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Dutch net reworks Israeli romcom
Dutch channel Net5 is working up a local version of Israeli romantic comedy The Baker…
SVOD set to boom in emerging markets
There will be a five-fold increase in SVOD revenues across emerging markets between 2014 and…
Comcast-Time Warner deal moves closer
The proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable buy Comcast has received a preliminary endorsement with…
Netflix pre-buys Jamie Dornan war film
Netflix has acquired exclusive rights to Jadotville, a war film set during an African siege…
9 Story poaches Marathon’s McCann
9 Story Media Group has hired Marathon Media creative producer Jennifer McCann to become director…
News brief: Serbia lines up Armoza formats
A Serbian production company has picked up rights to Armoza Formats’ The People’s Choice and…
Monster Frog attracts Austria’s ORF
Austrian pubcaster ORF will coproduce a pair of wildlife films with factual specialist Earth Touch….
Sky, Canal+ pick through Debris with Tunnel 2
European pay TV players Sky and Canal+ are joining forces to make another series of…
A+E opens South Africa base
A+E Networks is launching an office in Johannesburg, South Africa. The US-based channel operator has…
Netflix launching on pay TV service Fetch
Netflix is set to launch on Australian IPTV pay TV service Fetch TV. US-listed SVOD service…
Wolf Creek remake is Stan’s debut original
Australian SVOD platform Stan is getting into the originals game by working up a pair…
News brief: RTL CBS launch new channel feed
The RTL CBS Entertainment joint venture has launched a dedicated channel feed in the Philippines….
Turner’s K-culture channel launches on Astro
Turner Broadcasting has launched its Korean entertainment channel Oh!K on Malaysian pay TV platform Astro….
MTG offloads Swedish cable operation
The Modern Times Group has sold its stake in Swedish cable TV business Sappa to…
Secret Wings takes flight with Blonde Pilot, Mondo
Mondo TV is making an animated series based on the popular Secret Wings greeting card…
Berlusconi’s Fininvest offloads chunk of Mediaset
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset’s shares dropped sharply in value at the end of last week…
France Télévisions, Clan make Doozers play
France Télévisions and Spain’s TVE Clan are among buyers of The Jim Henson Company cartoon…
Lifetime UK calls out Property Brothers
Lifetime in the UK has acquired North American home renovation show Property Brothers from distributor…
Shine TV exec joins ITV Studio’s Potato
Shine TV’s Claire Morrison has joined ITV Studios-owned UK prodco Potato in the new role…
BBC One smells New Blood, poaches Cox
UK broadcaster BBC One has commissioned an Anthony Horowitz-penned 7x60mins crime drama from Jill Green’s…
Moonves: CBS doesn’t need merger
Les Moonves has appeared to pour cold water on speculation US broadcast network CBS may…
Walking Dead creator’s Outcast to Cinemax
Cinemax has taken The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s new series, Outcast, to series. HBO…
Sky follows Danger Dogs
Sky in the UK is among buyers of Danger Dogs, a series from Australia’s Flame…
Phil Craig and Tim Pastore to keynote at MIPDoc
Discovery’s incoming content chief, Phil Craig, will give a keynote address at MIPDoc in Cannes…
New players set for MIP Digital Fronts
The second MIP Digital Fronts will include the likes of AwesomenessTV, Collective Digital Studio and…
Kids VOD service gets Musti
A free-to-view VOD platform for kids has acquired has acquired an animated series based on…
Sky moots German 4K service
Sky could launch a 4K TV service in Germany at the end of this year…
Discovery rebrands SBS operation in Sweden
Discovery is to drop the SBS brand from its Nordic unit SBS Discovery and rebrand…
M6 takes UK’s Undateables to France
French network M6 has ordered a local version of UK documentary format The Undateables. Pernel…
EuropaCorp TV revenues edge up
TV series revenues at Luc Besson’s production and distribution company EuropaCorp inched up in the…