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Banijay Entertainment profits were up 5% over the first nine months of this year but today’s financials revealed production on some of the super-indie’s shows have been postponed until next year. The Banijay Entertainment and Live portion of the Banijay Group biz, which makes and sells the likes of Big Brother, MasterChef and Black Mirror, saw profits rise by 5.4% from January to September to €303.1M ($349.8M). EBITDA margin rose from 13.8% to 14.5%. Revenue over the same period remained virtually flat at €2.1B during a period that saw the French-headquartered behemoth deliver the likes of Netflix’s House of Guinness and TF1’s Montmartre. Individually, both production and distribution revenue stayed stable. For full year 2025, Banijay said the entertainment biz expects “low single digit organic growth in revenue” driven by “major deliveries” of scripted and non-scripted shows like Star Academy for TF1, Big Brother for ITV, Motor Valley for Netflix and NCIS Sydney for Paramount. However, it added that “postponement of some deliveries is expected,” which we understand means that production on some Banijay shows, along with live events, will be pushed into next year. This decision will have been taken by the buyers rather than Banijay, we are told. The news comes a few hours after ITV delivered a trading update in which it said it planned to move £20M ($26.2M) of programing into 2026 while making an additional £15M of non-content savings amid a tricky UK economy. Overall, Banijay Group revenue, which also incorporates a betting business that is about to swell with the acquisition of betting giant Tipico for €3B, was up 3.2% to €3.2B, while adjusted EBITDA for the whole group rose nearly 10% to just shy of €600M. “Banijay Group delivered solid growth and strong performance during the first nine months of 2025 across all activities, underscoring the strength of our diversified model,” said Banijay Group CEO François Riahi. “In Entertainment & Live, we continued to benefit from a robust pipeline of scripted content, as well as strong momentum in live experiences, which is building as a key growth driver for the years to come.”
