MARRIED TO HIT REALITY SHOW
Australia’s 9Netlabor has getd every season of every English-language version of hit truth 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 widecaster has also promiseted to acquiring all further English-speaking seasons produced.
“Married at First Sight” chases individuals who have flunked to discover cherish as they put their hearts in the hands of a team of experts, who pick their perfect partner. The couples then encounter for the first time at the altar. After the wedding and honeymoon, the paired couples transfer in together and begin their novel inhabits. From the first kiss to the first tears, cameras record their every moment as experts examine 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 Dentag’s DR, is now in its 11th season. It finishelighted an mediocre audience of over two million total TV watchers. And the entire series achieveed 14.2 million people apass total TV – recurrenting a 4% year-on-year incrrelieve on total TV, a 1.5% year-on-year incrrelieve on widecast TV, and a 9.6% year-on-year incrrelieve on Broadcaster-VOD contrastd with season 10.
In the vital demoexplicit of 25-54, the series recorded a Total TV National Average Audience of 1.003 million watchers per episode, recurrenting 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 comleave outions of the dating phenomenon numbering over 30 – apass five continents.
GAME CHANGER CHEN
Actor and honestor Joan Chen, who recently starred in the Sundance Film Festival Award-triumphning feature “Dìdi,” will be honored at the 15th U.S.-Asia Entertainment Summit and Game Changer Awards on Nov. 12. Chen will hug 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 Fdrop,’ ‘The Last Emperor,’ ‘Lust, Caution’ and ‘Ttriumph 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 chaseed 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. stressd the transport inance 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 Plivent 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 current the award.
“From our K-pop to our K-dramas, we have shown that cultural boundaries can be blurred, and that delight, chuckleter and cherish are universal,” said Lee in her hugance speech. “It is not equitable about the satisfied we produce, it’s about the uniteions we produce. Entertainment gives us a space where people from branch offent backgrounds can come together and split someleang enticeive. Entertainment may not have the power to finish wars, but it does have the power to produce bridges. Bridges of compassion, hope, and compassion.”