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Cartoon Network president Snyder exiting
Cartoon Network president Stu Snyder is exiting the Turner Broadcasting System-owned kids channel after six…
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CTC Media gets ready for Love
Russia’s CTC Media is set to launch a new female-skewing network called CTC Love at…
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Liz Hurley British Royal family show is E!’s first scripted original
US pop culture channel E! Entertainment has ordered an original drama starring Elizabeth Hurley as…
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Vimeo investing $10m in indie VOD service
US-based Vimeo is to pump US$10 million in new funding into its on-demand service to…
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News brief: Former ABC boss joins Genius board
Former ABC Broadcast Group president Tony Thomopoulos as joined the board of Andy Heyward’s kids…
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Starz, BBC and Company Pictures team for abduction drama
Production has started on The Missing, a US-European coproduced drama about a man obsessed with…
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News brief: Warner Bros. close to Machinima investment
Hollywood studio Warner Bros. is leading a round of funding that will see US$18 million…
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Keshet boss signs up for MIPTV keynote
Avi Nir has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at MIPTV in April. Nir, the…
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Netflix buys international Dusk Till Dawn series rights
Streaming service Netflix has acquired international rights to the much-anticipated From Dusk Till Dawn TV…
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Talpa format is Utopia for Turkish channel
Talpa Media’s reality format Utopia will be produced in Turkey for media tycoon Acun Ilıcalı’s network…
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RTL yearly earnings hit record high
RTL has reported “significant” profit growth in 2013 with EBITA reaching a record full-year high,…
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BBC confirms BBC Three 2015 closure plan
UK public broadcaster the BBC has confirmed that it is putting plans in motion to…
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Discovery freaks out with mind control series
Discovery Networks International has ordered The Mind Control Freaks, a ten-part fact-ent series from All3Media’s…
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Netflix resurrects Trailer Park Boys
Netflix has ordered two new seasons of Canada-originated comedy series Trailer Park Boys. Seasons eight…
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History, ZDF, Story House team for Neanderthal Apocalypse
The North American History channels, ZDF Enterprises and prodco Story House are coproducing a new…
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Prisa relaunches TV offer amid $1.1bn takeover reports
Shares in Prisa have surged on reports that Telefónica is close to signing a deal…
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News brief: Rai Gulp backs Sendokai Champions
Italian kids channel Rai Gulp has acquired animated action series Sendokai Champions from Spanish distributor…
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Dori Media and The Company join forces
Dori Media and US producer The Company have inked a production and development pact. The…
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Sky Vision signs back2back development deal
BSkyB-owned Sky Vision has scored an exclusive co-development partnership with UK indie back2back Productions. The…
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BBC One finds The Link, Warner attached for sales
UK channel BBC One has commissioned a quiz show in which teams attempt to find…
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Schechter launches New York prodco
Paranormal State producer Betsy Schechter has launched her own production company with a slate of…
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Oscars bounce drives Wuaki on-demand rentals
Streaming service Wuaki.tv has attributed a massive spike in new release rentals to Sunday’s Academy…
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FremantleMedia bags Lindsay Lohan doc series
FremantleMedia International has acquired worldwide sales rights to an OWN doc series about troubled actress…
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Dutch channel RTL5 remakes I’m a Celebrity
Dutch channel RTL5 has commissioned its own version of evergreen ITV Studios reality format I’m…
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Israel’s United Studios preps UK prodco acquisition
Israel’s oldest production studio is poised to move into the UK market and buy into…
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Spain’s Zinkia in administration
Pocoyo’s Madrid-based brand owner Zinkia Entertainment has gone into administration, marking the latest kids IP…
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Nordic World adds to distributor stable
Distribution group Nordic World has agreed a deal with Denmark’s TV2 and will sell the…
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Oscar ceremony slays The Walking Dead in the ratings
US network ABC’s coverage of the Academy Awards convincingly knocked zombie series The Walking Dead…
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Hulu hires Disney’s Connolly for distribution role
US streaming service has hired Tim Connolly, an exec from one of its parents, Disney,…
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Canada’s Peacock Alley gets horror anthology
Canadian distributor Peacock Alley has bagged international rights to horror anthology series Darknet. The six-part…