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China’s CCTV orders three Israeli formats
CCTV has licensed a trio of projects from Israeli formats house Armoza. Chinese state broadcaster…
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BBC’s Musketeers swashbuckles into new territories
A raft of international broadcasters have acquired BBC drama swashbuckler Musketeers. The show launched this…
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Fox channels does content deal with ‘Middle East Netflix’
Fox International Channels has agreed a deal with icflix, the OTT operator that has been…
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News brief: Genius concocts Thomas Edison toon
Andy Heyward’s Genius Brands International has begun production on science-themed adventure toon series Thomas Edison’s…
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News brief: Sales are Cake Walk for Distribution 360
Canadian sales house Distribution360 has sold catalogue programming to broadcasters including Globosat, Foxtel and TVNZ….
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BBC names acting BBC Two, BBC Four controller
The BBC has named Adam Barker as acting controller, BBC Two and BBC Four. BBC…
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Nippon TV making Discop debut
The distribution arm of Japanese commercial broadcaster Nippon is attending Discop Istanbul for the first…
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Twitter flying in for MIPTV keynote
Twitter’s chief media scientist Deb Roy will give a keynote address at MIPTV in April….
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News brief: Zodiak recalls The Day They Dropped the Bomb
Zodiak Rights has acquired sales rights to Finestripe Productions’ upcoming doc The Day They Dropped…
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VH1 to bare all in Naked Dating
US cable channel VH1 has given the greenlight to Naked Dating (WT), a weekly dating…
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Warren Buffett buys into Liberty Global
US investor Warren Buffett’s investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway has acquired a stake in Liberty Global,…
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Shine cuts format deal with Talpa
Shine and Talpa will jointly produce formats including The Voice in Spain and Portugal after the…
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Endemol making mixed martial arts drama for DirecTV
Endemol’s North American division is making a new drama series set in the world of…
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FremantleMedia renews deal with Ash Atalla indie
The distribution arm of FremantleMedia International has extended its first-look deal with UK indie Roughcut…
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Vice, FremantleMedia cook up foodie web channel for hipsters
Vice and FremantleMedia have joined forces to make culinary content for a new hipster food…
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Fledgling prodco Riverdog hires development boss from ITV
Riverdog Productions, the recently-formed Greenbird-backed UK producer, has hired Katherine Bovey as its head of…
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Germany’s SET shops at Selfridges
German pay TV broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television has acquired both seasons of ITV Studios’ period…
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Informa: Netflix facing greater rights competition as rivals step up
Netflix will find it harder to secure premium content this year with increasing competition from…
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Cineflix notches worldwide sales
Cineflix has sold factual and fct-ent titles to a raft of international broadcasters. The independent…
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Paramount rolling out in Russia and Hungary
Viacom has struck new carriage deals for the Paramount Channel in Russia and Hungary. In…
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News brief: BBC Three’s Uncle visits again
UK youth channel BBC Three has commissioned a second season of Baby Cow-produced comedy Uncle….
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Orange is the New Black sets return date
Netflix has set a launch date for the second season of its well-received female prison…
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Nat Geo reality star dies from snakebite
Pastor Jamie Coots, who starred in National Geographic Channel reality series Snake Salvation, has died…
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News brief: ITV orders Cilla Black drama
UK broadcaster ITV has ordered a three-part scripted series looking at the early years of…
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News Corp gets huge rebate
Foxtel co-owner News Corp has received a massive tax rebate from Australian authorities amounting to…
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News brief: ABC Family cancels Pretty Little Liars spin-off
ABC Family has cancelled Ravenswood after one season. The series, which follows a group of…
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Second pilots round ‘up 100%’ for Amazon
Amazon Instant Video has revealed figures showing its second original pilots season has outscored the…
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Beyond constructs Manufactured doc deal
Beyond Distribution has taken international rights to Manufactured, a factual series that tells the story…
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FremantleMedia’s Ellender resurfaces with LA gig
Former FremantleMedia boss David Ellender is launching a television content business in LA. Backed by…
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News brief: Glee’s Kevin McHale gets UK panel show pilot
UK digital channel E4 is piloting Virtually Famous, a panel show that will be hosted…