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Stewart Clarke
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Nine cuts historic A$500m output deal with Warners
Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine has renewed its output deal with Hollywood Studio Warner Bros in…
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Random House sets up kids prodco
Bertelsmann-backed publisher Random House is setting up a UK-based kids production company that will exploit…
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Convergence is your friend…
… says Ari Iso-Rautio, vice president, TME Consulting Practice, Capgemini In the telecoms, media and…
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Sky poaches BBC programming exec to head up comedy
UK pay TV operator BSkyB has poached BBC executive Lucy Lumsden, who will become its…
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Orange France plans online TV site
Orange is understood to be planning to launch an online video-on-demand site where it will…
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Chuggington
The show: Chuggington The producers: Ludorum Distributors: Ludorum Concept: 52x10mins animated train series, second season…
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ITV sells 200hrs to Denmark’s DR
ITV Global Entertainment has sold a 200hr package of programming to Danish public broadcaster DR….
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Televisa says it can stream its shows in the US
Executives from Televisa have told a US court that a programming deal with Univision allows…
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Mio launches US series package
Mio TV, the IPTV service operated by Singaporean telco SingTel, has launched an on-demand package…
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Canadian kids TV production at a ten-year low
Canadian kids TV production slumped to a ten-year low in the latest measurement period and…
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Payne to head distribution at Endemol
Endemol has appointed Cathy Payne head of its distribution business. Payne is currently running Southern…
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France’s 5 Frenchies format travels worldwide
French format 5 Frenchies has been sold into six countries including the US, where RDF…
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Lachkar confirmed as Shine France launches
As first reported by TBIvision in April, Shine Group has recruited Thierry Lachkar as CEO…
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Online kids content – the numbers don’t add up
It could be said that ‘online’ doesn’t quite fit the ‘new’ media tag any longer,…
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Chase Carey back at News Corp
News Corp has confirmed that Chase Carey is rejoining the media giant in July, when…
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Off the Fence shops 300hrs around the world
Off the Fence has announced over 300 hours of program sales including a 50hr package…
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Global has NCIS spin-off and Glee for fall primetime
Global has unveiled a fall line-up full of the latest US series. The Canadian free-to-air…
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Worldwide launches Earth channel on YouTube
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British public broadcaster, is set to launch a…
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B’casters buy US I’m a Celebrity ahead of NBC debut
Kiwi and UK broadcasters have picked up the US version of I’m a Celebrity… Get…
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French producers out in force
Producers from France are putting in a strong showing at the upcoming Cartoon Forum pitching…
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BBC Worldwide cuts US Xbox deal
BBC Worldwide has cut a content deal with Microsoft in the US and will make…
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Italy’s Mondo preps channel launch
Italy’s largest kids producer Mondo plans to use its massive library to launch its own…
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Granada America rebranded, Australia and Germany next
ITV has rebranded Granada America and its US production division will adopt the ‘ITV Studios’…
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FremantleMedia’s FMX rejigs to focus on production
FMX has restructured as its focus shifts from developing digital projects to producing them as…
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BKN starts work on $13m Joshua Blake kids series
BKN International has started production on a new US$13 million toon, Joshua Blake: The Agency….
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Buyer Profile
Sarah Wright, head of acquisitions, Sky1 (UK) How useful/important are the Screenings to you? Obviously,…
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Buyer Profile
Jason Simms, director of global acquisitions, Fox International Channels How are this year’s screenings different?…
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BBCWW’s Forde heads to US to drive copro and sales activity
BBC Worldwide is ramping up efforts to drive sales and coproduction activity in the US…
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Nickelodeon launching Nick Jr. in Italy
Nickelodeon plans to launch its preschool channel Nick Jr. in Italy later this year. The…
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Endemol and Bebo tune in to Beat
Producer and distributor Endemol has teamed with UK social network Bebo to launch an online…