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Scripps signs up Channel 4 shows
Scripps Networks International has acquired a package of British-themed programmes to its global Food Network…
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News brief: Little Airplane, SeaWorld prep eco preschooler
US producer Little Airplane Productions and entertainment company SeaWorld Kids are working on a 52x11mins…
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News brief: KiKa buys Irish toon
German children’s channel KiKa has acquired Irish animated preschool series Joe & Jack from Canada’s…
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Comcast cuts House of Cards deal
US cable giant Comcast has acquired rights to sell season one of Netflix original House…
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UK is top European formats market
The UK is the most lucrative formats market in Europe and TF1 the leading broadcaster…
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Endemol poaches RTVE online boss
Production and distribution giant Endemol has named an RTVE exec at the top of its…
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Zodiak hires France CEO
Zodiak Media has hired Gaspard de Chavagnac as CEO of its French operation putting him…
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Eyeworks’ Oerlemans recovering after heart attack
Eyeworks founder Reinout Oerlemans is in hospital after suffering a heart attack on Sunday. Oerlemans…
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News brief: Channel 4 to meet Taxman
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned indie Tiger Aspect Productions to create a 3x60mins ob…
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Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘offers $200m for cable channel’
Hip-hop impresario Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has reportedly offered around US$200 million to buy US cable…
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News brief: Foxtel goes big on Comedy Central shows
Australian pay TV operator Foxtel has picked up a package of shows from Comedy Central….
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Ukrainian channels forced off cable in Crimea
Crimean cable operators have switched off Ukrainian channels following armed intervention by pro-Russian separatist forces…
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News brief: Broadcasters buy ZDF’s Carthage special
Wales’ S4C, SBS in Australia and New Jersey public station WNET have all prebought Carthage’s…
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Age of Stupid team making police spies drama
The team behind environmental drama doc Age of Stupid are raising finance for Undercovers, a…
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Cartoon Network goes Over the Garden Wall
Cartoon Network has unveiled it latest programming, which includes its first ever animated event miniseries,…
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First Endemol format for Reshet post investment
A multiplatform crowd funding show is the first fruit of production giant Endemol’s multi-million dollar…
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News brief: Trace seals Cablevisión carriage deal
Modern Times Group-owned sports lifestyle channel operator Trace has secured a carriage deal with pay…
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Comedy Central bringing Amy Poehler to MIPTV
Comedy Central is flying Amy Poehler to Cannes for a MIPTV session about her new…
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News brief: Cisneros makes Dangerous Confessions at MIPTV
Venezuela’s Cisneros Media Distribution is taking a trio of new novelas to Cannes for MIPTV….
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Orphan Black joins Amazon family
Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service has become the exclusive subscription streaming home of BBC America…
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Netflix’s France launch set for Autumn, no Orange deal
Orange’s CEO Stéphane Richard confirmed at the end of last week that Netflix plans to…
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BBC lobbying for licence fee hike
The BBC will push for an inflation-based increase in its annual licence fee, according to…
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Shareholders meet to discuss future of Spain’s ONO
ONO’s shareholders are to meet this Thursday to decide whether to press ahead with plans…
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News brief: Russian pay giant feels the Power of crime
Russian pay TV provider Tricolor TV has acquired a 50-hour-plus package of crime programming from…
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Conde Nast makes TV push with Berryman hire
Magazine publisher Condé Nast is pushing further into television format development with the hire of…
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Live TV dominates kids TV viewing
New research suggests that almost 90% of UK kids TV viewing is of live programming….
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Content scores Caryn Mandabach deal
UK- and US-based Content Media Corporation has scored a first-look deal with transatlantic scripted producer…
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Fox’s Finney handed SVOD promotion
Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution’s Kristen Finney has been promoted to senior VP, worldwide pay…
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Cohen: budgets may threaten BBC Four future
The BBC’s director of television has warned arts and culture channel BBC Four could go…
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Channel 4 ups factual chief to Jay Hunt deputy
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has promoted head of factual Ralph Lee to deputy chief creative…