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Industry | Film distributor |
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Founded | 2006 |
Defunct | 2015 |
Fate | Merged with Endemol Later then acquired by and merged with Banijay Name still in use in Portugal and Spain. |
Successor | Endemol Shine Group (2015) Banijay (2020) |
Owner | Banijay |
Divisions | Shine Australia Shine America Shine France Shine Germany Shine Iberia Shine Nordics |
Subsidiaries | Brown Eyed Boy Bossa Studios ChannelFlip Dragonfly Film and Television Filmlance International Friday TV HEARTLAND ApS Kudos Film & Television Lovely Day Mag5 Content Meter Television Metronome Productions A/S Metronome Post Metronome Rental Metronome Spartacus Princess Productions Rubicon TV Shine 360° Shine International Shine Network Shine North Shine Pictures Shine TV STO-CPH Produktion AB Studios A/S |
Shine Group was an international television production and distribution group with 26 production companies across 12 countries creating scripted and non-scripted content in the global marketplace.
Shine Group companies included award-winning genre specialists such as U.K.-based Kudos (drama), Dragonfly (factual), Princess Productions (entertainment and multi-genre) and Shine TV (factual and factual entertainment); U.S. producer Shine America (formerly Reveille); and Metronome Film & Television, the Nordic region’s largest production group. The group also includes Shine 360°, a group-wide ancillary and commercial rights division, Shine International, the dedicated international sales and distribution arm and unscripted formats division Shine Network.
Shine International distributed a catalogue of more than 4,000 hours of broadcast content to more than 200 territories worldwide as of the end of 2013. Internationally distributed shows from the Shine group include MasterChef (now produced in over 40 territories), The Biggest Loser, One Born Every Minute, Minute to Win It and crime drama The Bridge, which was adapted in both the U.S., and the U.K. and France in 2013.
Shine has established businesses in Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Portugal and has expanded into the children’s genre in a joint venture with Teletubbies and In the Night Garden... co-creator Andrew Davenport. Shine also has a digital and direct to consumer business through social gaming producer Bossa Studios and the online original content producers, ChannelFlip Media.