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Cresswell, Fincham linked to ITV CEO post
Internal candidates for the ITV CEO role include current COO John Cresswell and current director…
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Disney’s Mama Don’t Dance waltzes into Italy
Disney has licensed a local version of its Your Mama Don’t Dance format to Sky…
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Lifetime readies laughs alongside TV movie staples
Lifetime has unveiled a 2009-10 program slate heavy on TV movies, drama and with an…
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AETN sells 9/11 special to France, Germany, UK
Channel 4 in the UK, France 5 and ZDF in Germany have all picked up…
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Cyber Group sells Manon to NHK
Cyber Group Studios, the recently rebranded French animation and web producer, has inked a raft…
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Crime and Investigations nabs American Gangster
A&E Television has acquired three seasons of factual series American Gangster from Viacom-backed US cable…
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Natpe floors it for 2010
Las Vegas television market NATPE will be moving out of the large convention hall it…
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Sky takes House from Five
UK pay TV operator BSkyB has acquired NBC Universal-distributed drama series House, wresting it away…
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RHI still wants to make a Power move
TV movie and miniseries producer and distributor RHI Entertainment is still locked in talks to…
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DQ, Sony, RAI start work on $23m Little Prince
A host of companies are teaming to coproduce an €18 million (US$23 million) animated version…
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MBC strikes WB output deal
Leading pan Arabian broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) has renewed its output deal with…
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YouTube strikes studio deals
YouTube, the Google-owned online video platform, has launched its much-anticipated US-only portal for full length…
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TBI vs Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt, 66, is the best known figure in the adult entertainment business. The creator…
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New shows head for Home on new UK pay TV channel
UKTV has acquired a raft of new titles for its soon-to-launch lifestyle channel Home. The…
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MTV makes Impact with live events division
MTV International has launched MTV Impact, an events division that will design and run a…
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Rose d’Or shifting to not-for-profit model
The organisers of the Rose d’Or TV festival are shifting it from a commercial enterprise…
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Disney strikes Turkish Golden Girls format deal
Turkish pay TV broadcaster ATV has launched a local version of classic sitcom The Golden…
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Nine commissions third series of Underbelly
Australian commercial broadcaster Nine Network has commissioned a third series of hit local crime drama…
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Spain plans French-style ad ban
The Spanish government has confirmed it wants to limit advertising on public service broadcaster RTVE…
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TV advertising worse than expected, but increasing share
The latest TV advertising revenue share forecasts show that 2009 has got off to a…
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Bold and Beautiful and on YouTube
The Bold and the Beautiful is getting its own channel on video-sharing site YouTube, which…
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CTC exec sells Lean-M stake to Sony
CTC Media senior executive Vyacheslav Murugov has sold his stake in Russian indie producer Lean-M…
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MoMedia inks rugby deal with Pulse
MoMedia International, the Endemol-backed digital distributor, has inked a deal with UK indie producer Pulse…
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M6 acquires raft of US series
French commercial broadcaster M6 has acquired a raft of US series after striking content deals…
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Kandola exits ITV
ITV’s director of acquisitions Jay Kandola is leaving the UK commercial broadcaster. ITV has made…
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Fennessy brothers swap FremantleMedia for Shine’s Oz start-up
Mark and Carl Fennessy are leaving FremantleMedia Australia to head a new Australian division of…
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Break acquires HBOlab
Online video platform Break Media has acquired HBOlab, the premium cable network’s digital production studio….
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MGM scoops Stargate, movie sales
Hollywood studio MGM has inked a raft of programming deals following the MIP TV market…
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ITV gets Cold Feet in Poland, Czech Republic
ITV Global Entertainment has cut deal for Cold Feet and sold its scripted series into…
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Weinsteins will pay NBC for Runway switch
Producer/distributor The Weinstein Company has agreed to compensate NBC for switching reality series Project Runway…