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Blue Ant’s Solange Attwood promoted to int’l EVP
Blue Ant International has promoted Solange Attwood from senior vice president to executive VP of…
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Paramount & Anonymous land rights to Margaret Atwood trilogy
Paramount Television, along with Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to develop a series based…
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Ex-Endemol Shine topper Brass joins Antidote’s board
Former Endemol Shine Group international operations chief Martha Brass has joined the increasingly prolific UK…
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Ex-Warner Bros. exec to open German office for Gaumont
Former Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) Deutschland scripted director Sabine de Mardt is opening…
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Endemol Shine restructures struggling Lilyhammer prodco Rubicon
Endemol Shine Group is restructuring its struggling Norwegian prodco Rubicon, with managing director Pal Kruke…
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All3Media America bosses exit
All3Media America’s CEO and COO are leaving the LA-based production and distribution business. Chief exec…
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Netflix orders some magic with Derren Brown specials
Netflix has signed a worldwide distribution deal with Vaudeville Productions for three specials with magician…
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Endemol Shine Latino’s Wasserman expands role to US
Michelle Wasserman, senior VP for format licensing and content development at Endemol Shine Latino, is…
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Ampere: Premier League rights to pass £10bn mark
The value of Premier League football rights is set to break the £10 billion barrier…
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Bell Media brings Starz to Canada for first time
Canada’s Bell Media has teamed with Lionsgate to bring in its premium pay television platform…
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Netflix value exceeds $100bn as subs hit record level
Netflix added 24 million new users in 2017 and reported its highest ever quarter for…
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Canada’s Rogers Media drops Viceland with JV terminated
Rogers Media and Vice Media are terminating their joint venture, meaning linear network Viceland will…
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Fox’s Sky takeover blocked once again
21st Century Fox’s second attempt to buy up UK satcaster Sky has been provisionally blocked…
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Sundance kicks off with deals for US cable networks
A host of factual deals have been announced during the Sundance Film Festival in 2018,…
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Mark Burnett’s Contender boxes clever with Epix reboot
The Mark Burnett-created boxing reality series The Contender is returning to US television screens after…
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UKTV plotting to increase indie original hours by a third
British channels group UKTV is planning to increase the number of hours it commissions from…
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Murdoch calls on Facebook to pay ‘carriage fees’ for news
News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has called for Facebook to pay publishers for news…
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T Group goes Everywhere with copro deal
US-based T Group Productions has signed an overall coproduction deal with Everywhere Studios, which is…
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Turner’s Filmstruck SVOD service to roll out internationally
Turner, in partnership with Warner Bros, has announced plans to roll out its US subscription…
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Amazon Prime hikes US price by 18% as it ups content spend
Amazon announced Friday that it will increase the price for Prime memberships in the US…
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Sharon Horgan’s Merman hires Fremantle production head
Merman, the production company founded by Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford, has appointed FremantleMedia…
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Caryn Mandabach prodco develops Kazuo Ishiguro novel
Caryn Mandabach Productions, which produces hit tile Peaky Blinders for BBC Two, has optioned the TV…
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Netflix picks up talk show from Community’s Joel McHale
Joel McHale, the former star of NBC/Yahoo comedy Community, is set to host a new…
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Endemol Shine brings in Fox’s legal exec
Endemol Shine Group (ESG) is growing its legal team with the hire of Fox’s James…
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Series Mania launches Writers Campus for new drama talent
Series Mania’s European Project and Talent Forum has launched Writers Campus, a week-long intensive writing…
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Keshet & Woodcut Media renew first-look deal
Following on from the success of a deal struck back in January 2016, global distributor…
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M&A chatter continues with Amazon & Lionsgate rumours
Lionsgate has emerged as the latest major entertainment group set for consolidation, with Amazon among…
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BBCWW’s content chief Helen Jackson set for departure
The newly formed BBC Studios has revealed today that its BBC Worldwide content chief, Helen…
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Sony launches UK non-scripted label Human
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has launched Human, a new non-scripted label in the UK that…
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Fremantle APAC boss Ian Hogg exits
Ian Hogg, the CEO of FremantleMedia Australia and Asia Pacific has announced plans to depart…