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Fox is searching for people to surprise audiences with hidden talents in its latest non-scripted project.

The network is developing The Talent Test, which will “take a select group of people through a life-changing test to reveal their hidden potential”.

Deadline understands that the show is in very early development and the network is working on a proof of concept for the show. It is currently casting.

The show is based on the premise that most people have untapped potential and a hidden talent waiting to be discovered, whether it’s singing, dancing or playing an instrument.

There will then be an “expert” team to help them learn, develop and showcase their newly discovered skill.

The Talent Test comes from British production company 110% Content, which is backed by Elisabeth Murdoch. The company was set up by former ITV entertainment chief Siobhan Greene, who co-created Popstars: The Rivals and Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway...

ITV Studios has reshuffled the management of Eggheads producer 12 Yard following the departure of Andy Culpin to Elisabeth Murdoch-backed 110% Content.

The Weakest Link co-creator Culpin has joined 110% Content, which was set up by former ITV entertainment chief Siobhan Greene, as creative director. The company is backed by Shine Group founder Murdoch. Culpin was Managing Director of 12 Yard.

Michael Mannes, who was Deputy MD of the company, becomes MD following Culpin’s departure after joining the business in 2005. Meanwhile, Liz Gaskell becomes Creative Director.

Mannes has has produced shows including primetime BBC One quiz shows Who Dares Wins and In It to Win It, ITV’s Big Star’s Little Star, and Insert Name Here on BBC Two. Prior to this he was at the BBC, where he worked on the first series of Strictly Come Dancing, while he started his career at Planet 24 on The Big Breakfast.

Gaskell has...

ITV is returning to a genealogy documentary with two of its biggest stars, Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, after it was parked last year because McPartlin pled guilty to drunken driving.

Ant & Dec’s DNA Journey, produced by Voltage TV and Ant and Dec’s indie Mitre Television, originally was commissioned in 2017 as a 90-minute special.

But ITV put the film on hold as McPartlin grappled with personal issues including a drunken-driving charge, for which he eventually was fined £86,000 in April 2018.

But after McPartlin returned to British TV screens in 2019, ITV now is dusting off Ant & Dec’s DNA Journey. It will air before the end of the year – and this time it will be a two-part special.

Over the course of the documentary, the Britain’s Got Talent hosts will trace their bloodlines using their DNA to search their ancestral history. They will travel from Ireland to the U.

The company will be based in Los Angeles and London.

Jane Featherstone, Elisabeth Murdoch, and former 20th Century Fox Film chair Stacey Snider have joined forces to establish a global production and development company operating out of London and Los Angeles.

Each of the trio has co-invested in Sister, which is forged out of the “foundation stone” of Featherstone’s independent production outfit Sister Pictures, which recently produced Chernobyl, in which Shine founder Murdoch had a minority stake.

Speaking to Screen’s sister publication Broadcast ahead of the company’s official launch today, Snider said Sister would be focusing on...

Siobhan Greene, head of entertainment commissioning at ITV and a former exec at Simon Cowell’s Syco, is leaving the U.K. broadcaster to set up her own production company.

Katie Rawcliffe will step up from creative director at ITV Studios Entertainment to replace Greene at ITV. Greene herself stepped up from director of entertainment to take the role she is now vacating, in 2016.

She has a long list of primetime credits in her stint at ITV including “Dancing on Ice” and “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.” She will stay on as exec producer of ITV’s popular “Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway,” which she co-created, until 2020. She leaves ITV in September.

Greene reported to Kevin Lygo, ITV’s director of television. “Shu is a great talent and she will be missed by everyone in our team,” he said. “Nobody personifies ITV’s entertainment output more perfectly than Shu,...

ITV’s entertainment chief Siobhan Greene is leaving the British commercial broadcaster to set up her own production company. ITV Studios Creative Director Katie Rawcliffe will take over the position.

Greene has spent seven years at ITV and took over the top entertainment commissioning role in 2016. Deadline understands that her new venture will be called 110% Productions and be launched with former ITV Studios UK executive Denise O’Donoghue.

