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Stewart Clarke
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Endemol Shine creates Successville comedy label
Endemol Shine Group has created a production company with the team behind BBC Three comedy…
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Discovery grows international revenues, profit
Discovery has reported an uptick in revenues and profit at its international business but noted…
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Hulu snags eOne’s Cardinal and Gap Year
Hulu has inked a multi-series deal with Entertainment One and will take almost 250 hours…
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European broadcasters slam ‘backwards’ EU directive
Europe’s commercial broadcasters have warned that proposed changes to the regulations governing content and broadcasting…
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TVNZ names new content bosses
Cate Slater has been upped to director of content and Andrew Shaw to deputy director….
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Viacom’s Flamman takes on new MTV and Nick role
Peter Flamman has landed a new role at Viacom and will oversee MTV and Nickelodeon…
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Paramount TV strikes deal with 13 Reasons’ Yorkey
Paramount’s TV division has agreed an overall deal with Brian Yorkey, the showrunner of buzzy…
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MTN launches Cyprus TV service
MTN has launched a TV service in Cyprus with channels from the BBC, NBCUniversal and…
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Rebus back on duty with Eleventh Hour
Grizzly Scottish detective inspector John Rebus is set for a TV comeback. UK producer Eleventh…
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Comedy at the crossroads
Comedy has not had the same uplift in budgets and ambition as straight-up scripted fare,…
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HBO Europe snags UK drama trio
HBO Europe has bought Clique, Liar and Rellik from All3Media International, which distributes the high-end…
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The Barcelona Connection sets up UK-Spanish copro
London-based independent producer Nevision and Barcelona-based Diagonal TV are developing The Barcelona Connection, a new…
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Viacom18 rejigs management
Viacom18 has upped a key exec and shuffled various others in an organisational rejig. The…
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Netflix copro among raft of BBC drama commissions
The BBC has announced a raft of new drama series including Duty/Shame, a copro with…
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All3Media strikes German drama JV
The German arm of All3Media has agreed a joint venture with Hamburg-based Bon Voyage Films,…
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Transparent scribe sets up Super Sensitives project
Transparent co-writer Faith Soloway is penning Super Sensitives, a comedy drama about a group of…
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Endemol Shine prodco Princess closing
Endemol Shine UK is closing Princess Productions, after the London-based prodco lost its studio space…
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Fox sells thousands of hours of Turkish drama
Fox Networks Group Content Distribution has sold over two and half thousand hours of Turkish…
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Betty and Raw join All3Media stable
All3Media has acquired Betty and Raw in a double deal with one of its parent…
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Cineflix, Duncan Gray pact for entertainment
Cineflix Media and veteran producer Duncan Gray have joined forces to create Twenty Six 03…
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Lionsgate preps Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem series
Lionsgate is working on a drama adaptation of Jerusalem, the non-fiction bestseller from historian and…
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Adam Crozier leaving ITV
ITV boss Adam Crozier is leaving after seven years, with Sir Peter Bazalgette, the UK…
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ProSieben, Discovery pact for OTT drive
ProSiebenSat.1 (P7S1) and Discovery Communications have joined forces to push OTT in the German market…
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HBO Europe expands originals strategy
HBO Europe has extended its strategy of working up local originals and is developing new…
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US cable net A&E dropping scripted
The A&E net in the US is dropping scripted programming from its line-up, although the…
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UK-Brazil coproduction treaty ratified
The UK and Brazil production treaty has finally been formalised, smoothing the way for TV and…
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Netflix plays down China deal
Netflix has confirmed its first ever licensing deal in China, days after company reps confirmed…
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Seacrest, Endemol Shine pact for YouTube talent show
Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine are making Best.Cover.Ever, a singing competition series that will…
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Raft of OTT channel deals for Celestial Tiger
Celestial Tiger Entertainment has struck a raft of OTT deals for its movies, action and…
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HBO Nordic, Zee take on The Good Fight
CBS has shopped The Good Fight to HBO in Europe and Zee in India. The…