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Spain latest to go Boom!
Spain’s Atresmedia has followed France’s TF1 and the US’s FOX in buying Keshet Intenational gameshow…
Azteca, Astro in telenovela pact
Spanish-language programmer Azteca and Malaysian pay TV provider Astro are partnering on a wide-ranging telenovela…
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL lands on YEP!
Anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL will premiere on Germany children’s programming block YEP! On May 6….
Shine France to pit Channel vs Channel
Shine’s production arm in France has picked up exclusive remake rights for French-speaking territories to…
Armoza does Thailand a Favour
Israel’s Armoza Formats has sold street game format Do Me a Favour to Thailand’s Zense…
Sky Italia debuts Discovery nets
Pay TV provider Sky Italia has added four Discovery Communications-owned channels and one from the…
Slovenia makes a half-century of Strictly remakes
Strictly Come Dancing is to be remade in Slovenia, a deal that takes the show…
TVF scores a Psych Out!
TVF International has acquired rights to Atomic Entertainment’s latest format, Psych Out!. TVFI will now…
ITV Studios to distribute Chinese singing format
ITV Studios Global Entertainment has for the first time signed up distribution rights to a…
My Family moves to Russia
Russian broadcaster CTC has inked a deal for a local version of DLT Raydar Rights-sold…
Nat Geo’s Cosmos the most popular show MIPDoc
National Geographic’s space series Cosmos – A Spacetime Odyssey was the most-screened programme at this…
Sky Vision’s Hodson exits in restructure
The commercial director of BSkyB-owned distributor Sky Vision, Connie Hodson, has left the company, as…
FremantleMedia hooks up with Dick de Rijk
FremantleMedia has partnered with Deal or No Deal creator Dick de Rijk through a multi-year…
WOWOW in for Scorsese doc
Japanese pay TV broadcaster WOWOW has come on board Martin Scorsese’s documentary The New York…
Vice, FremantleMedia launch Munchies, report sales interest
Hipster youth brand Vice has teamed with FremantleMedia to launch a new online food channel,…
BBC Worldwide cuts China deals
BBC Worldside has closed programming deals with Hong Kong free-TV broadcaster TVB and on-demand platform…
Netflix welcomes Justin, Derek
Netflix is one of two buyers of preschool show Justin Time and has given a…
Fox goes Boom! with Keshet DCP format
US broadcaster FOX has commissioned a local version of Keshet International’s latest format, Boom!. The…
Channel 4, Xbox to adapt Swedish sci-fi
UK broadcaster Channel 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios are readying Humans, a sci-fi series…
Israel’s Gil has most-watched MIP format For Real
Gil Productions’ Are You For Real? was the most-screened show at the MIPFormats event in…
Content climbs with Olympus deal
Content Media Corp is selling new Syfy fantasy series Olympus. The 13-part show is to…
New Endemol Israel scripted boss has US remit
Endemol has named Gal Zaid as its director of comedy and drama in Israel. In…
Germany finds its own Utopia
Germany’s Sat.1 has commissioned a local version of Talpa Media’s social experiment format Utopia. The…
Danser exiting Shine Network MD role
Claudia Danser is exiting her role as managing director of Shine Network, TBI has learned….
Ex-Viacom execs launch kids distributor
Former Viacom International Media Networks execs Irina Nazarenko and Maria Ufland have launched an animation…
Sky veteran exec to head BT’s TV unit
Delia Bushell has been appointed managing director of BT TV, the UK telco’s growing pay…
MIPTV 2014: Monster to sell Pip Ahoy! in Cannes
Ireland’s Monster Entertainment will launch 52x11mins animated toon Pip Ahoy! at MIPTV. The preschooler comes…
MTG, Sony sign content deal
Modern Times Group and Sony Pictures Television have signed a multi-year content deal. The agreement…
German net preps music doc Fonko
German regional broadcaster WDR is working up a music documentary with indie First Hand Films….
Metronome brand finished as Shine Nordics is born
Metronome Film & Television is no more, as it rebrands as Shine Nordics to move…