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Features
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Last Word: Rob Clark
Rob Clark is a well-known figure in the formats world and is back at FremantleMedia…
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Titanic TV
As the anniversary of the sinking of the cruise liner approaches, drama and factual producers…
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Sundance rising
AMC Networks has a new international boss and is ramping up roll out plans for…
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Creatives: Rick Ringbakk
Founder, 5X5 Media, executive producer, Fashion Star NBC’s Fashion Star is Ben Silverman’s biggest reality…
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Creatives: Oren Peli
Creator, The River Supernatural drama The River was one of the more interesting series to…
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Creative: Matthew Carnahan
Creator, House of Lies House of Lies is one of the freshest contemporary adult-orientated dramas…
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Creatives: David Parfitt
Creative producer, Parade’s End David Parfitt is best-known as the ex-BAFTA chairman and producer of…
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Creatives: Charlie Brooker
Creator, Black Mirror, A Touch of Cloth Having been a journalist with a weekly column…
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Ben Silverman: Past, present, future
Ben Silverman is a US media executive with a rare understanding of the international TV…
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Blinkbox snags HBO content
Blinkbox has inked a deal with HBO that gives it UK rights to raft of…
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A Korea in formats
Danny Fenton, CEO, Zig Zag Productions Having only previously visited Asia for my holidays, I…
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The Glass House controversy is bad news for reality TV
The recent spat between ABC and CBS over the former’s new reality series The Glass…
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DISH’s AutoHop move could smash an US$11 billion hole in the US TV business model
Adam Thomas, Media Research Manager, Informa Telecoms & Media In the 1970s, English soccer enforcer…
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Getting creative wth eBooks
Kevin Gillis, CEO, Skyreader Media on creating content for interactive eBooks As we begin to…
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Producers and distributors: we need to talk
Richard Life, head of acquisitions & coproductions, ITV Studios Global Entertainment The holy grail of…
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History with a twist
David McNab, creative director for Wide-Eyed Entertainment on bringing an interesting twist to history programming….
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Time for a teen takeover at BBC Three?
The news that BBC Three boss Danny Cohen has been promoted to controller of UK…
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A coproduction conundrum
Genevieve Dexter, commercial director, CAKE Entertainment One of the hot topics currently in the UK…
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DCD Media CEO David Green on the reality of reality programming in the US
My favourite 90’s trade ad, for the legendary Sunset Marquis hotel in Los Angeles, read:…
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TV should get on board with the pirates…
says The Pirate’s Dilemma author Matt Mason “Well, if you’re wondering what happened… so am…
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‘Presenting’ natural history…
Natural history films are notoriously expensive to make. Sending a film crew half way around…
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Convergence is your friend…
… says Ari Iso-Rautio, vice president, TME Consulting Practice, Capgemini In the telecoms, media and…
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Online kids content – the numbers don’t add up
It could be said that ‘online’ doesn’t quite fit the ‘new’ media tag any longer,…
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Convergence Nirvana
The way we are consuming video content is changing, says Andy Rogers, MD etv online……
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Lesson from the past can help weather the storm
Ex-Discovery boss Dawn L. McCall looks at what can be gleaned from previous downturns… There’s…
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The death of the digital agency
James Kirkham, director, Holler on the future of digital advertising … Just as everyone in…
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Showtime during the hard times…
Patrick Svensk on making the best out of a bad macro-economic situation Like every other…
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The Internet should swallow TV whole, says Raja Khanna
If another broadband video site launches in the night, does anyone watch? The answer seems…
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The Brits are coming says Jeremy Fox
Have you heard the one about the executive from a major US studio who went…
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Alchemy’s Carrie Stein
The writing’s on the wall… and it says ‘coproduction’ I went to MIP and MIPCOM…