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ProSiebenSat.1 ‘on right track’ as record Joyn performance drives Q1 results
ProSiebenSat.1 has seen AVOD revenues at streamer Joyn surge by 50% and group revenues rise…
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Andy Kaplan & George Chien’s KC Global to shutter GEM in Japan
Andy Kaplan and George Chien’s KC Global Media is shuttering its Japanese linear network GEM…
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RTL Netherlands & FTV Prima get ‘Stranded On Honeymoon Island’
RTL Netherlands and Czech Republic’s FTV Prima have both ordered local versions of Red Arrow…
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Sony Pictures Entertainment profits down 10% following Hollywood strikes
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) profits fell by almost 10% over the past year, with revenues…
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Warner Bros. Discovery names Hulu alum as GM in Japan, Chieko Nishi to lead networks
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has rejigged its senior ranks in Japan with the hire of…
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Fox & Gordon Ramsay unveil ‘food & lifestyle’ platform Bite
US broadcaster Fox has deepened its ties with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay by launching a…
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NBC preps Belgian format ‘Destination X’, ‘The Americas’ for 2025
US broadcaster NBC will launch its remake of Belgian format Destination X and the second…
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Netflix’s ‘Top Boy’ lands BAFTA TV Awards, as ‘Happy Valley’ star Lancashire wins again
Netflix drama Top Boy and Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire were among the stand-out winners…
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Vix content chief Rodrigo Mazon to leave TelevisaUnivision streamer
Rodrigo Mazon, chief content officer & EVP at TelevisaUnivision’s Spanish-language streamer Vix, is stepping down….
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ITV Studios revenue drops 16% due to Hollywood strikes
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has posted a Q1 revenue drop of 7%, down to £887m…
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ABC in Oz adapts French format ‘The A Talks’ & orders Endemol Shine show ‘Headliners’
The ABC in Australia has unveiled new shows including a local remake of French format…
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Banijay Rights lands former BBC Studios sales exec in Germany, Poland
Banijay Rights has hired a former BBC Studios exec to oversee sales in German-speaking countries…
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Fremantle’s Q1 revenue drops 9%, advertising & streaming growth fuels RTL Group
Fremantle made a stuttering start to 2024 with revenues declining almost 10%, but parent company…
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NBC returns to ‘Deal Or No Deal Island’ for second season
NBC in the US has renewed competition format Deal Or No Deal Island for a…
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A&E greenlights lifestyle show ‘New House No Debt’ from Critical Content
A&E in the US has ordered New House No Debt, a new lifestyle series from…
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RTL Deutschland ups former Netflix exec to become chief content officer
Former Netflix exec Inga Leschek is to become chief content officer at RTL Deutschland from…
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Paramount opens M&A talks with Sony & Apollo, Skydance deal remains on table
Paramount Global opened M&A negotiations with Sony and Apollo over the weekend, after Skydance Media’s…
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Sony & Apollo table $26bn offer for Paramount, shares surge 13%
Paramount shares have surged more than 10% after Sony Pictures Entertainment and private equity outfit…
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Thunderbird president & CCO, Matthew Berkowitz, steps down, sparking leadership shakeup
Matthew Berkowitz is stepping down as president and chief content officer at Canada’s Thunderbird Entertainment…
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S4C in Wales orders local-language version of ‘The Voice’
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has struck a deal for a local version of ITV Studios format,…
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Asylum Entertainment & Tyler Perry launch unscripted venture
Asylum Entertainment Group has struck a new joint venture with Tyler Perry Studios, which has…
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ProSiebenSat.1 defeats MFE proposal to split up company
ProSiebenSat.1 has fought off a proposal from shareholders Media For Europe (MFE) and PFF to…
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Creative Diversity Network CEO Deborah Williams steps down
Creative Diversity Network (CDN)’s CEO Deborah Williams is stepping down from the UK broadcaster-backed organisation….
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Avi Armoza buys back Armoza Formats from ITV Studios
Avi Armoza is buying Armoza Formats back from ITV Studios (ITVS), five years after the…
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Netflix orders reality show about cheating couples, hosted by Amanda Holden
Netflix has commissioned Cheaters: Unfinished Business (working title) a new UK reality show hosted by…
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News round-up: Dandelooo snags ‘PongPong Dino’; GoQuest options ‘Troll Farm’; Pact ‘disappointed’ by C4
Dandelooo snags PongPong Dino French animation production and distribution company Dandelooo has struck a deal…
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All3Media Deutschland ups Filmpool’s Vittorio Valente to head German group
Vittorio Valente has been appointed as CEO of All3Media Deutschland. The exec is currently MD…
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RTL 4 in Netherlands strikes first deal for Belgium’s ‘In Other News, Today’ quizzer
RTL Netherlands has become the first buyer of Belgian format In Other News, Today, with…
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Vice Media creates production unit led by Jamie Hall & Danny Gabai
Vice Media Group has reorganised its production divisions with Pulse Films’ Jamie Hall in London…
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Mediawan to buy Leonine as KKR-backed companies combine
French group Mediawan is to acquire a majority stake in Leonine Studios, the German producer…