Banijay Entertainment UK Ltd. is a British multinational television production and distribution conglomerate operated as a 50-50 joint venture between French sports betting and entertainment company Banijay Group and US-based RedBird IMI, itself a joint venture of American private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners and Emirati media investment company International Media Investments. It was formed in 2026 from the merger of the first and second incarnation of Banijay's television production and distribution arm and RedBird IMI's All3Media business.
Reports of a merger emerged in January 2026, and was later announced in March, before completing in July. The company is led by chief executive officer (CEO) Marco Bassetti, formerly CEO of the original Paris-based Banijay Entertainment; and chairman Jeff Zucker, a RedBird IMI executive who chaired All3Media following its 2024 sale. It is headquartered in London, England, where All3Media was based. At the time of the merger, the combined company operated in 25 countries, with a library spanning over 265,000 hours of content.
History On 13 January 2026, the Banijay Group confirmed reports earlier that month that it was in talks with RedBird IMI to merge their respective Banijay Entertainment and All3Media television production businesses. A merger agreement, also encompassing Banijay's live events business, was announced on 3 March 2026, with the Banijay Group and RedBird IMI confirmed to hold 50% in the combined business, which would be called Banijay Entertainment. The deal closed on 9 July, with the new company, consolidated under Banijay Group, being headquartered at All3Media's London headquarters.
In late-April 2026, Banijay Media Germany subsidiary Innovation Media established a new entertainment, sport and live event streaming platform called ShowdownTV, the new streaming channel became available on streaming platforms such as Apple TV and Android TV, and will show content from the fields of sports, live events and entertainment from Banijay's portfolio, such as reality talkshow Nightfever, TV total Promi Wrestling, Das große Promi-Boxen and The Ultimate HypeBanijay along with the 7th season of the martial arts event series Ringlife Combat.
On 15 July 2026, Banijay Entertainment set up a bidding war to buy Lionsgate Studios along with the Paris-based Mediawan and Tokyo-based CyberAgent. Bolloré was thought to have also bid for the company, but confirmed that it wasn't bidding as per earlier reports. On 29 July 2026, Banijay dropped out of the bidding war.
Programmes
Banijay Entertainment has several brands of television programmes and formats aimed at different demographics. Some of its better-known programmes and formats produced by its many subsidiaries (past and present) are:
1 vs 100 100% Aarya The All New Monty All Together Now Anything Goes Banged Up Abroad Beat Bugs Beauty and the Geek Best Bakery Beforeigners Big Bounce Battle Big Brother The Big Music Quiz Bigg Boss The Biggest Loser Black Mirror The Brokenwood Mysteries Cash Cab Call the Midwife Capital The Circle The Cube The Bridge The Courtship Deadly Women Deal or No Deal Domina Domino Challenge Domino Day Don't Forget the Lyrics Drag Race France Drag Race France All Stars Fear Factor Feel Good Fifth Gear Fleabag The Fifty Fort Boyard Four in a Bed Free Rein Fresh Meat The Gadget Show Geordie Shore Gogglebox Gold Rush Good Luck Guys Got to Dance Grantchester Great British Menu Hands Off Chef History Detectives Hollyoaks Homes Under the Hammer Horrible Histories How to Look Good Naked Hunted Identity The Island with Bear Grylls It's a Knockout It's Only TV Joe Millionaire Junk Food Flip Keeping Up with the Kardashians Kitchen Impossible Language of Love The Legacy LEGO Masters Limitless Win Lingo Lost in Oz Love It or List It Love Triangle Marie Antoinette MasterChef