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TBI Tech & Analysis: Where Nordic TV trends are going next

The Nordic quartet of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland have for decades tended to be forerunners when it comes to consumption trends of video content. Omdia’s Tony Gunnarsson talks TBI through what we can expect next. Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark were home to 34 million subscriptions across streaming and pay TV in 2023, according […]

Great Point Media founder Jim Reeve dies, aged 64

Great Point Media founder and chairman Jim Reeve has died suddenly, aged 64. Reeve produced a raft of shows before working as an investment exec at Ingeniuous Group. He went on to found Great Point Media with Robert Halmi Jr in 2013, producing and financing more than 400 TV series and films. The company has […]

Leonine & ex-Constantin MD Koestler launch documentary prodco

Leonine Studios in Germany is bolstering its factual division by launching a new label to be led by former Constantin Entertainment chief Jochen Koestler. Leonine Documentaries will operate alongside the group’s fellow unscripted companies, Beetz Brothers (fka Gebrueder Beetz) and i&u TV. The new unit will be led by Koestler, who became Leonine’s EVP of […]

BBC Studios Factual Productions promotes Nicola Pinn to new COO position

BBC Studios Factual Productions has elevated Nicola Pinn to the newly created position of chief operating officer. Currently serving as director of production, the promotion expands Pinn’s remit to lead on production and business management across the factual portfolio at BBC Studios. She will also oversee all aspects of financial and creative goals, governance, and […]

What’s next for London TV Screenings?

As buyers enter the final furlong at London TV Screenings, TBI reflects on a busy week across the UK capital and asks what’s next for the mushrooming sales event. With Fremantle taking to the stage under the bright lights of Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square this morning, another London TV Screenings is almost wrapped. Fremantle’s […]

South Korea’s KBS buys Wildbear’s ‘Wild Winter’

KBS in South Korea has picked up rights to Wildbear Entertainment’s Wild Winter. The four-part natural history documentary has been produced by the Australian prodco  for France 5 and explores winter landscapes and their animal inhabitants, including emperor penguins, Artic foxes, polar bears and harp seals. The show is sold by All3Media International, which previously […]

Amazon Prime Video launching Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood docuseries

Amazon streamer Prime Video is launching Friends In Low Places next week, a new docuseries featuring county music icons Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Debuting on 7 March, the series follows the pair and their friends – Benjamin and Max Goldberg, Jenny Deathride Bratt and Camille Tambunting – as they set out to build the […]

BBC Studios buys ITV’s BritBox stake for $322m

BBC Studios (BBCS) is taking full ownership of streamer BritBox International, acquiring ITV’s 50% share for £255m ($322m). The deal comes seven years since ITV and BBCS launched the streamer, which claims 3.75 million subscribers and is available in eight countries. Following BritBox International’s move into BBCS’s Global Media & Streaming division, its global CEO […]

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