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