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AMC eyes international Sundance originals
Indie content channel Sundance Global is looking at making original drama for the first time….
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FYI orders relationship series
FYI has ordered The Seven Year Switch, a reality series in which couples leave their…
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Zodiak launches kids YouTube channels
The kids division of Zodiak Media will launch two YouTube channels later this year. ZeeKay…
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HBO Europe adds UK drama veteran, starts Easy Living
HBO Europe has recruited the former drama boss at UK prodco TalkbackThames as it continues…
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Fox makes major OTT move in Asia
Fox International Channels is launching several of its key services over the top in Asia….
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MGM aims to become ‘powerhouse’ in unscripted
Buoyed by its recent deal with Mark Burnett that gave it The Apprentice and Survivor,…
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BBC Worldwide channels energies into Brit, Earth and First
With the creation of the BBC Brit, Earth and First brands, BBC Wordwide is aiming…
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Mick Desmond exits IPCN as CMC buys in
China-focused rights business IPCN has secured an injection of capital from Chinese state-backed private equity…
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Beyond targets UK content acquisitions
The new acquisitions boss at Beyond Distribution says the distributor wants more content from the…
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Fox hires one, promotes two in Asia
Fox International Channels has promoted two senior execs at its Asian unit and brought another…
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Sony ups Lim following Yan Jong Wong exit
Sony Pictures Television has elevated Virginia Lim to vice president, content and marketing at its…
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Celestial launching Chinese-language kids channel
Celestial Tiger is seeking to break the dominance of Turner, Viacom and Disney in the…
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Sony, Nippon team for new entertainment channel
Sony Pictures Television and Nippon TV are teaming to launch Gem, a new general entertainment…
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Netflix rebooting retro comedy Full House
Having relaunched Arrested Development, Netflix is moving ahead with another comedy reboot with a new…
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Talpa, Sat.1 embroiled in ‘Faketopia’ scandal
Newtopia, the German version of Talpa’s Utopia, is at the centre of a scandal after…
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Sky opens up movie store to non-subs
Pay TV operator Sky has opened its download-to-own movie service to all consumers in the…
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Canal+ and Disney strike French streaming deal
French pay TV operator Canal+ will launch a Maker Studios-branded streaming service later this year….
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Discovery moving into international drama
Discovery has ordered its first original scripted series for outside of the US and has…
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Blind Date comedy format set for Russia
Russian channel Rossiya 1 has ordered a local version of Israeli-originated comedy Ciega a Citas (Blind…
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Partners line up for new Agatha Christie drama
A raft of international broadcasters have prebought Partners in Crime, the new BBC Agatha Christie…
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NBC, TF1, RTL ink drama procedurals pact
The international production arm of NBCUniversal has inked a deal with French commercial broadcaster TF1…
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Sky preps more pan-Europe drama
Pay TV operator Sky is working on a raft of new projects that will run…
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FremantleMedia, SMG team for China formats
Producer and distributor FremantleMedia has joined forces with Shanghai Media Group’s BesTV and China Media…
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New Chinese home for Gogglebox
Gogglebox will be made for Chinese satellite TV after All3Media and Zhejiang Huace Film &…
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Content picks up biblical feature doc
Content Television has snagged rights to Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus, a feature doc that…
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Mediaset making mob drama with Federation
Italy’s Mediaset has teamed with Pascal Breton’s French prodco Federation for its first original drama…
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Viacom cuts pre-MIP format deals
Viacom has struck a series of format deals ahead of the trip to Cannes next…
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Foothill finds pre-MIP partners for Dino toon
US producer and distributor Foothill Entertainment has brought on copro partners for its new toon…
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Netflix buys Grateful Dead doc
Netflix has acquired The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, a feature…
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Finland’s YLE bringing World’s Strongest Victim to MIPDOC
The sales arm of Finnish pubcaster YLE is launching a slate of new docs at…