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Scripted
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Sky & ABC Australia pair for scripted comedy Frayed
Sky UK and ABC Australia have co-commissioned Frayed, a comedy drama produced by Sharon Horgan…
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Op-Ed: Look to Asian drama remakes for creative renewal
Amanda Groom, MD of co-production specialist The Bridge, explains why Asian remakes such as SBS…
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Network Ten to rebrand streamer with CBS titles in tow
Network Ten is set to launch its rebranded streamer 10 All Access this December with…
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CBS hands put pilot order for comedy from Crazy Rich Asians author
US broadcaster CBS has ordered a put pilot for a multi-cam comedy from Crazy Rich…
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Netflix loads up on German originals with five new titles
Netflix is set to produce five new German originals, following the success of 2018 supernatural…
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Amazon to adapt BBC Three’s People Just Do Nothing
Amazon is adapting BBC Three comedy People Just Do Nothing. The global SVOD has ordered…
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Apple to roll out TV streamer globally
Apple is set to launch its TV streaming service globally in 2019, according to reports….
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Bodyguard smashes BBC viewing records ahead of Netflix launch
BBC One drama Bodyguard smashed viewing records, drawing 17.1m people for its finale. The figure…
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Richard Yee: Getting Karl Pilkington into scripted
Sick of It director and co-writer Richard Yee tells TBI how he convinced The Idiot…
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Liberty: DR’s last international drama?
Ahead of the news that DR is to cut spend on international drama and focus…
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Netflix takes bite out of BBC One’s Dracula
BBC One and Netflix are partnering on a three-part adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Sherlock…
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Script to Screen: MotherFatherSon
Luring Richard Gere to television after a 30-year break, BBC Two’s MotherFatherSon examines family, power…
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France Televisions boards Federation’s Josephine and Napoleon
France Télévisions has boarded Federation Entertainment and Ecosse Films’ marquee period drama Josephine and Napoleon….
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Writer’s Room: Inside Informer
Consider all angles and perspectives of a character to write more nuanced and textured stories,…
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Endeavor invests in first UK scripted prodco
Endeavor Content is backing a new scripted production business helmed by Channel 4 drama boss…
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Studiocanal’s La Porta Rossa gets Russian remake
Studiocanal and TV-3 Russia have inked a deal to give the studio’s crime thriller La…
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Robert Kirkman’s Skybound & SPT launch scripted venture
Skybound Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has launched Skybound Galactic, a new venture formed…
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Scandi nets team for series based on murdered journalist Kim Wall
Denmark’s TV 2 and Sweden’s TV4 and C More have partnered with Miso Film to…
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MIPCOM Hot Picks: The Bisexual
Distributor: All3Media International Producer: Hootenanny/Sister Pictures Broadcaster: Channel 4/Hulu Concept: A transplanted New Yorker navigates dates with both men…
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MIPCOM Hot Picks: Project Blue Book
Distributor: A+E Networks Int’l Producer: A+E Studios Production in association with Compari Entertainment Broadcaster: History…
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Show of the week: Hidden
Distributor: Banijay Rights Producer: Yellow Bird Channel: Viaplay/TV3 Concept: A man declared dead after a…
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MIPCOM Hot Picks: The Rook
Distributor: Lionsgate Producer: Lionsgate, Liberty Global Broadcaster: Starz (US), Liberty Global (Europe, LatAm) Concept: A…
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High-end tax credits elevate record levels of UK production
High-end tax credits for the UK’s television sector generated a record £896.7m ($1.2bn) in 2016,…
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NBCU acquires Cineflix procedural Coroner
NBCUniversal International Networks has acquired female-driven procedural Coroner from Canada’s CBC. Inspired by M.R. Hall novels,…
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ITV and Amazon’s Strangers heads to Asia
Fox Asia has picked up ITV and Amazon co-production Strangers from All3Media International. The channel…
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Drama round-up: eOne, Fremantle strike deals for Rookie, Butterfly
Entertainment One (eOne) has sold its Nathan Fillion-fronted drama The Rookie into the UK’s Sky Witness,…
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Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who draws 8.2m at launch
The Sunday premiere of the BBC’s latest season of Doctor Who, starring Jodie Whittaker as the…
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ABC board confirms independent investigation into Guthrie exit
The board of Australian public broadcaster ABC has confirmed that an independent advisor is investigating…
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Netflix sets out for Narnia with eOne’s Mark Gordon
Netflix is to develop new series and films based on The Chronicles of Narnia series….
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UKTV to recreate lost Dad’s Army episodes
UKTV is to recreate three lost episodes of classic BBC sitcom Dad’s Army. Mercury Productions…