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Seacrest, Endemol Shine pact for YouTube talent show
Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine are making Best.Cover.Ever, a singing competition series that will…
Ex-ITV Studios exec joins DRG drama club
Former ITV Studios, Shine Group and Cineflix exec Dave Clarke has joined UK-based DRG to…
Turner, Astro ink Warner TV partnership
The Asian division of Turner and Malaysian pay TV giant Astro have agreed a joint…
Raft of OTT channel deals for Celestial Tiger
Celestial Tiger Entertainment has struck a raft of OTT deals for its movies, action and…
Netflix takes local route in Thailand
US-based streaming giant Netflix has updated its Thai service to better cater for local subscribers….
HBO Nordic, Zee take on The Good Fight
CBS has shopped The Good Fight to HBO in Europe and Zee in India. The…
Alibaba’s Youku taking Saturday Night Live into China
A Chinese Saturday Night Live (SNL) is in the works, with Alibaba-owned online platform Youku making…
MTG investor buys into Com Hem
Swedish investment firm Kinnevik has bought an 18.5% stake in Scandinavian TV and telecoms provider…
NBC ‘social media crucial to future of network TV’
Extending flagship show brands to have a strong presence on social media is central to…
Warner lines up DC digital service
Warner Bros. Television is working on a pair of original series for a soon-to-launch DC-branded…
Edwards leaving Warner Bros. for Expectation
Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ new prodco Expectation has hired Alexia Edwards as COO who…
BBC drama launch in India
BBC Worldwide is launching its BBC First brand in India for the first time, and…
Asian Netflix rival hits 6 million
Viu, the Asian rival to Netflix from telco giant PCCW, has hit six million subscribers…
YouTube launches Kids app on smart TVs
YouTube is launching its YouTube Kids app on select smart TVs around the world. As…
Twitter gears up for 24-hour video streaming
Twitter is gearing up to stream live video around the clock through its apps and…
Discovery, Chinese MCN target millennials
Discovery Communications and Chinese MCN VS Media have launched Tan Ba, a new digital service…
AT&T CEO: Time Warner deal ‘moving as expected’
Time Warner’s proposed merger with AT&T is “moving along as expected”. The chairman and CEO…
Proper closes 250 hours of deals
Canada’s Proper Rights has sold more than 250 hours of programming, including presales to Foxtel…
Reich to lead new Viacom product unit
Viacom has created a new division that will create multiplatform products that focus on video…
MTV takes SVOD route with Hulu Japan
Hulu Japan will play host to the first Asian subscription OTT linear version of Viacom’s…
Globomedia co-founder creates drama unit
A cofounder of Globomedia, Daniel Écija, is creating a ‘fiction factory’ within the Spanish-language production…
Fremantle buys a portion of Duck Soup
FremantleMedia has taken a 25% stake in Duck Soup Films, the UK film and TV…
Eliza Dushku sets up Black Company fantasy series
Eliza Dushku’s Boston Diva Productions and David Goyer’s Phantom Four are teaming with IM Global…
VOD boosts UK TV revenues
TV advertising spend in the UK reached a new high of £5.3 billion (US$6.8 billion)…
Writers Guild vote authorises strike
The Writers Guild of America members have overwhelmingly voted to authorise a strike that would…
MTG sells Czech TV assets
MTG has completed the sale of its Czech TV assets as it continues its transformation…
‘TV viewing more popular on non-TV devices’
More people now prefer to watch TV shows on internet connected devices than on traditional…
Red Arrow re-ups Bastin at Fabrik
Henrik Bastin, the CEO of LA-based Fabrik Entertainment, has renewed his contract at the Bosch…
Virgin Media adds France 2, TVN & Russian nets
UK pay TV operator Virgin Media has bolstered its offer by securing distribution of channels…
Apple delays Carpool Karaoke
Apple has pushed back the launch of its first original series, Carpool Karaoke. The tech…