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Viki launches new global Chinese service
Streaming service Viki has launched new Chinese TV streaming offerings. Viki has bases in Asia…
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ABS-CBN gets new CEO
The Philippines’ ABS-CBN Corporation is getting a new president and CEO to replace the retiring…
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BBC names Studios management
UK pubcaster the BBC has set out its senior management plans at its soon-to-launch production…
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eOne completes £285m refinancing deal
Entertainment One’s refinancing agreement has been completed. The company has issued £285 million (US$431.4 million)…
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Scripps opens digital lifestyle studio
Scripps Networks Interactive has created a digital production studio focusing on lifestyle content for multiple…
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StudioCanal cleans up with Spotless deal
StudioCanal has shopped edgy drama series Spotless to South Africa-based pay TV platform M-Net. Spotless follows…
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M4E preps Mia and Me-style kids series
Content company m4e is teaming with kids author Thomas Brezina to make a new boy-skewed…
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News brief: Nickelodeon ups Dawkins
Nickelodeon has promoted Keith Dawkins, putting him in charge of the TeenNick and Nicktoons services….
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BBC Three, Worldwide co-order Smart series
BBC Three and its stablemate BBC Worldwide have co-commissioned a series in which comedian Russell…
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Channel 5 to re-open X-Files in UK
UK free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired the reboot of US sci-fi drama The X-Files….
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Endemol Shine buys into Lenny Henry prodco
Endemol Shine has taken a 50% stake in Douglas Road, UK comedian and actor Lenny…
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Singapore, China firms enter copro pact
Singaporean producer mm2 Asia and China’s Hesheng Media will coproduce TV dramas and reality series…
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Canal+ hires channels veteran from Lagardère
French pay TV firm Canal+ has hired Gérald-Brice Viret as its managing director of channels,…
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Warner Bros. veteran exits for WME
Long-serving Warner Bros. Television business development exec Dan Limerick has left the studio for talent…
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Universal Channel requires Chicago Med
UK pay TV network Universal Channel has bought new season US medical drama Chicago Med….
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YouTube parenting brand content on Viacom nets
Viacom’s US channels TV Land and Nick at Nite will begin airing short videos from…
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ITV Studios deal with Christina Wayne’s Assembly
The US arm of ITV Studios has inked an overall deal with Assembly Entertainment, the…
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Australia’s drama landscape
Known for its soapie successes in Neighbours and Home & Away, contemporary, high-end projects from…
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Show of the week: Chef and My Fridge
If the hype is to be believed and Korea is the new Israel (or ‘the…
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B’casters prepare for Secret Fashion Show
Turner Broadcasting System Germany is among buyers of the 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which…
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Nat Geo buys ORF national park doc
National Geographic Channels International has acquired ORF Universum documentaries Making an Ancient Forest – Kalkalpen…
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Internet advertising ‘to overtake TV’
Television will fall away as the dominant advertising medium in 2018 with the internet becoming…
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Ben and Holly head to Russia
Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom is heading to Russia after free-to-air broadcaster Carousel bought the…
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Pivot explores 1000 Days for the Planet
American cable channel Pivot Network has acquired all three seasons of natural history series 1000…
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Naspers ‘preps international SVOD service’
Africa-based media giant Naspers is going to roll out its Showmax SVOD service in a…
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Fox orders two international formats
US network Fox has ordered US versions of UK-originated gameshow You’re Back in the Room,…
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Barbarians Rising in new History original
A+E has ordered docu-drama series Barbarians Rising for its History channels around the world. The…
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AMC’s Badlands into China
AMC drama series Into the Badlands has been acquired by LeTV in China. The post-apocalyptic…
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Sky Vision strikes first-look with Ralf Little prodco
Sky Vision has inked a first-look development deal with LittleRock Pictures, the UK indie created…
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Mansfield’s Plimsoll gets into distribution
Grant Mansfield’s indie Plimsoll Productions has launched a distribution division. Former Zodiak USA boss Mansfield…