SVT airs several big US shows and recently bought The Bible and Bates Motel. Stephen Mowbray is the Swedish public broadcaster’s head of programme acquisitions and a regular attendee at the LA Screenings. He tells TBI about his expectations ahead of the Screenings and how US content far…
Amazon has agreed a wider programming deal with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution, giving it a great range of the studio’s TV drama titles on its Prime streaming service. The new agreement gives Amazon exclusive streaming rights to network series Grimm as well as USA Networks l…
Shine International’s interim CEO Nadine Nohr has been confirmed in the post on a permanent basis. Nohr (below) has held the interim title at News Corp-owned Shine Group’s international arm since September last year, when she was drafted in to replace Camilla Hammer, who had left for p…
Florida-based Pomodoro Stories has acquired Latin American remake rights to a pair of scripted series from Israel’s Keshet International, a deal that includes the format on which Showtime’s drama Homeland is based. Pomodoro has taken format rights to drama Prisoners of War (above) for …
HBO’s on-demand service HBO Go has launched on Bulgarian cable operator blizoo. The operator’s subscriber base that has a HBO subscription and a broadband internet service will now have access to more than 800 hours of movies and HBO originals, including the latest seasons of Game of T…
Endemol-owned UK producer Remarkable Television will make new fact-ent series Undo Me, in which Katie Piper helps people come to terms with terrible beauty decisions. Piper is the model-turned-presenter left scarred in an acid attack. In the new show she will hear stories from people who h…
US cable giant Time Warner Cable is reportedly considering taking an equity stake in video-on-demand site Hulu, according to several US reports. Bloomberg reported that discussions between the firms are at an early stage, and said another, unnamed, pay TV company was also mulling a bid for…
SBS Discovery Media had inked a deal for Swedish channel TV11 from the TV4 Group. The sale of the channel follows an internal review of its operations by TV4. Financial details were not disclosed, but CEO Casten Almqvist said it said it will use the proceeds from the sale to increase inves…
Ukrainian channel 1+1 has acquired Global Agency’s cookery format Rivals-in-Law. Furthermore, producer iMagic has optioned the format for the Middle East and North Africa from Turkish distributor Global, which also sells formats such as Blind Taste. The format, which launched at MIPTV la…
Shine Australia will produce the local series, titled Embarrassing Bodies Down Under, for Foxtel-owned channel LifeStyle YOU. It will feature Dr. Christian Jessen from the original UK series that broadcasts on Channel 4 (above). The format sees Jessen diagnose the ailments of embarrassed p…
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