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Stewart Clarke
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MTV sells South Park to TV2 and cuts CEE deals
MTV has shopped its South Park animated series to TV2 in Norway and has concluded…
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Media decline could run deeper than downturn
Irrespective of the current economic downturn, the underlying trend is for households to spend less…
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ABC Oz gets green light for new kids channel
Australian public broadcaster the ABC will get funding to launch a digital kids channel, ABC3,…
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Starz ramping up digital efforts
Starz Media, the Liberty Global-owned producer and distributor, is set to expand its digital production…
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Disney’s new kids on the block
Industry blogger Nikki Finke recently wrote that Miley Cyrus now has the power to do…
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MySpace and FremantleMedia launching Freak web series
MySpace UK and FremantleMedia are launching an online web series, Freak. The News Corp-owned social…
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Management shake-up at ZDF
There has been a shake-up at German public broadcaster ZDF. Reinold Elshot is moving from…
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Cresswell, Fincham linked to ITV CEO post
Internal candidates for the ITV CEO role include current COO John Cresswell and current director…
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Disney’s Mama Don’t Dance waltzes into Italy
Disney has licensed a local version of its Your Mama Don’t Dance format to Sky…
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Lifetime readies laughs alongside TV movie staples
Lifetime has unveiled a 2009-10 program slate heavy on TV movies, drama and with an…
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AETN sells 9/11 special to France, Germany, UK
Channel 4 in the UK, France 5 and ZDF in Germany have all picked up…
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Sky takes House from Five
UK pay TV operator BSkyB has acquired NBC Universal-distributed drama series House, wresting it away…
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RHI still wants to make a Power move
TV movie and miniseries producer and distributor RHI Entertainment is still locked in talks to…
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DQ, Sony, RAI start work on $23m Little Prince
A host of companies are teaming to coproduce an €18 million (US$23 million) animated version…
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New shows head for Home on new UK pay TV channel
UKTV has acquired a raft of new titles for its soon-to-launch lifestyle channel Home. The…
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MTV makes Impact with live events division
MTV International has launched MTV Impact, an events division that will design and run a…
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Rose d’Or shifting to not-for-profit model
The organisers of the Rose d’Or TV festival are shifting it from a commercial enterprise…
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TV advertising worse than expected, but increasing share
The latest TV advertising revenue share forecasts show that 2009 has got off to a…
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Lesson from the past can help weather the storm
Ex-Discovery boss Dawn L. McCall looks at what can be gleaned from previous downturns… There’s…
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Bold and Beautiful and on YouTube
The Bold and the Beautiful is getting its own channel on video-sharing site YouTube, which…
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CTC exec sells Lean-M stake to Sony
CTC Media senior executive Vyacheslav Murugov has sold his stake in Russian indie producer Lean-M…
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Kandola exits ITV
ITV’s director of acquisitions Jay Kandola is leaving the UK commercial broadcaster. ITV has made…
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Fennessy brothers swap FremantleMedia for Shine’s Oz start-up
Mark and Carl Fennessy are leaving FremantleMedia Australia to head a new Australian division of…
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The death of the digital agency
James Kirkham, director, Holler on the future of digital advertising … Just as everyone in…
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ITV gets Cold Feet in Poland, Czech Republic
ITV Global Entertainment has cut deal for Cold Feet and sold its scripted series into…
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Weinsteins will pay NBC for Runway switch
Producer/distributor The Weinstein Company has agreed to compensate NBC for switching reality series Project Runway…
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Former AOL boss Miller confirmed as News Corp’s digital boss
Jon Miller, former CEO of AOL, is to become CEO, Digital Media at News Corp…
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Juicy Orange deal for Lionsgate, Fox
Independent Hollywood TV and film producer and distributor Lionsgate has shopped a trio of its…
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twofour54 to create distribution arm
Abu Dhabi-based media hub twofour54 will create a dedicated content sales arm later this year….
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HBO and Oprah making US civil rights miniseries
A TV miniseries based on author Taylor Branch’s America in the King Years trilogy will…