Endemol
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Image:Endemol logo.jpg Endemol is a television production company based in the Netherlands.
In November 2005 Endemol N.V. was listed on Eurolist by Euronext Amsterdam. Endemol, with its head office in the Netherlands, now has subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as in Latin America, South Africa and Australia.
Endemol was founded by a merger of television production companies owned by John de Mol and Joop van den Ende, the name deriving from the combination of their surnames. Its biggest success has been the Big Brother "reality television" show, with versions in many countries after the initial Dutch version. They specialise in inexpensive programming that is appealing to television executives in the modern multi-channel world, and other Endemol programmes in this vein include Changing Rooms, Ready Steady Cook, Deal or No Deal, Ground Force, International King of Sports, Space Cadets and Fear Factor.
In 2000 the company was sold to the Spanish telecom and media corporation Telefónica for €5.5 billion.
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