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Manori Ravindran
Manori Ravindran is the Editor of TBI Magazine. She was previously International Editor at Broadcast, and prior to this, news editor at Realscreen Magazine in Toronto. She is based in London.
Recent articles by this author
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Jerry Springer to deliver Edinburgh TV Festival’s Alternative McTaggart lecture
Talk show host Jerry Springer is to deliver the Alternative McTaggart at the Edinburgh TV…
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Exclusive: MIPTV inches closer to Palais centralisation
Exhibitors at MIPTV could be relegated to just three floors inside the Palais in 2020…
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Kids bulletin: Shaftesbury grows kids team; CCTV scoops UYoung slate
Shaftesbury grows kids and family portfolio with McCann appointment Canada’s Shaftesbury has hired veteran producer…
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Sales round-up: Beta scores for drama trio; Wag TV inks 50-hour Polish deal
Germany’s Beta Film seals deals for drama trio Beta Film has struck a series of…
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Acorn TV expands distribution partnerships to Apple, Amazon
Acorn TV has grown its distribution footprint, expanding to Apple TV, Roku, Amazon and Android…
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Lionsgate strikes first-look TV deal with Mary J. Blige
Lionsgate has struck a first-look deal with singer-actor Mary J. Blige and her fledgling Blue…
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Canada’s WAM Media Group opens scripted arm with Muse exec
Canada’s WAM Media Group, producers of Netflix and Investigation Discovery’s Real Detective, has formed a…
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Cracking down on co-productions
Alastair Fothergill, producer of Netflix’s Our Planet, has warned that SVOD players “will not consider…
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Exclusive: Canal+ scales Pyramids series from Pernel, Vivendi Ent
Samuel Kissous’ Pernel Media and Vivendi Entertainment have partnered on a 4K series delving into…
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China’s CCTV-9 boards Zed’s ‘Wild Treasures Of China’
French producer-distributor Zed and China’s CCTV-9 have teamed for blue-chip series Wild Treasures Of China….
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Inside Netflix’s original documentary strategy
Netflix exec Diego Buñuel has called for “insane” contemporary stories that can “punch through the…
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Warner Bros. taps BBC Studios Americas boss to replace Tsujihara
BBC Studios Americas president Ann Sarnoff has been named chair and CEO of Warner Bros….
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Concepts vs. formats: how to tell the difference
K7 Media founder and FRAPA board member Keri Lewis Brown breaks down how to identify…
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Love Nature, Smithsonian, Arte team on ‘Stormborn’ series
Love Nature has partnered with Smithsonian Channel, France’s Arte and BBC Scotland on a blue-chip…
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Gaumont hires Univision’s Christian Gabela for int’l co-productions
Gaumont has hired Univision exec Christian Gabela to oversee international co-productions. Gabela, who has been…
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Fremantle faces the music
For years, entertainment juggernauts such as Got Talent and The X Factor have defined production…
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TBI Weekly: Premium aspirations elevate global-facing LatAm drama
The appeal of scripted Spanish-language programming, with premium budgets and global-facing stories, was more apparent…
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How can Canada’s golden age of comedy go global?
Jamie Brown, CEO of Baroness von Sketch Show producer Frantic Films, says more broad-appeal experimentation is required…
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Sunny Side ’19: TCB scores Euro sales, Limonero launches ‘Edwardian Britain in Colour’
TCB scores German, French sales TCB Media Rights has struck 60 hours worth of sales…
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US greenlights: A&E bets on live, ID explores NXIVM, Paramount reins cowboy competition
A&E bets on live with daredevil series A&E is betting on live events in a…
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Viacom International Studios hunts “alliances” to bolster global roll-out
Viacom has made it crystal clear that its in-house global production banner is open for…
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Conecta Fiction reveals pitch prize winners
Spanish and Chilean projects took home the top pitch prizes at the third instalment of…
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Europe’s Alliance looks to Spain as it navigates different priorities
The fledgling Alliance of European public broadcasters is looking to get into business with Spain…
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Huawei Video eyes interactive content to leverage 5G roll-out
Huawei’s European video chief has called on the creative community to bring the Chinese mobile…
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Doc directors cry out for mental health support, boundary-setting
As the TV industry begins to take greater steps towards addressing mental ill-health, directors such…
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Amazon grows sports coverage with WTA deal
Amazon has expanded its live sports portfolio, snapping up the exclusive rights to the Women’s…
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Channel 4 unveils access documentary slate
Channel 4 has unveiled a slate of access documentaries that investigate policing, mental health, the…
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CNN pulls ‘Anderson Cooper’ show off Facebook for its own platforms
CNN has pulled Anderson Cooper: Full Circle off Facebook after one year, with plans to…
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Tom Manwaring boards M&A firm Helion Partners
Media adviser Tom Manwaring has joined M&A broker Helion Partners. The exec, who has advised…
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Bigger, better and celebrity-laden: Is the future of docs sustainable?
As documentaries cutting through on SVODs begin to look glossier and more high-profile by the…