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Tele Images, M6 launch basketball series with San Antonio Spurs’ Parker
French production company Tele Images Kids is set to launch Basketball Adventures with US basketball…
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Shankly inks output deal with Oz’s Ten
Australian producer and distributor Shankly Productions has inked a raft of deals including an output…
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Skai to launch local version of Nanny 911
Greek commercial broadcaster Skai TV is set to launch a local version of factual entertainment…
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The News
Cartoon Forum celebrated its 20th anniversary in the rain in Norway; the kids event, which…
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Apocalyptic ratings for France 2
France 2 has enjoyed incredible ratings with World War II doc series Apocalypse, which attracted…
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Arnesen follows Forbes out of the door at Turner
Finn Arnesen has become the second high-ranking executive to announce his departure from Turner this…
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CanWest sells out of Australia’s Ten
Canadian media group CanWest has sold its controlling stake in Australian free-to-air broadcaster Ten Network….
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Worldwide appoints new Indian production boss
BBC Worldwide has appointed Myleeta Aga as general manager and creative head of its Indian…
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Baxter moves up at Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television has promoted Stuart Baxter to senior EVP, European distribution, making him the…
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Kids industry welcomes BBC’s £25 million programming TV pledge
Industry figures have welcomed yesterday’s announcement from UK public broadcaster the BBC that it will…
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Hasbro poaches Fox, Sony, RDF and WME execs to run Hasbro Studios
Hasbro has recruited executives from several well-known broadcasters and producers to run its freshly minted…
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Disney’s Flash Forward sells throughout Asia
Disney has sold its much-anticipated drama series Flash Forward to ten broadcasters in Asia Pacific….
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Stealth sells movies, plots TV drama entry
Distributor Stealth Media Group has inked a raft of broadcast sales for its library of…
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Nordic producers merge to form Northern Alliance
Private equity outfit Capman is set to merge its three Scandinavian production companies to form…
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Target taking Hasselhoff to MIPCOM
Distributor Target Entertainment has acquired rights to six-part reality series Meet the Hasselhoffs and will…
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BBC Worldwide launching English-language CBeebies in the US
BBC Worldwide America president Garth Ancier has told TBIvision that carriage talks with the major…
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Bebo’s Shields sets up online producer with Shine
Producer and distributor Shine Group has partnered with former Bebo boss Joanna Shields to launch…
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France’s PGS inks distribution deal with Samka
French distributor PGS Entertainment has closed a deal to distribute Samka Productions’ kids series and…
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BBC Worldwide inks five output deals
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK public broadcaster, has agreed output deals with…
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Sharples out as Endemol restructures Asia operations
Global producer and distributor Endemol has restructured its Asian operations in a shake-up that will…
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Armoza sells Israeli comedy format into Eastern Europe
Israeli producer and distributor Armoza Formats has sold comedy format Life Isn’t Everything to FTV…
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Channel 4 CEO Andy Duncan confirms departure
Channel 4 CEO Andy Duncan will step down by the end of the year the…
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Millimages buys into French toon studio
French production company Millimages has taken a minority stake in French studio Les Films de…
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Former Zodiak exec launches Scorpion TV
Former Zodiak Entertainment exec David Cornwall has created a new distribution company Scorpion TV and…
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BBC to produce UK version of So You Think You Can Dance
British public broadcaster the BBC is set to produce a local version of hit US…
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Big Brother gets new series order in Germany
RTL2 has ordered another season of Endemol’s reality show Big Brother, taking it into its…
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CBS partners with Chello for UK channels
CBS Studios International has teamed with Chellomedia and a range of CBS-branded channels will launch…
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RDF’s US Secret Millionaire lands at ABC
US network ABC has ordered a new season of Secret Millionaire from RDF USA. The…
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TMG making $25.5 million Moby Dick
German producer and distributor Tele München Group (TMG) is making a US$25.5 million version of…
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Media powerhouses look at new TV ratings system
A host of the most powerful media companies in the world are joining forces to…