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BBC passes 300 million iPlayer requests in record month
The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service celebrated its biggest ever month in January, surpassing 300 million…
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Ex-WB Network boss Jordan Levin joins Xbox studio
Former WB Network boss and Generate CEO Jordan Levin has joined Nancy Tellem at Xbox…
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Warren Buffett buys into Liberty Global
US investor Warren Buffett’s investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway has acquired a stake in Liberty Global,…
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Shine cuts format deal with Talpa
Shine and Talpa will jointly produce formats including The Voice in Spain and Portugal after the…
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Endemol making mixed martial arts drama for DirecTV
Endemol’s North American division is making a new drama series set in the world of…
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FremantleMedia renews deal with Ash Atalla indie
The distribution arm of FremantleMedia International has extended its first-look deal with UK indie Roughcut…
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Vice, FremantleMedia cook up foodie web channel for hipsters
Vice and FremantleMedia have joined forces to make culinary content for a new hipster food…
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Fledgling prodco Riverdog hires development boss from ITV
Riverdog Productions, the recently-formed Greenbird-backed UK producer, has hired Katherine Bovey as its head of…
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ITV takes majority stake in Teen Wolf producer
UK broadcaster has acquired a majority stake in another US indie producer – this time…
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Sky suffers blow in sports channels challenge
BSkyB has suffered a reversal in its legal battle over the terms under which it…
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Data: House of Cards binge viewing rockets
Netflix saw a huge spike in subscribers watching its drama House of Cards as its…
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Channel 5 targets Yorkshire Ripper
UK terrestrial Channel 5 has commissioned a 1x60mins special that includes first-hand accounts from survivors…
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Germany’s SET shops at Selfridges
German pay TV broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television has acquired both seasons of ITV Studios’ period…
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Belgacom expands on-demand service
Belgian telco Belgacom has launched its TV Replay service in Flanders and Brussels, allowing viewers…
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Informa: Netflix facing greater rights competition as rivals step up
Netflix will find it harder to secure premium content this year with increasing competition from…
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Cineflix notches worldwide sales
Cineflix has sold factual and fct-ent titles to a raft of international broadcasters. The independent…
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Paramount rolling out in Russia and Hungary
Viacom has struck new carriage deals for the Paramount Channel in Russia and Hungary. In…
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News brief: BBC Three’s Uncle visits again
UK youth channel BBC Three has commissioned a second season of Baby Cow-produced comedy Uncle….
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Dark Prophet makes presence felt on Dailymotion
Online video platform Dailymotion is today exclusively launching a indie drama series about a music…
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Orange is the New Black sets return date
Netflix has set a launch date for the second season of its well-received female prison…
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CBS attaches Lythgoe to Turkish gameshow pilot
US broadcast network CBS has commissioned a pilot of Turkish gameshow format Keep Your Light…
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Time Warner Cable shareholder sue over Comcast deal
A Time Warner Cable shareholder is suing to block Comcast Communications’ US$45.2 billion cable TV…
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Thinkbox: Linear TV dominates UK viewing habits
A massive 98.5% of UK TV viewing was done on a traditional TV set last…
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Scripps profits slip in Travel Channel write-down
Channel operator Scripps Networks Interactive saw profits drop year-on-year in Q4 after writing down the…
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Nat Geo reality star dies from snakebite
Pastor Jamie Coots, who starred in National Geographic Channel reality series Snake Salvation, has died…
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News brief: ITV orders Cilla Black drama
UK broadcaster ITV has ordered a three-part scripted series looking at the early years of…
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News Corp gets huge rebate
Foxtel co-owner News Corp has received a massive tax rebate from Australian authorities amounting to…
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News brief: ABC Family cancels Pretty Little Liars spin-off
ABC Family has cancelled Ravenswood after one season. The series, which follows a group of…
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Amazon Studios originals land with Sony
Sony Pictures Television will sell Amazon Studios-produced originals internationally, TBI has learned. SPT already sells…
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Fox to launch Cosmos on all major US channels
Fox in the US has followed suit from its international channels business by planning to…