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Kids round-up: ‘Moominvalley’ lands in Nordics; Super RTL orders monster comedy; ‘Rainbow Rangers’ travels; and more…
Moomins return to the Nordics SF Studios in the Nordics, NRK in Norway and RÚV…
News round-up: Disney+ preps ‘Mandalorian’ docuseries; GRB’s comedy deal; DRG expands slate
Disney+ preps The Mandalorian docuseries Disney+ is to launch an eight-part docuseries exploring the creation…
Endemol Shine lands multiple ‘MasterChef’ deals in Nordics
TV4 in Sweden has commissioned the country’s first local version of culinary competition series MasterChef…
Food Network orders takeout from ‘Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives’
Discovery’s US cabler Food Network has ordered a three-part lockdown special version of Diners, Drive-Ins…
‘Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk launches prodco & inks SPT deal
Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has launched a new production outfit and struck a…
Canadian court approves Beyond’s $2.6m deal for TCB Media
Australia- and UK-based distributor and producer Beyond International (BYI) has been given the greenlight to…
Viacom18 CEO Sudhanshu Vats quits company
Sudhanshu Vats, group CEO and MD at Viacom18, is stepping down after eight years at…
NBCU’s Peacock launches amid ‘significant’ Covid-19 impact
NBCUniversal (NBCU) has rolled out its new streaming service Peacock to select users in the…
US prodco NiteLite unveils new ‘lockdown’ programming strand
LA-based prodco NiteLite Pictures has launched the Coronavirus Positivity Initiative, a global effort to create…
Fremantle takes global rights to Icon’s Okavango doc
UK indie Icon Films’ documentary Okavango – A Flood Of Life has been picked up…
News round-up: TF1, Globo take Beta drama; BBCS extends in Russia; Two Rivers gets ‘Top Dog’; MTV’s Gobstopper deal
BBCS extends Russian deal with Friday! Russian free-to-air channel Friday! has extended its deal for…
HBO Europe orders Covid-19 inspired self-shot drama
HBO Europe is preparing to air a five-part anthology series based around the theme of…
BBC Studios appoints Rebecca Glashow as Americas president
BBC Studios has appointed Rebecca Glashow, the former co-head of ViacomCBS-owned Awesomeness, as president of…
News round-up: Korea’s Wavve lands at NBCU; Lifetime’s ‘Married At First Sight’ travels; Starzplay inks Warners deal; and more…
NBCUniversal signs content deal with Korea’s Wavve South Korean streamer Wavve will supply Korean content…
EOne’s chief strategy officer Peter Micelli to depart
Entertainment One’s (eOne) chief strategy officer Peter Micelli is leaving the transatlantic producer and distributor,…
Blue Ant hires Discovery exec Blanksma to SVP sales role
Global distributor Blue Ant International has appointed Gerbrig Blanksma as SVP of international sales and…
Quibi eyes TV as first week download figures emerge
Quibi’s CEO Meg Whitman has said the short-form streaming service was downloaded more than 1.7…
MediaXchange partners with John Yorke for online workshops
International entertainment industry consultancy MediaXchange has partnered with John Yorke (Life On Mars) to launch…
Sony invests $400m in Chinese streamer Bilibili
Sony is ploughing $400m into streaming and entertainment service Bilibili, in a deal that will…
Reality commissions boom as Netflix & linear nets ramp up orders
SVOD streaming providers significantly ramped up the amount of reality TV programming on their services…
Lifetime orders ‘MAFS’ self-shot spin-off from ‘Love Is Blind’ prodco
The US producer behind Netflix hit Love Is Blind has turned to innovative techniques to…
Kids round-up: ‘Octonauts’ expands in LatAm, MENA; NHK adds ‘Find Me In Paris’; Corus exec joins Wildbrain
Silvergate’s Octonauts travel to LatAm, MENA Sony Pictures Television-owned Silvergate Media’s preschool animation Octonauts is…
News round-up: ZDFE sets sail with Magellan; ‘Greatest Dancer’ lands in China; Sundance Now adds Aussie drama
ZDFE marks Magellan’s 500th anniversary Germany’s ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has launched a documentary to mark…
Disney+ reaches 50 million subscribers in five months
Disney+ has reached 50 million subscribers worldwide within five months of its initial launch, the…
Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ slow burn revealed as ‘La Casa De Papel’ soars
Netflix’s hit Spanish drama La Casa De Papel (aka Money Heist) was the most in-demand…
SeriesFest in Denver moves online with streamed panels, premieres
Denver-based SeriesFest is moving online, with its panels, premieres and competition strand to be made…
UK’s C4 slashes $300m from budget as advertising plummets
Channel 4 in the UK has unveiled almost £250m ($310m) of cost-cutting measures to deal…
TBI Factual: How Arrow generated returns from UGC
The way shows are being produced is changing fast and User Generated Content (UGC) is…
Dealing with Covid-19: How to keep the cameras rolling
TBI’s latest coverage of the impact of Covid-19 on the global content business hears how…
Quibi day one downloads just 7.5% of Disney+
Quibi, the ambitious mobile-only short-form streamer helmed by industry stalwart Jeffrey Katzenberg, amassed a respectable…