After more than 35 years of operation, TBI is closing its doors and our website will no longer be updated daily. Thank you for all of your support.
News
1 min read
Game of Thrones premiere notches 18.1 million
The opening instalment of season five of Game of Thrones garnered a total of 18.1…
1 min read
Furchester Hotel opens on CBeebies nets
Preschool series The Furchester Hotel is heading to CBeebies channels in Africa, Australia and Poland….
1 min read
OTT service XiveTV launches on Roku
Factual OTT service XiveTV has launched on the Roku streaming platform in the US. The…
1 min read
Hell on Wheels joins MENA SVOD platform
AMC’s post-American Civil War drama Hell on Wheels has been picked up by a Middle…
2 min read
Exec pair replacing Beers at FremantleMedia
Craig Cegielski and Jennifer Mullin have been named co-CEOs of FremantleMedia North America to replace…
1 min read
VOD service launches on Amazon Fire TV
On-demand platform Popcornflix has launched on Amazon Fire TV in the US. The platform, whose…
2 min read
Fullscreen okays Fox comedy from Stern, Quinn
Multichannel network Fullscreen has greenlit a comedy that has come through US broadcast network Fox’s…
2 min read
Ad firms: digital originals to rival TV series
Original digital video will become as important as original TV series within the next five…
1 min read
AMC eyes international Sundance originals
Indie content channel Sundance Global is looking at making original drama for the first time….
1 min read
FYI orders relationship series
FYI has ordered The Seven Year Switch, a reality series in which couples leave their…
1 min read
Zodiak launches kids YouTube channels
The kids division of Zodiak Media will launch two YouTube channels later this year. ZeeKay…
1 min read
Foxtel nears Ten deal
Australian paycaster Foxtel is closing in on a 14.9% stake in commercial free-to-air rival Network…
1 min read
E! to document Bruce Jenner transition
Comcast’s channel E! Entertainment will document American celebrity Bruce Jenner’s transition to a transgender woman….
1 min read
Eccho Rights adds Japanese kids prank show
Sweden-based Eccho Rights has acquired distribution rights to a hidden-camera prank show from Japan in…
1 min read
Cord cutting impact ‘very limited’ in Europe
The number of pay TV subscribers in Western Europe is due to climb in the…
1 min read
Comedy Central Africa will Deal With it
Comedy Central Africa has acquired celebrity prank show Deal With it from Israeli distributor Keshet…
1 min read
Discovery takes on Impossible Engineering
Discovery Networks has acquired UKTV factual series Impossible Engineering for various international channel feeds. UK-based…
1 min read
Downton’s Fellowes pens new ITV drama
Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes is creating another period drama for UK broadcaster ITV. With…
1 min read
Pay TV booms in the Middle East
Pay TV revenues and subscriber numbers rose sharply across the Middle East and North Africa…
1 min read
Comcast, Time Warner Cable merger scrapped
Comcast Communications today confirmed it has scrapped the planned merger with US cable rival Time…
1 min read
Hulu scores Turner SVOD exclusive deal
US streaming service Hulu has snapped up exclusive subscription on-demand rights to Turner Broadcasting System…
2 min read
HBO Europe adds UK drama veteran, starts Easy Living
HBO Europe has recruited the former drama boss at UK prodco TalkbackThames as it continues…
1 min read
Pflimlin out as France Télévisions gets new boss
French media regulator the CSA has named the current executive director of Orange France, Delphine…
1 min read
Fox makes major OTT move in Asia
Fox International Channels is launching several of its key services over the top in Asia….
1 min read
Boss of Endemol Shine’s Remarkable exiting
Colette Foster, the co-chief of Remarkable Television is exiting the prodco after eight years. Remarkable…
1 min read
Discovery to play in Churchill’s Toyshop
Discovery has ordered Churchill’s Toyshop from Sky Vision, a special about the British World War…
1 min read
Canadian SVOD preps for Catastrophe
Canadian SVOD service Shomi has acquired UK-produced comedy Catastrophe. The series, which has previously picked…
1 min read
Discovery’s K2 buys Yu-Gi-Oh! series
Italian kids channel K2 has acquired Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, the latest series in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime…
1 min read
Comcast set to walk from TWC merger
Comcast Communications is set to pull out of its US$45.2 billion planned merger with rival…
1 min read
Olsen sisters make date with Nick
US kids channel Nickelodeon has acquired the library of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, a deal…