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BBC picks up Phoebe Waller-Bridge thriller Killing Eve
BBC has acquired Killing Eve, a new thriller by Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, to premiere on…
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First projects selected for MIPTV/Canneseries drama forum
MIPTV and Canneseries track have unveiled the inaugural twelve projects officially selected for their In…
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Amazon gets Undone with toon from BoJack Horseman team
Amazon Studios has given the greenlight to a half-hour animated series from the team behind…
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Facebook hires BuzzFeed Studios chief for video content strategy
Facebook has hired the head of BuzzFeed Studio, Matthew Henick, to lead global video content…
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Latin America pay TV ‘set to stagnate’
Latin America is due to add fewer than five million additional pay TV subscribers between…
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HBO kicks on with first Europe-Lat Am copro
HBO’s European and Latin American arms are springboarding off the upcoming football FIFA World Cup…
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Netflix purchases fifth Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker will pen a fifth season of dystopian technology series Black Mirror for SVOD…
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TV4 creates Asian JV for channels and originals
TV4 Entertainment and Multi Channels Asia (MCA) have created a strategic joint venture to localise…
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Amazon scores La Liga football docu-series
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit Six Dreams, a sports docu-series that follows six individuals throughout…
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SVOD net Acorn cops British comedy No Offence
RLJ Entertainment’s Acorn TV has acquired exclusive digital rights in North America for the first…
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CW to pilot remake of Fox Latin America original
US broadcaster The CW has given a pilot order to a US version of Fox…
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UK seeks broadcast deal but will exit EU’s Digital Single Market
The UK should look for options that will allow for continued ‘transfrontier broadcasting’ following Brexit,…
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BBC boss fears threat of digital giants
BBC director general Tony Hall is again attacking the threat of the US-based digital companies…
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Lionsgate brings Kim Kardashian’s prank show to Facebook
Lionsgate has partnered with Facebook to bring unscripted series You Kiddin’ Me, which is executive…
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Sky UK among buyers of Ryan Murphy’s Fox drama 9-1-1
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution has licensed its high rating cop series 9-1-1 in over…
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Apple taps Sony for new Latin America head
Apple has hired Sony Pictures Television’s Angélica Guerra as its first head of Latin American…
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Blue Ant buys Australian Geographic in docs push
Canada’s Blue Ant Media has bought a 32-year-old Australian magazine publishing business, as it seeks…
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Rich Ross exiting post-Scripps deal Discovery
Discovery Communications has named the new management team that will lead the enlarged company after…
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ABC to air primetime special as Mickey Mouse turns 90
Disney is launching worldwide celebrations honouring 90 years of its ambassador, Mickey Mouse, including a…
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Netflix orders talk show from Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj
Netflix is bringing in yet another talk show, this time with The Daily Show’s Hasan…
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Oath distanced from Morning Breath after Instagram star’s tweets
Verizon’s Oath has cancelled The Morning Breath, a celebrity talk show aimed at millennials, after…
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Former Zodiak bosses, Sky exec launch SVOD quiz service
Former Zodiak Media chiefs Rod Henwood and Marc Antoine d’Halluin and former Sky and Lovefilm exec…
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Weinstein Company saved from brink of bankruptcy
The Weinstein Company (TWC) will be sold to an investor group that former President Obama…
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BBCWW hires NBCU formats exec as exec producer
BBC Worldwide (BBCWW) has hired NBCUniversal (NBCU)’s Anaïs Baker as executive producer for fact ent,…
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Netflix strikes Sky deal across Europe
Netflix will be bundled into a new Sky pay TV subscription pack in Europe. Customers…
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Viacom plans direct-to-consumer streaming service
Viacom has revealed plans to launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service later this year. Speaking at…
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Disney shutters Movies Anywhere service
The Walt Disney Company is closing its Disney Movies Anywhere services, though customers can transfer…
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Banijay ups Brainpool stake and launches new unit
Banijay Group has upped its investment in Cologne-based production company Brainpool, and created a new…
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Global SVOD subs will hit 450 million in four years
The rise of subscription on-demand services seems unstoppable. The number of households worldwide that pay…
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BBCWW takes Dancing with the Stars to Spain
BBC Worldwide (BBWW) has taken its Dancing with the Stars format to Spain via public…