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ABC orders Ben Silverman’s Bet On Your Baby

US network ABC has ordered Bet on Your Baby, a new gameshow from Ben Silverman’s…

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Jeff Ford lands at Ireland’s TV3

Former Channel 5 programming boss Jeff Ford has been recruited as head of content for…

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French network orders Popstars

  Canal+’s French digital network D8 has ordered a local version of the Popstars singing…

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Turner preps more LazyTown

Turner Broadcasting has greenlit a fourth series live-action kids show LazyTown. Turner acquired the owner…

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Lorraine Heggessey’s Boom backs new drama indie

Boom Pictures, the UK indie created last year by former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, is…

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ITV Studios hires Bohland from NBC Universal

ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has appointed Craig Bohland as VP of sales, USA and…

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Cineflix hires Kate Laffey from ITV Studios

Cineflix has hired Kate Laffey from ITV Studios Global Entertainment and she will become director…

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James Bond writers will pen Barbarella TV series

  Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the writers of the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall,…

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Sky Vision strikes US kids content deal

  Sky Vision has sold a package of preschool series to US kids content platform…

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NATPE News: Discovery takes Half the Sky for Lat-Am nets

Discovery Networks Latin America has acquired Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women…

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YouTube reportedly planning subscription offering

YouTube is reportedly preparing to take its TV ambitions to the next stage by launching…

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NATPE News: Nick launches branded blocks across Lat-Am

Viacom is rolling out branded Nickelodeon blocks on free-to-air broadcasters in Latin America. The kids…

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Teletoon gets on board Technicolor toon

Canadian kids broadcaster Teletoon has come on board Atomic Puppet, the animated series from Technicolor…

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Mediaset launches download on-demand offering

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has launched a download-and-play service as part of its Premium Play offering,…

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Impossible Kids execs form new kids indie

Karl Woolley and Jon Doyle, former Impossible Kids MD and creative director respectively, have joined…

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Entertainment One hires head of sales for kids division

Producer and distributor Entertainment One (eOne) has recruited Monica Candiani as its new head of…

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NATPE News: Globo orders more Come Dine With Me

Brazilian broadcaster Globo TV has ordered a second series of ITV Studios Global Entertainment format…

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Fox International buys Endemol drama Low Winter Sun

  Fox International Channels has struck a deal with Endemol for Low Winter Sun, the…

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ITV buys Fox’s cold war series The Americans

  UK commercial broadcaster ITV has picked up upcoming Cold War drama The Americans. The…

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Zodiak poaches Vernière from France Télévisions

Zodiak Rights has hired Eric Vernière. He joins from France Télévisions Distribution where he was…

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Discovery orders bizarre bodies series for intn’l nets

Discovery’s international division has ordered a six-part series about people living with bizarre medical conditions…

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Simon Shaps sets up shop at Idol producer Core

At Core, Shaps will be MD, international content and production and create a London-based team…

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NATPE news: Telemundo inks wide-ranging deal with TVN

NBC Universal-owned US Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo has inked an programming and distribution deal with Chilean…

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NATPE news: MundoFox and RCN order singing format

MundoFox and RCN in Colombia have jointly commissioned a Spanish-language version of UK-originated singing format…

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Disney deal for Lovefilm

Subscription DVD and video-on-demand service Lovefilm has struck a content deal with Disney for the…

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Henson takes rights to Driftwood Bay

The Jim Henson Company’s third party licensing unit has taken international rights to Driftwood Bay,…

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Telemundo teams with Samsung for connected TV app

Telemundo Internacional and Samsung Latin America have joined forces to launch a new app for…

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China’s CCTV buys more WotWots

Chinese public broadcaster CCTV has acquired more episodes of The WotWots, the preschool series produced…

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Entertainment One staffs up acquisitions team

Entertainment One (eOne) has hired two new acquisitions managers, poaching executives from ITV and Teletoon….

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NATPE News: Sony inks Lat-Am deal for Idol

FremantleMedia Enterprises has inked a raft of programming deals with buyers in Latin America, including…