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Stewart Clarke
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Former Arc exec joins Atomic Cartoons
Canadian studio Atomic Cartoons has hired Matthew Berkowitz as head of development. The new recruit…
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Propagate’s indie power play
Having been agents and then together at Reveille, Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens went…
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NATPE adding music industry track to Miami
NATPE will have a new dedicated music industry track at its Miami event in January….
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Amazon int’l content chief to be based in London
Amazon’s Morgan Wandell is expected to move to the UK in his new role as…
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Propagate taking international formats to the US
Propagate is taking a telenovela from Argentina and a Turkish dating format into the US,…
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Kids company Sutikki setting up UK base
Sutikki, the new kids content company backed by Bob’s Burgers prodco Bento Box, is preparing to…
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Apple’s new TV app doesn’t have Netflix, Amazon
Apple has launched a new TV app, which allows users to access to a raft…
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Ex-Sonar exec Zuccarelli returns to GRB
Marielle Zuccarelli has left Sonar Entertainment and rejoined GRB Entertainment. She will be COO at…
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BBC parodies Making a Murderer with spoof
The BBC has commissioned Sexy Murder, a six-part comedy that spoofs true crime hits such…
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TRX preps 2017 roll out with 1,000 buyers
TRX will launch globally next year and have 20,000 hours of content and over 1,000…
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Channel 4 lands Michael Moore’s Trump doc
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has acquired Michael Moore in Trumpland, the new feature doc from…
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Nat Geo adds digital and marketing chiefs
The reorganisation of National Geographic is continuing with two new additions joining the TV and publishing…
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Nordic pay TV chiefs out in Canal Digital restructure
Several country chief executives are leaving Nordic pay TV giant Canal Digital in regional restructure….
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Getting The Rights Exchange right
TRX is preparing a global 2017 launch with broadcaster backing, David Frank tells Stewart Clarke…
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New free TV deal for Talpa’s latest format
Talpa’s The Story of My Life has won an order from Russian free-to-air broadcaster Channel…
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ITV cutting jobs amid concern over Brexit
ITV is cutting about 120 staff in a cost-cutting drive, amid Brexit-driven uncertainty, with the…
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Nat Geo’s DiCaprio doc free on-demand and mobile
National Geographic will release Leonardo DiCaprio-produced eco-doc Before the Flood for free on numerous on-demand…
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A+E poaches finance chief from Scripps
A+E Networks UK, which runs the channel operator’s European operations, has recruited Mark Neil as…
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Job losses as Sony restructures UK-based sales
Two of Sony’s London team have been made redundant, with another likely to also go as…
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Trump opposes AT&T/Time Warner and Comcast/NBCU
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has come out against the AT&T and Time Warner deal…
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Newbie distributor Limonero snags Seeso series
Newly-created distributor Limonero Films has come back from its first MIPCOM with a deal for…
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Coppermann takes control as Endemol Shine merges France
Endemol Shine is merging its French businesses with Nicolas Coppermann from the Endemol side of…
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MIPCOM 2016 in numbers
The organisers of MIPCOM have reported 14,000 attendees for this year’s event. Of that total,…
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9 Story builds European distribution effort
Canada-based 9 Story is upping its distribution efforts, opening a new operation, 9 Story Distribution…
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Donald Trump could launch news channel
US presidential candidate Donald Trump could launch a cable or OTT news net, according to…
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Viacom renews Virgin deal
UK pay TV platform Virgin Media has renewed its deal with Viacom, securing carriage for…
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New kids OTT service rolls out
Digital Media Rights has launched Cocoro, a new kids OTT service. The on-demand service has…
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Fox strikes OSN output deal
Fox has renewed its output deal with OSN. The deal gives the Middle Eastern pay…
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Sony and Pinewood strike TV drama deal
Sony Pictures Television and Pinewood Television have inked a six-series deal that will see the…
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Netflix surges as revenues top $2bn
Netflix has reported better than expected results, with quarterly revenues topping US$2 billion for the…