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Fox preps global Outcast launch
Fox Networks Group is preparing a 125-country launch for Outcast, the upcoming drama from The…
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Alibaba’s Youku Tudou deal approved
Youku Tudou shareholders have approved a deal that will see it acquired by Chinese e-commerce…
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Zenith Entertainment library sold
The programming library of Zenith Entertainment has been sold to Simply Media, the IP and…
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Fox makes Chinese content commitment
Fox’s international production and Asian divisions are teaming to produce Chinese-language content in a major…
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Show of the week: You Me Her
You Me Her is billed as TV’s first ‘polyromantic comedy’. It follows a suburban husband,…
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Acorn grows line-up with And Then There Were None
Acorn has added Agatha Christie adaptation And Then There Were None to its electronic-sell-through line-up….
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Reality veteran Deaux teams with eOne
Entertainment One has inked a first look deal with reality TV veteran Chris Deaux and…
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RTL: ‘owning content is key to growth’
RTL has reported a full-year uptick in profit and revenue as the company’s German operation…
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Fremantle nets Serena Williams film
FremantleMedia has snagged international rights to Serena, a feature doc about world-beating tennis champion Serena…
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Big Brother exec leaving Endemol Shine’s Initial
Long-serving Initial executive Nick Samwell-Smith is leaving the Big Brother prodco after almost twenty years….
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DHX tries out the studio system
With a new producer in the fold and a production workforce numbering 900, DHX Media…
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MIP unveils 12 shows for MIPDrama
The organisers of MIPTV have unveiled the dozen dramas that will be screened at its…
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NBCU’s Working Title gets new UK boss
NBCUniversal-backed drama prodco Working Title Television UK has hired former Kudos prodcuer Andrew Woodhead as…
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Canal+ ups execs, reining in costs
Vivendi-owned Canal+ has reorganised its executive ranks in an effort, it said, to keep better…
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Sonar taking The Fifth Beatle to TV
US producer and distributor Sonar Entertainment has optioned Vivek J. Tiwary’s The Fifth Beatle: The…
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TLC gets Undressed with Zodiak Rights format
TLC has ordered local versions of social experiment format Undressed. The female-skewing Discovery-owned cable net…
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Sony launches UK True Crime channel
Sony Pictures Television is due to launch a new UK channel dedicated to “back-to-back crime…
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Former Ovation exec Slava joins DLT
Kris Slava has been appointed senior sales consultant at DLT Entertainment and will help the…
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Chinese streamer launches Celestial horror channel
Asian streaming service LeEco has launched an OTT feed of Thrill, the horror channel operated…
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Disney XD orders two, renews two
Disney has ordered two new shows, Billy Dilley’s Super-Duper Subterranean Summer, and Country Club. Both…
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Netflix plays House of Cards in France, NZ
Netflix is to reportedly air the fourth season of its flagship drama House of Cards in…
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PCCW’s Netflix rival hits new markets
The Viu OTT service has launched in India and Malaysia. The streaming service is run…
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Two true-crime dramas for BBC
The BBC has ordered Murdered by My Father, and a new season of Murder for…
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Will VR rock in 2016?
Virtual reality is the talk of the town, with new hardware and a proliferation of…
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All3Media poaches ITV Studios exec
The international division of All3Media has hired ITV Studios’ Veronica Pottinen, who will take a…
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Splash dances into the world of ballet
Kids producer and distributor Splash Entertainment will make a new show based on the New…
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Restructured Ten Alps becoming Zinc
UK-based TV production group Ten Alps is rebranding as Zinc Media. The individual prodcos in…
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Steinheim to build Snowman, Blanck exits
Peter Blanck is leaving Snowman Norway, with Jørgen Steinheim filling his shoes as managing director…
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New roles for Hansen, Spodsberg at Banijay Zodiak
Peter Hansen and Karoline Spodsberg have landed new roles at Banijay Zodiak Nordic, the new…
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Cesar Diaz’s 7A to distribute VIP 2000’s drama
7A Media, the distributor set up by Cisneros veteran Cesar Diaz, has inked a deal…