Warner Bros. International Television Production

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Warner Bros. International Television Production (until May 2015: Eyeworks , also: Warner Bros. ITVP, WBITVP ) is an independent, internationally operating television production and development company whose television formats are distributed and broadcast in more than 50 countries around the world. On February 11, 2014, Warner Bros. Television announced that it would take over 100% of all Eyeworks television production companies in a total of 15 countries. In May 2015, Eyeworks Germany was finally renamed Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH (WBITVP for short).

Company history and company structure

Eyeworks Holding BV

The company is based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands ), with subsidiaries in Germany , Switzerland , Belgium , Sweden , Denmark , Great Britain , Spain , Portugal , Italy , Argentina , Chile , New Zealand , Australia and the USA . The Dutch Eyeworks Holding BV was founded in 2001 by Reinout Oerlemans (a former actor and television presenter) and is one of the leading production companies in the Netherlands. Eyeworks became known through the international TV format Test The Nation , which was awarded the Rose d'Or 2005 in Lucerne . The German film production company Cologne Gemini Film , which was founded in 1988 by Gerhard Schmidt and Micha Terjung , was taken over by Eyeworks in October 2008. The managing directors Gerhard Schmidt and Micha Terjung left the company at the end of 2011, but have continued to work with Warner Bros. ITVP Deutschland GmbH since then.

Internationally, Cologne Gemini Film had produced more than 50 mostly English-language films with European and North American partners in the past 20 years - including the feature films Lornas Schweigen , Boat Trip and Baby, I Am Dina , the TV films Mary Higgins Clark Collection , Konsalik Collection , the TV miniseries Die Bockreiter , Die Schöne Macht der Sinn as well as the documentaries Marlene Dietrich - Her Own Song , Diary of the Last Heroes , Westernhagen .

In the Netherlands, Eyeworks Sports produces many major sporting events such as football for private and public broadcasters. Eyeworks is also active as a feature film producer, including the films Dead Made - The Alzheimer's Case and the Oscar- winning Antonias Welt . , as well as Love Life - love meets life , which is one of the most successful films in the Netherlands with over a million moviegoers. Eyeworks also produced the cinema adaptations of the popular New Kids series : New Kids Turbo and New Kids Nitro .

On February 11, 2014, Warner Bros. Television announced that it would take over 100% of all Eyeworks television production companies in a total of 15 countries. In May 2015, Eyeworks Germany was finally renamed Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH ( WBITVP for short ).

Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH

Warner Bros. International Television Production Deutschland GmbH (WBITVP Germany) is a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. - one of the largest global media groups.

WBITVP Germany is an independent production company based in Cologne. The company develops and produces TV shows, reality formats, docutainment, comedy, series and movies for many public and private German broadcasters, as well as for Switzerland and Austria.

The company was originally founded in 2001 as a subsidiary of RTL Television GmbH with Kai Sturm as managing director. In 2003, the Dutch Eyeworks BV joined the company, and since 2005 Eyeworks BV has been the sole shareholder of the German subsidiary with Oliver Fuchs as managing director. Fuchs left the company in September 2012. The management was taken over by René Jamm, who has been with the company as Creative Director since 2008, and Martin von Winterfeld. Jamm received the title of CEO from Winterfeld until he left the company in March 2015 as COO of the operative business.

In 2014, Warner Bros. took over the entire Eyeworks Group in all countries outside the USA, the name change took place in May 2015.

Productions

Entertainment formats ( TV shows , reality TV, etc.)

Movies


criticism

On May 12, 2016, the German subsidiary of the production company came under fire for exploiting the candidates in the production of the show Wanted in-Law . The Neo Magazin Royale smuggled an applicant into the show who was played by an actor and documented the conversations between producers and supposed candidates. In the broadcast on May 12, 2016, the report was broadcast under the name #Verafake .

Only about two weeks later, on May 22, 2016, the production company came under renewed criticism. For example, when a quiz show was being recorded for RTL II, extras were portrayed as radio presenters, although they are not. The company had booked real radio hosts to take part in the music quiz, but apparently couldn't find enough. The radio presenter Christian Semmet made the procedure public after the recording, whereupon the broadcaster canceled the broadcast of the show.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Warner Bros. International Television Production .
  2. ↑ DWDL.de: "US studio Warner Bros. takes over Eyeworks" , accessed on February 12, 2014
  3. ↑ DWDL.de GmbH: Managing Director of Winterfeld leaves Eyeworks - DWDL.de. In: DWDL.de. Retrieved May 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c From Eyeworks is Warner Bros. . April 23, 2015. Accessed July 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Managing Director of Winterfeld leaves Eyeworks . April 22, 2015. Accessed July 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Alexander Krei: ProSieben programs course show against the "lions". DWDL.de GmbH, August 4, 2019, accessed on August 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ FOCUS Online: "Was professionally cheated": RTL II prefers to show a feature film than a new show . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on June 10, 2018]).