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Stewart Clarke
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Studiocanal, Red back new UK indie
France-based film and TV giant Studiocanal is backing Guilty Party, a new UK prodco start-up…
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Beyond poaches ABC exec for drama drive
Producer and distributor Beyond has recruited David Ogilvy to run a new Australia-based scripted division….
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Sesame veteran heads to WGBH
Sesame Workshop veteran Terry Fitzpatrick is joining US station WGBH as vice president, children’s education…
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C More inks Starz streaming and pay deal
Scandi pay TV platform C More has inked a programming deal with Starz and will…
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Broadcasters buy Back to the Future special
Several broadcasters including History in the US have acquired Back to the Present, the pop-science…
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Comedy Central apologises after Ofcom rap
The UK Comedy Central channel has issued an apology and changed its in-house guidelines after…
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DRG snags rights to Channel 5 shows
DRG has picked up a raft of titles from 5Production, the programme-making arm of Viacom’s…
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Ninja Warrior heads to the Middle East
Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System Television has inked a pan-Middle East deal for its Sasuke, the…
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MIPCOM deals roll in for Terra Mater
Vienna-based doc producer and distributor Terra Mater Factual Studio has announced a raft of deals…
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Commercial b’casters call for BBC charter changes
The trade body that represents the UK’s commercial broadcasters has called for governance of the…
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Viasat launches pair of new channels
The Modern Times Group is rolling out two new channels, Viasat Series and Viasat Films,…
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MIPCOM reports 2015 numbers
Reed Midem reported 13,700 delegates for MIPCOM as the annual programming market wraps up after…
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Major review of UK production sector confirmed
Ofcom has confirmed it will undertake a comprehensive review of the £3 billion UK production…
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Discovery launching free-to-air TLC in Turkey
Discovery is launching is female-skewing TLC channel in Turkey as a free-to-air service. The channel…
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Christopher Skala forms YouTube content company
Former Hit Entertainment and Guinness World of Records executive Christopher Skala has created a new…
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Power put up for sale after strategic review
Power is on the block, with the UK-based producer and distributor’s South African owners selling…
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ITV-backed Cirkus launches new SVOD service
ITV-backed Cirkus is launching Curio, a new SVOD service programmed with factual programming, TBI has…
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Cirkus opens new SVOD Curio
Cirkus is coming to town with a new attraction in the form of Curio, an…
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Endemol Shine to drive digital growth
Endemol Shine chief Sophie Turner Laing says that a quarter of the content giant’s revenue…
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ITV, Korea’s CJ E&M ink two-way format deal
UK broadcaster ITV and its South Korean counterpart CJ E&M have inked a format deal….
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ITV, Korea’s CJ E&M ink two-way format deal
UK broadcaster ITV and its South Korean counterpart CJ E&M have inked a format deal….
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Tandem lines up Ken Follett event series
Tandem Productions is lining up another series based on a Ken Follett novel, taking rights…
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TRX sets out to revolutionise distribution
When David Frank formed Dial Square 86 after leaving Zodiak Media in 2013, he set…
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China import/export deal for Keshet
Keshet International has inked a deal with one of China’s largest prodcos in a deal…
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Frank brothers’ TRX gets funding, distribs
A raft of distributors have signed up to the beta test of The Rights Xchange…
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US, UK, Germany lead in kids SVOD
The US and Germany are the leading kids SVOD territories in terms of the amount…
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Hopster SVOD goes French, adds execs
Kids SVOD service Hopster is launching a dedicated French language service. The company has also…
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Sony screens Art of More, cuts deals
Sony Pictures Television went ahead with a screening of The Art of More here in…
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Mediaset, Comarex ink distribution deal
Italian media giant Mediaset and Mexico-based distributor Comarex have widened the scope of a programme…
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Corus pushes distribution, inks US sales
The content sales arm of Canadian media giant Corus has shopped two shows into the…