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Richard Middleton
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TBI Weekly: What next for France’s scripted industry?
French drama festival Série Series returned to the Fontainebleau recently, marking for many execs their…
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Spain’s Onza hires Lux Vide exec to lead int’l co-pros & development
Onza, the Spanish prodco behind shows including Hernán and El Ministerio Del Tiempo, has hired…
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Endeavor Content links with Rick Rubin to expand Shangri La into TV & film
Endeavor Content has struck an overall deal with famed music producer Rick Rubin. The agreement…
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Banijay’s UK prodco Remarkable raids Optomen for factual development chief
Banijay-owned Remarkable TV has rejigged its factual team by appointing a former Optomen exec as…
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France’s Mediawan takes majority stake in ‘Bac Nord’ prodco Chi-Fou-Mi
France’s Mediawan Group has continued its acquisition spree by taking a majority stake in Paris-based…
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Sales round-up: Scotland’s STV Player makes ‘biggest ever’ acquisition deal; Mediaset visits ‘Schitt’s Creek’; ‘Legacy’ lands in Spain
Scotland’s STV Player in ‘biggest ever’ acquisition deal Scotland’s STV has revealed its biggest content…
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Spain’s Diagonal TV preps monarchy drama with journalist Sergio Vila-Sanjuán
La Catedral Del Mar producer Diagonal TV has partnered with journalist and novelist Sergio Vila-Sanjuán…
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Insight TV & C4 fitted up for Zig Zag’s ‘Garms Dealer’ fashion show
Millennial-focused channel operator and producer Insight TV and UK pubcaster Channel 4 have commissioned a…
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MTV revives ‘Cribs’ in US with Martha Stewart, Ryan Lochte & Ashlee Simpson
ViacomCBS-owned MTV has rebooted veteran celebrity property show Cribs, more than two decades since it…
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Festival round-up: Edinburgh TV Fest launches Theroux talent search; Series Mania unveils Étoile Award
Edinburgh TV Fest launches Theroux talent search The TV Foundation, the umbrella charity of the…
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Factual round-up: Latest deals for D360, Global Screen, BritBox & RTÉ
M6, Rai 5 snap up D360 shows French broadcaster M6 has picked up There’s Something…
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Exclusive: Shorts Int’l launches FAST channels with Samsung in Europe
AMC-backed Shorts International is moving into free-to-view ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) by launching a raft…
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Banijay launches French talent agency with Non Stop’s Hugues Dangy
Banijay has launched a France-based talent agency that will attempt to tap into the relationship…
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Amazon orders James Corden comedy, drops ‘Tiger King’ drama
Amazon has ordered a six-part comedy drama with James Corden (Gavin & Stacey) set to…
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BritBox hires former Kudos CEO & BBC alum Diederick Santer as creative chief
Global streamer BritBox has appointed former Kudos CEO Diederick Santer to the newly created role…
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Discovery+ engages ’90 Day Fiancé’ & Salisbury poisonings doc for UK streamer
Discovery+ has ordered a local version of Red Arrow Studios-owned format 90 Day Fiancé and…
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C4 supercharges true crime with new strand & raft of deals
UK pubcaster Channel 4 is launching a true crime programming strand across its linear and…
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ITV reboots ‘Undercover Boss’ seven years after show’s last UK airing
Commercial broadcaster ITV has commissioned its own version of Undercover Boss, the Studio Lambert format…
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BBC Studios scraps physical Showcase event for 2022 & moves ‘fully digital’ again
BBC Studios (BBCS) will not hold a physical version of its annual Showcase event in…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Picking out pay TV patterns in North America
Pay TV in North America is a market in decline, yet revenues remain higher than…
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Why serving diversity within diversity matters
Narendra Reddy, EVP & general manager at The Africa Channel, tells TBI about his company’s…
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Exclusive: Arte buys Hebrew-language menopause dramedy ‘Fifty’
French and German broadcaster Arte has picked up Israeli comedy drama Fifty, TBI has learned….
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TBI Weekly: What the UK’s kids commissioners want & why
As the Children’s Media Conference comes to a close, TBI’s deputy editor Mark Layton hears…
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Disney hires Netflix’s former production innovation exec for pan-streaming role
Disney has hired Netflix’s former director of product innovation for growth as its SVP of…
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News round up: CBS extends Robert & Michelle King deal; BBCS & Directors UK launch mentor scheme; Amazon’s Arsenal doc
CBS extends Robert & Michelle King deal CBS Studios has extended its pact with The…
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How producers plotted a path for ‘Paradiso’ amid Covid
Eva Kemme & Martin Heisler of Germany’s Flare Entertainment tell TBI how a travelling doctor…
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BBC hires Jon Petrie from Netflix’s Broke and Bones to lead comedy
The BBC in the UK has appointed Jon Petrie from Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’s…
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Newen’s Pupkin buys into ‘Penoza’ director’s prodco WBM
Newen-backed Pupkin in the Netherlands has taken a majority stake in WBM, the prodco founded…
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Off The Fence names creative chief & unveils new ‘pillar’ approach
My Octopus Teacher outfit Off The Fence (OTF) has reorganised its operations to focus on…
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Argonon appoints for development drive, hires Banijay alum
Abandoned Engineering and The Masked Singer UK group Argonon has made a series of appointments…