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Iacono exits Lionsgate Int’l, Kapouranis takes over
Lionsgate International television and distribution president Peter Iacono is to depart the company, with Agapy…
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TVF inks first-look deal with Mediacorp
Factual distribution firm TVF International has inked a first-look, two-year, deal with Singapore’s Mediacorp. In…
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CBS names Showtime boss as its creative chief
Showtime boss David Nevins has been named chief creative officer at CBS Corporation, effective immediately….
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Richard Yee: Getting Karl Pilkington into scripted
Sick of It director and co-writer Richard Yee tells TBI how he convinced The Idiot…
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Sky Vision to coproduce Blood with Element 8
Sky Vision has set a deal to coproduce English-language crime thriller Blood, set in Amman, Jordan,…
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Fremantle ties up with Fuji TV on Little Presenter
Fremantle has agreed a deal with Fuji Television to represent Little Presenter, a comedic entertainment format which…
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BBC Studios sells Greats to Slovakia
BBC Studios has sold its Greats format to RTVS in Slovakia. The broadcaster will premiere The Greatest…
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Parrot to launch Global TV Demand Awards at NATPE Miami
Parrot Analytics is set to launch the first Annual Global TV Demand Awards at…
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HBO Europe acquires Studiocanal drama ZeroZeroZero
HBO Europe has acquired Studiocanal drama ZeroZeroZero for Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics….
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Facebook to launch three int’l formats, revives The Real World
Facebook is to launch three international show formats on its Watch platform, including The Real World via…
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All3Media inks first-look deal with Field Day
All3Media International has signed a multi-year first-look deal with UK indie Field Day Productions. The…
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Fox orders Endemol Shine’s Big Bounce Battle
Fox has ordered physical format Big Bounce Battle from Endemol Shine. Endemol Shine North America…
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Tim Davie: BBC’s distribution is going through “radical change”
BBC Studios CEO Tim Davie said that the company’s distribution business is going through a…
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Script to Screen: MotherFatherSon
Luring Richard Gere to television after a 30-year break, BBC Two’s MotherFatherSon examines family, power…
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MIPCOM: Richard Gere says television has lost its stigma
Richard Gere kicked off this year’s MIPCOM in Cannes for the premiere of UK drama MotherFatherSon,…
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Content Innovation Awards 2018: CBS & Endemol Shine win big
The fourth annual Content Innovation Awards saw CBS Television Studios, AMC Networks International and Endemol…
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TBI Distributors Survey 2018: part two
Brexit future looks hazy Not all distribution companies will be impacted by political matters such…
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MIPCOM round-up: When Heroes Fly lands at Netflix, Broadchurch adapted
Netflix has picked up Keshet International’s When Heroes Fly, the first recipient of the Canneseries…
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Red Arrow’s Pabst joins ProSiebenSat.1’s entertainment division
Red Arrow Studios International president Henrik Pabst has been promoted to a newly created senior…
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MIPCOM: AMC streamers Shudder & Sundance Now to launch in Oz
AMC Networks is set to launch its streaming services Shudder and Sundance Now in Australia…
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MIPJunior round-up: TeamTO strikes copro deal with China’s Uyoung, Taffy
TeamTO has struck a five-series output deal, which will span across a decade, with Chinese…
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MIPCOM: 9 Story rejigs int’l and creative affairs teams
9 Story Media Group has reshuffled its creative affairs and international distribution teams under the…
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Blue Ant acquires Canada’s Saloon Media
Blue Ant Media has acquired Toronto-based company Saloon Media, which specialises in factual projects. Saloon…
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Barcroft and TCB Media partner for Shake My Beauty
Factual indie Barcroft Media and TCB Media Rights have inked a co-pro deal for an…
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ITV Studios launches label in the Netherlands
ITV Studios is expanding its international presence with a new production label in the Netherlands….
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TBI Distributors Survey 2018: part one
Distributors large and small have again revealed their views on the major issues that are…
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Studiocanal’s La Porta Rossa gets Russian remake
Studiocanal and TV-3 Russia have inked a deal to give the studio’s crime thriller La…
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Robert Kirkman’s Skybound & SPT launch scripted venture
Skybound Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has launched Skybound Galactic, a new venture formed…
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AT&T to launch streamer that builds on HBO content
AT&T plans to launch a new streaming service that builds on HBO and WarnerMedia content…
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Scandi nets team for series based on murdered journalist Kim Wall
Denmark’s TV 2 and Sweden’s TV4 and C More have partnered with Miso Film to…