19 Entertainment
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Company type | Subsidiary | |
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Industry | Entertainment | |
Founded | April 1985London, United Kingdom | in|
Founder | Simon Fuller | |
Key people | Eli Holzman (CEO, Sony Pictures Television Nonfiction Group) | |
Products |
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Revenue | Parent Sony Pictures Television Nonfiction (2005–present) | |
Divisions | 19 Recordings | |
Website | www |
19 Entertainment is a producer of entertainment properties for television with a focus on music owned by Sony Pictures Television through its nonfiction division. Founded by Simon Fuller in London in 1985, the company co-produced Pop Idol in the United Kingdom with Thames Television in 2001. The Idol series has since become one of the most successful entertainment formats, sold to more than seventy countries around the world, including American Idol in the United States. 19 Entertainment is also responsible for the production of So You Think You Can Dance.
Background and history
Founded in London, England in 1985, 19 Entertainment was named after the Paul Hardcastle song which was one of Simon Fuller's first notable successes while working as an A&R man for Chrysalis Records. In 2001 the company co-produced Pop Idol in the United Kingdom with Thames Television. An immense success, Maggie Brown in The Guardian states, "the show became a seminal reality/entertainment format once on air that autumn".[1]
In March 2005, 19 Entertainment founder Simon Fuller sold the company to
In 2009, the company announced the purchase of London-based
In September 2010, much of 19's non-
Sillerman and partners accepted an offer from Apollo Global Management on July 21, 2011 to purchase the entire stock of CKX, Inc, and the business was re-branded as
In March 2022, Sony Pictures Television purchased Industrial Media for $350 million,[6] with Industrial becoming Sony Pictures Television’s nonfiction division continuing to be led by Holtzman and Saidman and with a remit to expand the group.
19 Television series
Current series
- American Idol (2002–2016, 2018–present)
- So You Think You Can Dance (2005–present)
Former series
- Miami 7 (1999)
- L.A. 7 (2000)
- S Club 7 Go Wild! (2000)
- S Club Search (2001)
- Hollywood 7 (2001)
- Viva S Club (2002)
- American Juniors (2003)
- All American Girl (2003)
- I Dream (2004)
- Giving You Everything (2007)
- Little Britain USA (2008)
- If I Can Dream (2010)
19 Entertainment films
- Spice World (co-production with Icon Productions and Columbia Pictures) (1997)
- Seeing Double (co-production with Columbia Pictures) (2003)
- 20th Century Fox) (2003)
S Club 7 - TV films
- Back to the '50s (1999)
- Boyfriends & Birthdays (1999)
- Artistic Differences (2000)
- Christmas Special (2000)
19 Recordings artist roster
See also
References
- ^ "The scribbled note that changed TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
- ^ "'Pop Idol' creator Simon Fuller sells 19 Entertainment for over $210 million". Realitytvworld.com. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ Sweney, Mark (10 August 2009). "Fuller's 19 buys Storm model agency". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "'American Idol' Producer Core Media Group Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy". Variety. April 28, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
- ^ Otterson, Joe (2018-08-06). "CORE Media Acquires Intellectual Property Corp., Relaunches as Industrial Media". Variety. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (2022-03-03). "Sony Pictures TV to Acquire Industrial Media, Production Company Behind 'American Idol,' in $350 Million Deal". Variety. Retrieved 2023-02-05.