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Content Innovation Awards 2019: The content visionary – Jane Millichip
Sky Studios COO Jane Millichip took Sky Vision revenues from £8m to £240m in seven…
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Content Innovation Awards 2019: The agenda-setter – Keli Lee
Few have had as much impact improving the diversity of a studio’s content pipeline than…
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Content Innovation Awards 2019: Development dynamo – Izabela Ianelli
Endemol Shine Brazil’s digital strategy manager Izabela Ianelli has worked in TV since 2010 and…
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Content Innovation Awards 2019: The individual winners
This year’s Content Innovation Awards, which took place on Sunday, 13 October at The Majestic…
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‘No rules’ and a new chapter for Sky Studios
With the backing of Comcast and knock-out collaborations such as Chernobyl, pay-TV operator Sky and…
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Crazy cash and snackable shorts: The future of entertainment on SVODs
As the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Quibi begin to get their unscripted affairs in…
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Amazon Prime Video’s global playbook
Amazon might be an SVOD of sorts but its evolution reflects a rapidly changing sector…
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Inside the multimillion-dollar drama trap
Producing high-end scripted product has never been more lucrative, nor more risky. Richard Middleton explores…
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Greta’s green wave reaches kids’ TV
As Greta Thunberg hits the US and Noga Levy-Rapoport beats the drum for climate change,…
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TBI’s 2019 Distributor Survey results revealed
As the content business prepares for an SVOD onslaught over the next six months, distributors…
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TBI Well-being: How to survive MIPCOM
In this month’s Well-being column, former BBC Studios exec and corporate wellness coach Tracy Forsyth…
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Breaking the taboo: How do we navigate mental health in TV?
Mental ill-health in the TV sector is an unspoken reality for many working in the…
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TBI Weekly: When writers revolt, from LA to Berlin
Creative talent might be in demand but recognition and recompense remains an issue for writers…
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All3Media secures ‘Liar’ remake in Spain, strikes Cinetic deal
All3Media has struck a deal with Spain’s Atresmedia to remake its scripted thriller Liar, and…
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Writer’s Room: Imagining the unimaginable with ‘The Windermere Children’
In TBI’s Writer’s Room, The Eichmann Show’s Simon Block discusses how he set about adapting…
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Putting a fragmented audience back together (Column)
Carlotta Rossi Spencer, Banijay Group’s SVP of format acquisitions, argues for a return to family…
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BFI’s Young Audiences Content Fund: a fund indeed for a nation in need
The UK children’s industry is already feeling the benefit of a new $70m fund but…
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Inside the rise of Pluto TV: “This is not Viacom Direct”
Pluto TV was thusly named because of the AVOD platform’s perceived underdog status in a…
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Five key lessons TV can learn from the film world
Carlo Dusi, exec VP of commercial strategy for scripted at Red Arrow Studios International and…
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Writer’s Room: Richie Mehta. Turning timeline into takes for ‘Delhi Crime’
Writer-director Richie Mehta on how he deconstructed India’s notorious 2012 gang-rape case for a seven-part…
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How to gain access to restrictive locations
Adam Jacobs, exec producer at UK-based Woodcut Media, discusses how to get access to restrictive…
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Cracking down on co-productions
Alastair Fothergill, producer of Netflix’s Our Planet, has warned that SVOD players “will not consider…
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Kew Media Distribution: Beyond ‘Neverland’
Tim Dams explores the rise of documentary powerhouse Kew Media Distribution Halfway through 2019, there’s…
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TBI Factual Hot Picks – June 2019
With Sunny Side of the Doc kicking off in France, TBI Magazine picks out a…
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Fremantle faces the music
For years, entertainment juggernauts such as Got Talent and The X Factor have defined production…
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The House that Gurinder built
Director and screenwriter Gurinder Chadha’s first large-scale drama series Beecham House, to be screened in…
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It’s time to stop ignoring mental illness in TV
Alex Pumfrey, CEO of the Film & Television Charity talks about mental health concerns in…
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TBI Well-being: How to recover from f*ck ups and faux pas
In TBI’s inaugural wellness column, former BBC Studios exec and corporate wellness coach Tracy Forsyth…
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Conecta Fiction: Flipping the script
In June, the Spanish city of Pamplona-Iruña will host the third edition of Conecta Fiction,…
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Bigger, better and celebrity-laden: Is the future of docs sustainable?
As documentaries cutting through on SVODs begin to look glossier and more high-profile by the…