TV Globo


Globo unveils restructure and management rejig as part of digital focus

Brazilian media giant Globo has unveiled a restructure that will see the company re-organising its operations along product and service lines rather than content genres. As part of the changes, broadcast operation TV Globo, cabler Globosat, streamer Globoplay and online offering Globo.com will now be combined with music division Som Livre and subsidiary DGCorp under […]

Brazil’s TV Globo to remake ‘Catch Me Out’

All3media international has struck a format deal with Brazil’s TV Globo for a local version of entertainment show Catch Me Out. TV Globo will produce an initial 4×40-min episodes in-house for air as part of its long-running Sunday-evening primetime show Domingão do Faustão, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The deal also gives TV […]

Propagate’s indie power play

Having been agents and then together at Reveille, Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens went on to run major US networks. Now they are back in the indie game, with broadcast, cable, SVOD and Apple projects underway at Propagate. Ben Silverman (right) is aiming high. Asked about his ambitions for the next 12 months, the […]

NHK, Canal+ buy Escape From ISIS doc

NHK in Japan and France’s Canal+ are among buyers of Escape From ISIS. ZDF (Germany), TV Globo (Brazil), the ABC (Australia) SVT (Sweden), VRT (Belgium), DR (Denmark), RTL (Holland), TV3 (Spain), TV2 (Norway), YLE (Finland), TVN (Poland), LRT (Lithuania) and ERR (Estonia) have all acquired the doc. France-based distributor Java Films, which turns ten this […]

News brief: Gran Plan hatched in Brazil

Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo has commissioned a local version of Israeli comedy factual format The Gran Plan. Production is beginning now ahead of a debut on the channel in September after Globo scored the deal with distributor Armoza Formats. This comes after the show, originally for Channel 10 in Israel and featuring grandmothers who life-coach […]

Lat Am nets power up with movie packages

Broadcasters in Latin America have bought movie packages and miniseries from UK-based distributor Power. Latin American Independent Network in Mexico has bought 25 TV movies and miniseries for its Channel 28 net, with shows including A Bear Named Winnie and Love’s Unending Legacy. Also in Mexico, MSV Cable has bought all five End of the […]

NATPE 2014: TV Globo

Brazilian media giant TV Globo is heading to NATPE. Ahead of the start of the market, Raphael Corrêa Netto, executive director of international business at Globo, tells TBI about one of its stand-out projects, the International Emmy Award-winning period telenovela Lado a Lado (Side by Side). There are a lot of dramas and telenovelas being […]

Passion cuts pre-NATPE Latin deals

Ahead of the upcoming NATPE programming market in Miami, Passion Distribution has closed a raft of deals with broadcasters in Latin America. Brazil’s leading broadcaster TV Globo has ordered more episodes of the local version of the Worst Driver format, meaning an extended run for the previously announced second season of the show. Globo makes […]

Beyonce concert to broadcast in 150 territories

A concert in aid of female empowerment starring singer Beyoncé Knowles will broadcast in 150 territories, it has been confirmed. The Sound of Change concert on June 1 will see former Destiny’s Child star Beyoncé (left) joined by the likes of Jennifer Lopez, John Legend and Ellie Goulding, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu among the presenters. […]

International broadcasters buy Ben Silverman’s Bet on Your Baby

The sales arm of US producer and distributor Electus has shopped gameshow Bet on Your Baby to a host of international partners. Network Ten in Australia, TV Globo in Brazil, 1+1 in Ukraine and an unspecified French broadcaster have all acquired the format of the show in which parents place bets on their baby’s next […]