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Endemol Shine’s Sharon Levy Talks the ‘Audacity’ of Joe Manganiello-Hosted ‘Deal or No Deal Island’: ‘You Say That Title and People Are Like, ‘Is That for Real?”


CEO at Endemol Shine North America Sharon Levy opens up about new look ‘Deal or No Deal Island’ and host Joe Manganiello.

The craziness of the idea is, I think, what we and NBC rallied around,” says Sharon Levy, CEO at Endemol Shine North America. Adding a level of “real strategy and higher stakes” to the original format makes for a “thoroughly modern” experience, observes Levy. Overseeing it all is Joe Manganiello, star of “True Blood” and “Magic Mike,” now serving as an intermediary between the Banker and the contestants.

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