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TBI Weekly: Why AI, copros & soft money can deliver a better 2024
As NEM Zagreb wraps up the industry calendar for 2023, TBI’s Richard Middleton explores the…
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Opinion: Reflecting on the relentless hustle of 2023 & why next year will be better…
TBI’s format expert Siobhan Crawford reflects on a tumultuous 12 months for the global market…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Why 2024 will be a year of (modest) growth for the TV industry
Hollywood strikes, cutbacks in programming spend, and dire economic conditions are all overshadowing the worldwide…
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TBI Weekly: Why Korean docs are next to ride the Hallyu Wave
Sam Joyce, acquisitions and content strategist at factual distributor TVF International, explains why Korean documentaries…
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Spanish Female Showrunners Insights: Laura Sarmiento (Netflix’s ‘El Cuerpo En llamas’)
Spanish scripted shows are finding new audiences around the world. In this new series of…
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Spanish Female Showrunners Insights: Tatiana Rodriguez (TVE’s ‘La Ley Del Mar’)
Spanish scripted shows are finding new audiences around the world. In this new series of…
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Spanish Female Showrunners Insights: Gema R. Neira (Netflix’s ‘El Caso Asunta’)
Spanish scripted shows are finding new audiences around the world. In this new series of…
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Spanish Female Showrunners Insights: Amaya Muruzabal (Prime Video’s ‘Reina Roja’)
Spanish scripted shows are finding new audiences around the world. In this new series of…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: What’s next for US content spend after the strikes?
With the US actors’ and writers’ strikes having come on top of an existing fall…
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Opinion: The renaissance of co-production in the age of downturn
As international co-production execs descend upon London tomorrow, TBI’s resident scripted expert and CEO of…
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Opinion: How the UK’s film & TV industry can lead the world on Generative AI
Jeremy Roberts, head of film & TV at UK legal firm Sheridans, lays out how…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Why streamers must embrace seasonal subscribers
With churn rates on the rise, and expected to increase further in the coming year,…
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TBI Weekly: Reliving the ’90s and the ‘everything that came after’ in Formatland
As 2023 nears its final month, TBI’s format expert Siobhan Crawford relives her youth by…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Tapping into TV & streaming’s key trends for 2024
As the industry reflects on the trials and tribulations of 2023, Omdia analysts Rob Moyser…
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TBI Weekly: How cuts are forcing TV to dance to a very different beat
It is easy to forget that investors barely blinked at enormous streaming losses until last…
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What the Sony/Zee merger tells us about the Indian market
Marco Ferrarese explores what’s driving India’s $10bn merger between Sony and Zee Entertainment and how…
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TBI Weekly: Seven ‘niche’ streamers that commission original content
Partnering with a major streamer to take your content worldwide can be a major ambition…
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Spanish Sales Insights: Mediterráneo Mediaset España Group’s GM, Ana Bustamante
TBI has partnered with Audiovisual From Spain to get the low-down from some of the…
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Spanish Sales Insights: The Mediapro Studio’s head of distribution & int’l, Marta Ezpeleta
TBI has partnered with Audiovisual From Spain to get the low-down from some of the…
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Exclusive: Dori Media’s CEO Nadav Palti on why business matters amid Israeli conflict
Sitting in the Dori Media booth at MIPCOM ten days ago, the business of selling…
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Spanish Sales Insights: Movistar Plus+ International’s general manager, María Valenzuela
TBI has partnered with Audiovisual From Spain to get the low-down from some of the…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Tracking US studio streamer spending in 2023
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), NBCUniversal (NBCU) and Paramount all made the decision to fight…
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Content Innovation Awards 2023 Gallery
Check out the photographs from the Content Innovation Awards 2023, which took place on 18…
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TBI Weekly: What comes next after MIPCOM 2023?
If MIPCOM reflects the industry that it serves, then we probably all emerged pretty lightly…
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Opinion: ‘MIPCOM 2023: The One Where We All Got Together & Didn’t Buy Anything’
TBI’s resident format expert Siobhan Crawford reflects on the past few days at MIPCOM and…
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Charting the course of Paramount+ thriller ‘The Castaways’ from script to screen
Sun, sea, sand… and a plane crash are the order of the day in Paramount+…
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‘Bing’ producer Mikael Shields on why pre-school content is as valuable as prime-time drama
With MIPJR & MIPCOM 2023 underway, Acamar Films CEO Mikael Shields reveals the secrets behind…
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‘Gen V’s Eric Kripke & Michele Fazekas on taking the ‘The Boys’ back to school
Mark Layton talks to Gen V showrunner Michele Fazekas and exec producer Eric Kripke about…
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TBI Weekly: How to do MIPCOM 2023 right
TBI columnist & MIPCOM veteran Siobhan Crawford suggests some common etiquette as the industry descends…
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How Paul Kemp took his Bitcoin creator doc out of the shadows & onto screen
TBI’s new ‘Fact to Feature’ strand of articles delve into how factual filmmakers got their…