Greene will remain with ITV and continue to oversee continuing entertainment formats until September. She will also be an executive producer on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway in 2020.

Greene said, “These past seven years at ITV, as both Director of Entertainment for ITV Studios, and Head of Entertainment Commissioning for the network, have brought me some of the happiest and most creative memories of my life. I want to say a heartfelt thank you to absolutely everyone I have worked with,...

“The Masked Singer” is coming to Britain. ITV, the U.K.’s biggest commercial broadcaster, has ordered up a local version of the wacky competition show, which originated in South Korea and has been a ratings hit for Fox in the U.S.

The format involves celebrities concealing their identities behind bizarre costumes and trying to advance in a singing contest that’s not necessarily about vocal talent. A star panel tries to figure out who the celebrities, while viewers eliminate the contestants one by one. Eight episodes of the show will air on ITV next year.

The British version will be produced by Scottish indie Bandicoot, which is owned by the Argonon Group. It will be executive-produced by Derek McLean, Daniel Nettleton and Claire Horton.

“Not very often, a show comes along that seems to abandon all the rules…and this is it,” said Siobhan Greene, ITV’s head of entertainment commissioning.

The Masked Singer is heading to the UK after ITV ordered a local version of the Fox reality hit.

The British commercial broadcaster has commissioned a remake from Argonon-owned Scottish producer Bandicoot.

The Korean format, which became a hit U.S. series as Fox’s most-watched unscripted debut in 11 years, will air as an eight-part stripped series in 2020.

The singing competition, which sees 12 celebrities don masks to pull off performances, will feature a star panel. Commissioned by Kevin Lygo, ITV’s Director of Television and Siobhan Greene, ITV’s Head of Entertainment Commissioning, the show is exec produced by Derek McLean, Daniel Nettleton and Claire Horton.

Greene said, “Not very often, a show comes along that seems to abandon all the rules…. and this is it. The Masked Singer is original, bold, funny and a proper guessing game, that we hope will have the nation hooked. We all loved it...

A trio of American gameshows including The Price Is Right, Strike It Lucky and Play Your Cards Right are being rebooted by ITV in a seven-part series hosted by Alan Carr.

The British commercial broadcaster has ordered Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow, which will see the classic gameshows supersized and brought together. Classic British formats Take Your Pick and darts-based Bullseye are also part of the series.

The show, which is produced by Fremantle-owned Talkback, will see contestants hoping to win either big-cash rewards or prizes with each format climaxing with an all new end game.

The Price Is Right first aired on NBC and was hosted by Bill Cullen with contestants competing to win cash and prizes by guessing the pricing of household items; Strike It Lucky is based on U.S. syndicated gameshow Strike It Rich and sees contestants answering trivia questions to move up an archway; Play...

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is returning to British broadcaster ITV with ten new episodes.

The Grand Tour’s Jeremy Clarkson is once again hosting the stripped run following a series of anniversary specials earlier this year. The show relaunched in May with over 6M viewers and a 31% share.

The show will air in 2019 and will once again give members of the public the chance to win £1M.

The show is being produced by Sony-owned production company Stellify Media, which produces the reboot of Blind Date for Channel 5 and recently secured a Jackass-meets-Wipeout gameshow commission for Netflix. Filming takes place in Manchester.

Commissioned for ITV by Head of Entertainment Siobhan Greene and Commissioning Editor Ben Kelly. It will be executive produced by Fiona Clark and Stellify’s joint managing directors Kieran Doherty and Matthew Worthy, with Directors Julia Knowles and Richard Valentine.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?...

British broadcaster ITV is to peel back the curtain of fame with its latest entertainment series, The Big Audition, produced by Warner Bros’ Twenty Twenty. The six-part show will follow a group of hopefuls trying to make it in a number of fields including chasing the lead role in a West End musical, aspiring TV presenters hoping to land their first on-screen role and, reminiscent of George Costanza in Seinfeld, make it as a hand model. The series was commissioned by ITV’s Head of Entertainment Siobhan Greene and ITV Assistant Commissioner Louise Major and is exec produced by Clair Breen, who has worked on America’s Got Talent and World of Dance. Greene said, “I have always loved auditions, but the chance to peel back the layers even further, and to do it in a fixed rig way, felt back to basics and I loved it from the moment I heard the pitch.

In a fairly seismic move for the British broadcasting scene, the BBC’s drama chief Polly Hill has joined ITV as their new head of drama. The surprising news comes as ITV bolsters its exec lineup after a number of recent departures. Also joining ITV is Optomen managing director Sue Murphy as the commissioner for factual entertainment. ITV Studios’ Siobhan Greene becomes the commissioning team’s head of entertainment and Peter Davey has been promoted to head of comedy…...

Neil Patrick Harris is promising broadcast TV viewers the “Best Time Ever” this fall, so no pressure there. “You’ll get to see a bunch of cool sh-t, and it’ll be live,” Harris teased on Thursday, adding that he hopes the NBC show will be “game changing” in the reality TV genre. “We’re in a world where we’re not sure what’s real and what’s not,” he said, regarding unscripted fare in general. Also Read: NBC's Bob Greenblatt Breaks Down Donald Trump's Success: 'The World Likes a Star' Harris and Siobhan Greene — the latter who...

As it closes in on its second consecutive season-long victory in the key adult 18-49 demographic, NBC unveils a new 2015-16 primetime schedule that combines popular returning series, edge-of-your-seat new dramas, inventive new comedies and season nine of the Emmy Award-winning musical competition series The Voice. NBC is on track to win the traditional September-to-May primetime season in adults 18-49 for the second year in a row after having gone the prior 10 years without an 18-49 win. Through 32 completed weeks of the season, NBC also ranks #1 or tied for #1 among the Big 4 networks in adults and men 18-34 and men and women 18-49.

In total viewers, NBC is running #2 for the season and within 7% of its year-ago Olympics-boosted average (8.8 million vs. 9.5 million), making this season and last NBC's two top-scoring seasons in total viewers since 2006-07. NBC has won the last three November sweeps in adults 18-49, as well as...

Dom Joly's hidden camera series Fool Britannia has been commissioned for a second series by ITV.

The comedy show, which features pranks on members of the public with characters such as The Asbo Vicar and Britain's Unluckiest Man, will return later this year.

"We are thrilled to be working with Dom on a second series of Fool Britannia," said ITV Studios director of entertainment Siobhan Greene.

"Dom and the team are full of new characters and ideas, and we are so looking forward to building on what was done on the first series."

John Kaye Cooper, controller of entertainment at ITV, added: "We're delighted that Dom returns with Fool Britannia and his own blend of pranks and set-ups."

The first series ended in October 2012 with 2.08 million viewers.

Watch a clip from the first series below:...

Syco's Head of TV Siobhan Greene has spoken about how Simon Cowell dealt with the intense ratings battle between The Voice UK and Britain's Got Talent earlier this year. The new BBC One talent show, which stars Sir Tom Jones and Jessie J as coaches, surprised the long-running ITV1 hit and actually beat the Cowell show during some of the audition rounds. However, Got Talent increased its figures during the Live Shows and ended up beating the BBC series overall across the run. Speaking about Cowell's response to the new rivalry, Greene claimed that in the long run, Syco was pleased with the fresh competition as it helped them up their game. "For me, competition is brilliant. (more)...

Syco's Head of TV Siobhan Greene has spoken about how Simon Cowell dealt with the intense ratings battle between The Voice UK and Britain's Got Talent earlier this year. The new BBC One talent show, which stars Sir Tom Jones and Jessie J as coaches, surprised the long-running ITV1 hit and actually beat the Cowell show during some of the audition shows. However, Got Talent increased its figures during the Live Shows and ended up beating the BBC series overall across the run. Speaking about Cowell's response to the new rivalry, Greene claimed that it in the long run, Syco was pleased with the fresh competition as it helped them up their game. "For me, competition is brilliant. (more)...