Max Headroom Midsomer Murders Minute to Win It Motown Magic Mr. Bean MTV Roadies MythBusters Ninja Warrior Once Upon a Time... Operation Ouch! Paddington Green Party Workers Peep Show Pointless Popstars Quizmaster Race Across the World Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares SAS: Rogue Heroes Secret Story Sexy Beasts Shameless (British TV series) Shortland Street Simon's Cat Sing If You Can Skins (British TV series) Sort Your Life Out Sounds The Same Spot On! Star Academy Starstruck Strike! Survivor Tamasha The Gold The Money Drop The Missing The Only Way Is Essex The Summitt The Traitors The White Queen Three Little Birds Toast of London Totally Spies! Treasure Hunt Undercover Boss Undressed The Wall Watch Your Step Wipeout Would I Lie to You? The Write Offs Your Face Sounds Familiar Yo Soy (Perú)
Assets Assets owned by Banijay Entertainment include:
+Region/CountryUnitsFrance Adventure Line Productions ALP Music Survivor Central Productions Authentic Media B-Prod Banijay Content Banijay Production Media Base Records Festival'Air Fiction'Air Image On Air Vision'Air Banijay Studios France Banijay Talent B Creative Studio Daze MGMT Lab Agency Talent Lab Tasty Agency Upper Talent Beau Soir Productions DMLS TV DMLS Films DMLS Productions Endemol France 4-3-3 Production BC11 Endemol France Sport Puzzle Media Yasuke Production KM Production Marathon Studio Montmartre Films Screen Line Productions Shine Fiction Société Miss France Terence FilmsGermany All3Media Deutschland Banijay Germany Live Brainpool Live Entertainment Nightwash Club Showdown TV Banijay Productions Germany Doc Banijay Banijay Media Germany Brainpool TV Brainpool Entertainment (formerly Raab TV) (joint venture with Stefan Raab) Lucky Pics Mindstrone TV Cape Cross Studio Dynamic Ally Pictures (joint venture with Veronica Priefer and Johannes Kunkel) en2rage Management & Consulting GmbH Endemol Shine Germany Potatohead Pictures Rainer Laux Productions (joint venture with Rainer Laux) Good Humor Influence.Vision (also in the Austria) MadeFor MTS Künstler Management Only Good People SR Management GmbH SRM Music South & BrowseAustria Influence.Vision (also in the Germany)Israel Endemol Shine Israel MoviePlus ProductionsItaly 4Friends Film 4Friends Music Atlantis Film Aurora TV Banijay Italia L'Officina (joint venture with Fabio Fazio) Nonpanic Banijay Studios Italy Endemol Shine Italy Funwood Media ITV Movie Greenboo Production Groenlandia Group Ascent Film Groenlandia LynnBenelux All3Media Belgium Banijay Belgium Endemol Shine Nederland Endemol Shine Scripted IDTV jonnydepony NL Film & TV Posh Productions Scenery (formerly known as Totem Media) SimpelZodiak (formed by the merge of Simpel Media and Zodiak Nederland) Southfields Topkapi TVBV WerktitelNordic countries Banijay Factory Banijay Finland Metronome Productions A/S (Denmark) Endemol Shine Finland Rubicon TV AS (Norway) Filmlance International AB (Sweden) Jarowskij (Sweden) Jarowskij Finland Jarowskij/Yellow Bird (Sweden) Mastiff TV (Denmark/Norway/Sweden) Meter/Jarowskij (Sweden) Nordisk Banijay (Norway) Nordisk Film TV (Denmark) OnePost AB Respirator (Denmark) Banijay Nordic MobileSpain and Portugal Banijay Iberia Banijay Iberia Sports Cuarzo Producciones Diagonal TV DLO Producciones Endemol Portugal Gestmusic IMA LALIGA Studios Magnolia Pokeepsie Films Portocabo Shine Iberia Tuiwok Estudios Zeppelin TelevisionUnited Kingdom 3Rock Productions Aurora Media Worldwide Bentley Productions BlackLight (formerly Touchpaper Television) Build Your Own Films The Comedy Unit Company Pictures Conker Pictures Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) Double Dutch Douglas Road Productions Dragonfly Dragonfly North Electric Robin Esmerelda Productions The Forge Entertainment Garrison Drama (formerly Caryn Mandabach Productions) Immovable Studios Initial IWC Media Kudos