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Hat Trick hires ex-Gaumont exec for first acquisitions role
Hat Trick International (HTI) has hired former Gaumont exec Hana Zidek as its first acquisitions…
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France Télévisions’ appoints director for national fiction
France Télévisions has appointed Anne Holmes as its new director for national ficition. Holmes will…
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Amazon to up video spend throughout 2018
Amazon said it plans to increase its spend on video throughout 2018, after the company…
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Endemol Shine UK prodco to gain Belfast base
Endemol Shine UK’s Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) is to open an office in Belfast, Ireland….
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BBC World News brings in Vice slots
Vice Media and BBC Global News have partnered to bring weekly program Vice News This…
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Tin Roof hires Dragonfly’s Fleming as finance director
Tin Roof Media has appointed Dragonfly Film and Television Productions’ Matt Fleming as the new…
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ITV’s Leftfield Pictures set for Facebook talk show
ITV America’s Leftfield Pictures has teamed with Scooter Braun’s SB Projects to develop and produce…
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Netflix continues to invest in sci-fi with new original
Netflix has ordered sci-fi drama Another Life, as it continues to commission titles in the…
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Vice Indonesia and GO-JEK form original content pact
Vice Indonesia has announced its first foray into local feature film by greenlighting When We…
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Forest Whitaker to star in Epix mobster series
MGM-owned cable channel Epix has given a straight-to-series order for ABC Signature Studios-produced drama, Godfather…
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CBS Studios Int’l clinches German sales for Instinct
CBS Studios International has secured licensing agreements with ProSiebenSat.1 and Turner Broadcasting System in Germany…
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BBC & Discovery set for Offspring Films doc
A BBC and Discovery copro, hailing from Bristol-based Offspring Films, is set to air on…
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Netflix & Buzzfeed partner for short-form doc
Netflix is set to launch a new short-form documentary series with Buzzfeed that follows the…
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YouTube Red greenlights Lou Pearlman documentary
YouTube has ordered a documentary from Pilgrim Media Group about Lou Pearlman, the maverick music…
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Keshet launches ‘alternate reality’ drama at Series Mania
Israeli-backed producer/distributor Keshet International is partnering with Israeli cable company HOT and United Studios of…
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Comcast makes rival £22bn cash bid for Sky
Comcast has made a firm cash offer for Sky that values the pay TV operator…
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Parable moves to TV with first VR original for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned its first virtual reality original from VR studio Parable, named Grenfell:…
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BBC Studios secures volume sales deal with HOOQ India
BBC Studios and Asian SVOD platform HOOQ have agreed a content deal that will give…
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Viacom launches Nick Jr on Indonesian mobile platform
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is joining forces with Indonesia’s leading mobile operator Telkomsel to…
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Netflix orders reboot of Maupin’s Tales Of The City
SVOD platform Netflix has greenlit a new TV version of Tales Of The City, Armistead…
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TV still most popular pastime for children, says Futuresource
Watching television remains the activity that children aged three to 16 dedicate the most time…
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Netflix ordered more sci-fi after genre hits, says Ampere
Science fiction and fantasy has become the most popular genre among Netflix subscribers and this…
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Ink Factory hires ex-Zodiak CEO Rod Henwood
Indie studio The Ink Factory has appointed industry heavyweight and former Zodiak UK boss Rod…
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Authentic & Kronicle ink unscripted deal
Authentic Entertainment is partnering with Kronicle Media to develop and produce character driven content about…
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Sony & Komixx ink deal for young adult content
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Komixx Entertainment have signed a multi-project deal to co-develop and…
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Sony hires W exec as Latin America production head
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has named W Studios’ Ana Bond as senior vice president and…
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Netflix extends DreamWorks Animation deal
Netflix has struck an expanded relationship with Comcast-NBCUniversal-owned DreamWorks Animation in a move that will…
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Netflix to raise $1.9 billion in debt
Netflix has priced a bond offering of US$1.9 billion, which it plans to use for…
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SVOD subs in MENA grow by 48% as pay-TV declines
Pay TV subscriptions declined in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2017…
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UK’s Breaking Fourth launches VR series Bro Bots
British virtual reality studio Breaking Fourth has launched a new virtual reality (VR) series, Bro…