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Red Arrow Int’l, Mr. Robot producer link for workplace drama adaptation
Red Arrow Studios International has linked with Mr. Robot and 13 Reasons Why producer Anonymous Content to adapt a…
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Amazon signs Luke Cage showrunner
Amazon has signed an overall deal with Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, two months after…
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Channel 5’s Operation Live gets Aussie adaptation
The Garden’s Operation Live has scored an Australian adaptation. Channel Seven is localising the format…
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Ovum: Skinny bundles to drive US pay-TV growth
Next year will be the first year that ‘skinny bundles’ drive overall subscription growth across…
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Top US cable entertainment channel rankings unveiled
USA Network, home of The Sinner and Banijay’s forthcoming Temptation Island reboot, was the most…
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INTV line-up revealed
Keshet Media Group has revealed a list of speakers set to make an appearance at…
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BBC Studios exec to lead ITN Productions
BBC Studios exec Anna Mallett has been appointed chief executive of ITN Productions. Mallett was…
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Endemol Shine Finland’s MD Tarja Pääkkönen to exit
Endemol Shine Finland’s (ESF) managing director Tarja Pääkkönen is to depart the company after 12…
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Boat Rocker Media merges content and rights divisions
Boat Rocker Media is combining its content, distribution and brands teams together under Boat Rocker…
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Queer As Folk gets US reboot
US cable network Bravo is set to develop a reboot of the UK original series…
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Channel 5 sharpens Shiver’s Red Arrows
Channel 5 has commissioned ITV Studios-owned production label Shiver for a six-part doc series on…
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Viacom preps K-pop series for MTV Russia
Viacom and telco MTS are partnering for a K-pop-inspired reality series for MTV Russia. The…
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Apple strikes TV deal with Fast and the Furious director
Apple has struck an overall TV deal with Fast and the Furious director Justin Lin…
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Electus International’s Pollak lands at NBC
Electus Television and International president John Pollak has moved to NBC’s alternative and reality group…
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Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi hires ex-Hulu execs
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile TV platform Quibi has hired former Hulu execs Tim Connolly and Jim…
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Fiona Campbell named BBC Three controller
The BBC has promoted its BBC Studios’ documentary unit head Fiona Campbell as its new…
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DRG picks up int’l rights to BBC Two’s The Brigade
DRG has picked up the exclusive international finished programme and format rights for BBC Two’s…
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Sky One links with Expectation for David Schwimmer comedy
Sky One has commissioned Expectation for a six-part comedy starring Friends actor David Schwimmer (pictured,…
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Eleven Sports “miscalculation” serves as wake-up call to sports providers
Eleven Sports’ distribution headaches have served as a pressing “wake-up call” to sports providers looking…
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WARC: linear TV still ‘by far’ the top display ad medium
Linear and catch-up TV remains “by far the top medium” for global display advertising spend,…
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C4’s Webb-Lamb appointed advisory chair of Edinburgh TV Fest
Channel 4 deputy director of programmes and head of popular factual, Kelly Webb-Lamb, has been…
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Rüdiger Böss exits Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 after 25 years
Rüdiger Böss, executive VP of content acquisitions and sales at Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, has…
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Starz ups Marta Fernandez to EVP of originals
Starz has promoted Marta Fernandez from senior VP of original programming to executive VP. Fernandez,…
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Dungey resurfaces at Netflix as original content VP
Channing Dungey has resurfaced at Netflix as vice president of original content one month after…
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CBS completes Moonves investigation, severance will not be paid
The board of directors of CBS has completed its investigation of former chairman and CEO…
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Korea’s CJ ENM buys European distributor Eccho Rights
South Korea’s CJ ENM has acquired European distributor Eccho Rights as part of a major…
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Exclusive: BBC Studios Showcase unveils line-up
Drama Republic’s Pure (pictured) and 72 Films’ global history series Icons are among the programmes headlining next year’s…
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HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll dies at 34
Colin Kroll, the co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, has been found dead in his…
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TBI’s Top Shows of 2018
Team TBI watches TV like it’s our job. (Probably for the best that it is.)…
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TNT president to head content for WarnerMedia SVOD
TBS and TNT president Kevin Reilly is to lead the content strategy for WarnerMedia’s new…