Kudos North Kudos Knight What's The Story Sounds Lime Pictures Lion Television Lion Television Scotland Little Dot Studios Mam Tor Productions Maverick Television Neal Street Productions New Pictures North One Television Objective Media Group Objective Entertainment Objective Fiction OMG North Coming Up Roses Tannadice Pictures Optomen One Potato, Two Potato Rabbit Track Pictures Raw TV Remarkable Entertainment Seamonster TV Shine TV Shiny Button Productions Sidney Street Simon's Cat Ltd. Story Films Silverback Films Studio Lambert Studio Lambert North Studio Lambert Scotland Sunburnt Penguin Tiger Aspect Productions Two Brothers Pictures West Road Pictures Wild Mercury Productions WING Workerbee Group Made In Manchester Navybee Ty'r Ddraig Workerbee Post ZeppotronUnited States All3Media America Lion TV USA Banijay Studios North America Barnicle Brothers Bright Spot Content Endemol Shine North America 51 Minds Entertainment Truly Original BD4 Studios Bunim/Murray Productions Hyphenate Media Group (joint venture with Cris Abrego and Eva Longoria) OMG America Studio Lambert USA Inner Drive Entertainment MindMeld EntertainmentLatin America A Fábrica (Brazil) A Fábrica Mexico & U.S. Hispanic Banijay Estúdios Banijay Mexico & U.S. Hispanic Endemol Shine Brasil Endemol Shine Boomdog (Mexico/Colombia)Australia and New Zealand Screentime Screentime New Zealand Remarkable Studios NZ South Pacific Pictures Kura Productions SLR Productions Satellite Media Endemol Shine AustraliaAsia Banijay Asia CreAsia Studio Endemol Shine IndiaOther countries B&B Endemol Shine (Switzerland; joint venture with Freddy Burger Management) Endemol Shine PolskaInternational Banijay Brands Banijay Branded Entertainment Banijay Live Balich Wonder Studio Banijay Live Studio Lotchi Banijay Kids & Family Banijay Kids & Family Digital Banijay Kids & Family Distribution Zodiak Kids & Family France Zodiak Kids & Family Productions UK Tiger Aspect Kids and Family Monello Productions Ollenom Studio Movimenti Production Kindle Entertainment Procidis The Natural Studios (joint venture with Bear Grylls and Delbert Shoopman) Banijay Rights (formed by the merger of Banijay International, Zodiak Rights, Endemol Shine International, Beyond Rights and All3Media International) Horizons: Powered By Banijay Banijay SportsFormer/Defunct All3Media (United Kingdom) All3Media International Angel City Factory (United States) Angelica Films (United Kingdom) Artists Studio (United Kingdom) Assembly Film and Television (United Kingdom) Authentic Entertainment (United States) Baba Funny League (France) Betty (United Kingdom) Bandit Television (United Kingdom) Beyond Productions (Australia) Blockbuster Media (Netherlands) Bossa Studios (United Kingdom) Broadcasters (Finland) (Brand abandoned in 2016 and replaced by Banijay Finland brand) Brown Eyed Boy (United Kingdom) Bwark Productions (United Kingdom) Castaway Television Productions (United Kingdom) ChannelFlip (United Kingdom) Cut & Mustard (United Kingdom) Depeche Prod (France) Endemol Shine Group (Netherlands) Endemol (Netherlands) Shine Group (United Kingdom) Endemol Production (France) Endemol Shine Beyond (Germany) Fearless Minds (United Kingdom) Food Productions (France) Fortune Cookie Production (France) Friday TV (Sweden) Gétévé Productions (France) Good Times (Germany) (France; sold to Cyril Hanouna in 2026) Connecting Prod H2O Divertissement H2O Fictions H2O Jeux Lodition Studio Maboul Human Factor Television Productions (Netherlands) JES Prod (France) John Stanley Productions (United Kingdom) Kanakna (Belgium) Mag5 (Sweden) Magnolia TV S.p.A. (Italy) Dry Media (Italy) Magnolia TV España (Spain) Mastiff Media Polska Mastiff Russia Meter Television (Sweden) Noisy Pictures (Germany) Non Stop People (France) Neon Ink Productions (United Kingdom) Palm Plus (Netherlands) Panda Television (United Kingdom)