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Mark Layton
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Warner Bros. names Amy Friedman as new kids & family boss
US studio Warner Bros. has appointed Amy Friedman to the newly created role of head…
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HBO Max brings Spanish thriller ‘La Jauria’ to US audiences
WarnerMedia SVOD service HBO Max has acquired US streaming rights to Spanish-language drama La Jauria….
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Exclusive: BBC delivers ‘holy grail moment’ to Tern TV with 35-hour order
UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned 35 hours of programming from Zinc Media Group’s factual label…
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UK’s ITV Studios and Japan’s Nippon TV form co-pro pact
UK producer and distributor ITV Studios and Japan-based multi-platform entertainment company Nippon TV have inked…
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Diversity: Offering the right kind of support
In the latest instalment of her monthly column, the Creative Diversity Network’s executive director Deborah…
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BritBox debuts in Oz with ‘Blackadder’, ‘Dr Who’, ‘Poldark’
ITV-BBCS joint-venture SVOD BritBox has launched in Australia. The streamer offers viewers “the largest streaming…
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US’ Bron Studios invests in UK ‘Small Axe’ prodco Turbine Studios
US-based prodco Bron Studios is investing in Turbine Studios, the UK outfit behind the Amazon…
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Join us for the Content Innovation Awards 2020
TV viewing has soared during 2020, with broadcasters, streamers, producers and distributors around the world…
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Warner Bros. signs overall deal with activist Kimberly Latrice Jones
Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) has signed an overall deal with filmmaker, author and human…
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Portugal’s TVI gets ‘All Together Now’ with local version of singing format
Portuguese broadcaster TVI has commissioned Banijay-owned Shine Iberia Portugal to produce a local version of…
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WarnerMedia restructures senior team in India, Southeast Asia & Korea
WarnerMedia International has revealed its new consolidated leadership team across India, Southeast Asia and Korea,…
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TBI Weekly: What comes after the streaming revolution?
Covid-19 has accelerated a swathe of trends that were already apparent across the business prior to the…
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Kids round-up: Serious Lunch says ‘Welcome To Earth’; ‘Chuggington’ steams into Europe; ZDF boards ‘Grisú’
Serious Lunch says ‘Welcome To Earth’ UK distributor Serious Lunch has acquired global distribution rights…
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News round-up: Keshet closes factual sales; Fox prepares ‘Game Of Talents’; CNN to air US VP doc
Keshet closes factual sales Broadcasters across Europe, Asia and Australia have picked up a range…
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Latinx-focused Fuse Media taken over in management buyout
US-based entertainment brand Fuse Media has been acquired by a Latinx-led management group headed by…
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HBO Max to adapt DC comic ‘DMZ’ with Ava DuVernay
WarnerMedia-owned streamer HBO Max has ordered an adaptation of DC comic series DMZ from Ava…
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Primitives takes distribution rights to cooking/interview format ‘This Is Your Fridge’
Belgium-based entertainment, reality and factual format distributor Primitives has acquired all rights to cooking/celebrity interview…
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Banijay ups Cris Abrego to head Americas; Bunim/Murray CEO Gil Goldschein to exit
Production and distribution giant Banijay has promoted Endemol Shine exec Cris Abrego to lead its…
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‘Succession’ and ‘Chernobyl’ named best shows at Edinburgh TV Awards
HBO series Succession won the accolade for best international drama at this year’s annual UK-based…
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Good Caper Content preps factual human trafficking series with survivor Toni Rivera
ITV America’s true crime prodco Good Caper Content has partnered with actor Tisha Campbell to…
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‘Night Manager’ prodco Character 7 to adapt Casey Benedict thrillers
Stephen Garrett’s London-based production outfit Character 7 has won the rights to adapt novelist Holly…
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Stan, Amazon & others buy C4 & HBO Max AIDS drama ‘It’s A Sin’
Broadcasters and platforms in Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Australasia have signed pre-sale…
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HBO Europe, Starzplay and more take coming-of-age drama ‘We Are Who We Are’ global
Broadcasters and platforms across the world have acquired Luca Guadagnino’s eight-part drama We Are Who We Are,…
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Thunderbird’s Great Pacific moves into drama with Wernher Von Braun
Great Pacific Media, the factual division of Thunderbird Entertainment Group, is in development on its…
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Sales round-up: Abacus makes LatAm factual deals; Oz’s SBS takes premium dramas; Network 10 enters ‘The Dog House’
Abacus makes LatAm factual deals Broadcasters across Latin America have acquired a range of factual…
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TBI In Conversation: Courting co-pros & counting every shot in ‘No Man’s Land’ with Maria Feldman
Israeli producer Maria Feldman talks to Mark Layton about her new war epic ‘No Man’s…
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Netflix hires NBC scripted exec Tracey Pakosta as new head of comedy
Netflix has hired NBC’s co-president of scripted programming Tracey Pakosta as its new head of…
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ABC straight-to-series order for Baldwin-Grammer comedy from ‘Modern Family’ duo
US network ABC has given a straight-to-series order for a new comedy series starring and…
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The CW developing ‘Wonder Girl’ superhero series with first Latina ‘Arrowverse’ lead
US network The CW is in development on Wonder Girl, a new superhero drama series…
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Sky & Netflix develop separate doc series around Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder
Both Netflix and the UK’s Sky have commissioned separate documentary projects about the 1996 murder…