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Features
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‘Russian HBO’ makes a major channels move
Russian producer Amedia has moved into the channels business in a big way, effectively launching…
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Haslingden tunes up a new super indie
Until September last year, David Haslingden was Fox’s top channels executive, running its US and…
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Murphy goes one step beyond
The new general manager of Australia-based Beyond Television tells TBI about changing international perceptions of…
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NATPE’s Rod Perth: ‘TV talks Hollywood, Silicon Valley speaks Hungarian’
With NATPE Budapest 2013 wrapped up, Jesse Whittock sits down with NATPE CEO Rod Perth…
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French documentaries singled out
Despite European public channels closing documentary slots and growing competition from hosted factual and reality…
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Formats to see in CEE
As NATPE Budapest gets underway, TBI speaks to the main players about selling formats into…
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Viewpoint: Atlantic’s Anthony Geffen on making factual content multiplatform
Atlantic Productions’ CEO Anthony Geffen on taking factual content from giant screen to TV screen…
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FremantleMedia and BBC on kids partnership
Earlier this year the BBC and the Kids and Family division of FremantleMedia inked a…
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Viewpoint: bringing a classic format into the digital era
DRG’s managing director, acquisitions and formats Andrea Jackson on how classic UK gameshow Catch Phrase…
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Global formats: sing and the world watches with you
TBI has teamed up with Eurodata TV Worldwide once again to uncover the most successful…
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Viewpoint: how social media rewired the formats business
Viacom International Media Network’s senior VP Caroline Beaton explains how social media has created a…
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International Studios: Drama Studies
For a week in May the attention of the TV world is focused on Hollywood…
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2013 LA Screenings in review
As the sun sets on the studio lots and the myriad of international buyers head…
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Sena Argun, SinemaTV
Sena Argun is in LA this week buying for a SinemaTV’s bouquet of Turkish pay…
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Using the UK tax credit to boost trans-Atlantic relations
Patrick Irwin, Justin Thomson-Glover and Louisa Spring – the principals of London and LA-based exec-production,…
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Douglas Davis, Blinkbox
Douglas Davis is in LA this week attending the Screenings for the first time. Davis…
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Catherine Mackin, UKTV
Catherine Mackin is director of programme acquisitions at UK channel operator UKTV. It runs a…
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Özlem Özsümbül, Kanal D
Özlem Özsümbül is head of sales and acquisitons at Kanal D. With a shopping list…
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LA Screenings: Broadcast Strikes Back
With US cable series such as Hatfields & McCoys gaining traction with key demographics in…
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Stephen Mowbray, SVT
SVT airs several big US shows and recently bought The Bible and Bates Motel. Stephen…
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Sarah Wright, controller of acquisitions, BSkyB
UK pay TV operator BSky is the largest UK-based buyer of US studio programming and…
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Miniseries strike back
A few years ago, it looked like scripted miniseries were heading for the scrapheap. With…
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Viewpoint: Patty Geneste
Patty Geneste, chairman, FRAPA and CEO Absolutely Independent and Gertjan van Valen, marketing & sales…
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Tax breaks fuel UK’s global production hub ambitions
When UK Chancellor George Osborne sat down on March 20 having presented his Budget, the…
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Shooting Starz
Starz has built a solid slate of original programmes in recent years with the Spartacus…
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France’s new wave
With shortform content, event TV and international copros, a new wave of French producers are…
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Viewpoint: Is Channel 4’s content strategy fit for purpose?
Nick Thomas, principal analyst, TV & Digital Media, at Informa Telecoms & Media asks whether…
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The new super groups: Red Arrow Entertainment
In the second part of our two-part report on emerging international production groups, TBI talks…
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The new super groups: Argonon
In the first of a two-part feature on emerging production super groups, Stewart Clarke talks…
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Epic drama for factual channels
The last decade saw the big factual channels move from documentary led schedules to grids…