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Canada’s CBC takes Fremantle mini-series Butterfly
Canadian national broadcaster CBC has acquired Butterfly, a mini-series the follows the story of an…
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Barclays doubles TV investment fund to £200m
Barclays has doubled its subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) investment fund for UK TV producers to…
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RTL Deutschland reshuffles top management
RTL Deutschland CEO Anke Schäferkordt is to exit the group after nearly 30 years of…
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Facebook rolls out “fewer, bigger, better” strategy
Facebook is rolling out a “fewer, bigger, better” strategy around scripted content as it rejigs…
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Netflix takes Murder Mountain from Lightbox
Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox is producing a new six-part documentary series for Netflix that…
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Back2Back hires trio of creative execs
UK indie Back2Back has hired three creative executives to meet growing demand for its new…
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Fremantle Australia, Keshet Int’l strike formats deal
Fremantle Australia has struck a first-look deal with Keshet International, giving them access to the…
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Sony hires Sky’s Comiskey as UK country manager
Sony Pictures Television has named Sky’s Holly Comiskey as country manager for the UK and…
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5Star boosts originals with three new commissions
Viacom-owned youth-focused channel 5Star has ordered a slate of new programs from GooWoo Media, Alaska…
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Report: Amazon bids for Disney’s divested sports networks
Amazon is among the companies currently bidding for 22 regional sports TV networks Disney has…
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Byron Allen’s discrimination suit against Comcast & Charter gets go-ahead
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has given Byron Allen and his…
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Red Arrow Studios Int’l teams with False Flag, Beaufort writers
Red Arrow Studios International has struck a development deal for premium drama with Israeli False…
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Chinese regulators approve Disney-Fox merger
Chinese regulators have approved the Disney-Fox merger weeks after the Mouse received a conditional greenlight…
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Discovery round-up: Courtney White takes the helm at Food Network, Discovery inks first AVOD deal
Discovery exec Courtney White (pictured) has been upped to president of Food Network, replacing Allison…
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Acorn TV secures US rights to DCD drama My Life is Murder
Acorn TV has secured US rights to DCD Rights’ primetime drama My Life is Murder,…
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NBC promotes Meredith Ahr to president of alternative
NBC Entertainment has promoted Meredith Ahr to president of its alternative and reality group. The…
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Int’l Emmy Awards: Spain’s La Casa de Papel, UK’s Man in an Orange Shirt take top titles
A string of European productions took top titles at the 46th International Emmy Awards, held…
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A+E Networks hires Sky Vision scripted exec for co-pro drive
A+E Networks International has hired Moreyba Bidessie as director of scripted development and sales as…
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UKTV pre-buys Woodcut’s Killer In My Family
UKTV has pre-bought Woodcut Media-produced doc series The Killer In My Family. The 6 x…
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Endemol Shine NA taps Critical Content’s Brad Carr
Endemol Shine North America has named veteran studio exec Brad Carr as its senior VP…
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Keshet, ABC team for political drama Black B*tch
Keshet International (KI) has partnered with Australia’s ABC and Screen Australia to bring Blackfella Films’…
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Dungey steps down at ABC as Burke takes the reins
Ahead of Disney’s completion of the 21st Century Fox acquisition, ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey (pictured)…
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Fairfax shareholders approve Nine Network merger
Fairfax Media shareholders have backed the 150-year-old Australian firm’s merger with commercial channel Nine Network,…
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BBC hands commissions to Bandicoot, Naked Entertainment
BBC Scotland has commissioned two seasons of eight-part quiz show format Test Drive from Argonon-backed…
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Fremantle strikes first-look deal with Natalie Dormer
Game of Thrones actor Natalie Dormer has struck a multi-year first-look deal with Fremantle. The…
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TBI Weekly: Spotify re-enters the programming game
Spotify has been reaching out to select producers for new video content as it looks…
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Thinkbox: live TV still accounts for 56% of UK viewing
Live TV still accounts for 56% of all video watched by the UK, amounting to…
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Orange launches Spanish SVOD service FlixOlé
FlixOlé, the first homegrown Spanish subscription video-on-demand service, focusing on Spanish movies, has officially launched…
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Bezos: Amazon is “not too big to fail”
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has said that the Seattle-headquartered business is “not too big to…
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560 Media to oversee secondary rights for Banijay Rights
Banijay Rights has appointed 560 Media to oversee its secondary rights. Under the deal, the…