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News brief: Disney Asia buys WWI pigeons toon

Disney has acquired animated feature Cher Ami for several of its channels in Asia. Disney…

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Buyers circled CableReady before closure

DRG and Content Media Corp. were among those that came close to acquiring the assets…

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Channel 5 buys another Aussie drama

UK broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired Australian drama Secrets & Lies from distributor Cineflix Rights….

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News brief: ITV confirms Rising Star deal

UK broadcaster ITV has confirmed its commission of Israeli interactive talent format Rising Star. As…

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Nick App debuts in UK

A Nickelodeon app that’s been downloaded five million times in the US has gone live…

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News brief: Paisner re-elected before International Emmys

Bruce Paisner has been re-elected president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts…

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News brief: BBC Four to deliver Christmas Lectures

UK digital channel BBC Four has re-commissioned indie Windfall Films to produce this December’s Royal…

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News brief: Asian nets acquire Jim Henson shows

Asian channels including Hong Kong’s TVB have acquired content from The Jim Henson Company. Among…

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Transmedia by numbers

Children’s love of great TV content shows no signs of abating but young audiences are…

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News brief: Lifetime’s Witches to fly again

US cable channel Lifetime has ordered a second season of its female-skewed Witches of East…

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News brief: Echo Bridge picks up Burt Reynolds film

US-based distributor Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired a pair of films – one of which…

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News brief: Nick back for more Instant Mom

Nickelodeon has gone for a second season of family comedy Instant Mom. Additionally, Nick’s president,…

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Kids TV seriously

Today’s kids have an endless array of entertainment choices. From Disney, Nickelodeon and Turner Broadcasting…

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Hungary’s TV2 shoots for Keshet’s Rising Star

The number of channels picking up Keshet International’s new talent format Rising Star has grown…

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LoveFilm launches on Xbox One

TV and movie streaming service LoveFilm can now be accessed on the newly-launched Xbox One….

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HBO GO launches on Google’s Chromecast

HBO’s catch-up service GO has launched on Chromecast, the internet giant’s digital media player. The…

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FremantleMedia seals new X Factor deals

The X Factor has been renewed by several key free-to-air broadcasters and the show’s distributor,…

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Comet of the Century impacts Nat Geo schedule

National Geographic has ordered Comet of the Century, a one-off doc about the Ison comet,…

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Fox Japan preps ten-day continuous NCIS marathon

The Fox channel in Japan will run an uninterrupted ten-day marathon of CBS procedural NCIS….

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Discovery preps Mexican-US sex trade doc

Discovery has greenlit two original Spanish-language doc for its US Hispanic net Discovery en Español….

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News brief: Amazon adds new movies to streaming service

Amazon has agreed a content deal with A24. It will add movies from the studio…

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Discovery buys Proper content

Discovery channels in EMEA and Asia have acquired content from Canadian distributor Proper Rights. Discovery…

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News brief: Hulu adds Thomas, Sesame Street, Bob

US streaming service Hulu has added hundreds of episodes of children’s TV programming. As of…

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Wildseed announces first projects

Wildseed, the new content business formed by ex-Aardman and BBC execs Miles Bullough and Jesse…

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Turner appoints UK kids TV boss

Turner Broadcasting System has handed the director of UK kids channels role to Sean Gorman….

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News brief: RAI appoints drama boss

Italian public broadcaster RAI has upped Luca Milano to deputy director, RAI Fiction. Milano was…

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Zodiak hires new entertainment VP

Zodiak Rights has recruited Andrew Sime as its new VP, entertainment. Sime joins from Turkey-based…

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News brief: FX orders Guillermo del Toro drama series

FX has ordered Strain, a thirteen-part original series based upon the vampire book series by…

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Discovery orders Filipino Typhoon Haiyan doc

Discovery Networks International has ordered Megastorm: World’s Biggest Typhoon, a one-off documentary about weather phenomenon,…

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News brief: Scripps buys Peace Point lifestyle shows

Scripps Networks International has acquired a trio of lifestyle shows from Canada’s Peace Point Rights….