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BBC preps David Bowie film
UK pubcaster the BBC will show a new original feature doc on David Bowie in…
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ProSieben issuing shares to fund digital expansion
German broadcasting and media giant ProSiebenSat.1 plans to issue new shares to raise about €515…
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Digital business ‘transforming’ ProSiebenSat.1
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is generated almost half of its revenues for the first nine months…
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Attraction buys Canadian prodco CMJ
Quebec-based production and distribution group Attraction has acquired Fatal Vows prodco CMJ Productions. Montreal-based CMJ…
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Fox not keen on D2C, but Hulu-type services ‘key’
Direct-to-consumer services may not be a necessary part of the distribution mix for 21st Century…
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Talpa registers another Story of My Life deal
Talpa has secured another deal for a local version of The Story of My Life,…
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Purdy exiting BBC Kids in Canada
Lisa Purdy is to leave her director post at Canadian children’s channels BBC Kids and…
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C4 and industry players back new UK indie
A raft of TV industry players and a Channel 4 fund have all backed Red…
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Sky 1 launches in Germany
Sky has launched its flagship entertainment channel Sky 1 in Germany. The UK-based pay TV…
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Hulu adds Disney, Fox to channels
Disney and Fox have come on board Hulu’s new channels streaming service. The deals mean…
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A+E poaches Viacom programming exec
A+E Networks has brought over veteran programming executive Katie Buchanan from Viacom’s US cable channel…
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TBI Video Interview: Daniel March, Dynamic Television
Daniel March, managing partner, Dynamic Television, talks to TBI at MIPCOM about Nelson Mandela drama…
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Writer’s block – keeping control of adaptations
Louise Berg from the entertainment and media industry group at global law firm Reed Smith…
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How popular is your content… really?
Wared Seger, CEO and co-founder, Parrot Analytics Before the advent of writing, it was storytelling…
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Discovery teams with Major League Baseball’s BAMTech
Discovery has teamed up with Major League Baseball-backed media and technology unit BAMTech to create…
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Jimmy Fallon moved, Seth Myers comes to UK
Late night US talkshow The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is moving to E! in…
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Stan Lee content powers AR/VR kids app
The “world’s first kid-centric app powered by augmented reality and virtual reality” has launched with…
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Prentiss Fraser upped at Fox
Fox has upped Prentiss Fraser to EVP at Fox Networks Group, rounding off a distribution…
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WWE Network reports 24% increase in subs
Subscribers to over-the-top wrestling service WWE Network increased 24% year-on-year to 1.46 million in the…
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X Factor struggles down under, Dancing cancelled
Two of the biggest entertainment formats in the world, Dancing with the Stars and the…
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The Office prodco launches comedy film firm
UK comedy indie Roughcut is backing Who’s On First, a new UK-based film production company…
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Talpa sells celebrity ageing format to BTV
Formats company Talpa has shopped its new format, Story of My Life, to Bulgarian free…
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Married at First Sight heads to France
French free-to-air broadcaster M6 has ordered a local version of edgy marriage format Married at…
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Show of the week: The Paper
Parallels between HBO’s masterpiece The Wire and Croatian drama The Paper were first made in…
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All3Media, Red Arrow prodcos land Bravo commissions
Red Arrow-backed Left/Right and All3Media’s Lime Productions have both scored commissions from US cable net…
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A&E orders scientology series from Holzman’s prodco
A&E has greenlit Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, an ob-doc series in which actress…
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HBO retreads Jinx steps with true crime doc
US premium cable network HBO has greenlit a true crime documentary film featuring the bizarre…
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Ex-CableReady, CMJ exec joins Flame in rejig
Former CableReady exec Lou Occhione has joined Australia-based Flame Distribution as its VP, content sales…
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TBI’s Top 10 Stories of the Week
Though a combined ‘AT&Warner’ equals a distribution and content monolith, just image the scale if…
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C4 and AMC link for tech comedy format
Channel 4 and AMC are teaming to coproduce Loaded, a comedy format based on Keshet…