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Raft of commissions for Channel 4
UK broadcaster Channel 4 unveiled a raft of new programming at its upfront in London…
‘Netflix of stand up comedy’ launches
A new subscription video-on-demand service for stand-up comedy has debuted in the UK. NextUp launched…
Hulu buys content recommendations firm
Hulu has acquired the technology behind The Video Genome Project (The VGP), in a deal…
Pulse and Vice staff up
Vice-backed producer Pulse Films has hired Davud Karbassioun for a new role, global president of…
Doc series will follow live death row case
An upcoming French doc series, 20 Years on Death Row, will follow the ongoing case…
Viacom pays $345m for Telefe
US media giant Viacom has confirmed it is buying Telefe, paying US$345 million for Argentinian…
Bond exits Discovery’s Raw for Endemol Shine prodco
UK prodco Dragonfly has hired Richard Bond as creative director. He joins the Endemol Shine…
Raft of Secret Life of 4 Year Olds deals
The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds format has been picked up by broadcasters across…
Fox UK grabs CBS’s Bull by the horns
Fox Networks Group Europe & Africa has secured exclusive first-run rights to new season US…
AMC in league with BBC’s McMafia
US cable channel AMC has joined BBC One on an organised crime drama series. The…
19-2 prodco hires development chief
Canadian prodco Sphère Média has hired Tara Woodbury as its English-language head of development. Sphère…
Westworld one of three HBO recommissions
Westworld’s stellar season one ratings have lead to the HBO sci-fi/mystery drama getting a second…
Record US multichannel TV losses in 2016
The first nine months of 2016 have seen the biggest ever drop in US multichannel…
EE launches ‘Watch with Twitter’
EE has become the first TV platform in the UK to partner with Twitter to…
BBC Studios adds ex-Fremantle exec for Science
BBC Studios Science has added Sundog Pictures and former FremantleMedia factual producer Claudia Lewis to…
Fremantle exec to lead A. Smith unit as BASE folds
US reality giant A. Smith & Co. is merging with Tinopolis Group sister BASE Productions,…
Breton’s Federation adds distribution exec
France-based producer and distributor Federation Entertainment has hired Leyla Formoso to head up its drama…
New ABC Marvel drama to launch on IMAX
US broadcast network ABC has commissioned Marvel Television to produce a live-action comic-inspired drama that…
BBC preps Attenborough natural history app
The BBC will launch a new app featuring a raft of content from respected naturalist…
Vodafone grows TV, trials continue in UK
Vodafone grew its TV customer base by 0.2 million in the first half of the…
GRB hires sales director from A+E
Melanie Torres has joined GRB as director of international sales. The US-based producer and distributor…
Virgin Media boss Mockridge to chair RTS
Pay TV veteran Tom Mockridge will chair the Royal Television Society board of trustees, replacing…
Amazon buys SVOD foreign language films
Amazon has acquired a raft of foreign-language movies for its Prime Video streaming service. The…
Ahmed exits BBC Studios in rejig
The BBC’s long-serving religious programming chief, Aaqil Ahmed, as the UK’s pubcaster restructures its unscripted…
Discovery itching for Blue Ant factual
Discovery Networks has acquired 55 hours of lifestyle and factual programming from Canadian distributor Blue…
Starz Play Arabia raises funding to expand service
Starz Play Arabia has raised a “multi-million dollar” funding round, which it plans to use…
Vimeo strikes TV4 SVOD deal
Warner Bros.-backed TV4 has struck a deal with Vimeo that will see the latter power…
‘Sports viewing on the decline among millennials’
Interest in sport among young millennials is “on the decline” with many viewers lured away…
Tinopolis’ Firecracker hires for new office
UK prodco Firecracker Films has opened a new office in Glasgow, recruiting an exec from…
BBCWW takes Pests and Rich Kids into Africa
Passion Distribution has shopped a raft of content to BBC Worldwide in the wake of…