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Pernel taking UK formats to France

French indie Pernel Media has optioned a pair of UK-originated formats and will launch them…

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News brief: Hackers target Ukraine Today

Hackers have taken down the website of the Ukraine Today news channel. The channel said…

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Simon Perry to run production at Swedish film fund

+++CORRECTION An earlier version of this story named former BBC America boss Perry Simon as…

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Content ups MacGregor, Ford

Saralo MacGregor and Jonathan Ford have landed improved positions at UK-US content company Content Television….

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Showtime feels Happyish as CBS dramas go on

US cable channel Showtime has greenlit a full season of Happyish, the dark comedy-drama that…

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MGM: A lion in the TV jungle

Of all of the Hollywood studios, none has been bought and sold as many times…

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Chilean net bags JK Rowling biopic

A biopic about Harry Potter author JK Rowling has sold to a Chilean channel. ChileVision…

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Show of the week: Matter of Respect

Matter of Respect marks a change in direction for Turkish broadcaster Kanal D with a…

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News brief: D360 makes home renovation deals

Canada-based sales firm Distribution360 has sold home renovation programming from its Si Entertainment catalogue to…

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Remarkable’s Walshe joins Twofour

Remarkable Television’s factual entertainment producer Kitty Walshe has joined rival UK prodco Twofour as head…

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Wildseed charges up with Marijana

Boutique digital content producer and financier Wildseed Studios has unveiled its latest project, an eight-part…

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Romania’s Intact reports audience gains

Romanian broadcaster Intact Media Group, which operates the country’s Antena-branded channels, reported year-on-year increases in…

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News brief: ITV Studios US ups production exec

ITV Studios America has upped Gregg Moscot to vice president of production. Based in ITV…

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HBO preps scientology, Cobain and Sinatra docs

HBO has unveiled a slate of high-end docs including new projects from Alex Gibney and…

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Pop Monkey’s Kicked to the Kerb with ohm:tv

German-based distributor ohm:tv has picked up selected international rights to Kicked to the Kerb, the…

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Dori Media takes Selfie Challenge

Dori Media has picked up rights to The Selfie Challenge, a new reality gameshow format…

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FremantleMedia picks up MTV’s Eye Candy

FremantleMedia International has picked up international rights to Eye Candy, the new MTV drama about…

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Air Buddies franchise claws into MCN biz

The company behind the Air Buddies direct-to-video family movies franchise is launching a channel on…

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Netflix to drive digital spending in the Netherlands

Digital video expenditure is forecast to exceed consumer spending on packaged media in the Netherlands…

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ITV’s Leftfield inks Crybaby deal

Leftfield Entertainment, the US prodco owned by UK broadcaster ITV, has struck a programming deal…

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Show of the week: Black Forest

Black Forest has been a hit for regional Spanish station TV Galicia, and now Imagina…

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Year in Review, part three: 2015

This week, executives from across the board have revealed the moments that defined the industry…

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MTV to repeat Channel 5’s Big Brother

In another sign of the synergies between Viacom’s UK channels bouquet TV channels following the…

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Amazon buys Shaun the Sheep, Ben 10

Amazon Prime Instant Video has acquired exclusive UK streaming rights to Aardman Animation’s stop-motion series…

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News brief: Global Agency takes Glam format

Turkey’s Global Agency has acquired distribution rights to Israeli format Dance With Me. The show…

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New Worlds for Super Channel, M-Net

Big-budget period drama New Worlds has sold to channels in Canada and pan-Africa. The Power-distributed…

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News brief: Fox promotes digital sales VP

Fox Networks in the US has promoted Benjamin (BJ) Elias to senior VP, distribution. Former…

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USA Networks ends Covert Affairs

NBCUniversal’s cable channel USA Network has cancelled spy series Covert Affairs after five seasons. The…

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Regal ambitions

Royalty is in vogue. Ahead of the launch of Lionsgate’s series The Royals, TBI speaks…

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SMG boss ‘removed’ from role

The group president of Chinese firm Shanghai Media Group, Li Ruigang, has been “removed” from…