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Short-form streamer Quibi orders Liam Hemsworth thriller
Short-form streaming service Quibi has added to its fast-growing slate by ordering a thriller series…
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TBI Weekly: Netflix’s rare transparency serves “global inspiration” to producers
Netflix’s unprecedented transparency in detailing its documentary strategy at this week’s Sunny Side of the…
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Exclusive: Discovery “making changes” in commissioning post-UKTV split
Discovery Networks Europe is rejigging its commissioning team on the back of its UKTV channels…
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BBC, ZDF, Love Nature strike first copro with ‘Animals at Play’
The UK’s BBC, Germany’s ZDF and natural history operator Love Nature have joined forces on…
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Pop TV revives axed Netflix show ‘One Day at a Time’
US cabler Pop TV has reversed the trend of streamers reviving network shows by coming…
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Channel 5: Greenlight for ‘All Creatures Great And Small’; My5 adds Pluto TV
Channel 5 is adapting James Herriot’s iconic collection of stories All Creatures Great And Small…
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Showtime takes Denmark’s ‘Rita’ to US
US cabler Showtime has handed a pilot order to a remake of hit Danish drama…
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Keshet scores six-part car show for ITV4
UK broadcaster ITV has commissioned a six-part car show from Keshet Productions featuring daredevil Zef…
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BBC’s ‘The Planet’ lands in Japan, US
The series, which finished airing on BBC2 in the UK this week, is fronted by…
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Sony strikes right price with Richards
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has struck a multi-year overall deal with The Price Is Right…
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Jerry Springer to deliver Edinburgh TV Festival’s Alternative McTaggart lecture
Talk show host Jerry Springer is to deliver the Alternative McTaggart at the Edinburgh TV…
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Exclusive: MIPTV inches closer to Palais centralisation
Exhibitors at MIPTV could be relegated to just three floors inside the Palais in 2020…
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Netflix’s Hastings to keynote at RTS
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is to deliver a keynote address at this year’s Royal Television…
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France’s joint SVOD Salto heads to regulator after months-long delay
After months of delay, French subscription video-on-demand joint venture Salto is finally in the hands…
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Kids bulletin: Shaftesbury grows kids team; CCTV scoops UYoung slate
Shaftesbury grows kids and family portfolio with McCann appointment Canada’s Shaftesbury has hired veteran producer…
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Germany returns to ‘Big Brother’
German broadcaster Sat.1 has ordered a local version of Endemol Shine Group (ESG)’s reality format…
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Paramount explores US-Mexico border
Paramount Network is expanding its scripted offering with a timely order for a 10-part drama…
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Sales round-up: Beta scores for drama trio; Wag TV inks 50-hour Polish deal
Germany’s Beta Film seals deals for drama trio Beta Film has struck a series of…
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Discovery brings HGTV to the UK
Discovery is to launch its home renovation network HGTV into the UK and will reboot…
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Acorn TV expands distribution partnerships to Apple, Amazon
Acorn TV has grown its distribution footprint, expanding to Apple TV, Roku, Amazon and Android…
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Lionsgate strikes first-look TV deal with Mary J. Blige
Lionsgate has struck a first-look deal with singer-actor Mary J. Blige and her fledgling Blue…
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Amazon in talks with YouTube’s Wax for drama role
Amazon Studios is in talks to appoint YouTube Premium’s scripted exec Jon Wax following the…
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Canada’s WAM Media Group opens scripted arm with Muse exec
Canada’s WAM Media Group, producers of Netflix and Investigation Discovery’s Real Detective, has formed a…
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Armoza’s ‘Sex Tape’ remade in Finland
Finnish channel Nelonen has ordered a local version of Armoza Formats’ social experiment show Sex…
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Netflix film exec joins Disney+
Disney has poached Netflix’s director of original film Matt Brodlie to aid in the growth…
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Apple, Amazon talk up flexible deals
Apple’s creative director for Europe Jay Hunt and Amazon Studios’ director of European originals Georgia…
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WarnerMedia doubles down on Somerville dramas
WarnerMedia has commissioned two more dramas for its forthcoming streaming service, with Maniac creator Patrick…
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Sky Cinema hires C5’s Keenan
The former head of acquisitions for Viacom-owned Channel 5 in the UK has left the…
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Netflix to lose ‘The Office’ to NBCU
NBCUniversal (NBCU)’s forthcoming streaming service will become home to the US version of The Office…
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Sky Italia confirms Ibarra as CEO
Sky Italia has confirmed that KPN chief executive Maximo Ibarra is to be its new…