Alex Berger (born ) is a producer, creator, consultant and entrepreneur in the media field. During his professional life, he created or participated in numerous, films , TV shows (Rapido, Burger Quiz...), digital (invented the multi-access portal for Vivendi-Vodafone) and founded or accelerated the growth of several companies (NBdC, ,

Canal+ Canal+ (Canal Plus, , meaning 'Channel Plus'; sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal) is a French premium television channel launched in 1984. It is 100% owned by the Groupe Canal+, which in turn is owned by Vivendi. The channel broadcasts several ki ...

, TOP-The Oligarchs Productions...) by holding various key positions such as senior Vice President and head of strategy to

Pierre Lescure Pierre Lescure (born 2 July 1945) is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show ''Les Enfants du rock'' broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Cana ...

, CEO of CanalNumedia, co-CEO at VivendiNet (Groupe Vivendi-Universal), President of MM&I (consulting) as co-founder, President and CEO of TOG-The Oligarchs Group and TOP-The Oligarchs Productions.

Biography

Childhood and family

He was born March 22, 1962, in Philadelphia in the US. He is the son of Francine Dreyfus-Berger, a French painter and Dr. Joseph Berger, PhD. In 1972, he moved to France with his parents and his sister Sylvie Berger. After a French schooling, he briefly studied at the University of Pennsylvania, then lived between the US and Europe. He currently lives in Paris, with his wife and their three children.

Career

His start at RMC-TMC

His career started in 1982 at TMC TMC owned at the time by the Principality of Monaco. Michel Lacroix, head of programming and general manager hired him as an intern. After a few months and after coordinating the international feed for the funeral of late Princess Grace of Monaco, Jean-Claude Heberlé then CEO of RMC-TMC appointed him producer of the RMC-TMC evening news flash, at 21. Alex Berger worked on several innovative productions at TMC. It was while working at TMC that he met

Alain Chabat Alain Chabat (; born 24 November 1958) is a French actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, producer and television presenter. He was originally known for his work in the comedy group Les Nuls, including as the co-writer and lead actor of ''La C ...

( a radio host on RMC at the time).

Real to Reel Filmworks, Inc & Revell

He left Monaco in 1984 and founded his first production company, Real to Reel Filmworks, Inc. in Los Angeles with the

Baron Edmond de Rothschild Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין ג'יימס רוטשילד - ''HaBaron Avraham Edmond Binyamin Ya'akov Rotshield''; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French memb ...

& his son

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. This company produced short programs for the rising cable industry in the US. Reel to Real participated in one of the first American animation shows based on a toy line (

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) for

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Toys (the American subsidiary of - CEJI owned then by the Rothschilds). The animation series Robotech was syndicated throughout the US and sold worldwide. Robotech was produced by

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Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild

After selling Real to Reel, Inc, Alex Berger went back to Europe to join the banking and financial sector at

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in Geneva as a financial analyst for media and communication as well as managing some of Baron de Rothschilds media assets and consulting for the LEICOM fund.

NBdC (Newman, Berger, de Caunes)

18 months later, in 1986, he returned to Paris, France and founded NBdC with partners Tim Newman and

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. NBdC rapidly became one of the leading independent production companies in France specialised in young adult television shows. NBdC notably produced: *Rock Report on

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, a weekly music magazine part of presented by

*Rapido, a weekly music and culture magazine hosted by Antoine de Caunes and sold throughout Europe. It won several awards for its rapid pace editing (Peter Stuart/ Pascal Mercier), graphics and opening titles created by

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and on the edge reports. Rapido had three broadcast lives: first on

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as a weekly 52-minute show, then on

Canal + Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or river engineering, engineered channel (geography), channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport watercraft, vehicles (e.g. ...

in a 26-minute format, and in 14 other versions internationally. The show had been noticed by

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and

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who decided to buy the format with

as its star host on

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between 1988 and 19911 *Le glaive et la balance on M6, presented by

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and co-produced by Série Limitée. *Merci et encore bravo (

), Arthur Emission Impossible (

), le meilleur du pire ( Canal Jimmy). NBdC also produced documentary series (Génération 90, on

, variety shows and specials, video clips (« Precious Thing » by

Dee Dee Bridgewater Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer and actress. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National ...

and

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; « Goodbye Marylou » by

Michel Polnareff Michel Polnareff (born 3 July 1944, Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, France) is a French singer-songwriter, who was popular in France from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s with his penultimate original album, ''Kāma-Sūtra''. He is still critically ...

