News

Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

UK’s Zinc Media bucks market with 34% revenue rise & highest profits in 13 years

UK-based Zinc Media Group is looking at “strategic acquisitions” after reporting a 34% rise in…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

News round-up: Netflix faces ‘Toughest Forces On Earth’; Roku orders ‘Tracee Travels’; Paramount+ renews ‘Dora’

Netflix faces ‘Toughest Forces On Earth’ Netflix has ordered Toughest Forces On Earth, an eight-part…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Nevision taps producer Tim Parfitt to lead Spanish office in European expansion

London-based producer and financier Nevision (Goode Stuff, The Missing Children) is opening a new office…

Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

BBC expands natural history slate with insect & killer whale docs

UK public broadcaster the BBC has commissioned three new natural history shows and a chess…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

SPT’s global scripted chief Nina Lederman to depart in June

Sony Pictures Television (SPT)’s global scripted chief Nina Lederman is leaving the company. Lederman joined…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Spain’s Atresmedia buys Dutch drama ‘Máxima’ about queen of Netherlands

Atresmedia in Spain has picked up rights to Dutch drama Máxima, which follows the life…

Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

Mattel TV Studios hires Amazon, Jim Henson & Bad Robot alums

Barbie and Hot Wheels owner Mattel has made three senior appointments to its TV studio….

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Asylum Entertainment strikes Lamont Pete & John H. Kelleher first-look pacts

LA-based Asylum Entertainment Group has bagged a first-look deal with filmmakers Lamont Pete and his…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Wheelhouse snags Alignment investment, eyes ‘strategic acquisitions’

Brent Montgomery’s production firm Wheelhouse has received an undisclosed investment from US-based private equity firm…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

News round-up: Netflix & BritBox acquire ‘Obituary’; Lionsgate retains Gary Goodman; ITVX adds ‘Guava Juice Show’

Netflix & BritBox acquire ‘Obituary’ Netflix in the UK, BritBox in Australia and TVNZ in…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Satisfaction Iberia hires former Mediacrest exec Bruno Pena Calvo

Satisfaction Iberia has hired former Mediacrest exec Bruno Pena Calvo to lead its production unit….

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Switzerland’s RTS becomes first int’l buyer of Panenka’s ‘We’ve Got To Walk’

RTS in Switzerland has become the first international buyer of Lineup Industries’ format We’ve Got…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Sony & Hasbro strike deal for ‘Clue’ TV & film adaptations

Sony Pictures Television and Sony-owned TriStar Pictures have struck a deal with Hasbro Entertainment for…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

UKTV’s Alibi & S4C in Wales strike first scripted deal on ‘Mudtown’

UKTV-owned Alibi has linked up with Welsh language free-to-air channel S4C for the first time…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Hungary’s TV2 & 1+1 Ukraine join ‘The 1% Club’

Hungary’s TV2 and 1+1 Ukraine have both licensed local versions of BBC Studios quiz format…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

UK’s Channel 4 expands Voltage TV’s ‘Tempting Fortune’ as Roku drops out

Channel 4 in UK has ordered an expanded eight-part second season of Voltage TV’s format…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Ex-Amazon exec Thomas Drachkovitch & CAA alum Jason Hafford launch Dream Bay Entertainment

Former Amazon exec Thomas Drachkovitch and one-time CAA agent Jason Hafford have officially unveiled UK-based…

Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

Viaplay revenues rise but losses deepen, with ad service & password crackdown confirmed

Nordic streamer Viaplay has seen its subscriber number fall compared with 2023 and has confirmed…

Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

News round-up: Netflix boards BBC YA drama; Hidden Pictures inks Warren Adler deal; TVF Benelux sales

Netflix boards BBC YA drama Netflix has picked up the BBC’s adaptation of Holly Jackson’s…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Peter Micelli’s Range Media eyes int’l growth after striking Liberty Global deal

Liberty Global is among companies taking a minority stake in Range Media Partners, which is…

Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

Roku expands ‘The Great American Baking Show’ & Honest Renovations’

US streaming platform Roku is expanding two of its original lifestyle titles, with an early…

Stay Updated Icon 3 min read

Buyer’s Profile: Neil Friedman, co-founder, ChaiFlicks

In this ongoing series, TBI speaks to key buyers about the shows they want and…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Sky NZ expands BBC Studios deal to take BBC First

Sky in New Zealand has struck a deal that will see BBC Studios (BBCS)’s BBC…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Banijay Asia & Ravi Shastri’s Sporting Beyond partner for cricket content

Banijay Asia has linked up with Sporting Beyond, the prodco co-founded by India’s former cricket…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Foxtel commercial & content chief Amanda Laing steps down at Australian pay-TV group

Amanda Laing, chief commercial and content officer at Australian pay-TV group Foxtel, and managing director…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Canada’s Bell Media snags Shark Teeth’s ‘Building Bad’, Cineflix to sell globally

Canada’s Bell Media has struck a pre-sale deal for the first season of factual engineering…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

BANFF adds CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach to line-up

CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach is among senior execs to have been added to the…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Norway’s VGTV acquires Nova Festival doc from Yes Studios

VGTV in Norway has picked up Yes Studios documentary that explores the Hamas terrorist attacks…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

CBS cancels ‘CSI:Vegas’ & ‘So Help Me Todd’

CBS in the US has cancelled a pair of scripted shows, crime drama CSI: Vegas…

Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Netflix shares dive 9% as subs decision & revenue projection disappoint investors

Netflix shares have dived almost 10% after the global streamer’s revenue projections over the next…