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John de Mol’s Talpa teams with Shine Australia
Talpa has inked the latest in a series of international joint ventures, this time teaming…
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Eyeworks hires Rive Gauche exec Crompton
Eyeworks Distribution has poached former Rive Gauche sales boss Dorothy Crompton to head up the…
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Animal Planet launches Mike Tyson pigeon-racing reality series
US cable network Animal Planet is to launch a reality show Taking on Tyson that…
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ABC and BBC order more Scorpion Island from RDF
Australian public broadcaster ABC TV and its UK counterpart the BBC have ordered two more…
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Disney XD buys Australian kids drama Lockie Leonard
The US Disney XD channel has picked up Australian-produced kids series Lockie Leonard. It will…
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MEG builds formats catalogue
Clips-show specialist MEG has added more shows to its formats catalogue, beefing up the slate…
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Oprah nets gets new programming team
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has rejigged its executive team four months after the hire…
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Who Do You Think You Are? travels around the world
Outright Distribution has sold the US version of genealogy format Who Do You Think You…
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James Grant set up new formats division
James Grant Group has launched a TV formats division following the hire of former William…
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Discovery Int. appoints content boss as COO departs
Discovery Networks International COO Sahar Elhabashi is leaving the company. DNI said that her position…
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Murdoch manoeuvres in the Middle East
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has declared that he wants to ramp up local production…
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Save Kids TV says it deplores GMTV’s kids cutbacks
Save Kids TV says ITV should reconsider its decision to scale back kids programming on…
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John de Mol’s Talpa continues expansion drive
Talpa, the formats company owned by John de Mol, has inked another joint venture agreement,…
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Warner Bros inks volume deal with Spain’s La Sexta
Warner Bros has agreed a volume deal with free-to-air Spanish broadcaster La Sexta. The Spanish…
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Bravo aquires Starz’s Spartacus
UK pay TV broadcaster Bravo has acquired Starz Media’s gladiator drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand….
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NHNZ to launch in Abu Dhabi as part of Fox, twofour54 deal
Fox-owned documentary producer NHNZ is set to launch a production studio in the Middle East…
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Galleon’s Chelsea FC football format picked up by ESPN Star
Super Soccer Star, the football entertainment format in which contestants compete for the chance to…
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Moonscoop sells 350hrs of kids TV to India
Moonscoop has sold a package comprising 725 half hours of its content to Sun TV…
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The Movie Network commissions Weinstein doc
The Movie Network has commissioned a documentary based on Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein. The Astral…
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Studio Lambert making Benefit Busters spin-off for C4
Studio Lambert is making The Job Mother for Channel 4, a series in which presenter…
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John de Mol’s Talpa teams with Boomerang
Talpa has created a joint venture TV company with Spanish indie producer Boomerang. The 50-50…
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All3Media picks up Cash At Your Door
All3Media International has picked up rights to Israeli format Cash At Your Door and will…
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Discovery weighs international launches for Oprah and Hasbro channels
Having announced yesterday its intention to roll out female-skewing cable network TLC internationally, Discovery has…
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Spotify considers online video launch
Digital music operator Spotify is considering the launch of a video service that could rival…
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Five aims to capitalise on BBC acquisition cuts
UK commercial broadcaster Five hopes to capitalise on the BBC’s plans to reduce the amount…
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International generates more than UK for ITV Studios
2009 revenues were down at ITV studios, the production arm of UK free-to-air broadcaster ITV….
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Universal Networks Int’l acquires E1’s Copper
Universal Networks International has acquired international rights to E1 Entertainment’s police drama Copper. The worldwide…
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Starz acquires Tandem miniseries Pillars of the Earth
US cable network Starz has acquired the rights to Tandem Communications’ miniseries The Pillars of…
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BBC cutting spend on imports, reining in Worldwide
UK public broadcaster the BBC wants to reduce its spending on imported programming and enforce…
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BBC looks to slash spending on imported programming
The BBC is considering a drastic reduction in its spending on imported shows, according to…