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Neillis exits Sky Vision after short stint
Angela Neillis has exited Sky Vision less than three months after joining the UK distributor…
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Ben Stiller attached to IFC sketch comedy
Ben Stiller is behind a new 10-part comedy for US cable channel IFC. The Hollywood…
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Syfy orders new Ron Moore series
Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore’s latest series will broadcast on US cablenet Syfy. Thirteen-part…
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Star comes out for Disney Channel
US kids’ net Disney Channel has gone in-house for animated comedy adventure series about a…
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Content Partners tracks down CSI stake
Entertainment financier Content Partners has acquired 50% of the CSI franchise from Goldman Sachs. The…
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ITVS peers over the Edge at MIPTV
ITV Studios Global Entertainment will launch new BBC Scotland wildlife series Islands on the Edge…
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BBC buys into Nordic cooking trend
BBC Worldwide has acquired a local cooking series for several of its international channels. Tareq…
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Esquire Network gears up for Party Down
Esquire Network, the new identity of NBCUniversal cablenet G4, has licensed US broadcasting rights to…
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Amazon greenlights pilot for original kids series
Amazon Studios has greenlit a pilot of Sara Solves It, an animated kids series about…
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US consumers warming to connected and 3D TV
Consumers in the US are registering a sharp increase in 3D TVs and, to a…
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Antena 3 rebrands post LaSexta merger
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 Group has rebranded as Atresmedia, as part of a strategy to…
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BBC Trust starts review of kids’ TV services
The BBC Trust, the UK public broadcaster’s governing body, has announced a review of its…
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Random House’s TV unit taking Monkey Nuts to the small screen
Random House Children’s Screen Entertainment has optioned TV rights to the Monkey Nuts comic series….
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Rive Gauche secures crime sales
Broadcasters in Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific have acquired more than 300 hours of crime series…
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Morris readies Cue Card Media
Mike Morris, the former MD of UK net Channel 4’s commercial arm 4Rights, has launched…
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Peppa Pig heads to Russia
Entertainment One has shopped its hit preschool series Peppa Pig into Russia for the first…
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Hindle to head new FremantleMedia digital arm
FremantleMedia has appointed its stateside-based exec Keith Hindle to lead its newly created Digital and…
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M6 buys Your Face Sounds Familiar
Broadcaster M6 is taking Endemol format Your Face Sounds Familiar into France. A primetime version…
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Eric Cantona making football rebels doc for Al Jazeera
Ex-France and Manchester United football star Eric Cantona is making Football Rebels, a documentary series…
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Emilia Nuccio replaces Dan March at Echo Bridge
Dan March has left Echo Bridge after a decade and the distributor has appointed Emilia…
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NBC Universal poaches BBC Worldwide deputy CEO
The international production arm of Hollywood studio NBCUniversal has hired Sarah Cooper as COO. She…
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Power sells event drama package to RTL
UK sales house Power has shopped a package of its event dramas to Croatian free-to-air…
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Shine America hires Belzberg for production role
Shine America has hired Leslie Belzberg as senior VP, scripted production and the veteran producer…
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News brief: TalkTalk chairman to be interim YouView chair
UK connected-TV platform YouView has appointed Sir Charles Dunstone as interim chairman while a permanent…
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News brief: Karyn Edwards setting up Canadian indie
Karyn Edwards is leaving Canadian indie producer Brightlight Pictures (A.M.P.E.D., The Guard) to set up her…
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Wizards Vs. Aliens sells to Oz and NZ
Wizards Vs. Aliens, the kids and family show from the Doctor Who writing team, has…
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Russian broadcaster buys new Turtles series
Russian general entertainment channel TNT has picked up the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series….
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CBeebies buys Tilly and Friends for international nets
The BBC has acquired animated series Tilly and Friends for its international CBeebies channels. The…
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Preschool series Mister Maker gets international spin
CBeebies has ordered Mister Maker Around The World, a spin-off from preschool arts and crafts…
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UKTV history channel buys Sky Vision, Electric Sky docs
UKTV factual channel Yesterday has acquired two docs for a strand about macabre and fascinating…