; « Toi mon toit » by

Elli Medeiros Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress. Career Stinky Toys Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the ...

and over 200 others for various artists such as

Johnny Hallyday Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. During a career spanning 57 ...

). NBdC also produced commercials (

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, Actifed...) and corporate shows (

Leroy Merlin Leroy Merlin () is a French-headquartered home improvement and gardening retailer serving several countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. Leroy Merlin is owned by the Mulliez family, which also owns Auchan. History In 1923, Ad ...

, Carrefour, EMI, Philips...) NBdC was also active in digital design ( M6 /

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, VideoMusic, Channel4...).

The U.K. RAPIDO TV

In 1989, capitalising the notorious success of the shows produced in France by NBdC, Alex Berger and his partners created Rapido TV in Great Britain. Rapido TV was a 50/50 joint venture with

Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson expressed ...

Virgin Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. The term ''virgin'' originally only referred to sexually inexperienced women, but has evolved to encompass a range of definitions, as found in traditional, modern ...

Communications, managed by the prolific producer Peter Stuart. Rapido TV quickly became a successful provider of TV shows, also aimed towards the niche young adult segment created through NBdC. As for NBdC in France and elsewhere in Europe, Rapido TV established a distinctive tone, rhythm and style that turned TV shows into brands. *'' Eurotrash'' with

and

Jean-Paul Gaultier Jean Paul Gaultier (; born 24 April 1952) is a French haute couture and Ready-to-wear, prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs inc ...

on Channel4; *''Passengers''. *''Around the world in 80 raves'', *'' Baadasss TV'' presented by Ice-T, *''The Girly Show'', *''Unzipped'', *''Carnal Knowledge...'' Scripted drama with Is Harry on the Boat? and documentaries Fortean TV, Channel Hopping, ‘Dying to be beautiful’, Unpeeled,

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: the ugly frog that became a prince,

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a former French actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the ...

: the reluctant goddess, and

Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg (; born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, actor, author and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provoca ...

: France's secret vice, Naked City, Graham Norton's Rock Babylon...).

Career at Canal +

In 1993, he was working with of

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, first as a producer for the show Le Meilleur du Pire presented by Pascal Bataille and Laurent Fontaine, then as a strategic development advisor for the international channel French luxury Voilà. As an advisor to the chairman and CEO he participated in the creation of

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S.A. that held the initial cable channels

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(documentaries), Jimmy (series and lifestyle), CinéCinéma, Cinéfil (the classic and second run movie channels). With Michel Thoulouze he elaborated the strategy and negotiated with TCI International to sell the US cable giant (now Liberty Media) to take a 34% stake and fund the international expansion of the core 4 French channels into 40 international services. November the 4th 1994, he was nominated Executive Vice President and special advisor to the CEO of the

. It that position and as a member of the strategic and executive committees that he was directly involved in the strategy of every major development of the group between 1994 and 2000, such as *Acquisition of Nethold and TelePiu in Italy and creation of the Canal+ entities in Europe, Canal International (15 million subscribers from Portugal to Scandinavia) *Development of CanalSatellite, first interactive digital satellite platform in the world Creation of Canal Technologies and its two core products: interactive television module and encrypted controlled access *Creation of StudioCanal after the acquisition of several American and European film catalogues thus becoming one biggest catalogues in Europe *The negotiations with all US major studios for the Group's output deals. Alex Berger became the point person for all of Canal+ Group's US endeavours, relationships and partnerships notably with Warner, Fox, Disney, Sony and Universal.

Invention of Vizzavi

In 1997, Alex Berger invents the multi-access web portal Vizzavi, which consists of enabling premium content to travel seamlessly between all of the subscribers and their services and devices ( Canal+ pay TV and CanalSatellite pay channels, AOL Europe subscribers, SFR mobile subscribers, Numéricâble subscribers.)... This system named Vizzavi, was co-owned by

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under the name Vodafone Live. service.

CanalNumedia & VivendiNet

In 1998, Alex Berger founded and became the first CEO of CanalNumedia. CanalNumedia all the gaming activities of the group (2nd worldwide) and football, cinema and photography sites... In 1999 he founded and became the co-CEO of

Vivendi Vivendi SE is a French mass media holding company headquartered in Paris. Widely known as the owner of Gameloft, Groupe Canal+, Havas, Editis, Prisma Media, Vivendi Village and Dailymotion, the company has activities in television, film, video ...

Universal Universal is the adjective for universe. Universal may also refer to: Companies * NBCUniversal, a media and entertainment company ** Universal Animation Studios, an American Animation studio, and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal ** Universal TV, a t ...

