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Stewart Clarke
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Amazon orders raft of new kids pilots
Amazon has ordered a new season of kids pilots, with shows from prodcos including The…
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Zodiak joins Tower 10’s Tiger Team
The kids division of production and distribution giant Zodiak Media has struck a deal with…
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Fox restructures in Asia
Fox International Channels has upped three of its long-serving execs at its Asian operation, amid…
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Netflix taking SVOD, pay TV lead in Australia
Netflix has established itself as the most popular streaming service in Australia, generating more traffic…
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BBC finds Stephenson drama replacement
Polly Hill has been appointed controller of drama commissioning at the BBC, replacing the outgoing…
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Eccho’s Cherry Season blossoms in Asia
BCM: Turkish comedy drama Cherry Season has been picked up by several key buyers in…
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Canadian SVOD service adds Chromecast
Canadian SVOD service CraveTV has added Chromecast support, meaning its subs can now access the…
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Celestial Tiger pounces on Chinese kids opportunity
Celestial Tiger Entertainment announced its entry into a very crowded space last month when it…
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Kids SVOD service hops onto Apple
Preschool kids SVOD service Hopster has launched on Apple TV. The on-demand service, which started…
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Breakthrough makes reality hire
Breakthrough Entertainment has recruited Chantal Jackson as head of development, alternative content as the Canada-based…
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Sky snags exclusive Star Wars deal
Sky has acquired all six of the existing Stars Wars movies for its Sky Movies…
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BBC Follows the Money with Danish drama deal
Follow the Money (Bedraget) has become the latest foreign-language drama acquired by UK public broadcaster…
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Pair of intn’l commissions for Discovery
Discovery has greenlit two new programmes for its international nets, an engineering blunders series and…
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C5 job losses as Sky and Viacom renew deal
Sky and Viacom International Media Networks have renewed the deal that sees a raft of…
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Lifetime sets up digital platform for romantic drama
US cable net Lifetime is launching Fall Into Me, a new digital platform that will…
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Roots, Damien topline A+E slate
A reworking of classic ABC 1970s series Roots and an Omen TV spin-off are the…
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Huggers’ Vevo unveils new content line-up
Music-based online channel Vevo has unveiled a new programming line-up, which features several original series….
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E! orders second drama, Objective producing
US cable net E! has ordered The Arrangement, its second ever scripted series after The…
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Breton’s Federation poaches Uzan from M6
Pascal Breton’s fast-growing Federation Entertainment Group has hired Lionel Uzan as managing director. He will start in…
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BBC buys into UK indie
BBC Worldwide has bought a 25% stake in Curve Media, the UK indie set up…
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Buyer’s briefing: BBC Worldwide Channels
Julie Swanston is VP, commissioning for BBC Worldwide Channels. She will commission a minimum of…
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Amazon deal monitor: Prime’s time
Amazon’s initial slate of originals was mostly well received, but failed to set the TV…
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FX buys Doctor Who in Indian first
The FX channel in India has acquired Doctor Who, the popular and long-running British sci-fi…
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Fox’s Empire to hit Viaplay
Fox’s hit drama Empire will launch on MTG’s streaming service Viaplay later this year. The…
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BBC’s drama channel launching in Europe
BBC Worldwide is launching its drama channel BBC First in Europe for the first time,…
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Trapped marks Icelandic drama first for the BBC
UK public broadcaster the BBC has bought Trapped, the upcoming Icelandic drama from local filmmaker Baltasar…
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Sky shutting 3D TV channel
UK pay TV operator Sky is closing its 3D channel. The linear service will close…
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Game of Thrones premiere notches 18.1 million
The opening instalment of season five of Game of Thrones garnered a total of 18.1…
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OTT service XiveTV launches on Roku
Factual OTT service XiveTV has launched on the Roku streaming platform in the US. The…
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Blue chip to new chip: natural history with bite
Stewart Clarke speaks to commissioners, producers, distributors and digital pioneers about their efforts to reimagine…