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10 MIPTV takeaways: #5 where’s the party?
For those who have been going for decades it is easy to forget that Cannes…
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10 MIPTV takeaways: #6 the many faces of Vice
The management team that make up Vice Media are not your traditional television executives. Shane…
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One-size-fits-all won’t work everywhere for Netflix
Viewpoint: Bruce Tuchman, global media executive and former president of AMC and Sundance Channel Global…
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Making the Grade – The TBI Interview
As their new lifestyle series, The Wine Show, launches in the UK on ITV, British…
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10 MIPTV takeaways: #4 eclectic talent on the Croisette
The list of famous faces in Cannes last week reads like a mad hatter’s tea…
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MIPTV takeaways: #3 Vivendi puts Europe in the spotlight
MIPTV is now mostly about Europe and the continent’s content, and last week it was…
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In-demand charts: France (April 3-9, 2016)
Our latest fortnightly feature in association with Parrot Analytics reveals the most in-demand shows from…
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10 MIPTV takeaways: #1 No Rising Star, but Roots established
The years when everyone was talking about one show at the MIPTV market are over….
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10 MIPTV takeaways: #2 VR now a reality?
The television content business might be a sucker for a new medium to explore, but…
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Soderbergh: “My plan right now is TV”
Steven Soderbergh is a producer, director and writer best known for movies including Sex, Lies…
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MGM wants to join unscripted’s big league
A year ago, MGM’s Chris Ottinger (left) told TBI that the studio was going to…
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Superheroic acts
Ahead of another season of fresh US studio dramas, Jesse Whittock investigates the role superhero…
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Viewpoint: Netflix’s challenge, the next 50 million
Netflix finished 2015 with nearly 71 million paying streaming subscribers, up by 16.4 million year-on-year….
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DHX tries out the studio system
With a new producer in the fold and a production workforce numbering 900, DHX Media…
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Serialised killers
A new wave of true crime series that ape the structure of serialised dramas has…
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Will VR rock in 2016?
Virtual reality is the talk of the town, with new hardware and a proliferation of…
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Under the bonnet of the new Top Gear
Top Gear is the biggest factual TV show in the world, and one of the…
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Hungry for horror
What is whetting the appetite of horror fans? Zombies? Demons? Monsters? Jesse Whittock looks for…
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SVOD rewrites the drama script
In three years Netflix and its SVOD counterparts have turned the TV drama world on…
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Spanish fiction: dramatic times
With the country’s recession now over, Spanish TV producers are cautiously resuming plans for growth….
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TV’s Big Questions: is linear TV dead or dying?
At the recent CES show in Las Vegas, YouTube’s chief business officer Robert Kyncl forecast…
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TV’s Big Questions: has 4K truly broken through?
There was a buzz around ultra-high definition television coming into 2015, but did the medium…
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Writer’s Room: Sharon Horgan
Irish comedy star Sharon Horgan on the quirks she and production partner Clelia Mountford found…
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Justice landmark for Middle East drama
There is a tradition of local drama in the Middle East, but Heart of Justice…
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NATPE 2016 in review
Zag Zag Productions Danny Fenton provides the low-down on last week’s NATPE market in Miami…
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TV’s Big Questions: what is shaping the world of content?
Platforms, technology and marketing aside, what really drives the international TV industry is content. We…
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Attention shifts to Europe as NATPE Miami wraps
The bosses of NATPE Miami hailed this week’s event a success, flagging the a-list conference…
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Televisa shows off its English language skills
Televisa is the world’s largest producer of Spanish-language programming. Now the Mexican media giant is…
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TV’s Big Questions: have direct-to-consumer services affected the market?
Many believe 2015 was the year traditional pay TV broadcasters finally accepted they would need…
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TV’s Big Questions: what direction should the BBC take?
The BBC, perhaps the world’s most revered pubcaster, is under financial, political and cultural pressure…