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Jesse Whittock
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DHX mulls sale after shares plummet
Canada’s DHX Media is considering a company sale or a merger with another company after…
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WMR moves into scripted with Frank Warren drama
UK-based factual specialist World Media Rights (WMR) is developing a scripted drama about English boxing…
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Grand Tour beats rivals in Europe – again
Jeremy Clarkson petrol-head series The Grand Tour remains the most in-demand digitally produced original programme…
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Show of the Week: Black Tulip
Black Tulip has a number of unique selling points, as Pim van Collem, president and…
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Netflix agrees C$500m originals deal with Canada
Netflix has committed to a five-year, C$500 million (US$400 million) spend on Canadian original programming,…
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Twofour & ITV cousin to coproduce in US
Twofour Group’s US programming will have cousin ITV America (ITVA) attached as a coproducer from…
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Viacom backs UK prodco Banjo
Viacom is supporting a new UK-based production company, Banjo Television. The comes through Viacom-owned Elephant…
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ITVSGE hands EMEA to Johnson
ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVSGE) has promoted Americas sales chief Greg Johnson control of the…
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Story Lab expands in CEE
UK-based distributor The Story Lab has launched a Ukrainian office. The Story Lab Ukraine is…
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Trace launches distribution arm
Afro-music and entertainment channels group Trace has launched a distribution division, which a former France…
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Film firm taps Borderline’s Rocha to lead TV unit
Zoë Rocha, who produces Channel 5 and Netflix mockumentary Borderline, is joining film financier The…
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Sky scraps overnight measurements
UK paycaster Sky is to scrap overnight measurements in favour of a seven-day cumulative audience…
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eOne poaches BBC Worldwide exec for sales
Entertainment One has hired Joyce Yeung from BBC Worldwide (BBCWW) to become executive VP of…
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Joan Lambur debuts prodco with Sinking Ship
North American TV industry veteran Joan Lambur has launched a new prodco, with Canada’s Sinking…
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SVT pioneer Annie Wegelius dies at 58
Former SVT programming chief Annie Wegelius has died aged 58 after a protracted battle with…
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Peter Gerwe buys Pinewood out of drama JV
Peter Gerwe’s StoryFirst has bought Pinewood-Shepperton Studios’ 50% stake in the drama joint venture the…
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Boat Rocker buys Proper Television
There’s more consolidation in the Canadian TV sector, this time with Boat Rocker Media buying…
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CBS names drama chief following Davis exit
Long-serving CBS Entertainment exec Yelena Chak will succeed Christina Davis as the Eye Network’s head…
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Barcroft goes D2C with TV app
UK-based factual prodco Barcroft Productions is leaping on the success of its YouTube channel by…
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David Lyle passes away aged 67
Former Fox, National Geographic and FremantleMedia chief David Lyle has passed away aged 67. The…
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Red Planet expands with Scott Free, BBC hires
UK-based producer Red Planet Pictures has hired execs from Scott Free Productions and the BBC…
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Nippon names int’l business MD
Japan’s Nippon TV has named Kako Kuwahara as managing director of its recently restructured international…
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Show of the Week: Morocco
Acquisitions execs around the globe often bite when presented the bait of a Beta Film-distributed…
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Deutsche Telekom orders first original
German pay TV provider Deutsche Telekom has commissioned its first original series, a French-coproduced comedy….
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Disney gets new EMEA chief
The Walt Disney Company has a new president for the EMEA region. Rebecca Campbell (pictured)…
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TBI Weekly: new faces at Fremantle
FremantleMedia’s unscripted team in London will soon have a very different look, with Liam Humphreys…
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Fremantle restructures unscripted division
FremantleMedia is reuniting Talkback and Thames as part of a wider restructure at its UK…
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A+E content chief joins Nat Geo
A+E Networks’ Christian Drobnyk has joined National Geographic Global Networks as executive VP of programming…
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Ex-Discovery exec to open TV PinGuim base in US
Brazil’s TV PinGuin is opening a coproduction and worldwide sales office in Miami, with a…
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Sony invests in Simon Pegg/Nick Frost prodco
Sony Pictures Television has taken a minority stake in Stolen Picture, the new UK-based prodco…