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Stewart Clarke
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Endemol Shine makes Latino hire
Endemol Shine’s US arm has hired Latino programming veteran Flavio Morales. Morales (pictured) becomes executive…
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‘Supercharged’ Eurosport gets full makoever
Eurosport has undergone a wholesale rebrand, marking the biggest change to its look and feel…
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Vivendi deal for 26.2% of Banijay-Zodiak
Vivendi has signed an agreement to take a 26.2% stake in the new production and…
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Sky rejigs programming team
Sky has installed a new head of comedy and rejigged its senior programming team across…
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T-Mobile launching free TV streaming
Deutsche Telekom-owned telco T-Mobile is allowing some of its US customers to watch content from…
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US pay TV down almost 400,000 in Q3
US pay TV numbers continue to decline, with the smaller operators bearing the brunt of…
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Controversial TF1-Newen deal agreed
TF1’s deal for French production group Newen has been agreed. The agreement will see 70%…
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HBO Europe reunites Burning Bush team for drama
HBO Europe has greenlit Wasteland, its latest drama commission, which will come from the same…
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Fremantle poaches CFO from BBC Worldwide
FremantleMedia has hired Andrew Bott as its new CFO, with the new-recruit joining from BBC…
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Icflix preps Arabian superhero toon
Icflix has ordered Dunia, a new animated series for kids that will be an original…
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BBC under pressure over staff levels, cost-cuts
A UK culture ministry official has said that the BBC is not implementing cost savings…
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BET teams with ‘Afro American Netflix’ in France
Viacom’s African and African-American culture and entertainment channel BET will launch on SVOD in France…
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Vice, Rogers launching Viceland channel
Canadian cable giant Rogers and Vice are teaming to launch the Viceland linear TV channel…
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BBCWW pushes ahead with US OTT plans
BBC Worldwide is pushing ahead with its plans to launch an OTT service in the…
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Fox hires Bekker replacement for Africa
Fox International Channels has recruited Ratna Siriah (below left) as general manager of its operations…
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ZDF Enterprises gets new drama boss
ZDF Enterprises has recruited Robert Franke as vice president of its drama division. German pubcaster…
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Starz chief Albrecht predicts consolidation
Starz president and CEO Chris Albrecht has told TBI he expects consolidation in the content…
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Albrecht’s Starz system
Starz CEO Chris Albrecht gives Stewart Clarke his views on whether there is too much…
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Tranter prodco adapting His Dark Materials for BBC
Jane Tranter’s new prodco is making a new drama series for BBC One based on…
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Starz debuting new series online ahead of linear
US premium channel operator Starz will launch the debut episode of its upcoming drama series…
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Show of the week: Is That Really Your Voice?
Is That Really Your Voice? takes the singing talent show contest and gives it a…
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Gaumont hires sales veteran for London role
French studio Gaumont has hired former Cineflix Rights acquisitions chief Nikki Andrews as vice president,…
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Sony orders Gogglebox South Africa
Sony Pictures Television has commissioned a local version of hit entertainment format Gogglebox for its…
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Netflix tipped to snag Power Rangers
Netflix is reportedly taking exclusive rights to the new season of popular live-action kids series…
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Discovery, BT linked to moves for Channel 4
Discovery Communications and BT are weighing moves for Channel 4 if the government decides to…
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HBO Europe CEO exiting, restructure underway
HBO Europe CEO Linda Jensen will leave the company at the end of the year,…
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HBO Europe preps Golden Life, more local drama
HBO Europe will launch Golden Life, a family crime drama based on a DRG-distributed Finnish format,…
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Discovery taking Oprah’s Belief to the world
Discovery Communications will launch the Oprah Winfrey series Belief across its international footprint from the…
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TF1 appoints new CEO
France’s biggest commercial broadcast group, TF1, has revealed Gilles Pélisson will succeed Nonce Paolini as…
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FremantleMedia alum joins social media firm Blurrt
Former FremantleMedia executive Simon Spalding has taken a non-executive chairman role at Blurrt, the social…