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Warner Bros inks deal with Outline Productions
Warner Bros has picked up international rights to TV content from UK indie Outline Productions….
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MTVNI closes formats deals
MTV Networks International has inked a number of key format deals across Europe and Asia….
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Content’s Thorne goes global
A raft of international broadcasters have acquired British detective drama Thorne after striking deals with…
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Top role for Kevin Maclellan, Roma Khanna out in NBCU restructure
Kevin Maclellan will become president, international television, at NBC Universal International and Roma Khanna is…
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National Geographic moves into factual entertainment with Dizzy deal
Nat Geo has inked a joint venture deal with Touch productions and will launch factual…
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Endemol buys 50% of UK celebrity gossip website Holy Moly
Endemol has bought a 50% stake in UK entertainment website Holy Moly. The producer and…
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Todd Miller leaving Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television’s Asian channels boss, Todd Miller, will leave the company next month. Miller…
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TLC says it will hit 100m international subs by end-2011
The international TLC channel will be in 100 million homes by end-2011, according to Discovery…
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Disney launches Singapore office
Disney Media Distribution, the international sales arm of the Hollywood studio, has established a sales…
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ABC sells Wikileaks around the world
ABC Commercial, the international sales arm of the Australian public broadcaster, has sold its Wikileaks:…
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Star to launch Indian version of Fox Look’s Beauty and the Geek
Star (India) is launching a Hindi-language version of Fox Look format Beauty and The Geek…
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Warner Bros picks up Dutch format
Warner Bros International Television Production has struck a deal with Dutch producer BlazHoffski to distribute…
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Fellowes’ Titantic drama greenlit, sold internationally
Julian Fellowes’ four-part drama Titanic, which is a British, Hungarian and Canadian coproduction that has…
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Netflix moves into original content with Fincher’s House of Cards
US and Canadian online video service Netflix has acquired David Fincher’s political drama House of…
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AETN shakes up programming execs
AETN has promoted three of its key programming executives across its A&E, History and Bio…
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ABC orders Endemol’s 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow as primetime series
ABC has given 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow a full order. Having commissioned a…
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Spike orders new reality series
US cable network Spike TV is launching two new reality series including a car format…
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Turner gives Gumball second season order
Turner has ordered a second season of The Amazing World of Gumball, the first series…
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Fox Look being disbanded following News’ Shine deal
Fox is closing Fox Look less than a year after creating the formats distribution unit….
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Discovery preps Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster special
Discovery Channel is filming a one-hour special on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Anatomy of…
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NBCU acquisitions boss Mark Lawrence leaving the company
Mark Lawrence, NBC Universal Global Network’s acquisitions boss, is leaving the company this month, TBIvision…
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Univision boss unexpectedly steps down
Joe Uva, president and chief executive officer of Univision, unexpectedly announced his decision to leave…
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SevenOne’s royal wedding TV movie sells worldwide
William & Kate, the TV movie about the upcoming British royal wedding for US cable…
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Nickelodeon buys new live-action Lola and Virginia
Hit animated show Lola and Virginia is being remade as a live-action series and has…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger to launch new international TV series at MIP TV
Hollywood action star and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading to MIP TV next month. Schwarzenegger,…
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RTL to launch bouquet of channels in India
Pan European broadcaster RTL Group is to launch a bouquet of channels in India after…
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3Net commissions 3D science doc
3Net, the 3D joint venture set up by Discovery Communications, Sony and IMAX, has commissioned…
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Warner Bros brings Joy to London
Warner Bros International TV Production has hired Numis investment banker Adam Joy as vice president,…
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RTL eyes more int’l acquisitions, denies FremantleMedia sale
International producer and distributor FremantleMedia will continue to acquire small and mid-sized production companies as…
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MarVista sells new Power Rangers into France
MarVista Entertainment has sold free and pay TV rights to the Power Rangers Samurai series…