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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…
Sky sees highest UK customer growth in 11 years
Sky reported its highest third quarter customer growth in 11 years in the UK and…
France Télévisions forced to work with VOD service
French media regulator the CSA has ordered public broadcaster France Télévisions to make its channels…
Netflix rebooting retro comedy Full House
Having relaunched Arrested Development, Netflix is moving ahead with another comedy reboot with a new…
Food Network dines out on new Asian deals
Food Network has secured a raft of new carriage deals in Asia. The Scripps Networks…
4K add ex-Viacom sales exec
New York-based distributor 4K Media has hired former Viacom International Media Networks programme sales exec…
NBC Universo poaches Discovery exec
Latin-flavoured US cable channel NBC Universo has poached a Discovery Communications exec to become its…
OTT to ‘end broadcast TV as we know it’
The emergence of the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video signals “the end…
BBC First launching with Sony in Japan
BBC Worldwide’s new channel brand BBC First is launching as a programming block on Sony…
Feltheimer to join Televisa board
Lionsgate Entertainment CEO Jon Feltheimer has been nominated to joint the board of Mexican broadcast…
French-Canada finds its Worst Driver
French-speaking Canadian channel Ztele has commissioned a local version of Passion Distribution-sold format Worst Driver…
Vessel raises $57.5m in funding round
Vessel, the new online video start-up co-founded by former Hulu boss Jason Kilar, has raised…
Another German drama to US network
A German drama set in 1980s East Berlin is heading to a US channel, marking…
Sky postpones Gibney’s Scientology doc
UK satcaster Sky has pulled its scheduled broadcast of Alex Gibney’s controversial Scientology documentary, Going…
Netflix global growth ‘dramatic’
US-based streaming service Netflix has seen its international subscriber base “dramatically” grow since debuting outside…
Ex-Disney chief Cook launches studio
The Walt Disney Company’s former studios chairman Dick Cook has launched a family entertainment-focused studio…
Clarkson ‘planning car show comeback’
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson (above middle) is plotting a replacement petrolhead series after…
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…
Paxman catches Election fever with Channel 4
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a night of programming for the upcoming UK election,…
Talpa, Sat.1 embroiled in ‘Faketopia’ scandal
Newtopia, the German version of Talpa’s Utopia, is at the centre of a scandal after…
Canal+ acquires buzzy German drama
Cold War-inspired German drama Deutschland 83 will broadcast in France. The show’s distributor, FremantleMedia International,…
DHX to drop Disney brand for channels
Canada’s DHX Media is rebranding three of its children’s channels to bring them under the…
Corus launching Disney Channel in Canada
Canadian media giant Corus has struck a deal with Disney and will launch Disney Channel…
Televisa USA, Universal team for aliens and vigilantes
The US production division of Mexican cable giant Televisa and the cable production division of…
ORF strikes MIP deals
The sales arm of Austrian pubcaster ORF has concluded a raft of MIPTV deals. On…
AOL, GroupM ink web series pact
AOL and the production division of media agency GroupM have inked a deal for new…
Globo shops telenovelas into Mongolia
Brazilian media giant Globo has licensed its telenovelas Precious Pearl, Now Generation and Helena’s Shadow…
Vodafone reworks Spanish TV offering
Vodafone España has unveiled its new converged offering with the brand Vodafone One. The converged…
Netflix breaks record for new subs
Netflix added 4.9 million new members in the first quarter of this year, a number…
BBC Earth lays foundations in Europe
BBC Worldwide has launched BBC Earth in as a linear TV channel in a number…