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Stewart Clarke
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How Do I Look? format breaks into LatAm
NBCUniversal’s international formats division has shopped its makeover show How Do I Look? to stablemate…
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In demand chart: Netflix’s Gilmore Girls leads Amazon’s Grand Tour
Netflix’s reboot of US comedy series the Gilmore Girls is leading the pack in Germany,…
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Major Asian content deal for Netflix
Netflix has landed a raft of Asia-originated series after striking a content deal with Singapore’s…
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Meldal-Johnson to run global content at ITV Studios
Julie Meldal-Johnsen has been appointed director of global content and will oversee acquisitions and coproduction…
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IM Global hires Phil Gurin for formats push
IM Global has hired Phil Gurin and the formats veteran will create a new unscripted…
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Sales veteran Patel upped at Warner Bros.
Roni Patel has been upped to senior VP at the distribution arm of Hollywood studio…
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ProSieben gets new finance chief
ProSieben has appointed a new CFO, the latest in a series of management changes at…
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Amazon adds Asian preschool channel to line-up
The Miao Mi Mandarin-language kids net will be part of Amazon’s add-on channels offering. Amazon…
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BBC’s Top Gear gets new home in China
Top Gear has a new home in China after BBC Worldwide struck a deal for…
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Warner Bros. hires Hillerbrand to replace Halding
Warner Bros. has brought in Fredrik Hillerbrand to run its production operations in Denmark. He…
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Netflix boss takes a shot at Amazon
Amazon is “spending a lot of money” on original content without “gaining much traction”, according…
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Warner Bros. poaches ITV exec for UK role
Alexia Edwards has joined Warner Bros. TV Production UK as commercial director, joining from commercial…
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YouTube orders musical original for Christmas
YouTube has ordered an original Christmas special for its subscription Red service. The Keys of…
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BBC, Blue Ant launching Earth channel
BBC Worldwide and Blue Ant are rolling out the BBC Earth channel in Canada. The…
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Asian ambitions: Keshet International
Gary Pudney joined Keshet International last year to run its Asian office. He says the…
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Asian ambitions: All3Media International
All3Media International has opened up in Asia ahead of ATF and now has a local…
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Fox hires formats veteran for sales
US studio Fox has hired Dorothy Crompton as its VP of format sales. Crompton has…
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Former C5 kids exec starts indie
Jessica Symons has set up Ivy House, a new UK kids indie. Symons was head…
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Dating Game Killer Discovery ID’s first original movie
ITV-owned prodco ThinkFactory is making Dating Game Killer, the first original movie for the US…
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Ad revenues to grow despite uncertainty
The global advertising market will grow at decent rate in the next few years despite…
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Goldsmith leaving Henson
The Jim Henson Company’s head of distribution is exiting the business. Richard Goldsmith has been…
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Cineflix strikes deal with Monty Halls’ Seadog
Cineflix Rights has inked a first-look deal with Seadog Productions, the UK indie created by…
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Drive deals for Why Are We Here?
Drive, the UK funding and copro specialists that recently set up a distribution arm, have…
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Vivendi denies move to revisit Mediaset deal
Vivendi has denied an Italian press report that suggested the French media giant and its…
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Netflix criticised over patchy downloads
Netflix has been criticised by consumers for the patchy availability of its programming on its…
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ITV’s High Noon promotes five
US unscripted prodco High Noon has upped a raft of its execs. The ITV-owned prodco,…
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Raft of recommissions for Discovery’s Quest
Discovery has ordered new series for three of the signature fact-ent shows on its UK…
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UK will cover Brexit TV shortfall
The UK Treasury has pledged to underwrite any shortfall resulting from content companies receiving EU…
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Le Carré meets Bourne’ drama first for Fox
Fox Networks Group Europe and Africa has ordered The Nine, a ‘Le Carré meets Bourne’…
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Dutch TV veteran to run All3Media’s IDTV
Taco Rijssemus is leaving Dutch pubcaster KRO-NCRV to run IDTV, the Amsterdam-based All3Media owned prodco….