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Ex-FremantleMedia boss joins Singaporean prodco

Patrick Schult has joined Imagine Group Entertainment as director of business development. Schult held various…

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Sky sees highest UK customer growth in 11 years

Sky reported its highest third quarter customer growth in 11 years in the UK and…

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France Télévisions forced to work with VOD service

French media regulator the CSA has ordered public broadcaster France Télévisions to make its channels…

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Netflix rebooting retro comedy Full House

Having relaunched Arrested Development, Netflix is moving ahead with another comedy reboot with a new…

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Food Network dines out on new Asian deals

Food Network has secured a raft of new carriage deals in Asia. The Scripps Networks…

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4K add ex-Viacom sales exec

New York-based distributor 4K Media has hired former Viacom International Media Networks programme sales exec…

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NBC Universo poaches Discovery exec

Latin-flavoured US cable channel NBC Universo has poached a Discovery Communications exec to become its…

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OTT to ‘end broadcast TV as we know it’

The emergence of the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video signals “the end…

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BBC First launching with Sony in Japan

BBC Worldwide’s new channel brand BBC First is launching as a programming block on Sony…

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Feltheimer to join Televisa board

Lionsgate Entertainment CEO Jon Feltheimer has been nominated to joint the board of Mexican broadcast…

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French-Canada finds its Worst Driver

French-speaking Canadian channel Ztele has commissioned a local version of Passion Distribution-sold format Worst Driver…

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Vessel raises $57.5m in funding round

Vessel, the new online video start-up co-founded by former Hulu boss Jason Kilar, has raised…

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Another German drama to US network

A German drama set in 1980s East Berlin is heading to a US channel, marking…

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Sky postpones Gibney’s Scientology doc

UK satcaster Sky has pulled its scheduled broadcast of Alex Gibney’s controversial Scientology documentary, Going…

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Netflix global growth ‘dramatic’

US-based streaming service Netflix has seen its international subscriber base “dramatically” grow since debuting outside…

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Ex-Disney chief Cook launches studio

The Walt Disney Company’s former studios chairman Dick Cook has launched a family entertainment-focused studio…

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Clarkson ‘planning car show comeback’

Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson (above middle) is plotting a replacement petrolhead series after…

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News brief: Discovery Kids keen on Finding Stuff Out

Discovery Kids Asia Pacific has acquired a raft of programmes from Canada’s 9 Story Media…

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Paxman catches Election fever with Channel 4

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a night of programming for the upcoming UK election,…

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Talpa, Sat.1 embroiled in ‘Faketopia’ scandal

Newtopia, the German version of Talpa’s Utopia, is at the centre of a scandal after…

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Canal+ acquires buzzy German drama

Cold War-inspired German drama Deutschland 83 will broadcast in France. The show’s distributor, FremantleMedia International,…

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DHX to drop Disney brand for channels

Canada’s DHX Media is rebranding three of its children’s channels to bring them under the…

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Corus launching Disney Channel in Canada

Canadian media giant Corus has struck a deal with Disney and will launch Disney Channel…

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Televisa USA, Universal team for aliens and vigilantes

The US production division of Mexican cable giant Televisa and the cable production division of…

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ORF strikes MIP deals

The sales arm of Austrian pubcaster ORF has concluded a raft of MIPTV deals. On…

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AOL, GroupM ink web series pact

AOL and the production division of media agency GroupM have inked a deal for new…

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Globo shops telenovelas into Mongolia

Brazilian media giant Globo has licensed its telenovelas Precious Pearl, Now Generation and Helena’s Shadow…

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Vodafone reworks Spanish TV offering

Vodafone España has unveiled its new converged offering with the brand Vodafone One. The converged…

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Netflix breaks record for new subs

Netflix added 4.9 million new members in the first quarter of this year, a number…

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BBC Earth lays foundations in Europe

BBC Worldwide has launched BBC Earth in as a linear TV channel in a number…