Net (VivendiNet) along with Franck Boulben. VivendiNet regrouped all digital contents of: •Canal+/CanalNumedia (sports and cinema websites and Allociné), •Havas with all of its publications and digital assets such as Scoot, bonjour !, 01.net, la Vie Financière • (SFR) and Vizzavi •as well as all the venture capital funds (Viventures) and the incubator @VISO co-owned 50/50 with SOFTBANK.

Vivendi, Universal & Canal+ merge

Alex Berger was a member of the strategic committees of both Canal+ and Vivendi. At the beginning of 2000, following the announcement of the merger between AOL and Time Warner, Alex Berger understood the necessity of having an offensive strategy to counter the US studio strategy of directly linking content with end users, therefore, disintermediating Canal+ and Vivendi groups as local distributors. Once approved by Jean Marie Messier and

, Alex Berger initiated the discussions with Universal. With the help of

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, former CEO of

Warner Brothers Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American Film studio, film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, Califo ...

, they approached

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, CEO of

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, owned by

. This strategy led to Vivendi, Universal and Canal+ to merge in June 2000. After the merger was finalised in June 2000, Alex Berger was at a strategic position between Vivendi-Universal CEO Jean-Marie Messier and Canal+ Group CEO Pierre Lescure, head of content and digital. Internal politics and infighting raging, Alex Berger decided to leave Canal+ group in September 2000.

Content Participations

At the end of 2000, Alex Berger decided to go back to his entrepreneur beginnings and founded two companies: Content Participations et MM&I. Content Participations invested in companies that produced and owned content and helped in crystallizing their strategy and accelerate their growth: TV, films, web, music publishing, print and online publishing, gaming... Content Participations was both investor and advisor for these companies: * (

) co-producer or producer of Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopatre,

RRRrrrr!!! ''RRRrrrr!!!'' is a 2004 French comedy film, co-written, produced and directed by Alain Chabat. It stars Maurice Barthélémy, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Jean-Paul Rouve, Marina Foïs, Elise Larnicol, Alain Chabat, Pascal Vincent, Jean Roch ...

, Prète-moi ta main, Burger Quiz, and Wam Films USA with "A thousand Words" (Focus Films) *Source Films (Sébastien Fechner) producer of *Ardimages (

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) *Bikini Films (Thomas Sorriaux, Sandrine Paquot and ) *Script Associés (Laurent Zeitoun) *And also to A7 Music, Insitu Systems, Realty Gaming, Inc; Intermix (MySpace), Mania Entertainment Alex Berger left his position of CEO of Content Participations in June 2006 when the company was taken over by EBR Finances

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MM&I

MM&I (Me, Myself and I) is a consulting company for development and innovation strategy in the media field. Some of its clients were:

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Sanoma Sanoma Corporation (, formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group. The company has media business in Finland and a learning business in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Norway and Spain, among others. The company is headquarte ...

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, 365 Media,

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(Henessy, Ruinart, Veuve Cliquot, Moët&Chandon...), SELL (French gaming association) as well as some individuals, investment funds and governmental institutions. MM&I, is also a program syndicator through the label Entjoy. Via MM&I and personally, Alex Berger has been a board member for a number of companies such as UK Betting.