HollywoodNews.com:Announced today, Epic Records signs Melanie Amaro to a recording contract following her triumphant win on season one of “The X Factor.” Her new home with Epic Records places her under the leadership of legendary music executive, Epic Records Chairman/CEO and The X Factor judge, Mr. Antonio “L.A.” Reid. As part of holding the coveted title, Amaro wins $5 million, the largest prize in television history, and is set to star in an iconic Pepsi commercial. Season one of Fox’s highly successful talent competition crowned powerhouse vocalist Amaro its winner under the mentorship of Simon Cowell during its nail-biting season finale.

“I joined The X Factor to be able to discover undeniable talent such as Melanie,” comments Mr. Reid. “I am pleased that she is now signed to Epic Records because I believe we have only scratched the surface on uncovering her talent and her inevitable journey to super-stardom.

Fox has ordered a second season of unscripted series The X Factor, it was announced today by Mike Darnell, President of Alternative Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.

"I am absolutely thrilled with the news," said Simon Cowell. "I have loved making the show and I want to thank Fox, our sponsors and most importantly, the fans for supporting The X Factor."

"The X Factor is a monumental success," said Darnell. "It's won every night it's been on the air, the talent is phenomenal, the live shows are spectacular and picking it up is a complete no-brainer. Simon and his team have done an incredible job with the show, and I'm absolutely thrilled to bring back The X Factor for another fantastic season."

Over the course of the 20 hours that have aired, The X Factor has emerged as the No. 1 reality series on broadcast television this fall and is outperforming returning hits...

Peter Rice, Chairman, Entertainment, Fox Networks Group; and Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, today unveiled the Fox primetime schedule for the 2011-2012 television season to the national advertising community during its annual Programming Presentation at The New Beacon Theatre.&#8232

"Nothing impacts culture the way a television show does," said Rice. "And here at Fox, we have the most talked about, most followed, most creative shows that build connections between viewers and brands."

"Going into next year, we've rejuvenated American Idol, built a core strength across the week and developed a really fresh, creative new lineup for next season," said Reilly. "From razor-sharp comedies to epic dramas to a massive talent competition series, I think we have the goods to continue to be pop culture's most vibrant platform, as well as the top network."&#8232

Launching this fall is the highly anticipated singing competition series The X Factor, which marks...

Fox enters the ring on the new year schedules, and they have a few interesting items on the agenda. Check out all the info below.

Launching this fall is the highly anticipated singing competition series The X Factor, which marks the return of Simon Cowell to Fox. Cowell, along with Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Cheryl Cole and Paula Abdul, will judge the U.S. version of the international television phenomenon that will award an unprecedented $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music to the next global superstar or breakout music group.

Epic family adventure series Terra Nova, executive-produced by Steven Spielberg (“Saving Private Ryan,” “Jurassic Park”), Peter Chernin, René Echevarria (“Castle,” “The 4400”) and Brannon Braga (“24”) and starring Jason O’Mara (“Life On Mars”) and Stephen Lang (“Avatar”), premieres in the fall. The ambitious series follows an ordinary family on an extraordinary journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as...

Fox has release it's full primetime schedule for Fall 2011-12. This includes new shows such as Terra Nova, New Girl, The X-Factor, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, the animated Napoleon Dynamite series and J.J. Abrams Alcatraz which is my most anticipated of all the new series. Below you will find the full schedule along with a synopsis for each new TV series. Check it out and tell us what shows you are most looking forward to.

Fox Fall 2011 Primetime Schedule

(All Times Et/Pt)

Monday

8:00-9:00 Pm Terra Nova (new)

9:00-10:00 Pm House

Tuesday

8:00-9:00 Pm Glee

9:00-9:30 Pm New Girl (wt) (new)

9:30-10:00 Pm Raising Hope

Wednesday

8:00-9:30 Pm The X Factor Performance Show (new)

9:30-10:00 Pm I Hate My Teenage Daughter (wt) (new)

Thursday

8:00-9:00 Pm The X Factor Results Show (new...