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Where’s Everybody: 10th Year on screen

Malta Independent Friday, 12 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Where’s Everybody launched on Wednesday its 10th year on screen. Set up in 1999 as a TV production company, a partnership between Peppi Azzopardi, Lou Bondi and PJ Mintoff Vassallo, today the organisation has diversified to create unique media products in various formats. With the addition of Mark Vassallo to the team WE offers outside broadcasting, filming and editing and graphic design services.

On the scene for 10 years, Where’s Everybody initially produced Xarabank, Pjazza 3 and annual charity programme L-Istrina. Over the years Where’s Everybody has widened its horizons and experienced a number of pioneering firsts.

Where’s Everybody is the first to win an international call for tenders to broadcast Malta’s 2010 World Cup qualifying games. Mhux Grande Fratello produced in 2001, is the first TV reality show ever. Where’s Everybody has also produced popular programme Xarabank for 10 consecutive years, where for almost all of them it has been rated the most popular television programme.

Xarabank was also the first programme to be transmitted live from another country on the Maltese islands, covering the Helsinki Eurovision in May 2007.

Lou Bondi is the longest-serving TV discussion programmes journalist in Malta having been on air for 16 consecutive years. His one-on-one programme, Virtwali, aired in 1999, was the first TV programme in Malta to use a completely virtual set. Where’s Everybody us also the first TV production company to sign a franchise agreement with Endemol to transmit Deal or No Deal, a programme produced in 60 countries around the world.

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