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Int’l Emmy Awards: Spain’s La Casa de Papel, UK’s Man in an Orange Shirt take top titles
A string of European productions took top titles at the 46th International Emmy Awards, held…
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Endemol Shine NA taps Critical Content’s Brad Carr
Endemol Shine North America has named veteran studio exec Brad Carr as its senior VP…
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Show of the Week: An Ordinary Woman
An Ordinary Woman is a “grounded” series from Russia with a “breathtaking” performance from Series Mania…
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Keshet, ABC team for political drama Black B*tch
Keshet International (KI) has partnered with Australia’s ABC and Screen Australia to bring Blackfella Films’…
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Dungey steps down at ABC as Burke takes the reins
Ahead of Disney’s completion of the 21st Century Fox acquisition, ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey (pictured)…
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TBI Weekly: Spotify re-enters the programming game
Spotify has been reaching out to select producers for new video content as it looks…
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In-demand: Argentina (November 7-13, 2018)
Stranger Things was highly demanded in Argentina this past week, despite the fact that the title…
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Netflix orders WWII animated drama from A+E, Unique Features
Netflix has ordered World War II animated drama series The Liberator, produced by A+E Studios…
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Kids round-up: Nat Geo Kids takes trio from 9 Story; Cyber Group’s Gigantosaurus sells globally
Nat Geo Kids in Latin America has licensed a trio of series from 9 Story…
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Brent Montgomery taps A+E’s Sean Cohan for Wheelhouse
Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment has hired 15-year veteran of A+E Networks Sean Cohan as its…
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Saudi’s entertainment investment arm hires ex-Disney exec as CEO
The Saudi Entertainment Ventures Company (SEVEN), the key investment arm for entertainment in Saudi Arabia,…
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‘New Fox’ will maintain its original name
In what is likely to be the final shareholders meeting before selling off assets to…
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Amazon round up: Prime takes rights for Viacom series, Studio ties up with Blumhouse, Widows returns to UK
Amazon has agreed a deal with Viacom International Studios (VIS) that establishes Prime Video as…
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Fremantle launches scripted podcast label
Fremantle has launched Storyglass, a new scripted podcast label that will be headed by former…
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Gusto takes five originals to Russia
Gusto Worldwide Media has sold five cooking and food series to Red Media, a Russian…
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Canada’s Global preps UK co-pro event series with Shaftesbury
Canadian channel Global has commissioned an original six-part event series, Departure, co-produced by Canada’s Shaftesbury…
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Screen Yorkshire opens Film & TV office post-C4 move
Following Channel 4’s decision to locate its national headquarters in Leeds, Screen Yorkshire is to…
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AMCNI reshuffles key regional roles
AMC Networks International has created new leadership roles in its senior management team for key…
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Disney in talks to sell A+E stake to Hearst
Disney is in talks to sell off part of its stake in A+E Networks to…
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Jimmy Kimmel & Brent Montgomery form content venture
Comedian, writer and producer Jimmy Kimmel has forged a partnership with Wheelhouse Entertainment CEO Brent…
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Game of Thrones final season set for April premiere
The eighth and final season of HBO hit Game of Thrones (GOT) is set for an…
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Discovery’s Susanna Dinnage to lead Premier League
Susanna Dinnage, the global president at Discovery’s Animal Planet, has been named as the Premier…
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CBS All Access orders play-along true crime drama
CBS streamer CBS All Access has made a straight-to-series order for Interrogation, a true-crime drama…
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Spotify builds content team with Condé Nast hire
Spotify has hired Condé Nast Entertainment’s (CNE) acting president Sahar Elhabashi as VP of content…
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Netflix strikes overall deal with Sharp Objects creator
Netflix has entered a multi-year overall deal with Marti Noxon, the Emmy-winning creator of critically…
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Snap’s Nick Bell steps down as content head
Snap’s VP of content Nick Bell is to step down after five years with the…
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On the set with Vice’s first game show
TBI speaks to Vice Studios exec producers Dan Louw and Yonni Usiskin on how…
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Sky drama head moves to Netflix
Sky UK’s head of drama Anne Mensah is to exit the company for Netflix and…
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Freeform’s Shadowhunters wins big at People’s Choice Awards
Freeform supernatural drama Shadowhunters won a string of awards, including multiple gongs for its stars, at…
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BBC Studios hires Twenty Twenty exec for unscripted development
BBC Studios has appointed Twenty Twenty’s Martha Housden and The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Meghan…