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NATPE Hot Picks: The Peng Life
Producer: Renowned Films Distributor: Passion Distribution Broadcaster: Channel 4 (UK) Concept: The internet’s sharpest reviewer…
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NATPE Hot Picks: Training Teachers to Kill
Producer: Sundog Pictures Distributor: Silverlining Rights Broadcaster: Channel 4 (UK) Concept: Doc following one Ohio…
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NATPE Hot Picks: Fittest Family
Producer: Kite Entertainment and Animo TV Distributor: Magnify Media Broadcaster: RTE1 Concept: Mega-fit families compete…
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NATPE Hot Picks: The Indiscreet Call
Producer: Mandarina Productions Distributor: GoQuest Formats Concept: A street game show that tests passers-by on…
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NATPE Hot Picks: Dating Detectives
Producer: Zig Zag, IMTV Distributor: BBC Studios Distribution Concept: A mash-up of dating and crime…
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NATPE Hot Picks: When I Grow Up
Producer: Optomen UK Distributor: All3Media International Broadcaster: Channel 4 (UK) concept: What happens when you…
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NATPE Hot Picks: Dead Man’s Line
Producer: Alan Berry Distributor: Scorpion TV Concept: A gripping documentary about a high-profile US kidnapping…
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NATPE Hot Picks: Mr. Nelson on The North Side
Producer: Dan D’Or, Michael J. Kirk Distributor: Kew Media Distribution Concept: Everyone knows the name Prince, few…
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LatAm scripted: The end of telenovelas?
For decades, the telenovela has been Latin America’s flagship TV genre, seducing audiences around the…
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Disney offers earnings forecast, reveals $580m Hulu losses
Disney has broken out its financial results for direct-to-consumer and international activities for the first…
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How Netflix is shaking up the documentary world
Netflix is raising the bar for factual to premium levels and introducing ‘box sets’ and…
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Special report: Breaking down break-out formats
In the first of four special reports for TBI, international consultancy K7 Media identifies the…
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France Télévisions makes pact with producers ahead of Salto launch
France Télévisions has struck an agreement with producers that will enable it to exploit content…
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AT&T CFO: WarnerMedia’s content “treasure trove” will fight competition
WarnerMedia’s “treasure trove” of quality content will give the company a key point of differentiation…
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Behind the Scenes: Netflix’s When Heroes Fly
Produced by Spiro Films and Keshet International for Keshet Broadcasting, Colombia-set thriller When Heroes Fly follows…
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Show of the week: Temptation Island
Banijay is set to reboot this dating classic for 2019, five years after it last…
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Tim Cook says Apple will launch new services this year
Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the company will launch new services this year,…
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BBC launches public consultation on ‘reinvention’ of iPlayer
The BBC has launched a public consultation on plans to “reinvent” the BBC iPlayer service,…
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Iflix exits Africa to focus on core Asian markets
Iflix has sold the remaining stake in its African business, Kwesé Iflix, to local partner…
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Sports streamer DAZN hires Apple exec for distribution
Sports streaming service DAZN has hired Apple’s commercial director for international services, Ben King, as…
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Ovum: Skinny bundles to drive US pay-TV growth
Next year will be the first year that ‘skinny bundles’ drive overall subscription growth across…
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INTV line-up revealed
Keshet Media Group has revealed a list of speakers set to make an appearance at…
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WARC: linear TV still ‘by far’ the top display ad medium
Linear and catch-up TV remains “by far the top medium” for global display advertising spend,…
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TBI’s Top Shows of 2018
Team TBI watches TV like it’s our job. (Probably for the best that it is.)…
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The most-tweeted BBC shows of 2018
Question Time, The Andrew Marr Show and Doctor Who were the first, second and third most-tweeted about BBC TV…
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Eleven Sports on brink of closure
SVOD Eleven Sports may be shuttered just four months after launching. Billed as the ‘Netflix…
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Discovery strikes European Tour deal for GOLFTV
Discovery has struck a deal with European Tour, expanding the line-up of its forthcoming ‘digital…
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Freeform order comedy from Aussie Please Like Me creator
Freeform has handed a series order to comedy Everything’s Gonna Be Okay from Australian Please…
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Rakuten’s Best-of-Asia SVOD names CEO
Rakuten’s Best-of-Asia SVOD Viki has named Sam Wu as its CEO. The platform has promoted…
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Trace re-enters UK market with channel grab
African media group Trace has acquired UK music channels Chart Show TV, Chart Show Hits,…