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Second Death On France’s ‘Survivor’ Equivalent, ‘Koh-Lanta’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 2:13am PDTTags: Survivor, TF1, Zodiak Media

In what’s become an increasingly grim couple of weeks for reality television, a doctor working on TF1‘s Koh-Lanta, France’s version of Survivor, has committed suicide. Dr. Thierry Costa’s death comes a little over a week after contestant Gérald Babin died from a heart attack during filming of the first episode of the show’s 16th season in Cambodia. Production had already been shut down on Koh-Lanta and resulted in the cancellation of the entire 16th season. In a suicide note he asked be made public, Costa said he was confident he had treated Babin “as a patient and not a contestant” but said he was distraught by “false accusations and assumptions” in the media, according to local reports. Last Friday, Koh-Lanta producer Adventure Line Productions, a subsidiary of Zodiak media, said it would sue for defamation after information from an anonymous source, which called into question the on-site response of the production team and the doctor, was published by French media. A manslaughter inquiry has been opened into Babin’s death. Koh-Lanta started airing in 2001 and is one of leading network TF1′s flagship series, drawing an average of 7.4M viewers.

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Contestant’s Death Leads To Shelving Of France’s ‘Survivor’ Equivalent, ‘Koh-Lanta’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday March 25, 2013 @ 2:14am PDTTags: Survivor, TF1, Zodiak Media

The death of a participant on TF1 reality series Koh-Lanta, the French version of Survivor, has resulted in the cancellation of the show’s 16th season. Gérald Babin suffered a heart attack and died on Friday during the first … Read More »

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Zodiak Rights Taps New VP For U.S. Sales

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 9:16am PDTTags: Janet Robinson, Zodiak Media, Zodiak Rights

Zodiak Rights, the international distribution and rights exploitation arm of Zodiak Media, has hired Janet Robinson as VP Sales & Acquisitions, North America, where she will focus on selling Zodiak Media’s unscripted programs to the U.S. and Canada. She will be based in Zodiak’s LA office and report to Glen Hansen, SVP Sales, Acquisitions & Co-Productions, North America. Previously, Robinson was Sales Manager at ITV Global Entertainment, where she managed sales and programming revenues across North America and the company’s distribution partnership with Animal Planet/Discovery Enterprises. Read More »

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