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Richard Middleton
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How Disney+ fits into South Africa’s SVOD boom
South Africa’s SVOD landscape has seen rapid growth over recent years with global players joining…
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Africa’s Universal TV & Hong Kong’s Now TV snags ‘Leverage: Redemption’
NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN) and Now TV in Hong Kong have acquired rights to Electric…
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Channel 4 privatisation decision delayed following public backlash
The UK government has delayed any decision on privatising pubcaster Channel 4 (C4). In July,…
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Universal Music’s Mercury Studios links with Yungblud for song-based drama
Universal Music Group’s Mercury Studios has partnered with UK singer Dominic Richard Harrison (aka Yungblud)…
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ONSeries Lisboa links with Globoplay for Portuguese event
Portuguese drama event ONSeries Lisbon has unveiled details of its upcoming event in Lisbon with…
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Fox forges first-look pact with ‘Masked Singer’ creator Wonwoo Park
Fox Entertainment’s in-house unscripted studio has struck first-look development pact with the creator of hit…
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Shane Allen & Kate Daughton’s Boffola raids BBC for first hire
Shane Allen and Kate Daughton’s recently launched production company Boffola Pictures has made its first…
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Lionsgate to explore spinning off or selling Starz
Lionsgate is exploring spinning off its pay TV and streaming business Starz, barely five years…
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Cineflix, Sky & Banijay among big winners at TBI’s Content Innovation Awards
Sky, Cineflix Rights and Banijay have been revealed as the big winners at the Content…
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STV Production & Take Two prep Nordic ‘Luther’, ‘The Office’ & ‘Doctor Foster’
BBC Studios’ Nordic production arm has struck deals with several outfits to produce local versions…
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Discovery hires Disney+ alum Kevin Mayer to consult on streaming
Discovery has added one of the key architects of Disney+ to its streaming team, ahead…
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BBC appoints C4 & Apple TV+ alums to new comedy commissioning team
BBC comedy chief Jon Petrie has unveiled his new-look commissioning team, appointing former Apple TV+…
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Jago Lee & Antica Prods link for new ‘audio first’ factual prodco
Veteran producer Jago Lee and John Fothergill have launched a new factual outfit with the…
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Buyers Profiles: SVT’s Mikael Österby & Canal Brasil’s Alexandre Cunha
As part of a new strand of content, TBI has partnered with online screenings portal…
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Docustream launches in UK via IMDb TV
SPI/FilmBox has expanded the reach of its factual channel Docustream to IMDb TV in the…
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Netflix unveils first games, with ‘Stranger Things’ themed offering
Netflix has unveiled the first offerings from its new games division, themed around some of…
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Australian factual event AIDC goes hybrid & unveils speakers
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) is to make its first move into hybrid events…
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eOne alum John Morayniss & Endeavor launch acquisition-hungry outfit
John Morayniss and three of his former Entertainment One (eOne) colleagues have joined forces to…
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Korea’s Something Special & tech firm 4Dreplay link for ‘time slice video’ formats
Jin Woo Hwang’s format prodco Something Special has struck an innovative deal with a US-…
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Netflix appoints Sphère Média’s Tara Woodbury as first Canadian content exec
Netflix has hired Tara Woodbury from Toronto’s Sphère Média as its first Canadian content exec….
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HBO Max extends cooking spree with Dan Levy’s ‘Big Brunch’
HBO Max has expanded its culinary competition offerings with a brunch-focused show from Schitt’s Creek…
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Apple TV+ orders Eugene Levy travelogue from ITVS’s Twofour
Apple TV+ has ordered ITV Studios-owned Twofour to produce a new travelogue show with Schitt’s…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring emotion in family’s SVOD subscriptions
Streamers are competing on all programming fronts to attract and retain subscribers, but families remain…
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BBC unveils Attenborough’s Mammoth special & Asia wildlife series
The BBC in the UK has ordered four new natural history series, including a David…
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Belgium’s Be-Entertainment hires ITVS, Endemol alum to lead global push
Belgian distributor Be-Entertainment appointed a former ITV Studios (ITVS) executive to oversee its international expansion….
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Show of the Week: SurrealEstate
This 10-part procedural taps into the surging popularity for supernatural drama and combines it with…
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TBI Weekly: What’s next for Africa’s blooming drama business?
From the impact of streamers such as Amazon, Showmax and Netflix, to the acceptance of…
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News round-up: NATPE confirms physical Miami event; Endemol Shine Boomdog names scripted chief; LADstudios names production head; FilmRise true crime order
NATPE confirms physical Miami event The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) has confirmed…
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Walter Presents strikes C More deal in the Nordics
Non-English language drama streamer Walter Presents has inked a two-year deal that will see its…
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BBC Studios merges APAC & EMEA, with Nick Percy named president
BBC Studios (BBCS) is to consolidate its APAC and EMEA distribution regions into a single…