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Chinese conglom buys Mediapro majority shareholding
Chinese conglomerate Orient Hontai Capital (OHC) has confirmed it is taking a majority holding in…
NBC pair to replace Amazon-bound Salke
US broadcaster NBC has promoted a pair of in-house execs to replace president of entertainment…
ITN bags Undateables exec for development role
ITN Productions (ITNP) has appointed The Undateables exec producer Jess Orr (pictured) as an executive…
McMafia heads to China and Sweden
Ahead of its Showcase event in Liverpool next week, BBC Worldwide has announced that McMafia…
Amazon confirms Tambor’s Transparent exit
Amazon Studios has finalised its investigation into Transparent’s Jeffrey Tambor after sexual harassment complaints, dropping…
Sony seals string of int’l sales for Counterpart
Sony Pictures Television has sold espionage drama series Counterpart to more than 40 territories around…
RTL Belgium launches Check digital platform
RTL Belgium has launched a new digital platform dedicated to pop culture called Check. The…
HBO & Turner line up first copro drama in Europe
HBO Europe is to partner with Turner’s TNT Serie for its first international co-production Hackerville,…
TBI Weekly: BBC Worldwide Showcase and the UK Screenings
The BBC Worldwide Showcase is, by some distance, the largest international programming market held by…
BBC Studios launches Australian production arm
BBC Studios is set to launch an Australian production arm, following its decision to form…
Reef founder steps down after 14 years, exits Zinc
Reef Television founder Richard Farmbrough has resigned from his post as CEO of the UK…
France Télévisions should drop SVOD plan, says ex-programing chief
France Télévisions should abandon its plan for a new subscription video-on-demand platform and transform existing…
YouTube TV ups price and adds Turner channels
YouTube TV is set to up its price from US$35 to US$40 per month, has…
COBA: £1bn annual British TV investment under threat from Brexit
Losing access to EU markets through Brexit could cost the UK’s television market £1 billion…
EntertainTV gobbles up Fremantle’s Picnic in exclusive content push
EntertainTV, the Deutsche Telekom pay TV service, has taken exclusive rights to Australian drama Picnic…
ITV America ups Adam Sher to president as rejig continues
ITV America CEO David George has appointed Adam Sher (pictured) as the unscripted producer’s new…
Netflix picks up Marie Kondo series on ‘the magic of tidying up’
Netflix has ordered an unscripted series with author and home organisation guru Marie Kondo (pictured),…
Netflix stubs out weed comedy Disjointed
Netflix has axed marijuana store comedy Disjointed after one season on the platform. The multi-camera…
Aalderink and Lubbers band with MGM in Euro formats push
US studio MGM has set up a Dutch-based formats development operations with European programming execs…
Verizon folds Go90 into Oath, widens its content distribution
Verizon has folded its US video streaming service, Go90, into its Oath division, in a…
No Amazon bid as Sky & BT renew Premier League rights
Sky and BT have each renewed their Premier League rights, with the former taking four…
Ryan Murphy exits Fox for exclusive $300m Netflix deal
Netflix has pulled off perhaps its biggest production coup to date by prising US super-producer…
Endemol Shine producer joins A Smith & Co.
Endemol Shine North America unscripted producer Duncan McIntosh has joined Tinopolis-owned prodco A. Smith &…
DRG buys into ex-ITV Studios execs’ new prodco
UK distributor DRG is planning to invest in a spate of production companies, and has…
Amazon Prime brings in first French original
Amazon Prime Video is teaming up with Newen (through its Telfrance subsidiary), Bavaria Fiction and…
AMC Networks unites European businesses
AMC Networks International, the operator and distributor of pay TV channels in Spain and Portugal,…
Amazon gains multi-territory rights to CBS drama The Good Fight
Amazon Prime Video and CBS Studios International have signed a multi-season, licensing agreement for the…
Kagan: European SVOD revenues to reach $6.8bn in 2022
The European subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market is due to reach revenues of US$6.8 billion in…
Comcast looking again at Fox after higher bid was rejected – report
Comcast made an offer last year for 21st Century Fox that was significantly higher than…
BBC explores The Awkward Age with Downton Abbey drama prodco
UK pubcaster the BBC has put a drama from Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films that’s…