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Fox, ex-Mandalay president in first-look deal
Fox Television Studios has signed former Mandalay Television president Elizabeth Gables Stephen to a first-look…
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iPlayer TV traffic from tablets exceeds PCs for the first time
BBC iPlayer TV programme requests from tablets were higher than from computers for the first…
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Canadian channel seeks format Utopia
Canada has become the sixth territory to get a local version of Talpa Media’s buzzy…
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Lifetime orders four reality series, puts three into development
Lifetime has picked up four new unscripted series and put another three in development. The…
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CEE pay TV broadcaster nabs ex-HBO Europe exec
Poland’s SPI International has appointed a former HBO Europe country manager to take on the…
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Amazon buys Lola & Virginia
Amazon has picked up US rights to kids series Lola & Virginia and will make…
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TF1 buys UK drama The Missing
France’s leading commercial broadcaster TF1 has prebought The Missing, the upcoming UK drama about a…
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News brief: Ukrainian channel to adapt MTV’s Catfish
Ukrainian network Novy Kanal is getting ready to adapt MTV’s online dating Catfish. The channel,…
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News brief: Cineflix promotes US development VP
International producer Cineflix has promoted Andy McEntee to VP, development. Formerly director of development, McEntee…
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News brief: Discovery picks up Strange Addiction, Illegal Eater
Discovery Networks in Latin America has acquired several series from LA-based distributor Rive Gauche Television….
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Wiernik to lead restructured TV4 formats division
Cathrine Wiernik has been named at the head of a restructured formats and acquisitions division…
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Analysts question Netflix’s German chances
German market-watchers have questioned whether Netflix will be able to catch on-demand market leader Amazon…
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Andrew Jackson exits Discovery
Discovery Communications’ specials and landmark series chief Andrew Jackson is exiting the global pay TV…
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OTT revenue to grow by 28% per year, says PwC
Revenue generated by over-the-top (OTT) video streaming services is set to grow at an annual…
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Com Hem IPO could be worth $935m
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has said that it will raise gross proceeds of up…
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My Tupelo, Alfred Haber sink teeth into Vampire deal
US content companies My Tupelo Entertainment and Alfred Haber Television are joining forces for The…
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NBCUniversal strikes TV deal with Tom Hardy’s prodco
NBCUniversal has agreed a first-look deal with Hardy Son & Baker, the production company of…
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Netflix buys Televisa soccer doc
Ahead of the start of the World Cup next week, Netflix has acquired This is…
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Shine poaches BBC Worldwide exec for unscripted
Shine America has recruited Michael Brooks as its senior VP, unscripted programming. The US division…
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YouTube net Barcroft, Rightster to ‘supercharge’ partnership
Barcroft TV, the high-performing UK-based YouTube channel, has signed an extended strategic partnership with multichannel…
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Canada’s Bristow hires head of content
Bristow Global Media has hired Claire Adams as head of content. She takes the newly-created…
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Fox poaches CBS, Funny or Die execs
FOX Broadcasting in the US has programming executives from rival CBS Television Studios and comedy…
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Leftfield follows George promotion with development hire
US producer Leftfield Pictures has hired Jason Burinescu from Naked & Afraid producer Renegade 83….
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SBS pay channel captivated by Hostages
Australian pay TV channel STUDIO has acquired Israeli drama Hostages. The 10x60mins drama will launch…
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BBC Three appoints interim boss
Sam Bickley has been appointed acting channel editor of UK free-to-air channel BBC Three. Bickley…
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New UK factual group buys 360Production, plans acquisitions
A new British production group whose top executives include former Red Arrow UK and RHI…
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TCB grows with Global Agency hire
Paul Heaney’s growing indie distributor TCB Media Rights has added another sales agent to its…
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Telefónica seals €750m deal for Canal+ Spain
Prisa and Telefónica have definitively agreed the sale of Prisa’s 56% stake in pay TV…
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Shaftesbury partners to launch new digital agency
Canada-based producer and distributor Shaftesbury has joined forces with millennial agency Youth Culture to launch…
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George named Leftfield Pictures president
US unscripted specialist Leftfield Entertainment has promoted David George to become president of its subsidiary…