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Channel 5: Greenlight for ‘All Creatures Great And Small’; My5 adds Pluto TV
Channel 5 is adapting James Herriot’s iconic collection of stories All Creatures Great And Small…
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Showtime takes Denmark’s ‘Rita’ to US
US cabler Showtime has handed a pilot order to a remake of hit Danish drama…
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Netflix’s Hastings to keynote at RTS
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is to deliver a keynote address at this year’s Royal Television…
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Paramount explores US-Mexico border
Paramount Network is expanding its scripted offering with a timely order for a 10-part drama…
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Sales round-up: Beta scores for drama trio; Wag TV inks 50-hour Polish deal
Germany’s Beta Film seals deals for drama trio Beta Film has struck a series of…
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Lionsgate strikes first-look TV deal with Mary J. Blige
Lionsgate has struck a first-look deal with singer-actor Mary J. Blige and her fledgling Blue…
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Amazon in talks with YouTube’s Wax for drama role
Amazon Studios is in talks to appoint YouTube Premium’s scripted exec Jon Wax following the…
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Canada’s WAM Media Group opens scripted arm with Muse exec
Canada’s WAM Media Group, producers of Netflix and Investigation Discovery’s Real Detective, has formed a…
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Netflix film exec joins Disney+
Disney has poached Netflix’s director of original film Matt Brodlie to aid in the growth…
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Apple, Amazon talk up flexible deals
Apple’s creative director for Europe Jay Hunt and Amazon Studios’ director of European originals Georgia…
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Amazon agrees Brosnahan first-look deal
Amazon will work with Brosnahan and her label Scrap Paper Pictures to create shows that…
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ITV orders honour killing drama
UK broadcaster ITV has ordered a two-part crime drama about an honour killing from the…
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TBI Weekly: Premium aspirations elevate global-facing LatAm drama
The appeal of scripted Spanish-language programming, with premium budgets and global-facing stories, was more apparent…
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Russian crime thriller Silver Spoon picked up for South Korean remake
South Korean producer Supermoon Pictures has acquired remake rights for hit Russian crime thriller Silver…
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How can Canada’s golden age of comedy go global?
Jamie Brown, CEO of Baroness von Sketch Show producer Frantic Films, says more broad-appeal experimentation is required…
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Netflix orders Swedish crime series ‘Snabba Cash’, renews ‘The Rain’ for final season
Netflix is stocking up on more Scandi dramas. The streamer has ordered Snabba Cash, a…
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Viacom International Studios hunts “alliances” to bolster global roll-out
Viacom has made it crystal clear that its in-house global production banner is open for…
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Conecta Fiction reveals pitch prize winners
Spanish and Chilean projects took home the top pitch prizes at the third instalment of…
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Showtime picks up Kirsten Dunst YouTube series
Showtime has picked up On Becoming a God in Central Florida, a nine part series…
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Kinetic Content readies scripted venture
Kinetic Content founding CEO Chris Coelen has agreed a multi-year extension of his contract with…
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The House that Gurinder built
Director and screenwriter Gurinder Chadha’s first large-scale drama series Beecham House, to be screened in…
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Glenda Jackson returns to TV for BBC One’s ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’
Double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson (Women In Love, Elizabeth R) is to star in BBC…
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Sky orders ‘The Trip to Greece’
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are to reunite with director Michael Winterbottom for The Trip…
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MGM options young adult sci-fi thriller ‘Aurora Rising’
MGM Television has optioned young adult sci-fi thriller Aurora Rising, written by Amie Kaufman and Jay…
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Conecta Fiction: Flipping the script
In June, the Spanish city of Pamplona-Iruña will host the third edition of Conecta Fiction,…
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Sky to double down on originals under in-house Studios banner
Sky is to double down on investment in originals under new production banner Sky Studios. …
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Lionsgate strikes two-year output deal with Hulu, FX
Disney-controlled streamer Hulu and cable channel FX have struck a two-year output deal with Lionsgate…
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Streaming round-up: WarnerMedia lines up ‘Dune’, Amazon teams with Bullock
WarnerMedia taps ‘Blade Runner 2049’ director for ‘Dune’ series adaptation WarnerMedia has tapped French-Canadian Blade Runner…
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TBI Weekly: ‘Chernobyl’ is astonishing, but what’s next for HBO? (Column)
As HBO rolls out hit dramas such as Chernobyl that carry the signature marks of outgoing drama…
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ITV orders nuclear sub thriller ‘Tenacity’ from Bad Wolf, eOne
ITV has commissioned Bad Wolf and Entertainment One to produce six part thriller Tenacity, set…