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MIPCOM wrap: market battles through adversity

Reflecting on deals, screenings and cocktail events after a tragedy on the scale Cannes experienced…

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Show of the week: Jekyll & Hyde

Writer and actor Charlie Higson and ITV Studios drama chief Francis Hopkinson on ITV’s big-budget…

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Show of the week: Jekyll & Hyde

Writer and actor Charlie Higson and ITV Studios drama chief Francis Hopkinson on ITV’s big-budget…

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‘Why don’t you start your own production company?’

Kids entertainment veteran Christopher Skala writes about the reasons he has launched new digital platform-focused…

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Cirkus opens new SVOD Curio

Cirkus is coming to town with a new attraction in the form of Curio, an…

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Hopster: SVOD service goes international and local

Launching three years ago makes Hopster an old hand in digital terms. The preschool streaming…

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TRX sets out to revolutionise distribution

When David Frank formed Dial Square 86 after leaving Zodiak Media in 2013, he set…

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All copros great and small

Lilla Hurst, joint managing director, Drive UK production companies gap-financed projects to the tune of…

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Apple, Amazon, and the exclusivity paradox

Rob Gallagher, director of research and analysis, media and entertainment at research house Ovum, muses…

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Oli Hyatt: EU plan could harm animation funding

Blue Zoo Animation’s Oli Hyatt warns potential changes to the European TV rights market could…

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Channels switch on OTT

Premium, basic pay and free TV channels around the world are looking to OTT and…

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BT makes Fear-inducing play

British telecoms firm BT Group has rocked the pay TV market in the UK over…

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Quiz + game = broad entertainment

“Buyers have been looking for more than straightforward Q+A for some time; they want more…

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Banijay & Zodiak: the story so far

Will television’s latest super group be called ‘Banijak’, ‘Zodijay’ and plain old ‘Banijay-Zodiak Group’? Zodiak…

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David Zaslav on cutting beards and growing 4K and international

New Discovery Channel boss Rich Ross was lauded early this year for calling time on…

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UK kids TV: Boom or bust?

Having won animation and then live-action kids TV tax breaks, UK kids producers have new…

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NATPE Europe: Rod Perth on Prague and succession plans

Following the NATPE Europe event in Prague again last week, outgoing CEO Rod Perth tells…

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Discovery embarks on OTT ‘Million March’

Discovery Networks International is launching OTT services throughout Europe. Its top executives explain how the…

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Endemol Shine targets Bullseye

Endemol Shine Group regional CEO Marina Williams tells TBI how the production giant is working…

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Sunny Side up

On the final day of La Rochelle specialist factual market Sunny Side of the Doc,…

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Caroline Beaton: Why niche is the new normal

In an increasingly fragmented TV landscape, should broadcasters and producers focus more on niche formats…

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You(th)Tube

The launch of the YouTube Kids app in the US in February has been greeted…

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Holding out for Hierro

Galician thriller Hierro was named best project at the Berlinale’s first CoPro Series pitching competition…

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Red flag to a bull: James Ross, Lightning Int’l

It’s a common sight in Asia: husband and wife, together on the sofa – or…

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Legendary status

Former Sony TV sales boss Michael Grindon tells Jesse Whittock how Legendary Television’s emerging international…

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LA Screenings wrap: analysis

Another year of excess, exuberance and extreme selling at the Hollywood studios is over, but…

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Epic drama Rising

The story of History’s new historical miniseries, Texas Rising, which debuts this evening on Memorial Day,…

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TBI Interview: Pascal Breton, CEO, Federation Entertainment

As boss of Marathon Images, Pascal Breton was the producer of France-originated, international hit series…

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The French revolution

French drama series are attracting the type of attention that made Israel and Scandinavia so…

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Marilyn – Framing an icon

Lifetime’s telemovie supremo Tanya Lopez on how the network approached America’s original sweetheart Successfully framing…