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TBI Tech & Analysis: Underlining the value of Netflix’s non-English content

Omdia’s senior analyst Daoud Jackson delves into Netflix’s global viewership data and explores what it tells us about global consumption patterns. Netflix is both a supplier and a producer of content at a global level, and its viewership data allows us to see where substantial asymmetries exist between where shows are produced and where they […]

Buyers in France & Germany snag remake rights for NRK’s ‘Cammo’

Nordic comedy Cammo could be set for remakes across Europe after format rights were struck in five territories, including France and Germany. The scripted comedy format has been acquired by Banijay Studios France and Studio Hamburg in Germany, with Satisfaction Iberia in Spain, ITV in the Netherlands and Heartmade Media in Belgium also securing remake […]

Amazon acquires Nippon TV thriller ‘Acma: Game’ for global streaming

Amazon’s Prime Video has picked up Nippon TV’s action survival thriller series Acma: Game for global streaming. The series will stream on Prime Video Japan starting 7 April, immediately after Nippon TV, with global streaming of the series to follow on Prime Video on 26 April. Hulu Japan will also stream the series immediately after […]

Keshet to remake French thriller ‘Vortex’ for US & global audiences

Keshet Studios, the US scripted arm of Keshet International (KI), has acquired the rights to remake French thriller Vortex for the US and global TV markets. Based on an original concept by Franck Thilliez, the romantic thriller Vortex centers on a police captain who discovers a glitch while examining a VR crime scene: he can […]

BBC Studios acquires Australian ‘The Newsreader’ firm Werner Film Productions

BBC Studios Productions Australia has acquired Werner Film Productions, the Melbourne-based firm behind ABC drama The Newsreader. Werner Film Productions will continue to be led by company director Joanna Werner and managing director Stuart Menzies but will now operate alongside BBC Studios’ Australian production arm as an independent label, with both companies producing their own […]

TBI Weekly: Why ‘The Wire’s success matters now more than ever

As commissioners look to franchises and mainstream dramas to provide returns on investment, Nick Edwards takes a trip to Baltimore to reflect on how The Wire set a new precedent for scripted series & delivered decades of returns for the HBO brand. In today’s world of squeezed budgets, risk-aversity and a trend towards mainstream, franchise-driven […]

Netflix adds Steven Knight, Guy Ritchie & Bear Grylls projects to UK slate

Netflix has commissioned a slew of new UK originals, across scripted and unscripted, including an adaptation of the Marian Keyes novel Grown Ups and new projects from Guy Ritchie, Steven Knight and Bear Grylls. The orders come just a day after Netflix revealed its slate of new German shows in the works, with the streamer […]

Prime Video adapts Anne Holt’s ‘1222’ in Nordics with Nordic Drama Queens

Prime Video has ordered an adaptation of Anne Holt’s crime novel 1222 from Fifth Season-backed Nordic Drama Queens and Amazon MGM Studios. Blind Spot is being written by Sara Heldt (Sandhamn Murders) and Erik Skjoldberg (Occupied), with Prime Video taking rights in the Nordics. The four-parter will debut on the streamer in early 2025, with Fifth […]

Paramount & Reliance agree $517m deal for Viacom18 stake

Paramount Global has sold its 13% stake in Indian media venture Viacom18 to Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries for $517m. Reliance already holds the majority stake in the business, which counts the JioCinema streaming service and producer-distributor Viacom18 Studios among its assets. Confirmation of the sale comes a week after news first broke that Paramount was […]

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