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Kew brings in Askin for US & LatAm sales
Kew Media Group has appointed former Alfred Haber exec Jennifer Askin as president of sales,…
Shiver hires De Moraes after TwoFour exit
Shiver has hired the creator of The Choir and First Dates Ana De Moraes as…
Blue Ant looks to Lat Am with sales hires
Blue Ant Media has made a host of sales appointments to its expanding Global Networks…
Banijay launches scripted outfit Neon Ink
Banijay Group has partnered up with former ITV Studios creative drama execs Kate Lewis and…
Peaky Blinders trio to launch indie Moonage Pictures
Peaky Blinders exec producers Will Gould, Matthew Read and Frith Tiplady are set to launch…
Nat Geo & Fox bring back Seth MacFarlane’s Cosmos
Fox and National Geographic have announced that they will bring back Emmy Award-winning series Cosmos,…
Digital TV Research: MENA pay TV ARPU in decline
Pay TV revenues are set to grow in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)…
Warner Bros. prodco taps Boundless development head
Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has hired the development chief at FremantleMedia UK-owned Boundless,…
Facebook to demote videos to encourage ‘meaningful interactions’
Facebook is changing its news feed to focus more on “personal connections” in a move…
Ex-MTV exec joins newly established Shout! Studios
Former MTV comedy and animation chief Brent Haynes has joined Shout! Studios, the newly established…
Sat.1 breeds another Super Dog
Rescue Dog to Super Dog, the Channel 4 format from Plimsoll Productions, is headed for…
ZDFE merges factual and entertainment under Rückauer
ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has consolidated its factual and entertainment wings under doc chief Ralf Rückauer….
Marvista expands with ex-Cinetel & Fox execs
Marvista Entertainment is looking to growth in 2018 with new senior appointments including Darrell Cross…
9 Story buys Daniel Tiger prodco
Canada’s 9 Story Media Group remains in acquisitive mood – this time round buying the…
BritBox squares up to rivals with Bletchley Circle original drama
Best-of-British SVOD service BritBox has commissioned its first original drama, a spin-off of ITV drama…
Ronan Farrow signs 3-year deal with HBO
Following the investigative takedown of Harvey Weinstein last year, New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow has…
British series chip away at US import stronghold – Eurodata
Eurodata’s 2017 scripted series report reveals that the boom in British original series has led…
TBI Weekly: Sub success for SVOD players
A range of stories from this week highlight that a push in original content is…
Dataxis: global pay TV subscribers grew by 60m last year
Global pay TV subscriber numbers grew by 60 million between the third quarter of 2016…
Netflix bolsters Indian offer with new Discovery net fare
Netflix is attempting to make up lost ground in India by snagging rights to programming…
Gaumont hires sales execs as Narcos heads for int’l market
LA-based distributor Gaumont has hired execs from Snap TV and Miramax, news that comes as…
Fremantle taps ex-CMT exec for unscripted post
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has hired former CMT development head Jayson Dinsmore as president of…
Apple wants viewers to See original epic drama
In its latest push for originals, Apple has ordered an epic futuristic drama written by…
KKR-backed Emerald buys Cosmos-Maya
A media firm with backing from private equity investor KKR has acquired a majority stake…
Fox Asia hires Multichoice EVP for FOX+ OTT service
Fox Networks Group Asia (FNGA) has appointed Multichoice exec John Kotsaftis in the newly created…
Bucks sought from BoJack Horseman’s off-Netflix syndication
Netflix’s adult animation comedy-drama BoJack Horseman is headed for US syndication. LA-based distributor Debmar-Mercury, which…
Hulu reaches 17m subscribers in 2017
Hulu ended last year with more than 17 million total US subscribers across its subscription…
Orange hopes millennials relish low-cost Pickle TV
Orange has launched a new low-cost ad-free TV service aimed at millennials that will be…
John de Mol chips in to Taco Ketelaar’s DFFRNT Media
John de Mol’s Talpa Network has acquired a minority stake in DFFRNT Media, a digital…