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Exclusive: Fox International Channels poaches Comedy Central’s Shoshana Wilson
Fox International Channels has poached Comedy Central executive Shoshana Wilson to join its international acquisitions…
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Channel 4 (UK) acquires Lionsgate’s Nashville
British broadcaster Channel 4 has acquired Hayden Panettiere-fronted drama Nashville after striking a deal with…
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Former FremantleMedia Asia boss sets up new distribution firm
Former FremantleMedia Asia boss Patrick Schult has started a new distribution company based in Singapore…
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Banijay Diving series lands in Sweden
Banijay’s Stars in Danger format has been sold into Sweden. The show, which is the…
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Canal+ says Amazon will launch VOD service in France
Canal+ CEO Bertrand Meheut says that Amazon will likely launch a subscription video-on-demand service in…
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Japan’s NHK and Natural History New Zealand creating new Life Force
Japanese public broadcaster NHK and Fox-owned Kiwi producer NHNZ are making a sequel to their…
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ITV acquires Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
British commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired the rights to the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja…
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Dori Media gameshow The Money Pump to be remade internationally
ITV Studios, the international production and distribution arm of the British commercial broadcaster, is to…
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TBI Exclusive: Marc Rosen’s Georgeville launches scripted Zorro series Z
Mark Rosen (Harry Potter, Threshold) has told TBI that his fledgling US production firm Georgeville…
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Channel 5 looks for the World’s Busiest…
British broadcaster Channel 5 has commissioned factual series World’s Busiest… after striking a deal with…
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Discovery gets Gadget Show
Discovery has acquired magazine series The Gadget Show for its channels in the EMEA region….
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Hulu strikes Nickelodeon deal
Hulu has struck a deal with kids broadcaster Nickelodeon that will see kids series including…
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Nat Geo boards France Télévisions’ war doc
National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) has come on board four part documentary series Apocalypse: World…
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ITV orders a new Catchphrase
British broadcaster ITV has commissioned a reboot for gameshow Catchphrase. The broadcaster has ordered 8x45mins…
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Australia’s Nine gets The Taste
Australian broadcaster Nine Network is to produce a local version of cooking format The Taste…
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ITV acquires Finnish producer Tarinatalo
British commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired Finnish indie producer Tarinatalo. This follows its purchase of…
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Canal+ strikes movie deal with Warner Bros
French premium broadcaster Canal+ has struck an exclusive film output deal with Hollywood studio Warner…
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Pawn Stars getting remade in the UK
A UK version of unscripted series Pawn Stars will be made after A+E Networks UK…
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China’s CCTV buys telenovela Eva Luna
CCTV has acquired the telenovela Eva Luna. The Chinese state broadcaster will air the Latin…
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Scripps launches channels and commssions original shows
Scripps’ Food Network UK has ordered another original series, Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean Cookbook (WT). The…
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HBO Nordic strikes Starz output deal
HBO Nordic has struck an output deal with Starz Media to cover original series including…
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Syfy to remake Banijay’s Opposite Worlds in US
US cable network Syfy is to remake Chilean reality format Opposite Worlds after striking a…
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World Wide Entertainment brings Ocean Models to Cannes
International formats firm World Wide Entertainment is heading to MIPCOM with dozens of Miami models…
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Turner orders more Gumball
Turner Broadcasting has ordered a third season of The Amazing World of Gumball, the first…
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Mega Shark producer The Asylum preps new mockbusters
US independent producer and distributor The Asylum is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a raft…
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Keshet International heads to Cannes with new formats
Israeli distributor Keshet International is taking a raft of new formats to MIPCOM to sit…
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The Gurin Company reboots classic gameshows
International formats firm The Gurin Company is bringing back classic gameshows Truth or Consequence and…
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Africa’s M-Net acquires Endemol’s The Steve Harvey Show
African broadcaster M-Net has acquired over 200 episodes of US talk show The Steve Harvey…
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Peter Chernin linked to Endemol, Core Media deal
Peter Chernin is reportedly in merger talks with formats giant Endemol and American Idol producer…
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Netflix to launch entire season of House of Cards at once
US online video service Netflix is to launch the entire first season of original drama…