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Walter Presents picks up Brazilian titles
Walter Presents, Channel 4’s VOD service dedicated to foreign drama for UK and US, has…
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Netflix expands Lat Am & India investment
Netflix is looking to expand Latin American investments, confirming it will host 50 new and…
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Lionsgate & Hemisphere launch Spanish OTT offer
Lionsgate and Hemisphere Media Group have launched Pantaya, a Spanish-language OTT service dedicated to premium…
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Fremantle hires Neylon as global content head
FremantleMedia International (FMI) has appointed Katrina Neylon to the role of executive vice president of…
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Lionsgate poaches Disney veteran Goetz
Lionsgate has appointed Jared Goetz, a 22-year veteran of The Walt Disney Company, to the…
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CBS All Access picks up Will Ferrell comedy
CBS All Access, the Eye network’s SVOD platform, is adding three new scripted shows to…
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CBS & Imagine enter strategic four-year deal
CBS Corporation and Imagine Television Studios have entered into a four-year co-financing and first-look agreement…
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BBCWW inks first children’s deal with Amazon
BBC Worldwide has acquired its first multi-year children’s licensing deal with SVOD service Amazon Prime…
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Sony Pictures buys distributor Funimation
Sony Pictures Television Networks has reached an agreement to acquire a “substantial” majority stake in…
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Studiocanal’s Neylon exits as Campos becomes sales head
Studiocanal executive VP of sales and marketing Katrina Neylon has departed the company, TBI has learned,…
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Street homed in new BBC commissioning cross-over role
UK pubcaster the BBC has appointed Jo Street to the newly created role of commissioning…
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Lionsgate & Liberty Global partner on thriller for Starz
Lionsgate and Liberty Global have partnered up to produce new spy thriller The Rook for…
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Fox promotes Gabay to new comedy post
Fox has promoted Jonathan Gabay to senior vice president of comedy development and programming. Gabay…
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All3 buys German producer from Wige Media
All3Media’s German arm has acquired Munich-based factual entertainment and docs specialist from Wige Media. South&Browse…
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UnReal’s Noxon behind Dietland plan for AMC
US cable channel AMC has given the greenlight to Dietland, the latest drama from UnReal…
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TBI Weekly: UK kids TV shake-up
Kids television has been on the agenda this week as the industry gears up for…
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Argonon hires NBCU exec after int’l MD exit
Argonon International has hired NBCUniversal’s Cecilie Olsen as senior VP for sales and acquisitions after…
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Live PD prodco brings in Half Yard exec
Live PD producer Big Fish Entertainment has hired Half Yard Productions’s Jordana Starr to serve…
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Jennifer Aniston & Reese Witherspoon partner for new show
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon have partnered up to star in a new drama series…
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Scripps expands lifestyle unit as Nat Geo exec joins
Scripps Lifestyle Studios (SLS), the new digital division of Scripps Networks Interactive, is expanding efforts…
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AwesomenessTV hires Bonnie Pan as network head
AwesomenessTV has hired Endemol Shine Beyond’s former president, Bonnie Pan, as head of network. In…
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Canal + orders Joann Sfar drama Monsters’ Shrink
Canal + has commissioned Red Production Company to produce Joann Sfar’s live action drama Monsters’…
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Chernobyl drama first from HBO, Sky pact
A drama based on the Chernobyl catastrophe is the first high-end series to come out…
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In-demand chart: Ireland (July 17-23 2017)
Ireland’s latest in-demand chart strongly features soon-to-be returning favourites along with popular new shows. The…
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Netflix orders Matt Groening toon Disenchantment
Netflix has ordered twenty episodes of new Matt Groening animated comedy Disenchantment. The new adult-skewed…
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Studios investment brings 3% revenue drop to ITV
UK broadcaster ITV’s mid-year results show a 3% drop in revenue, which it partly attributes…
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Channel 5’s Milkshake! brings in new shows
Channel 5 (C5) is bringing in toon duo Puffin Rock and Gigglebug to its preschool…
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Nat Geo hires HBO exec amid changes
Mars network National Geographic Partners (NGP) has named HBO’s Chris Spencer as executive vice president…
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ITVS Oz appoints Fremantle’s Hart as content head
ITV Studios Australia (ITVSA) has appointed FremantleMedia Australia (FMA)’s Beth Hart as head of content….
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Diana, Our Mother gains raft of int’l sales
Drive, the distributor for Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, has announced a range…