I had heard that NBC wanted to drop the show because Studio Lambert had signed to produce the "Squid Game" competition show for Netflix, which the Peacock was considering too close to "Million Dollar Island" in premise.
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 9:09 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > The "Island" is closed for now... cost was cited as a factor, tho a key > exec at NBCU also departed, replaced by a Turner castoff... series to be > shopped to other outlets. > > > https://deadline.com/2022/07/million-dollar-island-axed-nbc-studio-lambert-talpa-1235078275/ > (link) > B > > Moi, May 16th: > >> The Guardian >> <https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/12/itv-the-voice-producer-talpa-media-john-de-mol> >> (link) reported it was all of Talpa, back in 2015. >> >> de Mol left itv in '19, when Deadline >> <https://deadline.com/2019/10/the-voice-creator-john-de-mol-exits-itv-studios-as-company-reorganizes-international-sales-formats-business-1202748900/> >> (link) said the plan was to retire Talpa. >> >> B >> >> Mark Jeffries, to moi, in part, May 16th: >> >>> "Million Dollar Island" is from John DeMol's Talpa (which I thought was >>> sold to ITV, or did they just buy "The Voice?") and AllOne's Studio >>> Lambert.. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1f5eae18-cc86-4dc1-bf11-a385a93309f9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1f5eae18-cc86-4dc1-bf11-a385a93309f9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9hgXnP7zHR5b_yjyk5T-PMGauicsSTU2GwFK5%3DPGRpGg%40mail.gmail.com.
