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Stewart Clarke
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Fox burying Bones
Fox has ordered a new season of Bones, which the network said will be the…
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Under the bonnet of the new Top Gear
Top Gear is the biggest factual TV show in the world, and one of the…
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Sky Deutschland appoints content supremo
Sky’s German unit has upped Elke Walthelm to executive VP, content, filling a role vacated…
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Jan Frouman to join ProSieben board
Red Arrow Entertainment boss Jan Frouman will join the board of the production and distribution…
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New prodco teams with Bond producers, Red Arrow
Producers Patrick Milling-Smith and Brian Carmody have formed a new prodco, Cove Pictures, with backing…
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News brief: US SVOD deal for Detectorists
Acorn TV has acquired the second season of UK comedy series Detectorists for its US…
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New TF1 boss reorganises, sets out vision
France’s leading free-TV broadcaster TF1 has reorganised and given former Canal+ exec Ara Aprikian the…
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BBC Worldwide, Spiegel strike partnership
BBC Worldwide and Spiegel have inked a deal that will see the commercial arm of…
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Warner Bros. buys DramaFever SVOD service
Warner Bros. has acquired DramaFever, the US-based SVOD service that specialises in South Korean TV…
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PBS preps new kids services
PBS is launching a range of new kids offerings including a round-the-clock kids channel and…
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Boat Rocker lands Xploration science shows
Newly-established Boat Rocker Rights has picked up rights to programmes in the Xploration Station science…
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Showcase: LeBlanc ‘gives Top Gear global boost’
New Top Gear frontman Chris Evans has told TBI that bringing Friends star Matt LeBlanc…
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Showcase: huge Asian VOD deal for BBCWW
BBC Worldwide has inked a 600-hour deal with SK Broadband’s video-on-demand service. The commercial arm…
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Mutimer to run sales at Banijay-Zodiak
Zodiak Rights boss Tim Mutimer has landed the top distribution job at the soon-to-merge Banijay-Zodiak…
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Nat Geo preps global Malala launch
National Geographic Channel is prepping a global launch for feature doc He Named Me Malala….
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Discovery ‘will hit 1m, $100m OTT target’ by 2017
Discovery Communications says it will hit its one-million direct-to-consumer OTT subs by 2017, bringing it…
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Jack Black, Sarah Silverman in History comedy first
US cable channel History is moving into comedy with a new late-night block and three…
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Nine stocks up on international series
Australian free-to-air net Nine has ordered a local version of Travel Guides, the travel series…
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BBC Worldwide strikes digital Mango deal
BBC Worldwide has inked a programming deal with China’s Mango TV, building on a strategy…
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Paul Lee leaving ABC, Dungey steps up
Paul Lee is leaving his role running ABC, with Channing Dungey replacing him at the…
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UKTV makes another free-to-air move
UKTV is moving its Home channel from pay to free TV. Home will replace Dave Ja…
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Endemol Shine hires Lat Am sales director
Endemol Shine has recruited Luciana Nogueira as sales director, Latin America. In the newly-created role,…
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BBC Worldwide creates Nordic base
BBC Worldwide is setting up a Nordic-specific production operation based in Denmark and has brought…
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AwesomenessTV launching in the UK
DreamWorks-backed YouTube channel AwesomenessTV is available in the UK from today. The channel targets a…
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Red Arrow’s Ripple poaches YouTube’s Bailey
Red Arrow’s Ripple Entertainment has hired Bailey Rosser from YouTube as it continues to staff…
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RTL’s De Posch confirmed for MIPTV
RTL boss Guillaume de Posch will give a keynote address at MIPTV about how the…
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VH1 takes hip-hop film to series
VH1 is making The Breaks, a hip-hop series that will follow on from its original…
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SVOD rewrites the drama script
In three years Netflix and its SVOD counterparts have turned the TV drama world on…
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CBS, Showtime get a big Yes in Israel
Israeli pay TV platform Yes has inked a new volume deal with CBS that gives…
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Bazalgette named ITV chairman
TV industry veteran Sir Peter Bazalgette will become non-executive chairman of ITV from early May,…