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Endemol Shine creates Successville comedy label
Endemol Shine Group has created a production company with the team behind BBC Three comedy…
Discovery grows international revenues, profit
Discovery has reported an uptick in revenues and profit at its international business but noted…
Hulu snags eOne’s Cardinal and Gap Year
Hulu has inked a multi-series deal with Entertainment One and will take almost 250 hours…
European broadcasters slam ‘backwards’ EU directive
Europe’s commercial broadcasters have warned that proposed changes to the regulations governing content and broadcasting…
TVNZ names new content bosses
Cate Slater has been upped to director of content and Andrew Shaw to deputy director….
Mediaset returns to profit
Mediaset has bounced back into the black in the first quarter following its €294.5 million…
eSports viewing on the rise
Viewing of eSports rose by 19% to account for six billion hours of viewing across…
Viacom’s Flamman takes on new MTV and Nick role
Peter Flamman has landed a new role at Viacom and will oversee MTV and Nickelodeon…
Chinese giant buys Stan Lee’s POW!
A Chinese media, brands and merchandising giant has bought legendary comic book writer Stan Lee’s…
Liberty says ITV ‘not interesting’
ITV’s market valuation and the premium that would be required to buy it means that…
DRG secures first-look deal with Brown Bob
The prodco of ex-Leopard Films execs Jacqueline Hewer and Nicki Gottlieb has signed a first-look…
New editor for TBI and TBIvision
Jesse Whittock has been promoted to editor of Television Business International (TBI) and TBIvision.com. Whittock…
The CW axes Frequency, No Tomorrow
High-concept dramas Frequency and No Tomorrow will not return to US broadcast network The CW….
Syfy UK heads to Midnight, Texas
Pay TV channel Syfy UK has bought network drama Midnight, Texas from Comcast cousin NBCUniversal…
Drive adds ex-Channel 5, Tigress exec to ranks
Former Channel 5 and Tigress Productions exec Lulu Prutton has joined UK-based production funding and…
Paramount TV strikes deal with 13 Reasons’ Yorkey
Paramount’s TV division has agreed an overall deal with Brian Yorkey, the showrunner of buzzy…
MTN launches Cyprus TV service
MTN has launched a TV service in Cyprus with channels from the BBC, NBCUniversal and…
Tubi TV raises US$20 million in funding
Ad-supported video-on-demand service, Tubi TV, has raised US$20 million in Series B funding. ‘Expansion stage’…
Viceland preps Boyband series, comedy move
Cable net Viceland has announced four new series, including a reality show about a boyband,…
Global pay TV revenues ‘to peak in 2017’
Global pay TV revenues will peak in 2017, but will notdecline rapidly in the five…
BT TV boss departs after three years
The managing director of BT Sport and BT TV, Delia Bushell, has announced plans to…
Commercial TV licence fees abolished in Oz
Australia’s commercial broadcasters have welcomed a government plan to abolish the television licence fees they…
Rebus back on duty with Eleventh Hour
Grizzly Scottish detective inspector John Rebus is set for a TV comeback. UK producer Eleventh…
Welling exits Discovery for Scripps
Discovery Communications veteran Paul Welling has joined Scripps Networks Interactive to lead content efforts in…
Bennett exiting History to create prodco
History chief Jana Bennett is to leave A+E Networks to create a London- and New…
HBO Europe snags UK drama trio
HBO Europe has bought Clique, Liar and Rellik from All3Media International, which distributes the high-end…
The Barcelona Connection sets up UK-Spanish copro
London-based independent producer Nevision and Barcelona-based Diagonal TV are developing The Barcelona Connection, a new…
Viacom18 rejigs management
Viacom18 has upped a key exec and shuffled various others in an organisational rejig. The…
Alfred Haber wins Madonna’s Rebel Heart
Alfred Haber Distribution has snagged rights to a special about the Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour….
Netflix copro among raft of BBC drama commissions
The BBC has announced a raft of new drama series including Duty/Shame, a copro with…