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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…
Show of the week: Jekyll & Hyde
Writer and actor Charlie Higson and ITV Studios drama chief Francis Hopkinson on ITV’s big-budget…
Show of the week: Jekyll & Hyde
Writer and actor Charlie Higson and ITV Studios drama chief Francis Hopkinson on ITV’s big-budget…
‘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…
Cirkus opens new SVOD Curio
Cirkus is coming to town with a new attraction in the form of Curio, an…
Hopster: SVOD service goes international and local
Launching three years ago makes Hopster an old hand in digital terms. The preschool streaming…
TRX sets out to revolutionise distribution
When David Frank formed Dial Square 86 after leaving Zodiak Media in 2013, he set…
All copros great and small
Lilla Hurst, joint managing director, Drive UK production companies gap-financed projects to the tune of…
Apple, Amazon, and the exclusivity paradox
Rob Gallagher, director of research and analysis, media and entertainment at research house Ovum, muses…
Oli Hyatt: EU plan could harm animation funding
Blue Zoo Animation’s Oli Hyatt warns potential changes to the European TV rights market could…
Channels switch on OTT
Premium, basic pay and free TV channels around the world are looking to OTT and…
BT makes Fear-inducing play
British telecoms firm BT Group has rocked the pay TV market in the UK over…
Quiz + game = broad entertainment
“Buyers have been looking for more than straightforward Q+A for some time; they want more…
Banijay & Zodiak: the story so far
Will television’s latest super group be called ‘Banijak’, ‘Zodijay’ and plain old ‘Banijay-Zodiak Group’? Zodiak…
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…
UK kids TV: Boom or bust?
Having won animation and then live-action kids TV tax breaks, UK kids producers have new…
NATPE Europe: Rod Perth on Prague and succession plans
Following the NATPE Europe event in Prague again last week, outgoing CEO Rod Perth tells…
Discovery embarks on OTT ‘Million March’
Discovery Networks International is launching OTT services throughout Europe. Its top executives explain how the…
Endemol Shine targets Bullseye
Endemol Shine Group regional CEO Marina Williams tells TBI how the production giant is working…
Sunny Side up
On the final day of La Rochelle specialist factual market Sunny Side of the Doc,…
Caroline Beaton: Why niche is the new normal
In an increasingly fragmented TV landscape, should broadcasters and producers focus more on niche formats…
Holding out for Hierro
Galician thriller Hierro was named best project at the Berlinale’s first CoPro Series pitching competition…
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…
Legendary status
Former Sony TV sales boss Michael Grindon tells Jesse Whittock how Legendary Television’s emerging international…
LA Screenings wrap: analysis
Another year of excess, exuberance and extreme selling at the Hollywood studios is over, but…
Epic drama Rising
The story of History’s new historical miniseries, Texas Rising, which debuts this evening on Memorial Day,…
TBI Interview: Pascal Breton, CEO, Federation Entertainment
As boss of Marathon Images, Pascal Breton was the producer of France-originated, international hit series…
The French revolution
French drama series are attracting the type of attention that made Israel and Scandinavia so…
Marilyn – Framing an icon
Lifetime’s telemovie supremo Tanya Lopez on how the network approached America’s original sweetheart Successfully framing…