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Lemony Snicket series for Netflix

On-demand service Netflix has ordered an original series based on the Jim Carrey movie Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events. Paramount Television, the TV production arm of Lemony Snicket film studio Paramount, will produce the series in association with Netflix. The 2004 film focused on a trio of orphaned children seeking to adopted by […]

Actor Morrissey launches prodco

The Walking Dead actor David Morrissey is launching is own TV and film production company, with a first-look deal with BBC Worldwide already in the bag. Morrissey has partnered with producers Jolyon Symonds and James Gay-Rees and director Asif Kapadia to create On The Corner. The company will attempt to cash in on the converging […]

Daisy Goodwin exits Silver River

Daisy Goodwin is leaving Silver River Productions, the Sony Pictures Television-owned UK prodco she founded in 2005, amid a restructuring. Sony has moved to “streamline operations” at the prodco, though development and production will continue. Goodwin’s senior team will now report to SPT’s chief creative officer, international production, Wayne Garvie. It is understood there are […]

BSKyB must make sports channels available to BT

After four years of litigation, the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that BSkyB must make its sports channels available to BT on a wholesale basis. The CAT, making an about turn on its original 2012 ruling on the case, said that Sky must make its Sky Sports 1 and 2 premium services available […]

Foxtel and Discovery linked to joint bid for Ten

Pay TV operator Foxtel and channel operator Discovery are being widely linked to a move for Australian free-to-air broadcaster Ten Network. Australian press reports cite sources close to the negotiations as saying Discovery and Foxtel are weighing a move for Ten, with News Corp and Telstra-owned Foxtel eyeing a 14.9% stake to avoid contravening cross-media […]

Endemol Beyond launches Latin production hub

Endemol’s online channels and production division has launched a production hub in Brazil. Endemol Beyond has brought in Vanessa Oliveira to run the new unit, which will build a network of premium online channels from Brazil, invest in premium online content and work with ad agencies and talent. Oliveira, who will be manager of São […]

Liberty confirms completion of Ziggo takeover

Liberty Global has completed its tender offer for Dutch cable operator Ziggo and will own 100% of the firm’s outstanding shares, Liberty confirmed yesterday. Announcing Liberty Global’s third quarter results, company CEO Mike Fries (pictured) said that Liberty will immediately begin the integration of Ziggo and UPC Netherlands, “which we expect will drive substantial cost […]

Wowow coproducing Nineteen Eighty-Four doc

Japanese premium channel operator Wowow has come on board a new doc about the seminal George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The doc, Finding 1984, will examine the subject matter of the dystopian classic and look at how technology is allowing modern society to be monitored in ways predicted in the novel that Orwell wrote in […]

NBCU strikes Polish free-to-air deal

Polish broadcaster Telewizja Puls has struck a programming deal with NBCUniversal that gives it a raft of the studio’s TV and film content. TV Puls, which said this it the biggest studio deal it has agreed, will put out the NBCU content on its TV Puls and Puls 2 channels. The deal covers current and […]

Broadcasters buy Love for Sale

Several international broadcasters have acquired two-part UK prostitution documentary Love for Sale with Rupert Everett. The doc is produced by Swan Films and is distributed by All3media International, which has a first-look deal with the UK indie producer. It has been acquired by the Cielo pay TV channel in Italy, by cultural pubcaster SBS in […]