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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…
News brief: Hackers target Ukraine Today
Hackers have taken down the website of the Ukraine Today news channel. The channel said…
Simon Perry to run production at Swedish film fund
+++CORRECTION An earlier version of this story named former BBC America boss Perry Simon as…
Content ups MacGregor, Ford
Saralo MacGregor and Jonathan Ford have landed improved positions at UK-US content company Content Television….
Showtime feels Happyish as CBS dramas go on
US cable channel Showtime has greenlit a full season of Happyish, the dark comedy-drama that…
MGM: A lion in the TV jungle
Of all of the Hollywood studios, none has been bought and sold as many times…
Chilean net bags JK Rowling biopic
A biopic about Harry Potter author JK Rowling has sold to a Chilean channel. ChileVision…
Show of the week: Matter of Respect
Matter of Respect marks a change in direction for Turkish broadcaster Kanal D with a…
News brief: D360 makes home renovation deals
Canada-based sales firm Distribution360 has sold home renovation programming from its Si Entertainment catalogue to…
Remarkable’s Walshe joins Twofour
Remarkable Television’s factual entertainment producer Kitty Walshe has joined rival UK prodco Twofour as head…
Wildseed charges up with Marijana
Boutique digital content producer and financier Wildseed Studios has unveiled its latest project, an eight-part…
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…
News brief: ITV Studios US ups production exec
ITV Studios America has upped Gregg Moscot to vice president of production. Based in ITV…
HBO preps scientology, Cobain and Sinatra docs
HBO has unveiled a slate of high-end docs including new projects from Alex Gibney and…
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…
Dori Media takes Selfie Challenge
Dori Media has picked up rights to The Selfie Challenge, a new reality gameshow format…
FremantleMedia picks up MTV’s Eye Candy
FremantleMedia International has picked up international rights to Eye Candy, the new MTV drama about…
Air Buddies franchise claws into MCN biz
The company behind the Air Buddies direct-to-video family movies franchise is launching a channel on…
Netflix to drive digital spending in the Netherlands
Digital video expenditure is forecast to exceed consumer spending on packaged media in the Netherlands…
ITV’s Leftfield inks Crybaby deal
Leftfield Entertainment, the US prodco owned by UK broadcaster ITV, has struck a programming deal…
Show of the week: Black Forest
Black Forest has been a hit for regional Spanish station TV Galicia, and now Imagina…
Year in Review, part three: 2015
This week, executives from across the board have revealed the moments that defined the industry…
MTV to repeat Channel 5’s Big Brother
In another sign of the synergies between Viacom’s UK channels bouquet TV channels following the…
Amazon buys Shaun the Sheep, Ben 10
Amazon Prime Instant Video has acquired exclusive UK streaming rights to Aardman Animation’s stop-motion series…
News brief: Global Agency takes Glam format
Turkey’s Global Agency has acquired distribution rights to Israeli format Dance With Me. The show…
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…
News brief: Fox promotes digital sales VP
Fox Networks in the US has promoted Benjamin (BJ) Elias to senior VP, distribution. Former…
USA Networks ends Covert Affairs
NBCUniversal’s cable channel USA Network has cancelled spy series Covert Affairs after five seasons. The…
Regal ambitions
Royalty is in vogue. Ahead of the launch of Lionsgate’s series The Royals, TBI speaks…
SMG boss ‘removed’ from role
The group president of Chinese firm Shanghai Media Group, Li Ruigang, has been “removed” from…