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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…
Jeff Ford lands at Ireland’s TV3
Former Channel 5 programming boss Jeff Ford has been recruited as head of content for…
French network orders Popstars
Canal+’s French digital network D8 has ordered a local version of the Popstars singing…
Turner preps more LazyTown
Turner Broadcasting has greenlit a fourth series live-action kids show LazyTown. Turner acquired the owner…
Lorraine Heggessey’s Boom backs new drama indie
Boom Pictures, the UK indie created last year by former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, is…
ITV Studios hires Bohland from NBC Universal
ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has appointed Craig Bohland as VP of sales, USA and…
Cineflix hires Kate Laffey from ITV Studios
Cineflix has hired Kate Laffey from ITV Studios Global Entertainment and she will become director…
James Bond writers will pen Barbarella TV series
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the writers of the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall,…
Sky Vision strikes US kids content deal
Sky Vision has sold a package of preschool series to US kids content platform…
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…
YouTube reportedly planning subscription offering
YouTube is reportedly preparing to take its TV ambitions to the next stage by launching…
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…
Teletoon gets on board Technicolor toon
Canadian kids broadcaster Teletoon has come on board Atomic Puppet, the animated series from Technicolor…
Mediaset launches download on-demand offering
Italian broadcaster Mediaset has launched a download-and-play service as part of its Premium Play offering,…
Impossible Kids execs form new kids indie
Karl Woolley and Jon Doyle, former Impossible Kids MD and creative director respectively, have joined…
Entertainment One hires head of sales for kids division
Producer and distributor Entertainment One (eOne) has recruited Monica Candiani as its new head of…
NATPE News: Globo orders more Come Dine With Me
Brazilian broadcaster Globo TV has ordered a second series of ITV Studios Global Entertainment format…
Fox International buys Endemol drama Low Winter Sun
Fox International Channels has struck a deal with Endemol for Low Winter Sun, the…
ITV buys Fox’s cold war series The Americans
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has picked up upcoming Cold War drama The Americans. The…
Zodiak poaches Vernière from France Télévisions
Zodiak Rights has hired Eric Vernière. He joins from France Télévisions Distribution where he was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Disney deal for Lovefilm
Subscription DVD and video-on-demand service Lovefilm has struck a content deal with Disney for the…
Henson takes rights to Driftwood Bay
The Jim Henson Company’s third party licensing unit has taken international rights to Driftwood Bay,…
Telemundo teams with Samsung for connected TV app
Telemundo Internacional and Samsung Latin America have joined forces to launch a new app for…
China’s CCTV buys more WotWots
Chinese public broadcaster CCTV has acquired more episodes of The WotWots, the preschool series produced…
Entertainment One staffs up acquisitions team
Entertainment One (eOne) has hired two new acquisitions managers, poaching executives from ITV and Teletoon….
NATPE News: Sony inks Lat-Am deal for Idol
FremantleMedia Enterprises has inked a raft of programming deals with buyers in Latin America, including…