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Stewart Clarke
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Ex-Warner Bros TV boss Rosenblum resurfaces at Legendary
Bruce Rosenblum, until last month the boss of Warner Bros’ TV activities, has become president…
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NBC poaches ABC exec for international copro role
US broadcast net NBC has recruited Quinn Taylor as its new executive VP, movies, miniseries…
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FIC launching Fox Sports Channel in Italy
Fox International Channels has secured a slew of rights for a new Fox Sports channel…
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Ofcom ‘concerned’ about Channel 4’s falling viewership
UK communications regulator Ofcom has told Channel 4 that falling viewing share at its main…
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Starz orders drama series from rapper 50 Cent, will sell internationally
US premium cable net Starz has ordered Power, an original drama series that will be…
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Sierra/Engine selling brainy new ABC drama The Black Box
Distributor Sierra/Engine will sell The Black Box, the straight-to-series midseason drama just ordered by ABC,…
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Antena slams CEO blackmail charges
Romanian free-to-air broadcaster Antena has said the arrest of its CEO violated several of his…
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Globo notches sales of Dinosaurs & Robots
Brazilian media giant Globo has shopped its Dinosaurs & Robots telenovela to a raft of…
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Spain and Italy decline, but Germany fuels European pay TV growth
Pay TV subscribers in Spain and Italy declined last year, but overall numbers for Western…
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Oz’s Network Ten picks up Reign and raft of LA Screenings shows
Australian free-to-air broadcaster Network Ten has told TBI the shows it has selected from this…
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Settman out in MTG management shake-up
Free and pay TV group MTG has implemented several senior changes management changes that include…
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Disney cuts deal with Seven for Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. and other new series
Seven Network has picked up several of the new drama series launched by Disney Media…
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FremantleMedia hiring Cegielski, building US drama team
FremantleMedia is hiring Craig Cegielski as executive VP, scripted programming and development and building a…
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Cinema deal means Sky Atlantic misses out on Behind the Candelabra
HBO has secured a UK theatrical distributor for its upcoming Liberace movie Behind the Candelabra,…
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Amedia preps programming, distribution deals as HBO and OTT launch
Russia’s largest producer Amedia has launched a premium channel and an OTT service today and…
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Sony’s AXN lands Power’s Air Force One
UK-based distributor Power has sold its action show Air Force One is Down to AXN….
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BBC Worldwide streaming Glastonbury festival around the world
BBC Worldwide will stream the upcoming Glastonbury music festival on its international channels. The commercial…
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Amazon chooses first-ever original TV series
Amazon has selected the pilots that it will take to series with a John Goodman…
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Turner raids MTV for head of programming
Turner Broadcasting System has poached Chris Linn from MTV. Linn will be president and head…
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Netflix’s Arrested Development launch ‘beats’ House of Cards
Internet traffic data for Netflix users suggests that 10% of Netflix viewers that started watching…
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August gets distributor and new series order for Ella Bella
August Media has teamed with Cake for international distribution of preschool series Ella Bella Bingo,…
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Off the Fence inks US$20m doc deal
Off The Fence and newly-formed Malaysian funding and production group Ideate Media have inked a…
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International Studios: Drama Studies
For a week in May the attention of the TV world is focused on Hollywood…
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A+E poaches Universal Channels exec for new distribution role
A+E Networks UK has hired Katarzyna Jablonska as its director of distribution. Jablonska joins from…
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LA Screenings 2013: CBS Studios cuts two European volume deals
As the LA Screenings come to a close, CBS Studios International has inked two volume…
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PGS sells Robin Hood to raft of b’casters
PGS Entertainment has shopped its new Robin Hood animated series to a raft of broadcasters….
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Sena Argun, SinemaTV
Sena Argun is in LA this week buying for a SinemaTV’s bouquet of Turkish pay…
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Electric Sky commercial director exits
Karen Young has left her position as commercial director of UK-based producer and distributor Electric…
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Cineflix Rights makes first drama move
Cineflix Rights is moving into drama and has made it first acquisition, upcoming Australian crime…
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Spielberg making Halo series for Microsoft’s new Xbox One
Steven Spielberg will produce a new series based on the Halo games franchise for Xbox…