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Adventure Line Productions (formerly Tilt Productions until 1998 and Anabase Productions), part of
Banijay
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, is a French television production company which specialises in creating adventure gameshows (over 1,500 episodes of ''
Fort Boyard'') and adapting international formats for French television channels such as ''
Survivor'' (also known as ''
Koh-Lanta
''Koh-Lanta'' is a French reality game show based on the popular international '' Survivor'' format. The series premiered on August 4, 2001. The show is broadcast on TF1 and there have been 22 regular seasons and 7 special seasons. The show ha ...
'').
Adventure Line Productions has licensed many of its formats to broadcasters around the world including
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LBCI
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History
From 1991 to 1994, the company was part of the “Jacques Antoine et Compagnie” group (JAC) created by the famous game show producer
Jacques Antoine
Jacques Antoine (14 March 1924 – 14 September 2012) was a French creator and producer of game shows. His most famous creations include ''Treasure Hunt (UK game show), Treasure Hunt'', ''Interceptor (game show), Interceptor'', ''Fort Boyard (ga ...
. Between 1995 and 2003, it belonged to the Studio Expand group.
They designed programs such as ''Fort Boyard'' in 1990 for
Antenne 2
France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4 and France 5. France Télévisions also participates in Arte and Euronews.
Since 3:20 CET on 7 ...
and ''La Carte aux trésors'' in 1996 for
France 3
France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info.
It is made up of a network of regional television services provi ...
. The predecessor of ''La Carte aux trésors'' is ''La Chasse aux trésors'', the French version of ''
Treasure Hunt''.
Thereafter, from February 2006 to 2010, the group
Marathon Media
Zodiak Kids & Family (formerly known as Marathon Media, Marathon Animation, Marathon Productions or Marathon Media Group) is a worldwide French television production company based in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The company was originally founded as Mara ...
, known for animated television series such as ''
Totally Spies!
''Totally Spies!'' is an animated spy-fi series created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel mainly produced by French animation company Marathon Media and French broadcaster TF1, with seasons 3 to 5 being co-produced with Canadian c ...
'' and ''
Marsupilami
''Marsupilami'' is a comic book character and fictional animal species created by André Franquin. Its first appearance was in the 31 January 1952 issue of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou''. Since then it appeared regularly in th ...
'', which recovers ALP. Between 2010 and 2016, the company belonged to
Zodiak Media
Zodiak Media was an independent French production company.
In February 2016, Zodiak merged with Banijay.
History
In 2008, the group re-branded itself as Zodiak Entertainment after the acquisition of Zodiak TV (Nordics, Eastern Europe, Russia ...
, the third independent audiovisual group in the world.
Following the merger of Zodiak Media and
Banijay Group
Banijay (formerly Banijay Entertainment and later Banijay Group) is a French television production and distribution company which is the world's largest international content producer and distributor with over 120 production companies across 22 ...
in February 2016, Banijay Group (which then owned ALP) became one of the world's leading content producers.
Controversies and court cases
On March 22, 2013, Gerald Babin, a candidate in season 13 of ''
Koh-Lanta
''Koh-Lanta'' is a French reality game show based on the popular international '' Survivor'' format. The series premiered on August 4, 2001. The show is broadcast on TF1 and there have been 22 regular seasons and 7 special seasons. The show ha ...
'' in
Cambodia
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, died of a heart attack on the set of the adventure show. A few days later the doctor of the program, Thierry Costa, commits suicide. The season being filmed is then cancelled. ALP is criticized for its failure to take care of the evacuation of the victim. In 2014, ALP reached an agreement with the family of the candidate that included a large compensation. This is the first case of death in a French reality show.
On March 10, 2015, a new tragedy tarnished ALP's image: during the filming of a new adventure game for TF1 called ''
Dropped'',
the collision of two helicopters in
Villa Castelli
Villa Castelli is a ''comune'' in the province of Brindisi in Apulia, on the south-east Italy coast. It is a comune in Salento, the borderline with Itria Valley. Its main economic activities are tourism and the growing of olives and grapes.
Main ...
