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
Richard Middleton
Recent articles by this author
2 min read
WBD reveals Nordic exec team, with Discovery alum taking key content role amid departures
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has unveiled its senior leadership team in the Nordics, with a…
1 min read
Just 48 hours left to enter TBI’s Content Innovation Awards 2022!
There is just 48 hours left to enter this year’s Content Innovation Awards, with producers,…
1 min read
Bavaria Fiction expands comedy push with Gerda Film & Peter Güde deal
Bavaria Fiction is moving further into comedy after striking a pact with fellow German outfit Gerda Film…
2 min read
News round-up: NPO welcomes Korea’s ‘Genius Game’; VTM preps ‘Finder$ Keeper$’; Paramount+ makes Showtime offer
NPO welcomes Korea’s Genius Game NPO in the Netherlands has ordered a local version of CJ…
2 min read
Aito Media founder & YLE alum launch Finnish prodco Ilkkas’ Creative Studio
Aito Media founder Ilkka Hynninen and former YLE director Ilkka Rahkonen have teamed up to…
2 min read
Korea’s CJ ENM hires Fox Corp exec to lead global expansion strategy
South Korea’s CJ ENM has landed former Fox Corporation exec Steve W. Chung to work…
1 min read
ITV Studios hires Newen, TF1 alum to replace Sébastien Petiot as COO in France
ITV Studios (ITVS) has appointed Newen exec Céline Roux as COO of its operations in…
1 min read
Amazon Studios’ chief in Europe Georgia Brown to step down
Amazon Studios’ chief in Europe, Georgia Brown, is stepping down. Brown has led Amazon’s output…
2 min read
Netflix appoints Snap duo to lead advertising business
Netflix has hired a pair of execs from Snapchat, including the social media platform’s chief…
1 min read
Samsung refreshes FAST service TV Plus, extends content deals with BBCS, A+E & more
Samsung is rebooting its FAST TV service, Samsung TV Plus, and has struck expanded content partnerships…
1 min read
A+E files lawsuit against ‘On Patrol: Live’ network Reelz for “brazen theft” of ‘Live PD’ format
A+E Networks wants Reelz to pull its hit cop show On Patrol: Live after accusing…
2 min read
SBS & Paramount+ dramas secure $8m Screen Australia funding
A Sydney-based drama for Paramount+ and the first 8 x 30 drama from SBS Scripted Originals are…
2 min read
BBC Studios buys into Kelly Webb-Lamb’s Mothership Productions
BBC Studios (BBCS) has taken a 25% stake in Mothership Productions, the unscripted indie set…
1 min read
Asacha Media Group buys French producer SRAB Films
Red Planet Pictures owner Asacha Media Group (AMG) has made its latest acquisition, this time…
1 min read
Exclusive: Globoplay’s head of content to step down at Brazilian giant
Globo veteran Ana Carolina Lima, who heads up content at the Brazilian giant’s streamer Globoplay,…
1 min read
NBC explores cutting primetime by an hour from 22.00
US broadcast network NBC is considering cutting its primetime programming from 22.00, according to US…
1 min read
BBCS forges exclusive TVOD deal in India offering ‘Sherwood’, ‘Happy Valley’
BBC Studios (BBCS) has struck an exclusive TVOD deal with Indian OTT operator BookMyShow Stream, which…
1 min read
ITV Studios strikes exclusive production pact in Poland
ITV Studios (ITVS) has struck an extended deal with Jake Vision that will hand the…
4 min read
TBI Weekly: Six takeaways from the Edinburgh TV Festival
From snarky remarks around reboots, to a scripted industry in “corrective” mode and Netflix’s attempts to assert itself…
1 min read
Enter the TBI Distributor Survey 2022 today!
TBI’s annual Distributor Survey is back and set to be bigger than ever but be…
1 min read
Asia’s richest man paves way to acquire India’s NDTV
Indian news media company New Delhi Television saw its shares jump to a 14-year high…
1 min read
TBI issues final deadline for Content Innovation Awards 2022 entries
TBI has issued a final call to enter the Content Innovation Awards 2022, with producers,…
1 min read
Paramount hires Apple TV+ & SPT alum to lead current programming
Paramount Television Studios has appointed a former Apple TV+ and Sony Pictures Television exec as…
2 min read
Sky eyes extended HBO pact, unveils raft of comedy shorts
Sky expects to continue to work with HBO despite owner Warner Bros. Discovery’s planned roll-out of…
1 min read
Acorn TV adapts BBC Radio drama, snags worldwide rights
AMC Networks-owned streamer Acorn TV has ordered an adaptation of BBC Radio 4 mystery Mrs…
1 min read
Netflix to end ‘Umbrella Academy’, strikes expanded deal with Steve Blackman
Netflix is bringing the curtain down on superhero drams The Umbrella Academy, with a fourth…
1 min read
BBC lands Synchronicity’s adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s novel ‘Mayflies’
The BBC has ordered a two-part miniseries based on Andrew O’Hagan’s novel Mayflies from The Cry…
1 min read
WBD cuts almost 30 HBO Max roles in Europe, including key commissioners
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is to cut almost 30 staff from its HBO Max operation…
2 min read
Netflix UK talks up spending despite cost of living crisis & subs squeeze
Netflix in the UK has joined Amazon Prime Video in claiming it will not be…
1 min read
Disney+ Hotstar snags Korean, Turkish & Spanish shows from Gary Pudney’s O4 Media
Disney+ Hotstar has struck a deal with Gary Pudney’s O4 Media for a raft of…