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Jesse Whittock
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Swedish format wins over TV Lab viewers
A Swedish format in which a celebrity sets out to meet all of their online…
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Exclusive: SVT buys ITV’s Vicious, more Downton
Swedish pubcaster SVT has acquired ITV sitcom Vicious, the latest seasons of Downton Abbey and…
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Vince Gilligan ‘hopeful’ of Breaking Bad spin-off
The creator behind meth drama Breaking Bad says he is “hopeful” AMC and Sony Pictures…
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Netflix: Weinstein deal will ‘reinvent’ pay TV window
Netflix’s efforts to secure first-run content have resulted in an exclusive US pay TV deal…
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Discovery prepares for Doomsday
Discovery Networks International EMEA is among pre-buyers of a major Franco-German coproduction that looks at…
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Global Agency forms partnership with Israeli format veterans
Turkey’s Global Agency has formed an exclusive partnership with former Armoza Formats exec Metin Bilman…
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News brief: Argentine education net asks What’s Your News?
A public TV channel in Argentina has acquired UK children’s format What’s Your News? from…
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History performs Houdini act
A+E Networks-owned History has greenlit another scripted period miniseries, this time calling on Oscar-winner Adrien…
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First UK producers receive tax break confirmation
A pair of CBeebies toons and three BBC One dramas are the first UK projects…
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Rizzoli & Isles production stops after star’s death
Production on the new season of TNT’s procedural Rizzoli & Isles has halted following actor…
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CBeebies goes for Melody, Minibeast
UK digital kids net CBeebies has ordered a pair of new series, one themed around…
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Sendokai Champions a win for KidsCo
International children’s channel KidsCo has acquired CG-animated series Sendokai Champions from Spanish distributor Nottingham Forest….
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OSN to launch ‘first bespoke Arab ents net’ in UK
Middle East pay TV provider OSN has debuted its first international channel venture with the…
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Show of the week: Long Island Medium
Long Island Medium has fared well on Discovery’s female-skewing Lifetime channel in the US and…
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BBC Two acquires ‘German Band of Brothers’
BBC Two has acquired the 3x90mins German miniseries Generation War, marking the first foreign language…
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Studios JV Oz channels to leave Foxtel
A pair of Australian channels jointly operated by NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Television and CBS Studios…
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MTG extends English Premier League rights deal
Modern Times Group has extended its exclusive deal to broadcast the English Barclays Premier League…
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Tim Kring joins Sonar board
Heroes creator Tim Kring is one of two new board members for US production and…
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WBITVP show is No Brainer for BNN
A Dutch broadcaster has commissioned a local version of TV Asahi and Warner Bros. International…
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Netflix gets Scholastic about kids shows
Streaming service Netflix has acquired a range of series from education-focused children’s content producer Scholastic…
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Channel 4 turns clock back to Fifteen to One
The UK’s Channel 4 is bringing back classic quiz Fifteen to One as part of…
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CW begins digital Seed testing
Broadcast network The CW has launched an experimental digital-only studio with an initial four web…
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Vikings drives MGM growth as Tellem joins board
Strong worldwide sales of scripted drama Vikings helped Hollywood studio MGM report revenue growth of…
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Oppenheimer to helm Carnival US push
NBCUniversal International has handed Deborah Oppenheimer a new role that will see her helm a…
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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…
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Nat Geo Television poaches BBC Worldwide Productions exec
National Geographic Television has reeled in BBC Worldwide Productions’s VP, factual production and programming, to…
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RTL, CBS launch channels JV in Asia
European broadcaster RTL Group and distributor CBS Studios International are launching a pair of thematic…
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FishBowl co-founder exits in major restructure
FishBowl Worldwide Media will see one of its co-founders exit as part of raft of…
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Mediaset, Nine check in to Ramsay’s Hotel Hell
Spain’s Mediaset and Australia’s Nine Network are among new buyers of Gordon Ramsay’s latest series…
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BBC gets new daytime factual head
UK broadcaster the BBC has gone in-house to find a new head of daytime production….