TOP - The Oligarchs Productions

Alex Berger &

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are partners in The Oligarchs Productions since 2008. TOP is a production company based in Paris, developing scripted drama series in French as well as in English. The company name came from the first TV series they developed together, The Oligarchs. TOP-The Oligarchs Productions is the production company behind Le Bureau des Légendes/The Bureau, a show created by Eric Rochant. The Bureau is distributed by Federation Entertainment and diffused by Canal + in France. In 2018, The Bureau was one of the most exported French TV shows. Le Bureau des Légendes/The Bureau is both a critical and commercial success: Federation Entertainment has indicated that Le Bureau des Légendes was sold in over 100 markets as of 2019 becoming one of France's all-time leading exports in scripted drama. Le Bureau des Légendes is still one of the leading franchise series on Canal+ in France. Some of the distinctions are: Season 1 Seriesmania : Special Jury Prize, Best Actor - Mathieu Kassovitz Association des Critiques de Séries: Best Series, Best Actor - Mathieu Kassovitz Prix du Syndicat Français de la critique: Best Series Season 2 Colcoa Festival: Jury Special Award, Best Series Audience Award, Best Series Télérama : Top 10 Series 2016 : N°1 Lauriers de l’Audiovisuel: Best Series Globes de Cristal: Best Series Le Parisien: Etoile de la série Française (2016) Association des Critiques de Séries: Best Producer Season 3 Association des Critiques de Séries: Best Series, Best Screenplay Season 4 Télérama: Top 10 Series 2018 : N°1 Globes de Cristal: 3 Nominations (Best Series, Best Actor, Best Actress) Season 5 TV France International: Export Award 2020 Grand Prix Des Médias: Best Series The success of this show is twofold: one the creative talent of Eric Rochant and the way he reinvented the spy genre with an ultra-realistic take. Two, as TOP implemented a very distinctive and unique method of development and production for France. To produce a season of 10x52’ every 12 to 15 months Alex Berger and Eric Rochant adapted US development and production methods as implemented by the WGA for decades to the French environment of droit d’auteur (authors rights and collective management system as well as to the French labor laws). Eric Rochant is, therefore, the showrunner under this industrial system that is detailed below and in the report that Alex Berger delivered to the CNC in April 2019. The method created and developed by Alex Berger and Eric Rochant put the writing at the heart of the creative process. The authors of Le Bureau des Légendes are: Season 1: Éric Rochant, Camille De Castelnau, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Cécile Ducrocq Season 2: Eric Rochant, Camille De Castelnau, Raphaël Chevènement, Cécile Ducrocq, Hippolyte Girardot, Antonin Martin Hilbert Season 3: Éric Rochant, Camille De Castelnau, Raphaël Chevènement, Cécile Ducrocq, Emmanuel Bourdieu, With the collaboration De Capucine Rochant Season 4: Éric Rochant, Cécile Ducrocq, Vincent Mariette, Capucine Rochant, Gaëlle Bellan, Camille De Castelnau, Claire Lemaréchal, Quoc Dang Tran, Raphaël Chevènement, Joëlle Touma, Olivier Dujols, Dominique Baumard Season 5: Éric Rochant, Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Cécile Ducrocq, Capucine Rochant, Hippolyte Girardot, Dominique Baumard, Camille de Castelnau, Olivier Dujols, Raphaël Chevènement, with the collaboration of Valentine Milville The main actors of the show are,

Mathieu Kassovitz Mathieu Kassovitz (; born 3 August 1967) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They ...

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Sara Giraudeau Sara Giraudeau (born 1 August 1985) is a French actress. She won the 2018 César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Life Sara Giraudeau is the daughter of Anny Duperey and Bernard Giraudeau. She has a brother named Gaël. Theatre Filmograph ...

Léa Drucker Léa Drucker (born 23 January 1972) is a French actress. Early life Born in Caen, Normandy, she is the niece of television presenter Michel Drucker, and of ex-president of M6 Jean Drucker. Her father Jacques is a medical doctor, and her mothe ...

, Florence Loiret-Caille, Jonathan Zaccai,

Jean-Pierre Darroussin Jean-Pierre Darroussin (born 4 December 1953) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France. Theater Filmography Actor *1992: '' Riens du tout'' (directed by Cédric Klapisch starring Fabrice Luchini, Daniel Berlioux) ...

, Artus Solaro, Zineb Triki, , ,

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, Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi...

Berger Report (2019)

On a new organisation for scripted drama series in France Alex Berger was asked to write a report for the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée- French National Center for Cinema and Animation) on a new organisation of scripted drama in France. The report was commissioned by the CNC to show what and how should be changed in the French market to meet the standards as well as needs in this golden age of scripted drama. The report puts in perspective the changes that need to be made within paradigm shift with the rise of the digital platforms, and how this affects the way of developing, producing and distributing TV series, taking Le Bureau des Légendes/The Bureau as an example. https://www.cnc.fr/documents/36995/976401/Rapport+Berger+sur+une+nouvelle+organisation+de+la+fiction+s%C3%A9rielle+en+France.pdf/9737716b-6a6a-7537-8a41-e31100a75be9

Television appearance

In 1992, he interpreted the character of Jean-Robert Günther in on

, the first show of d'

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on television. In 1994, he made an appearance on

in the very last sketch of the show in of

and José Garcia. With the humoristic group

Les Nuls ''Les Nuls'' (also known as ''ABCD Nuls'') was a French group of comedians appearing between 1987 and 1992 on the channel Canal+. The actors Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette Bruno Carette (1956–1989) was a Fre ...

as a guest on the set, he made a parody of one of them,

Dominique Farrugia Dominique Farrugia (born 2 September 1962) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, humorist and comedian. He is a member and founder of the group of comedians ''Les Nuls'' alongside Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby and Bruno C ...

Cinema appearance

Alex Berger interpreted the character of Caius Tchounus Mogulus, in Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre of