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News brief: Peace Point shifts 120 hours
Canadian distributor Peace Point Rights has sold more than 120 hours of factual and lifestyle…
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Netflix extends UK deal with Fox
Netflix in the UK and Ireland has acquired Homeland and American Horror Story from Fox,…
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Horror Channel buys classic Doctor Who
The UK Horror Channel has acquired several seasons of classic Doctor Who series. The digital…
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News brief: Arrow making Mayday doc for C4
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered a one-off doc about a passenger who successfully took…
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Discovery promotes DNI COO Honeycutt
Discovery Communications has promoted Discovery Networks International executive VP and COO John Honeycutt to chief…
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News brief: Turner takes Mr Bean toon
Turner Broadcasting System has acquired season two of the Mr Bean Animated Series from Endemol…
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News brief: JimJam goes wild with Big Media series
Multi-regional children’s channel JimJam has acquired My Animal Friends, a 26x13mins from US-headquartered producer-distributor Big…
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Viewpoint, Gary Lico: Guess what? Everyone was right
Sorry for the old school rant here, but everything industry pundits said would happen a…
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Scripps signs up Channel 4 shows
Scripps Networks International has acquired a package of British-themed programmes to its global Food Network…
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News brief: Little Airplane, SeaWorld prep eco preschooler
US producer Little Airplane Productions and entertainment company SeaWorld Kids are working on a 52x11mins…
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News brief: KiKa buys Irish toon
German children’s channel KiKa has acquired Irish animated preschool series Joe & Jack from Canada’s…
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UK is top European formats market
The UK is the most lucrative formats market in Europe and TF1 the leading broadcaster…
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Endemol poaches RTVE online boss
Production and distribution giant Endemol has named an RTVE exec at the top of its…
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Zodiak hires France CEO
Zodiak Media has hired Gaspard de Chavagnac as CEO of its French operation putting him…
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News brief: Channel 4 to meet Taxman
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned indie Tiger Aspect Productions to create a 3x60mins ob…
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Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘offers $200m for cable channel’
Hip-hop impresario Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has reportedly offered around US$200 million to buy US cable…
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News brief: Foxtel goes big on Comedy Central shows
Australian pay TV operator Foxtel has picked up a package of shows from Comedy Central….
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Ukrainian channels forced off cable in Crimea
Crimean cable operators have switched off Ukrainian channels following armed intervention by pro-Russian separatist forces…
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News brief: Broadcasters buy ZDF’s Carthage special
Wales’ S4C, SBS in Australia and New Jersey public station WNET have all prebought Carthage’s…
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Age of Stupid team making police spies drama
The team behind environmental drama doc Age of Stupid are raising finance for Undercovers, a…
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Cartoon Network goes Over the Garden Wall
Cartoon Network has unveiled it latest programming, which includes its first ever animated event miniseries,…
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First Endemol format for Reshet post investment
A multiplatform crowd funding show is the first fruit of production giant Endemol’s multi-million dollar…
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News brief: Cisneros makes Dangerous Confessions at MIPTV
Venezuela’s Cisneros Media Distribution is taking a trio of new novelas to Cannes for MIPTV….
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BBC lobbying for licence fee hike
The BBC will push for an inflation-based increase in its annual licence fee, according to…
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News brief: Russian pay giant feels the Power of crime
Russian pay TV provider Tricolor TV has acquired a 50-hour-plus package of crime programming from…
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Live TV dominates kids TV viewing
New research suggests that almost 90% of UK kids TV viewing is of live programming….
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Fox’s Finney handed SVOD promotion
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution’s Kristen Finney has been promoted to senior VP, worldwide pay…
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Channel 4 ups factual chief to Jay Hunt deputy
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has promoted head of factual Ralph Lee to deputy chief creative…
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Cartoon Network president Snyder exiting
Cartoon Network president Stu Snyder is exiting the Turner Broadcasting System-owned kids channel after six…
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Vimeo investing $10m in indie VOD service
US-based Vimeo is to pump US$10 million in new funding into its on-demand service to…