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Ravi Ahuja promoted to president & COO at Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has promoted Ravi Ahuja to president and chief operating officer. Ahuja currently serves as chairman of global TV studios and corporate development at Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and will retain this title and remit following his promotion. He takes on his expanded duties on 1 April and will continue to report […]

London TV Screenings deals round-up

Movistar Plus+ acquires ‘Tattooist Of Auschwitz’ Movistar Plus+ in Spain has acquired Sky and Peacock series The Tattooist Of Auschwitz from distributor All3Media International. The series, produced by Synchronicity Films in association with Sky Studios and All3Media International, is a six part limited drama series is based on the bestselling novel by Heather Morris. It […]

How the TV industry is financing drama in a choppy market

As scripted execs hit London TV Screenings this week, Richard Middleton explores the industry’s next moves as it navigates a streamer-induced squeeze on spending in the US and across Europe. Anyone hoping that the start of 2024 would bring blessed relief from the storm of the last 12 months is likely to have been left […]

Hulu Japan acquires Sony action-comedy ‘Twisted Metal’

Hulu Japan has acquired US vehicular action-comedy series Twisted Metal from Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Written by Michael Jonathan Smith and hailing from SPT, Universal Television and Sony-owned PlayStation Productions, the series follows a smart-ass amnesiac milkman who hits the throttle as he faces an onslaught of savage vehicular combat while trying to deliver a […]

Sony ups Suzanne Prete to become president of game shows division

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has promoted Suzanne Prete to become president of its game shows division. Prete has been with the company for three decades and took on an expanded remit at SPT in 2022, when the group acquired American Idol producer Industrial Media. As part of that deal, Prete was appointed to a new […]

TBI Weekly: All eyes on the buyers

We might only be in early February but it already feels as if 2024 will go down as a year of marketplace contraction, with fewer originals being commissioned worldwide and reduced spends. Despite this, there are still deals being done and specific content being sought. New acquisition opportunities are opening as many companies return to […]

Spanish ‘Zorro’ prodco Secuoya Studios hires SPT alum Brendan Fitzgerald as CEO

Secuoya Studios in Spain has hired former Sony Pictures Television (SPT) executive Brendan Fitzgerald to the newly created position of CEO. Madrid-based Fitzgerald joins the firm, which recently launched adventure series Zorro on Prime Video, after serving as SVP of international English-language co-productions at SPT. Fitzgerald took up the Sony role in 2018 and during […]

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