NATPE 2011: Shine Seals Partnership Pact With Yoshimoto Kogyo

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Shine International has signed a development and production pact with Japanese media giant Yoshimoto Kogyo, the company announced Monday (Jan. 24) at NATPE in Miami.

Reveille, Shine Group's US production company, will partner with Yoshimoto, a 99-year-old entertainment company, to create original unscripted formats for the U.S. and Japan, and then reformat those shows to air in the other territority. Shine International will serve as the partnership's international distributor.

The partnership's first project is Spice of Life, a variety competition, created and executive produced by Heroes' Masi Oka. Chris Grant, president of Shine International; Howard T. Owens, managing director of Reveille; and Aki Yohiro, chief executive officer of Yoshimoto Kogyo subsidiary Yoshimoto Entertainment, all will serve as executive producers on the project, which already has been sold to Japanese broadcaster TBS.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.