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Sky Arts looks at Bailey exhibition
UK satellite channel Sky Arts has commissioned a one-off doc from indie Arrow Media looking…
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Antenna makes it Raine with strategic deal
Greece-based broadcaster Antenna Group has entered into a wide-ranging strategic partnership with media-focused merchant bank…
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MENA pay TV revenues set to jump 83%
Pay TV revenues in the Middle East and North Africa are set to climb by…
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Latin American broadcasters acquire Rive Gauche programming
Turner Latin America has acquired new seasons of Operation Repo and Happily Never After from…
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UKTV launches catch-up service on YouView
UKTV has launched a seven-day catch-up service on YouView for two of its channels. The…
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Cake Boss prodco ups two
High Noon Entertainment has promoted two of its programming execs. Patrick Jager (pictured) has been…
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50 Cent heading to MIPTV for Power debut
Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, will be in Cannes for MIPTV to unveil his new…
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E4 tries out ALT drama
UK youth-skewed channel E4 has commissioned a psychological drama-comedy in which “the worst case scenario…
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Fast Forward sales for ORF
Vietnam’s Viettel Group has purchased Austrian crime series Fast Forward from ORF-Enterprise. The series follows…
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Nordic World strikes UK formats deal
Distributor Nordic World has entered into a first-look partnership with recently-formed UK format creation outfit…
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Intel sells online pay TV assets to Verizon
Intel has sold Intel Media, the division that homes the assets of its planned online…
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Cisneros Media relaunches distribution outfit
Cisneros Media, owner of Venezuelan broadcaster Venevision and US Spanish-language Venevision Productions, has rebranded its…
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BBC Worldwide poaches ex-UTV exec
BBC Worldwide’s Indian arm has appointed Akhauri Sinha as its COO of content and production….
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SBS and Foxtel make new acquisitions
SBS in Norway and Foxtel in Australia have acquired My Dream Derelict Home from DCD…
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Impossible Pictures enlists publisher
Impossible Pictures Factual and Osprey Publishing have announced plans for a collaboration, based on the…
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Italy, Egypt ask Who’s Got the Money?
Who’s Got the Money?, a paper gameshow from indie French TV, is to be made…
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Globosat learns Cumming’s Urban Secrets
Brazilian satellite channels operator Globosat has bought Urban Secrets, a UK-produced series in which actor…
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Facebook creator’s sibling goes to work for Esquire
Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is working on a cable series…
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German Disney Channel claims best ever free TV launch
Disney Channel’s debut on German free TV has produced strong results for the Mouse House….
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Walking Dead heads for PS3 in Russia
Zombie drama The Walking Dead is among the shows Russian on-demand platform Tvigle will offer…
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Sony Entertainment Television launches on UK’s TalkTalk
Sony Pictures Television Networks has launched its general entertainment channel, Sony Entertainment Television, through UK…
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Monster’s Video Killed the Radio Star to Sky
UK pay TV broadcaster Sky has acquired the latest season of Video Killed the Radio…
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Netflix and SVOD grow as premium TV declines
Subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix have grown in popularity over the last two years…
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Amazon gets on board Barbarella series
Streaming service Amazon has reportedly come on board the Barbarella TV series. The show, from…
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Turner hires EMEA finance boss from Time Out
Turner International has recruited Aksel van der Wal (pictured) as senior VP, finance, for its…
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Swedish cable launch for Netflix
Subscription video-on-demand service Netflix is available on Swedish cable operator Com Hem’s TiVo platform as…
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ABC1 drops children’s programming
Australian broadcaster ABC1 will move children’s programming to dedicated digital channels as the country completes…
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More management changes at CME
CEE-focused broadcast group CME has appointed industry veteran Pavel Stanchev boss of its operations in…
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Armoza’s I Can do That! sells to Spain
Armoza-distributed format I Can Do That! has been acquired by Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Telecinco. The…
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Sky Deutschland snags movie premieres
Sky Deutschland has secured first-broadcast pay-TV and SVOD rights to a clutch of Oscar-nominated independent…