Zodiak Belgium a Zodiak Media Company Zodiak Belgium Productions Jobs & Cast Contact Added Value MENU CLOSE back Who we are & what we do Own tax-shelter division Our Tax Shelter department, Added Value, connects high end drama production with business investments. We present lucrative investment possibilities that result in both national as international quality drama. Nieuw Texas, Tom & Harry, Flying Home, Booster are some of our latest creations. For more information use the Added Value tab in the righthand corner. + 20 years knowhow During the last 23 years, Zodiak Belgium has gained experience in producing high quality television programmes in nearly every genre in the field: Documentary, Factual, Reality, Entertainment, Drama, Comedy, branded Content and feature films. Many of the Zodiak Belgium shows have become instant classics: Het leven zoals het is: Camping, Temptation Island, Peking Express, Survivor, Paradise Hotel, Mijn Restaurant, Hallo Televisie, De Buurtpolitie, … Technology and skills in-house Zodiak Belgium has all skills in-house or at least at their fingertips… From the first idea to the finished product, we cover it. We also have an in-house post production department with a large number of editing rooms running the latest technology providing the power and flexibility to meet the most demanding creative editorial challenges. On top we are located at the AED Studios site and in close contact with studio facilities including many studios, green-keys, a water-tank studio and even an heliport Part of Zodiak Media Group Zodiak Media is a leading force in the global media marketplace, creating exciting and engaging content in every genre. Operating as an independent studio with over 45 local brands active in 15 territories, we combine local creative flair with international presence, financial strength and a library totalling in-excess of 20,000 hours.. The Zodiak Media group a wide range of properties including Millennium, Secret Millionaire, The Inbetweeners, Totally Spies, Fort Boyard and Being Human. Headquartered in Paris and with other key offices in London, Los Angeles, Milan, Stockholm and Moscow, we are proud to produce distinctive and prestigious content for television, cinema and digital media around the world. About Awards Key people The office Zodiak Belgium was founded in 1993 as Kanakna by documentary makers Ludo Poppe and Pascal Decroos. In the following years, Kanakna grew steadily, producing quality documentaries for the public broadcaster VRT. In the late nineties, Kanakna widened their scope, introducing Reality television in Belgium with Trailer Park (Camping), Children’s Hospital, Police, Airport… Since the end of the century, Kanakna became the biggest independent producer of Reality television in Belgium, producing for all Belgian channels. With the flagship production Peking Express Kanakna established itself as an international succesfull production company, also producing shows for French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portugese and South-African channels. In 2007 Kanakna became part of Swedish Zodiak Television. A year later Zodiak Television was acquired by the Italian De Agostini Group and changed the name to Zodiak Entertainment. In 2010, Zodiak Entertainment merged with the UK RDF Group, becoming Zodiak Media. In 2015, the production company Kanakna rebranded itself into Zodiak Belgium. During the last 23 years, Zodiak Belgium has gained experience in producing high quality television programmes in nearly every genre in the field: Documentary, Factual, Reality, Entertainment, Drama, Comedy, branded Content and feature films. Many of the Zodiak Belgium shows have become instant classics in Belgium: Het leven zoals het is: Camping, Temptation Island, Peking Express, Survivor, Paradise Hotel, Mijn Restaurant, De buurtpolitie, … Zodiak Belgium prides itself on producing innovative content for multiple national and international broadcasters and has made many hundreds of hours of programmes for clients including VRT, VTM, VIER, EO, RTL, QUATRO, M6,…Zodiak Belgium also creates formats and develops ideas across a range of factual, entertainment and drama programmes. 