CSI


ITV poaches Jerry Bruckheimer exec

The US arm of ITV Studios has hired Michael Azzolino from Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Azzolino will be executive VP, creative affairs, at ITV Studios America and start in his new role next month. He will oversee development at the ITV unit, reporting to Philippe Maigret, president, ITV Studios America, who said: “Michael will bring with […]

LA Screenings: RTE searches for CSI replacement

Irish pubcaster RTÉ is at the LA Screenings searching for three dramas to replace CSI, The Mentalist and Revenge. The broadcaster also needs a new sitcom to sit alongside The Big Bang Theory and Two Broke Girls, but has made fresh dramas the priority. This comes as Jerry Bruckheimer’s CBS procedural CSI comes to a […]

CSI sets global simulcast record

The 171-country simulcast of CBS procedural CSI has officially become the largest ever. CBS Studios International distributes the series and organised the worldwide screening of an episode of the show, on March 4, to commemorate its fifteenth anniversary. By getting the official Guinness World Record for the biggest simulcast it has taken over from previous […]

CBS preps 150-country CSI simulcast

CBS is preparing what it hopes will be the world’s largest ever drama simulcast with a simultaneous 150-country screening of CSI. International broadcasters and channels that have CSI rights will show the same episode of the enduringly popular US procedural, which is distributed by CBS Studios International. The simulcast, which will take place on March […]

Shooting down the pirates

As startling new statistics reveal the scale of the illegal sharing of TV shows, TBI talks to the people on the frontline who are finding new ways tackle the illegal sharing of programmes, and to those distributing content about what they can do to stem the flow of piracy. When technology firm CEG Tek International […]

CBS working on third CSI spin-off

US broadcast channel CBS is prepping a third CSI spin-off, this time focusing on a Virginia-based cyber crimes unit. The currently untitled series comes a decade after the original CSI series launched on the Eye Network and will join a family of programmes that also now includes CSI: Miami and CSI: MY. It will follows […]

WOWOW: from Japan to LA to the world

Kayo Washio runs the LA office of Japanese pay TV channel operator WOWOW. She set up on the West Coast in 2010. An established buyer of US series and movies, WOWOW has just got on board its first international originals and Washio wants to reach out to the global TV community to scope out more […]

IPTV take up grows as US pay TV subs plunge

IPTV was the only segment of US pay TV to show subscription growth in the second quarter of this year as overall numbers for the sector plummeted, new figures show. US IPTV providers including AT&T Uverse, Verizon FiOS and others saw a net addition of 398,000 subs compared with 304,000 in the second quarter of […]

FIC to launch crime channel in SA

Fox International Channels has launched its Fox Crime channel on South African pay TV platform DStv. The thematic channel, branded locally as FOXCRIME, will have FIC’s noir drama copro The Bridge, and franchise crime properties including Criminal Minds, CSI and Blue Bloods as well as a classic crime block comprising NYPD Blue, Remington Steel, CHIPS […]

Roku adds Channel 5, Toon Googles

Streaming set-top box firm Roku has added UK broadcaster Channel Five’s Demand 5 catch-up service and on-demand kids VOD service Toon Goggles to its line-up of content. Demand 5 will be available on Roku boxes in the UK from this week and will offer a range of catch-up content as well as a library of programmes […]