Wes Dening appointed Head of Global Formats at Eureka
Wes Dening will lead the expansion and execution of unscripted titles at Sydney / Los Angeles based production company.
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Producer Wes Dening has been promoted to Head of Global Formats for Eureka Productions (Luxe Listings, Byron Baes, Amazing Race Australia, Parental Guidance, The Real Love Boat).
Dening joined Sydney / Los Angeles based Eureka Productions in 2016 as Senior Vice President of Programming and Development, before being elevated to Executive Vice President in 2018, executive producing unscripted shows including Holey Moley, Dating Around, Finding Magic Mike, Twentysomethings: Austin, Full Bloom, The Real Dirty Dancing, Crikey! It’s The Irwins and more. Prior to Eureka he was founder and President of international production company WDE and was previously with 10’s Totally Wild and Big Brother in 2004.
As Head of Global Formats, Dening will lead the expansion and execution of unscripted titles in addition to owned Eureka IP, third-party formats and Fremantle Australia’s unscripted catalogue.
“Wes has played a leading role in making Eureka’s formats internationally recognized hits,” said joit CEOs Chris Culvenor and Paul Franklin. “Having him in this new position will help us to boost our output with a new slate of stand-out shows for TV networks and platforms in the U.S., Australia, and around the world.”
“Since Eureka’s launch, we’ve developed and produced one of the most successful unscripted slates in the business,” said Wes Dening. “I am thrilled to be taking this key global role, working with the company’s world-class teams in the U.S. and Australia to build on our track record of delivering international hits.”
Eureka recently took on the development and production of all of Fremantle’s unscripted slate in Australia including Australia’s Got Talent, Australian Idol and Farmer Wants a Wife.
Dening will take up the new position on 1st July.
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Do you know how many Big Brother contestants have wanted to be TV stars?
100%.
I think you’ve kind of been mislead by the type of people that they are choosing these days. Back when it first started some people would take some of the opportunities that came up for them if they wanted to but these days the people that go on there go because they know that opportunities are going to be handed to them and they take every single one and try to create opportunities instead of being selective of the ones they’d actually like.
I personally would like to be on big brother (the old format) because I think it’d help me become more confident and comfortable and get to know people and take chances and get out of the hole I feel like I’m in in my life. I don’t have any social media and I don’t want to be famous but I think it would help me and also if other opportunities came up that I think would help my in my position in life then I would take them, although I’d be very selective and wouldn’t try and put myself out there trying to get people making offers to emme.
Wow I remember when he was a contestant on big brother years ago in the good old days. I remember a few years ago I saw him on an American TV show I think it was called “worlds dumbest” where they have comedians and celebrities reacting/commentating stupid videos. Can’t believe he’s made it this far all because his start on big brother!
Talking about big brother, why can’t it go back to having normal people taking part and then taking up opportunities offered as a result like he clearly did and so did others like Chrissie Swan, Bree Amer and Blair McDonough instead of these people that go out and try to become famous for the sake of it and chasing stuff rather than accepting a couple of opportunities that have come to them as a result.