After more than 35 years of operation, TBI is closing its doors and our website will no longer be updated daily. Thank you for all of your support.
Author
Kaltrina Bylykbashi
Recent articles by this author
1 min read
Madden departs Fox with AMC role in sight
Fox entertainment president David Madden is stepping down, with reports claiming that he may be…
1 min read
Sony’s AXN to brace The Elements with original
Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPT) Asia will deliver a new original series for English-language pay…
1 min read
Netflix to debut El Chapo-themed bio series
Netflix is set to debut the biographical series The Day I Met El Chapo: The…
1 min read
Sky hires Big Talk exec as comedy commissioner
Sky has hired Big Talk Productions’ Josh Cole as commissioning editor for comedy. In the…
1 min read
Mattel & Fullscreen launch video network
Mattel has announced a partnership with Fullscreen to launch Fullscreen Family, a “brand-safe video network”….
1 min read
ITV America rejigs US unscripted wing
ITV America has named Jordana Hochman as executive VP and head of East Coast programming…
1 min read
Turner India & Amazon reach kids licensing deal
Turner India and Amazon Prime Video have paired to bring a range of Cartoon Network…
1 min read
BBC orders Saturday night format from Remarkable
BBC One has ordered All Together Now, a six-part entertainment format for Saturday nights from…
1 min read
Cannes Series gears up for launch with ex-iTunes exec hire
Cannes Series has hired artistic director Albin Lewi to bring the newly proposed event to…
1 min read
All 4 follows Plimsoll’s First Gay Summer: Mykonos
All 4, the Channel 4 VOD service, has commissioned Our First Gay Summer: Mykonos, a new eight-part, factual…
1 min read
Kent Alterman on the lookout for animated comedy
Kent Alterman, Comedy Central’s president, expressed his desire to find more animated comedies during the…
1 min read
BBC orders host of drama & factual titles
EDINBURGH: The BBC’s drama and factual controllers, Piers Wenger and Alison Kirkham, announced a host…
2 min read
Snapchat set for scripted content in 2017
Snap Inc’s VP of content Nick Bell has said the platform is set to release…
1 min read
Ex-Beyond acquisitions chief joins Little Dot
Little Dot Studios has appointed Caitlin Meek-O’Connor as interim head of acquisitions as part of…
1 min read
Sinkholes develop on Channel 5
Boomerang, part of the Twofour Group, has been commissioned to produce a brand new 3x60mins…
1 min read
Ovation strikes deal for Sky Art’s André Rieu
US arts network Ovation TV has a struck a licensing deal with Sky Vision for…
4 min read
Making Amazon tick
Amazon’s original content strategy is a risk but could pay off in a big way,…
2 min read
RTÉ, Arte & APT set up first coproduced doc
Irish broadcaster RTÉ is set to pair with European pubcaster Arte and American Public Television…
1 min read
Norway proposes €3m film & TV fund
Norway has proposed the ‘Nordisk Stor Film Fond’, which is still in early stages of…
1 min read
Sky brings Jamie Vardy football doc to flagship net
Sky 1 is set to broadcast fly-on-the-wall doc The Next Jamie Vardy in September. Beginning…
1 min read
China places restrictions on TV investment
The Chinese government has laid out new rules on overseas investments, which includes new restrictions…
1 min read
ABC orders The Jetsons live-action reboot
ABC has ordered a live-action reboot of 1960s Hanna-Barbera animated series The Jetsons, executive produced…
2 min read
TBI Weekly: Digital giants invest in original teams
This week saw veteran programming execs move over to digital giants Apple and YouTube, as…
1 min read
Amazon joins BBC’s Moffat drama The Last Post
Amazon has become the US partner for Peter Moffat’s BBC One drama The Last Post….
1 min read
Armoza’s Final Four lands Russia deal post-Fox
Russian broadcaster CTC has commissioned a first season of Armoza Formats’ primetime singing competition, The…
1 min read
Lost’s Carlton Cuse signs multiyear deal with ABC
The former executive producer and showrunner of Lost, Carlton Cuse, is returning to ABC through…
1 min read
MGM to produce Patrick Dempsey drama for Epix
MGM Television, Eagle Pictures and Barbary Films have started production in Montreal, Canada on a…
1 min read
Amazon Prime finds Lipstick Under My Burkha
Amazon Prime Video has made an exclusive deal with Prakash Jha Productions for the premiere…
1 min read
Fox hires Sony exec as Asia sales head
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution (TCFTVD) has hired Sony exec Yan-Jong Wong as sales director…
1 min read
NBCU holds Thai Singer Auction
NBCUniversal International Formats is set for the worldwide sales launch of Singer Auction, a new…