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Features
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DreamWorks into TV: Classic and Awesome
In diversifying away from movies, DreamWorks has made two key acquisitions, the multimillion dollar deal…
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WOWOW: from Japan to LA to the world
Kayo Washio runs the LA office of Japanese pay TV channel operator WOWOW. She set…
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Keith Chapman: Bob creator starts building
Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman is back on the kids TV scene with new…
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Australia and NZ take a seat at the drama table
Producers in Australia and New Zealand are creating a new wave of international-friendly scripted series…
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Three – still the magic number?
With an array of new distribution platforms emerging and new children’s channels growing audience shares…
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Data Centre: Cable channels power ahead
Duck Dynasty, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and many others underline the fact that cable…
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Spain’s drama producers look to go global
Spain’s crisis has forced TV producers to seek international business. Local fiction continues to dominate…
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Reality round the clock
NBC’s large scale live event gameshow Million Second Quiz has ended after nearly 12 days…
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Comment: How social media is influencing reality development
Love it or hate it, reality TV has firmly cemented its place within pop culture,…
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Fall TV season: overview and early trends
Julia Espérance, media consultant at Eurodata TV and service manager for the New on the…
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Power Play: why celebs are becoming execs
As the global media superpowers march into ever more sectors, A-list actors, musicians, fashion gurus…
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ITV Studios moves UK broadcaster into the international spotlight
ITV has been the most active TV company in the M&A space in recent times….
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Beta Film takes on the Mafia
Italian crime writer Roberto Saviano, whose mafia exposé Gomorrah lead to death threats, tells Jesse…
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Viewpoint: In VOD we trust – how pay TV can combat OTT
In television, as with many other things in life, you have to keep the faith….
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The War Report
With the 100th anniversary of the most terrible conflict in world history coming in 2014,…
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Nancy Tellem: Lighting up the Xbox
Nancy Tellem is entertainment and digital media president at technology, software and hardware giant Microsoft…
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Cable sparks a US indie M&A frenzy
The international media groups that previously drove rounds of M&A activity among indies in the…
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Formats in focus: Zodiak Rights
Zodiak’s two big new formats stretch from the wacky Japanese-originated end of the market to…
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Rewriting The Bible
Television’s most consistent independent producer Mark Burnett tells Jesse Whittock about the success of History…
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Amazon: piloting a new future
Amazon Studios director Roy Price talks to Stewart Clarke about pilots, original programming and his…
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Sony shows off its six pack
Sony’s creative boss Wayne Garvie talks about Sony Pictures Television’s enlarged slate of formats for…
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Revealed: Top European drama imports
Income for free-to-air channels in Europe is under pressure. Despite this, the European market for imported…
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All eyes on P7S1 as opportunity knocks
The future of ProSiebenSat.1 Media is the subject of intense speculation following the latest structural…
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Amazon, Xbox cool on Netflix’s binge model
The executives running the content arms of Amazon and Xbox have separately told TBI they…
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MTG Studios makes its move
MTG rebranded Modern Studios and created MTG Studios two years ago with little fanfare. However,…
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Reinventing the classics
Children’s TV is something that binds and defines peer groups. With new versions of Thunderbirds,…
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China: taking care of business
Pukeko Pictures’ CEO Andrew Smith questions how well international executives understand the Chinese film and…
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Checking up on US-Israeli TV at The Operating Room
LA-based prodco The Operating Room was founded by businessman Roby Freireich and filmmaker Oded Turgeman…
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The Finance of Formats
European broadcasters gained US$2.75 billion in 2012 from the 100 top format titles. The…
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Germany’s kids’ channels competition heats up
German children’s TV is set for its biggest shake-up in years, with the Disney Channel…