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ITV Studios reorganises factual division, appoints boss
ITV Studios has reorganised its factual unit and hired its first-ever UK director of factual….
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NATPE News: Comedy Central Roast format launching in Lat-Am
Comedy Central’s Roast franchise is launching in Latin America for the first time. The first…
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MTG hires Google exec as chief digital officer
Modern Times Group (MTG) has named Google executive Rikard Steiber in the new role of…
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NATPE News: Liz & Dick and Lifetime movies head to HBO Lat-Am
HBO Latin America has licensed A+E Networks’ Lindsay Lohan TV Movie Liz & Dick and…
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NATPE News: MTV’s Tr3s orders daily talkshow, Latin concert series
MTV’s US-Hispanic channel Tr3s has ordered a pair of new series. Daily news format Show…
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International broadcasters place bets on House of Cards
A host of TV channels around the world have bought Netflix’s Kevin Spacey-fronted drama House…
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NATPE says buyer attendance hits 1,000
Ahead of the NATPE market in Miami next week, organisers have said 1,000 buyers have…
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Televisa orders Spanish-language Gossip Girl
Warner Bros. is making a Spanish-language version of youth-skewed drama Gossip Girl for Televisa. The…
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CTC, MTS and Ailove launch online content competition at MIPCube
Russia’s largest independent broadcaster CTC is launching a transmedia content competition at MIPCube, the digital…
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Broadcasters sign up for more Miss Fisher
Several international broadcasters have signed on for the second series of Australian period crime drama…
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MundoFox poaches Telemundo exec for content role
Fox International Channel’s fledgling US Hispanic network MundoFox has hired Suzette Millo, as VP, content…
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Mobile and tablet use takes BBC iPlayer to record year
BBC iPlayer saw a record 2.32 billion TV and radio programme requests in 2012, with…
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New deal for French TV fiction writers
France Télévisions, Groupe 25 Images and four groups representing French content creation professionals – the…
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Presales sealed for The Jungle Bunch series
A raft of broadcasters have acquired upcoming kids series The Jungle Bunch to the Rescue….
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Extreme Sports green lights Roller Derby
The Extreme Sports Channel has commissioned Roller Derby, a reality show about the London Rollergirls…
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UK drama experts set up Far Moor
Drama executive producers Justin Thomson-Glover and Patrick Irwin have teamed with media law firm Lee…
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Sundance Channel picks up raft of Sundance movies
Sundance Channel Global has picked up five Sundance Film Festival movie titles. It has acquired…
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Off the Fence inks UKTV distribution deal
Off the Fence has acquired 300 hours of content that it will sell internationally, including…
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Netflix says intn’l losses will narrow, no launches in first half
Netflix says losses from its international business will get smaller, but it has no plans…
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Jane Millichip joins Sky Vision
Sky Vision’s recruitment drive has continued with the hire of Jane Millichip as director of…
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Shine recruits Palacio to run new Latin division
Shine has hired Cristina Palacio to run a new division that will make content for…
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Turkey’s Global Agency hires Farrell E. Meisel
Turkey-based formats company Global Agency has recruited Farrell E. Meisel as its first-ever director of…
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Manchester Utd takes control of MUTV
Manchester United is acquiring the one third stake in the English Premier League football club’s…
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Zodiak Americas staffing up after Gamson and Cabano promotions
Zodiak Americas has promoted Mike Gamson and Sheila Cabano and is actively looking to staff…
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Blinkbox inks StudioCanal content deal
Streaming service Blinkbox has inked a deal with StudioCanal, giving it a range of the…
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All3Media poaches Gary Woolf from BBC Worldwide
The international arm of UK-based super indie All3Media has poached digital specialist Gary Woolf from…
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Nick Godwin to run new factual prodco at Argonon
Ex-Cineflix executive Nick Godwin has created a new factual production company, BriteSpark, which will be…
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Larry King launching at NATPE
Larry King’s new talkshow will launch internationally at NATPE next week and the chat show…
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Discovery buys Dominic Monaghan’s Wild Things
ITV Studios General Entertainment has shopped Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan to Discovery, which has…
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ZDF Enterprises restructures, ups Burcksen
ZDF Enterprises, the commercial arm of the German public broadcaster ZDF, has restructured its business…