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CBS & Imagine enter strategic four-year deal
CBS Corporation and Imagine Television Studios have entered into a four-year co-financing and first-look agreement…
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BBCWW inks first children’s deal with Amazon
BBC Worldwide has acquired its first multi-year children’s licensing deal with SVOD service Amazon Prime…
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Sony Pictures buys distributor Funimation
Sony Pictures Television Networks has reached an agreement to acquire a “substantial” majority stake in…
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Asia Pacific OTT revenues tipped to triple
Over-the-top video revenues in Asia Pacific are set to triple between 2016 and 2022, driven…
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Studiocanal’s Neylon exits as Campos becomes sales head
Studiocanal executive VP of sales and marketing Katrina Neylon has departed the company, TBI has learned,…
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Street homed in new BBC commissioning cross-over role
UK pubcaster the BBC has appointed Jo Street to the newly created role of commissioning…
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Lionsgate & Liberty Global partner on thriller for Starz
Lionsgate and Liberty Global have partnered up to produce new spy thriller The Rook for…
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Discovery buying Scripps for $14.6bn
Discovery Communications is acquiring fellow US-based cable group Scripps Networks Interactive for US$14.6 billion. The…
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Fox promotes Gabay to new comedy post
Fox has promoted Jonathan Gabay to senior vice president of comedy development and programming. Gabay…
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All3 buys German producer from Wige Media
All3Media’s German arm has acquired Munich-based factual entertainment and docs specialist from Wige Media. South&Browse…
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Brave Bison cuts losses after axing half its staff
UK-based digital content company, Brave Bison, reported lower revenues but also reduced losses in H1…
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UnReal’s Noxon behind Dietland plan for AMC
US cable channel AMC has given the greenlight to Dietland, the latest drama from UnReal…
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Sundance SVOD service heads to Rillington Place, Riviera
AMC Networks has acquired Europe-produced scripted trio Back, Rillington Place and Riviera for its Sundance-branded…
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New UK & scripted chiefs for Studio71
Multichannel operator Studio71 has expanded its UK business by hiring a local managing director and…
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Facebook: video to be big business driver
Video will be a much bigger driver of Facebook’s business in the next few years…
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Amazon to up content spend in Q3
Amazon plans to up its investment in video content in the current quarter, despite reporting…
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TBI Weekly: UK kids TV shake-up
Kids television has been on the agenda this week as the industry gears up for…
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Argonon hires NBCU exec after int’l MD exit
Argonon International has hired NBCUniversal’s Cecilie Olsen as senior VP for sales and acquisitions after…
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Burke: NBCU ‘skeptical’ of OTT services
NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke has expressed skepticism over the long-term impact of over-the-top channels services…
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Fincham’s Expectation builds comedy team
Expectation, the prodco Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks run, has hired a creative director for…
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RTVE budget to hit €1bn
Spanish pubcaster RTVE will see its budget hit €1 billion (US$1.2 billion) next year. The…
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Live PD prodco brings in Half Yard exec
Live PD producer Big Fish Entertainment has hired Half Yard Productions’s Jordana Starr to serve…
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Jennifer Aniston & Reese Witherspoon partner for new show
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon have partnered up to star in a new drama series…
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Protests planned as Endemol Shine Turkey dispute expands
Turkish producers, directors and talent are planning to lead protests at Endemol Shine Group’s headquarters…
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Sky confirms Sky España OTT plans
Sky has confirmed plans to launch a “simple and affordable” over-the-top service in Spain, marking…
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Scripps expands lifestyle unit as Nat Geo exec joins
Scripps Lifestyle Studios (SLS), the new digital division of Scripps Networks Interactive, is expanding efforts…
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AwesomenessTV hires Bonnie Pan as network head
AwesomenessTV has hired Endemol Shine Beyond’s former president, Bonnie Pan, as head of network. In…
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Canal + orders Joann Sfar drama Monsters’ Shrink
Canal + has commissioned Red Production Company to produce Joann Sfar’s live action drama Monsters’…
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Chernobyl drama first from HBO, Sky pact
A drama based on the Chernobyl catastrophe is the first high-end series to come out…
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Viacom out of running for Scripps
Viacom’s plan to buy US cable channels group Scripps Networks Interactive appears to be over….