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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…
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…
CBS names Showtime boss as its creative chief
Showtime boss David Nevins has been named chief creative officer at CBS Corporation, effective immediately….
Richard Yee: Getting Karl Pilkington into scripted
Sick of It director and co-writer Richard Yee tells TBI how he convinced The Idiot…
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,…
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…
BBC Studios sells Greats to Slovakia
BBC Studios has sold its Greats format to RTVS in Slovakia. The broadcaster will premiere The Greatest…
Parrot to launch Global TV Demand Awards at NATPE Miami
Parrot Analytics is set to launch the first Annual Global TV Demand Awards at…
HBO Europe acquires Studiocanal drama ZeroZeroZero
HBO Europe has acquired Studiocanal drama ZeroZeroZero for Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics….
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…
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…
Fox orders Endemol Shine’s Big Bounce Battle
Fox has ordered physical format Big Bounce Battle from Endemol Shine. Endemol Shine North America…
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…
Script to Screen: MotherFatherSon
Luring Richard Gere to television after a 30-year break, BBC Two’s MotherFatherSon examines family, power…
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,…
Content Innovation Awards 2018: CBS & Endemol Shine win big
The fourth annual Content Innovation Awards saw CBS Television Studios, AMC Networks International and Endemol…
TBI Distributors Survey 2018: part two
Brexit future looks hazy Not all distribution companies will be impacted by political matters such…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Blue Ant acquires Canada’s Saloon Media
Blue Ant Media has acquired Toronto-based company Saloon Media, which specialises in factual projects. Saloon…
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…
ITV Studios launches label in the Netherlands
ITV Studios is expanding its international presence with a new production label in the Netherlands….
TBI Distributors Survey 2018: part one
Distributors large and small have again revealed their views on the major issues that are…
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…
Robert Kirkman’s Skybound & SPT launch scripted venture
Skybound Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has launched Skybound Galactic, a new venture formed…
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…
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…