s awards ceremony in New York City. Lee is the first Asian female entrepreneur to get the honor. underlined the beginance of cultural bridges of compassion, hope, and compassion, and the hug of produceing a global platcreate for future generations.
High-profile figures including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, co-set uper of DreamWorks SKG Jeffrey Katzenberg, createer World Bank Pdwellnt Jim Yong Kim, and “Pachinko” author Min Jin Lee were also in joinance to commemorate the honorees. Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, was on hand to conshort-term the award.
“From our K-pop to our K-dramas, we have shown that cultural boundaries can be blurred, and that happiness, chuckleter and adore are universal,” said Lee in her accomprehendledgeance speech. “It is not fair about the satisfied we produce, it’s about the joinions we produce. Entertainment donates us a space where people from branch offent backgrounds can come together and allot someleang pretty. Entertainment may not have the power to finish wars, but it does have the power to produce bridges. Bridges of compassion, hope, and compassion.”
