RTL Televizija's dance with fire · RTL Televizija offered its enthusiastic audience of 900 guests a 90-minute circus performance with all the trimmings. RTL Televizija CEO Christoph

Be Hot in 2008!RTL Televizija's dance with fire

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UFA is still innovatingFrance

M6 receives awards at La RochelleUnited Kingdom

FremantleMedia strikes deals in SingaporeLuxembourg

Luxembourg launches Youmake.tvPeople

Ralph Lee appointed as Head of Factual at Five Nicolas Bayle joins M6 Publicité as Sales Director

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Dance with fireRTL Televizija launched its programme schedulefor the new 2008 season in spectacular fashion,using the slogan “Be Hot in 2008”.Croatia - 19 September 2007

RTL Televizija's daredevil artists were given afree rein to perform breathtaking stunts andsome fiery magic. Previous presentations ofRTL Televizija's programme schedule had fea-tured the elements air and water; this year itwas fire's turn. Advertising customers, mem-bers of the press and friends of the broadcas-ter were invited to an unprecedented “Be Hot in2008” circus event in Zagreb's Hippodrom.Hardly any of the Croatians attending the eventhad previously had a chance to experience acircus show, since most big circus familieshave not yet toured Croatia.

RTL Televizija offered its enthusiastic audienceof 900 guests a 90-minute circus performancewith all the trimmings. RTL Televizija CEOChristoph Mainusch made a particularly dazz-ling entrance, magically appearing on the stageat the beginning of the event against a back-drop of flickering flames and fountains offire, before launching into a short dancewith a troupe of female dancers.

In his presentation, Mainusch explainedthe channel's programming strategy,summed up last season's successes andpresented the new programme schedule.“Last year RTL Televizija ended the yearas Croatia's number one broadcaster,both in prime time and during the daytaken as a whole”, Mainusch said, sum-ming up his channel's performance. “If

you look at our performance in prime time yousee that RTL is almost always 50 per centahead of its competitors”, he went on.

RTL Televizija is especially delighted with itssuccess in access prime time, thanks to the topratings achieved by new programmes, its new-look news bulletins, the magazine Exploziv andthe soap Zabranjena Ljubav. “In just one weekwe managed to increase our audience shareduring access prime time to almost 30 percent,” Mainusch proudly reported.

The top programmes in store during the newseason were presented via video trailers bet-ween circus acts that featured numerous fami-liar faces from RTL Televizija as well as otherCroatian stars. The glamorous RTL presenterTatjana Juric acted as circus director, guidingthe audience through a memorable evening.

2Miro Bizic, Tatjana Juric, Christoph Mainusch


RTL star Ana Begic, from Bibin svijet, was alion-tamer. Robert Knjaz, who hosts the showbearing his name, was put in a box, sawn intopieces and then magically made to disappear.The invited guests were totally amazed that thebox was empty, so they were suitably relievedwhen Robert popped up again - safely in onepiece - later in the evening. RTL series starRobert Kurbasa succeeded in freeing himselffrom chains in a water-filled tank. And theclown entertaining the audience was one ofCroatia's best-known comedians.

Christoph Mainusch described his channel'sprogramming strategy as follows: “keep thebest and introduce new programme trends -the successes of tomorrow”. The main pro-gramme trends during the new season will belocal fiction and some big new shows. For ins-tance, there will be a new show entitled To idjeca znaju - a quiz show in whichyoung contestants take on adults, andtwo talent shows, Hrvatski Top Modeland Hrvatski Super Talent. In addition, anew season of Big Brother has juststarted and there will be some newDomino Day events.

Notable new local fiction series includeNe daj se Nina (Ugly Betty) and Urota, athriller featuring Robert Kurbasa. The hitautumn series Jesen Stize, Dunjo Mojais also new onscreen.

According to Mainusch, the guarantors of RTLTelvizija's success are the channel's clear posi-tioning, its ability to create programme brandsand acquire the best films and series, its sche-duling and programme flow and the high quali-ty of its local productions.

“With next year's line-up I can promise youonce again: we will be an even clearer number1 over the day as a whole as well as duringprime time”, Mainusch concluded.

In the light of the audience's tremendouslyenthusiastic response and positive feedbackfrom the press to this year's presentation, nextyear will see the circus returning to Croatia,albeit with one difference: Next year's 'pro-gramme circus' after the presentation of thechannel's schedule will be open to the public,to the delight of all Croatians.

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UFA in shortFloaded is the name of UFA's new platform forshort films, which went online yesterday.Germany - 18 September 2007

Short films are definitely 'in' at the moment andare thus greatly sought after. Floaded, the newInternet project launched by UFA, Teamworxand the publishing company Gruner + Jahr,presents short films produced exclusively forthe website. The films, produced by Teamworx,will be financed through interactive advertising. Users of the website can stop its content whe-never products made by a particular brandpartner appear on the screen. Clicking on thewebsite's 'brand button' takes visitors to a pro-file web where they can find out more about theproduct featured in the film. Clicking again willtake them to the respective brand partner'shomepage.

The first short film shown on thenew website is called Die Erlkönigin(The Test Model) and plays on whatused to be a stretch of motorway innorthern France where Mercedes-

Benz is carrying out a photo shoot for its newsuper roadster. The film features well-knownactors and famous brands (includingMercedes-Benz, Canon and Michelin).

UFA CEO Wolf Bauer said: "Floaded isone of the most exciting ongoing Internetprojects for high-quality short films.Lavishly produced films made exclusivelyfor an Internet platform and associated withthe possibility of showcasing brands interac-tively create not only a new advertising plat-form, but also an innovative forum for creativepeople from the film industry and TV sector“.

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Personal stuffRTL Lëtzebuerg launched its new videocommunity website Youmake.tv.Luxembourg - 19 September 2007

The new website, which is Luxembourg's equi-valent to the successful video portal projectsClipfish.de (RTL Television), Wideo.fr (M6) andTucanal.tv (Antena 3), enables users to watch,grade and upload videos and even create per-sonalised video websites (so-called 'chan-nels'). These spaces can be matched to theuser's taste and feature videos and any 'perso-nal stuff'.

To begin with, roughly 450 videos can be seen,but naturally the people in charge at RTLLëtzebuerg's subsidiary RTL New Media arehoping to see that figure rise steeply over thenext few days and weeks. To this end, beforethe website's launch, a meeting washeld with Luxembourg's police,volunteer fire brigade and a well-known music club. The result? Amutual cooperation agreementwhereby users will be able to watchany videos of police officers and firefighters in action and any footage ofinteresting bands exclusively onYoumake.tv. Further sub-pages arealso planned, e.g. to include thework of keen amateur filmmakers inLuxembourg, as are competitionsfor the website's registered users.Six-hundred users have alreadyregistered.

But the project isn't just a successin terms of the number of users it

has already attracted. Within the next fewweeks, RTL TVI in Belgium will go onlinewith a Belgian Youmake.tv. Thereafter, ifYoumake.tv is called up from Belgium,the Belgian version will appear on theuser's screen. Other companies ownedby RTL Group have also already expres-sed an interest in the project.

Alain Berwick, the managing director ofRTL Lëtzebuerg, explained: “We're veryhappy with the success of Youmake.tv.Already more than 600 registered users! That'sa promising start, and it means we can look tothe future with confidence”.

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High Quality TVM6 bagged two awards at the 9th La RochelleFiction Festival.France - 19 September 2007

The French TV channel's first award was for thebest prime time series: Les Bleus, premiers pasdans la police. This fiction crime series has notbeen screened before and is a new feature inthe 2007/2008 programme schedule.

The greenhorns in question are youngstersaged around 20 who have become cops, forbetter or for worse. They love each other, hateeach other and occasionally get insomething of a mess, but when itcomes down to it, they are alwaysthere for one another.

The second award for M6 was theaudience's TV Hebdo prize for thebest TV film: Merci, les enfants vontbien ! In it, viewers follow the adventu-res of the truly eccentric Blanchetfamily, in which sweet madnessappears to be a genetically transmis-

sible character trait. The channel will soon bebroadcasting the film in four 52-minute episo-des.

M6 was delighted to receive these two awards,bestowed by the audience and also by profes-sionals in the sector. M6 regards them as duecompensation for the great efforts it has madeto promote French fiction and emerging talent.

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FremantleMedia strikes deals in SingaporeFremantleMedia Enterprises has made a series of significant sales to Mediacorpchannels in Singapore.United Kingdom - 17 September 2007

More than 320 hours of high-end program-ming from FME’s portfolio have been pickedup by Mediacorp TV5, Channel News Asia andMediacorp TV12.

Mediacorp TV5 has acquired a substantialpackage of shows that includes American IdolSeason 7, How Clean is Your House?, TheMartha Stewart Show, Jamie’s KitchenAustralia and Jamie Oliver: Australian Diary.

Channel News Asia has bought season one ofthe interview series Iconoclasts and the revea-ling documentary Secrets of the Great Plague.Together with Mediacorp, TV12 is buying thechildren’s fun cookery series Planet Cook and a

number of series fronted by the award-winningand captivating natural history expert NigelMarven, including Nigel Marven’s RhinoAdventures, Nigel Marven’s Ugly Animals andPenguin Adventures with Nigel Marven.

Vice President for Sales in Asia GaneshRajaram concluded the sales to Mediacorp.

David Ellender, CEO of FremantleMediaEnterprises, said: “It is very gratifying to see yetanother slew of our programming headed forthe buoyant Asian market. The winning combi-nation of our locally based sales team and thestrong, diverse range of content we provide,make us a real distribution force in the AsiaPacific region”.

RTL4Good on the indexRTL Group continues to meet the corporate social responsibility criteria for theFTSE4 Good Index.Luxembourg - 19 September 2007

This was confirmed by the FTSE4 Good PolicyCommittee in a letter to RTL Group thisSeptember.

In 2005, RTL Group was taken into theFTSE4Good Index for the first time and hasremained in it ever since. To guarantee theindependence of company assessments, theFTSE works together with the EthicalInvestment Research Service (EIRIS), an inde-pendent body that conducts research intocompanies' social, environmental and ethicalactivities. When assessing companies, EIRISuses international, globally recognised rules ofconduct.

This membership sends a powerful message toinvestors and other stakeholders about thecompany's commitment to responsible busi-ness practice. Some companies that have been

deleted from the FTSE4Good Index includeHonda Motor, Toyota Motor, Target Corporationand Texas Instruments.

Created by the independent financial indexcompany FTSE Group, FTSE4Good is a finan-cial index series that is designed to identify andfacilitate investment in companies that meetglobally recognised corporate responsibilitystandards. Companies in the FTSE4GoodIndex Series are doing more to manage theirsocial, ethical and envi-ronmental impacts, andare better positioned tocapitalise on the bene-fits of responsible busi-ness practice.


Two big-name panellistsjoin RTL Radio France'sprogramme On Refait leMondeTogether with his team of panellists, journalists,editorial writers, authors and philosophersrepresenting a wide range of views, in On Refaitle Monde (Let's Remake the World) NicolasPoincaré scrutinises the major events thatshape our world.France - 17 September 2007

For the new season of the programme, aired onRTL Radio every weekday between 19.15 and20.00, Poincaré's team of panellists is beingjoined by two “big guns” from the printedpress.

The first is Edwy Penel, former head of the edi-torial team at Le Monde. The second isFrançois d’Orcival, who used to head up theeditorial team at Valeurs Actuelles. Both menwill join a celebratedteam of columnistswhich includes AlainDuhamel, regardedas France's top politi-cal journalist.

Every evening roughly 620,000 listeners tune into the show. The programme's recipe for suc-cess comprises extensive freedom for itspanellists, regarding both what they say andhow they say it, a hint of impertinence and theundeniable importance of the subject mattercovered.

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Psych new onRTL TelevisionHe's young, good-looking, absolutely charming –and has a special gift.Germany - 18 September 2007

The new hit US crime comedy series Psychwritten by Steve Franks will enrich RTL's pro-gramme schedule, starting on 30 October at22.15, its regular Tuesday evening slot.

After 57 failed jobs and having stubbornlyresolved only to spend time doing things hereally enjoys, Shawn Spencer finally feels fulfil-led, as Shawn Spencer, a clairvoyant with

supernatural powers who also gives the policeexclusive advice in unsolvable cases... thoughnot without obstacles and a bit of fibbing.

The gripping criminal cases, excellent cast andmodern look of Psych will provide uniquelyentertaining evening viewing on RTL in whatwill be the first German showing of the 15 epi-sodes of the programme's first season.

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Five commissions ComplainersFive has commissioned North One Television to produce The Complainers,a brand-new six-part series.United Kingdom - 17 September 2007

Each week Dom Joly will lead a crack team ofthe UK’s greatest complainers who set aboutcampaigning on behalf of 'the little man'. Theywill tackle each problem head-on, sometimesusing unorthodox methods to fight back onbehalf of those unable to fight for themselves.

Five’s Controller of Factual Entertainment,Steve Gowans, said: “We are delighted to haveDom on board. He was the natural choice asour fearless champion of the people. He's alsovery funny”.

The members of Dom’s team of professionalcomplainers come from various backgrounds.No job is too big or too small for the team totake on as they opt for direct action, striking thefear of God into customer relations depart-ments up and down the country.


A successful return forPrison Break on M6M6 successfully broadcast the first twoepisodes of the second season of thecelebrated US series Prison Break.France - 17 September 2007

In so doing, it pulled off the tour de force of ran-king top in the ratings among viewers agedunder 50, attracting an audience share of 33.9per cent.

The first episode, which was aired at 20.50 waswatched by an audience of 5.2 million; thesecond episode, which followed, drew an

audience of 5.3 million, giving M6 an overallaudience share of 21.3 per cent. As a result,over the evening as a whole, M6 was thesecond most avidly watched French channel.

Fans of Prison Break will of course be able towatch the remaining episodes on M6 at 20.50every Thursday.

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Record-breakingratings for RTLThe daily soap launched in autumn 2006achieved new record ratings.Germany - 14 September 2007

The battle for World Championship ice-skatingtitles has fascinated fans of Alles was zählt (AllThat Counts).

3.07 million RTL viewers aged 3 and above (anaudience share of 13.5 per cent) watched asDiana Sommer (Tanja Szewczenko) inched clo-ser to her dream, landing the series its largesttotal audience since the programme's launch.Among the young target group, too, Alles waszählt managed an audience share of 19.8 percent (1.66 million viewers), its best performan-ce since the series began.

The lavish World Championship sequenceswere filmed in the ISS Dom sports arena inDüsseldorf, Germany. The audience wasplayed by a total of 1,000 extras - an unprece-dented number for a soap production. Theguest star in the World Championship sequen-ces is ice-skater Norbert Schramm. And thebattle for medals remains very exciting asJenny Steinkamp (Christiane Klimt) does every-thing she can to hamper the efforts of her rival,Diana Sommer. Will Diana manage to make itonto the winners' rostrum anyway?

Alles was zählt: Diana (Tanja Szewczenko),Oliver (Norman Kalle)


People

Ralph Lee appointed asHead of Factual at FiveUnited Kingdom - 14 September 2007

In his new position as Head of Factual, RalphLee will join the factual team assembled by JayHunt, who will take up her role as Director ofProgrammes on 17 September 2007.

Ralph Lee started his career in the History Unitat the BBC, where he specialised in factualdevelopment and began directing program-mes, before he worked as a freelance produ-cer/director making single, hour-long docu-mentaries and biographies for Channel 4.

In 2002, he became Deputy Head of SpecialistFactual at Channel 4 and was responsible for arange of critically-acclaimed programming

Lisa Opie, Five’s Managing Director of Contentsaid: “I am delighted we have been able toappoint such a talented individual to such a cri-tical role for Five. I am sure he will make a hugecontribution to Jay Hunt’s team.”

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Nicolas Bayle joins M6 Publicité asSales DirectorFrance - 14 September 2007

M6 Publicité has appointed Nicolas Bayle asthe new Sales Director of its Internet depart-ment.

At his new position, Nicolas Bayle will report toClaude Nahon, Head of M6 Publicité's Internetdepartment.

Nicolas Bayle headed the external communica-tions department at Valeo Service between2004 and 2007. Before that he was a mediamanager at SFR and in charge of customerrelations at Carat.

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RTL Televizija's dance with fire · RTL Televizija offered its enthusiastic audience of 900 guests a 90-minute circus performance with all the trimmings. RTL Televizija CEO Christoph