Banijay is making a “significant push” into the world of sports, while Netflix revealed it owns less than 25% of its European content and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) UK shared it is seeking longer-running returnable titles in news coming out of Content London this week. Production and distribution giant Banijay is launching a new division, […]
Paramount Global has rejigged its streaming team with two promotions, including an expanded remit for global content exec Jeff Grossman. Grossman has been upped to become EVP of programming at Lawmen: Bass Reeves streamer Paramount+ and will lead the streamer’s “holistic” programming strategy, reporting to Paramount streaming CEO Tom Ryan. The exec was most recently […]
India-based Zee5 Global is to start aggregating other South Asian streamers within its platform. Zee5 Global Add-ons will offer subscribers in the US a single-window to access South Asian entertainment streamers via its service, with platforms priced from $1.49. It will allow customers to watch content across languages from streaming platforms including Simply South (all […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has struck a far-reaching pact with UK-based news organisation Guardian Media Group that will see the US studio gaining exclusive access to its journalism, with the aim of turning the IP into scripted and unscripted shows. The partnership, which will be unveiled at Content London today by Sony Pictures Television chairman […]
Factual streamer Curiosity Inc has appointed former Blue Ant Media and Off the Fence exec Ludo Dufour to the newly created role of VP of licensing. Dufour will lead the global licensing of Curiosity’s portfolio of factual films, series and specials, which spans history, technology, science, nature and wildlife, travel and adventure. Shows include David Attenborough’s […]
RMC Découverte digs up the Inca French broadcaster RMC Découverte has commissioned Pernel Media to produce a new four-episode documentary series, Rise And Fall Of The Inca. The show, which will be a 4 x 60-minute series for the French market and a 4 x 44-minutes for international, delves into the origins and the fall […]
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) UK & Ireland today has made five commissions for Discovery+ and its linear channels, including three new shows and two returning titles. Among the new factual titles is Fatal Flight: Shoreham, which delves into a story of a fighter jet that crashed into a busy main road during The Shoreham Air […]
Fremantle has reached an “amicable resolution” with David Walliams, the former host of ITV’s competition show Britain’s Got Talent, who was suing the production group after his off-camera comments about contestants were leaked in the press. The settlement was struck two months after it emerged that Walliams was taking legal action against Fremantle-owned Thames, suing […]
Banijay plans to “ambitiously expand” its branded content activities by launching a central, standalone division led by Carlotta Rossi Spencer that will work across the production group’s 21-country footprint. Banijay Branded Entertainment (BBE) will look to create content for brands both at a local and global level, working with ad agencies and companies themselves to […]
Raw, the UK factual production company behind The Tinder Swindler and Three Identical Strangers has hired Netflix’s Jonny Taylor as creative director. Taylor will take up his new role in December, joining the senior leadership team, and working alongside Raw founders Dimitri Doganis and Bart Layton, as well as creative director Liesel Evans and EVP […]