,
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
, cost the lives of ten people, including top athletes
Florence Arthaud
Florence Arthaud (28 October 1957 – 9 March 2015) was a French sailor from Boulogne-Billancourt. She was the daughter of Jacques Arthaud, director of the Arthaud publishing house.
Biography
At age 17, she was in a serious car accident, which ...
,
Camille Muffat and
Alexis Vastine
Alexis Vastine (17 November 1986 – 9 March 2015) was a French boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight division. He also competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the quarterfina ...
. The lack of preparation, the lack of training of the pilots of the two helicopters in formation flying and in-flight image capture, as well as the status of the operator of the aircraft are blamed by the investigation of the
Junta de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación Civil The ''Junta de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación Civil'' (JIAAC), in English the Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Board, was an agency of Argentina under the purview of the Ministry of Transport of the Argentine Nation that investigate ...
. These shortcomings were firmly denied by the production company, explaining that an effective briefing and preparation of the pilots for this formation flight had been carried out. But, on April 25, 2018, the ALP company was condemned in this case for "inexcusable fault" by a court in
Hauts-de-Seine.
On May 11, 2018, after only four days of filming, the production makes the decision to interrupt the filming of the new season of ''Koh-Lanta''. In a statement, the production confirms rumors in the French press, indicating that an attempted sexual assault by a candidate on a candidate is the cause.
In March 2021, the ALP company is indicted for manslaughter after the accident that took place on March 10, 2015 in
Argentina
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. A verdict based on the findings of the investigation implicating the production company for shortcomings in the planning of the flight, the use in a commercial setting of public helicopters or carelessness in piloting for spectacular sequences. The investigation also reveals that ALP underestimated the safety budget by prioritizing its financial interests in the choice of pilots and helicopters.
On May 27, 2021, the production company ALP was ordered on appeal "for inexcusable fault" to compensate the family of a cameraman victim of the helicopter accident that occurred on the set of ''Dropped'' (
TF1), in March 2015 in Argentina, by the
Court of Appeal of
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Productions
Original formats
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Fort Boyard''
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The Desert Forges
''The Desert Forges'' is a game show set in the Wadi Rum desert region in Jordan. It was first aired on Channel 5 from 23 June to 25 August 2001. It is based on a French format called ''Les Forges du Désert'', created by Pierre Sportolaro in 1 ...
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Treasure Hunt''
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The Crystal Maze
''The Crystal Maze'' is a British game show devised by Jacques Antoine, based upon his format for the French game show ''Fort Boyard (game show), Fort Boyard'', and produced for Channel 4 Television Corporation, Channel 4. The programme focuses ...
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Race Around the World
''Race Around the World'' was an Australian travel documentary and competition series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1997 and 1998. The series was brought to the ABC by filmmaker Michael Rubbo, and was based on the Canad ...
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Adapted formats for French television
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Popstars
''Popstars'' is an international reality television franchise aimed to find new singing talent. Serving as a precursor to the ''Idol'' franchise, '' Popstars'' first began in New Zealand in 1999 when producer Jonathan Dowling formed the girl gr ...
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Survivor (aka
Koh-Lanta
''Koh-Lanta'' is a French reality game show based on the popular international '' Survivor'' format. The series premiered on August 4, 2001. The show is broadcast on TF1 and there have been 22 regular seasons and 7 special seasons. The show ha ...
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How to Look Good Naked
''How to Look Good Naked'' is a television program, first aired on British Channel 4 in 2006, in which fashion stylist Gok Wan encourages women and men who are insecure with their bodies to strip nude for the camera. The programme is unique am ...
(aka Belle toute nue)''
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Kids Top 20
''Kids Top 20'' is a television show for kids, currently broadcast in the Netherlands (AVROTROS
AVROTROS () is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster that is part of the Dutch public broadcasting system. It was founded in 2014 as the result of ...
(aka Kids 20)''
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Dropped'' (series cancelled following
Villa Castelli helicopter collision
On 9 March 2015, two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collided mid-air near Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all ten people on board both aircraft.
The helicopters had just departed together from the same spot and collided during the in ...
)
References
External links
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Television production companies of France
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