1996: Best television program of the year ‘Ha van Humo’ for docusoap Trailer Park (Camping). 1999: Best television program of the year. ‘Prijs van de tv-kritiek’, from the Flemish media- journalists for our docusoap ‘Children’s Hospital’. 2004: Best television program of the Netherlands in 2004 ‘Gouden Beeld’, Dutch academy award for ‘Expeditie Robinson’ (Survivor). 2005: Best television program of the Netherlands in 2005 ‘Gouden Beeld’, Dutch academy award for ‘Peking Express’. 2007: Nominated in category ‘amusement’ for BNN, De Hoofdprijs (NL) – Temptation Island. 2008: ‘Zilveren Nipkowschijf 2008’, Prestigious Dutch TV award, for Van Dis in Afrika 2009: Vlaamse televisiester in category ‘best reality’ – Mijn Restaurant (series 1) 2010: Nominated in category ‘best entertainment’ for Vlaamse Televisiesterren – De Beste Hobbykok van Vlaanderen 2010: Vlaamse televisiester in category ‘best reality’ – Mijn Restaurant (series 2) 2011: Nominated in category ‘lifestyle’ for Vlaamse Televisiesterren – Red Mijn Huis 2011: DUTS nominated for INPUT-festival (INternational PUblic Television) Seoul / South Korea 2011: DUTS nominated for ‘outstanding international producer’, ‘outstanding European producer’, ‘outstanding actor’ and ‘outstanding actress’ in Monte Carlo Television Festival 2012: Pelgrimscode winner of Best Reality Show at Zodiak Oscars 2012 2013: So You Think You Can Dance nominated for Best Entertainment at Vlaamse televisiesterren for the 3th time. Kris Spaepen Managing Director Maarten Debulpaep Chief Operations Officer Tom Bouckaert Executive Producer Erika Ceulemans HR Manager Serge Bierset Head of drama Ilse Nackaerts Head of Content Frédéric de Ridder Investor Relations Manager Inge Tackaert Chief Accountant Jonas Hermans ICT Manager Luc D’Haene Chief Creative Officer Productions works we are proud of DetailsZoom Liefde voor muziek tegen de sterren op – live music show – VTM – 2015 Live performance combining 2 top shows in to 1. Real artists sing together with their impersonators DetailsZoom Verboden Liefde – Scripted reality – Vijf – 2015 A scripted reality series about love stories that have to remain secret. In each episode we follow another woman with a forbidden love story... DetailsZoom Rijker dan je denkt – Infotainment – VTM – 2015 Appraisers of antiques travel with the show to various Flemish cities. Area citizens bring articles for appraisal and often relate the histories of these items.... DetailsZoom De Buurtpolitie – Scripted reality – VTM – 2015 A daily scripted reality format about a local police station... DetailsZoom Liefde Voor Muziek – Reality – VTM – 2015 Liefde voor muziek takes established singing stars and gets them to perform each other’s best-selling hits.... DetailsZoom Mijn Pop-Up Restaurant – Reality – VTM – 2015 Cooking Reality show in which 5 couples of 5 different cities battle it out in a culinary competition. Each of them runs a temporary pop up restaurant in a different city... DetailsZoom Hallo Televisie – docu/reality – één – 2015 Observational documentary series which takes viewers inside the living room of a number of families while they watch tv.... DetailsZoom Tom&Harry – Fiction – één – 2015 Tom & Harry tells the story of Jelle, who discovers that her son isn’t her real son. She embarks on a secret search to find her lost biological son. But when she eventually finds him, the shock is great… DetailsZoom So You Think You Can Dance 2015 – VTM So You Think You Can Dance - Season 7 - the quest continues DetailsZoom Nieuw Texas – fiction – één – 2015 Nieuw Texas is a comedy drama about 4 brothers... Partners some of our preferred partners From the Feeds recent news, tweets & fb-posts Popular posts Zodiak Belgium 15 hours ago Zodiak Belgium updated their cover photo. ... See MoreSee Less Likes: 24 Shares: 2 Comments: 0 Marleen De Caussemaeker, Ruben Coppens and 22 others like this Comment on Facebook Zodiak Belgium 2 days ago Zodiak Belgium shared An Lemmens's photo. 'beestig' programma... #TotalLossinhetBos vanaf volgende week dinsdag 20/10 @vtm 20u35 ... 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