Chief Executive Officer of Fox Dana Walden (L) and Bruce Paisner (R), President and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences pose with Sophie Turner Laing (C), CEO of Endemol Shine Group as she poses with the Directorate Award at the International Emmy Awards in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 19, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Sophie Turner Laing, CEO of Endemol Shine Group arrives for the International Emmy Awards in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 19, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Sophie Turner Laing, CEO of Endemol Shine Group arrives for the International Emmy Awards in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 19, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Virginie Calmels, chairman of Endemol, attends the French employers' body MEDEF union summer forum on the campus of the HEC School of Management in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: HEADSHOT BUSINESS MEDIA)

Virginie Calmels, chairman of Endemol, attends the French employers' body MEDEF union summer forum on the campus of the HEC School of Management in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: HEADSHOT BUSINESS MEDIA)

Virginie Calmels, chairman of Endemol, attends the French employers' body MEDEF union summer forum on the campus of the HEC School of Management in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: HEADSHOT BUSINESS MEDIA)

Actress Jenny McCarthy, host of the new reality series "Love in the Wild" takes part in a panel discussion at the NBCUniversal Summer Press Day 2012 introducing new television shows for the Summer season in Pasadena, California April 18, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)

David Goldberg, chairman of Endemol North America takes part in a panel discussion about the new reality series "Love in the Wild" at the NBCUniversal Summer Press Day 2012 introducing new television shows for the Summer season in Pasadena, California April 18, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)

David Goldberg, Chairman of Endemol North America, answers a question at the NBC panel for the television show "Love In The Wild" during the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, California April 15, 2011. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)

Esther Clair (L), one of the kidney candidates, BNN Chief Executive Laurens Drillich (2nd R) and Endemol Broadcast director Paul Romer attend a news conference after the widely criticised "Big Donor Show" in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, June 1, 2007. The reality television show in which "Lisa", a supposedly dying woman, had to decide one of three contestants to whom she would donate a kidney was a hoax, the programme makers said on Friday. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS)

Endemol Broadcast director Paul Romer (R) and television host Patrick Lodiers (L) attend a news conference after the widely criticised "Big Donor Show" in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, June 1, 2007. The reality television show in which "Lisa", a supposedly dying woman, had to decide one of three contestants to whom she would donate a kidney was a hoax, the programme makers said on Friday. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS)

BNN Chief Executive Laurens Drillich (L), Endemol Broadcast director Paul Romer (C) and television host Patrick Lodiers (R) are seen during a news conference after the widely criticised "Big Donor Show" in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, June 1, 2007. The reality television show in which "Lisa", a supposedly dying woman, had to decide one of three contestants to whom she would donate a kidney was a hoax, the programme makers said on Friday. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS)

Executive producer of the Telefonica-owned television company ENDEMOL, John de Mol gestures during a press conference at the Chateau l'Hermitage which is the location of the new Dutch reallife program " Big Diet " in the Dutch southern town of Houtem March 15, 2001. De mol also produced the hugely succesful Big Brother show and expects Big Diet will be a worldwide hit too. Twelve slimmers will compete to win their loss weight in gold in a new Big Brother-style reality tv show to hit Dutch screens last Saturday for the first time. Big Diet, brought to you by the producers of Big Brother, locks away six rotund men and six women in a castle, near the southern Dutch city of Maastricht. They will compete to slim down as 37 cameras monitor every move they make. The contestants will be fed low-calorie diets prepared by a celebrity chef, do physical workouts three times a day and sleep communally. The men and women compete in same-sex teams against each other and as individuals within the teams for the chance to win as much as a million guilders ( $ 406,300 US ).

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE TELEFONICA-OWNED TELEVISION COMPANY ENDEMOL, JOHN DE MOL GESTURES IN HOUTEM.

Rainer Laux, producer of Endemol Entertainment and responsible for the Big Brother television shows, talks to journalists during a newsconference in Huerth near Cologne August 3, 2000. The second German Big Brother round will take place September 16 till December 30.

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