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McLure exits Pioneer after 23 years
Kirstie McLure is leaving Pioneer Productions after 23 years at the UK unscripted prodco. McLure…
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Sky, ITV commit £1.55m to eSports net Ginx TV
Sky has invested £1.55 million (US$2.01 million) in eSports broadcaster Ginx TV, with UK broadcaster…
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Fox taking Ukrainian drama format into the US
Fox Studios has scooped the rights to Ukrainian political comedy Servant of the People and…
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Italy’s Rai launches streaming service
Rai has launched Rai Play, its free OTT service, which offers live streams of a…
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Sony’s Crackle preps Charlie Sheen original
Sony’s OTT service Crackle has greenlit Mad Families, a comedy film featuring troubled star Charlie…
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West Europe SVOD spend to reach €3bn – IHS
Total spending on subscription on-demand services in western Europe reached €2 billion (US$2.2 billion) last…
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ITV2 explores The Great Indoors with CBS
UK digital terrestrial channel ITV2 has acquired new season US sitcom The Great Indoors. The…
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Netflix plots fully localised Polish service
Netflix has revealed plans to fully localise its on-demand service in Poland, striking back at…
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Featherstone reunites with another Kudos exec
Jane Featherstone is reuniting with former Kudos colleague Naomi de Pear, who is launching a…
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Evil Killers let loose on Sky channel
Pick, the UK free-to-air channel run by pay TV specialist Sky, has greenlit two true…
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Canal+ cuts premium pricing
Canal+ is cutting the price of its premium channel, introducing subscriptions with no fixed commitment…
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Comcast starts Netflix trial on set-top boxes
US pay TV giant Comcast is due to start rolling out a beta version of…
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Ronnigen returns as TV2 Norway chief exits
Trygve Rønningen is returning to Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 to replace Trond Kvernstrøm as channel…
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OTT ‘adds $25bn to global video industry’
The global OTT market has added some US$25 billion in revenue to the video industry,…
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Vivendi’s Guess My Age heads to Germany
Vivendi’s formats division, Vivendi Entertainment, has shopped its Guess My Age format to ARD in…
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Ex-Victory creative chief joins Flynn prodco
Former Victory Television creative director Stuart Shawcross has joined Youngest Media, the fledgling UK-based prodco…
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Corus’ distribution arm makes lifestyle sales
Corus Entertainment has shopped a raft of lifestyle programming to international channels. Home-flipping series Masters…
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Reed takes MIP into China
The organisers of MIPCOM are launching MIP China Hangzhou, a new programming market that will…
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Night Manager wins Emmy, prodco hires Wolkoff
The Night Manager scooped a second Emmy last night (Sunday), with Susanne Bier getting the…
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MacLellan upped in NBCU restructure
NBCUniversal has given Kevin MacLellan has taken on an expanded role at is international business…
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Rosenblum joins Disney in ‘major reorganisation’
Veteran executive Bruce Rosenblum has joined The Walt Disney Company as part of a “major…
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Netflix business model ‘may be unsustainable’
Global subscription video-on-demand revenues are set to double to US$35 billion by 2021, but market…
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Viacom ‘will keep Paramount’
Viacom is no longer looking actively to sell as stake in Paramount Pictures, according to…
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Fox sues Netflix over ‘executive poaching’
21st Century Fox is suing Netflix over alleged executive poaching. The suit claims the SVOD…
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MTG moves into kids TV
The Modern Times Group has commissioned The Big Experiment, its first original kids series. The…
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ABC launches ABC MEe channel and app
Australian pubcaster the ABC will launch its new kids TV and digital service, ABC Me,…
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CraveTV takes Rolling Stones to SVOD
Canadian SVOD service CraveTV has snagged the rights to The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé:…
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Netflix takes rights to young Obama film
Netflix has won a bidding war to land worldwide rights to a new movie about…
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Objective poaches Syco exec in COO hire
UK-based Objective Media Group has hired a COO from Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment. Matthew Angel…
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Vivendi’s Studio+ orders original docs
Vivendi has ordered a pair of doc originals for its soon-to-launch premium shortform and mobile…