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All3Media comedy drama headed to ABC in Oz
All3Media international has concluded a deal in Australia for the BBC Four comedy drama Bucket….
Key CBS drama exec stepping down
The head of drama development at US broadcaster CBS, Christina Davis, has stepped down. The…
Amazon orders Julia Roberts drama Homecoming
Subscription VOD service Amazon Prime Video has handed a two-season order to Homecoming, a drama…
Banijay UK scripted prodco launches with Symonds
Banijay Group has launched a second scripted production company in the UK with British producer…
GOT creators re-team with HBO for Confederate
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are set to reteam with HBO…
Amazon brings Agatha Christie series to the US
Amazon is adding a series of adaptations from Agatha Christie Limited to its lineup of…
Game of Thrones smashes HBO ratings record
Ratings for Game of Thrones’s season seven opener on US premium pay channel HBO proved…
Ex-Gaumont chief to lead Liberty-backed producer
Former Gaumont Television CEO Katie O’Connell Marsh is to lead to lead a production and…
Amazon buys The Amazing Gayl Pile
LaRue Entertainment’s The Amazing Gayl Pile is now streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in…
Returning miniseries
Distributors will tell you that if they could have one drama production in their portfolio…
MediaXchange partners with Australian Writers’ Guild
MediaXchange has partnered with Australian Writers’ Guild to create a programme for more Aussie writing…
Cinemax exec to lead Makeready TV unit
Cinemax’s Scott Nemes is leaving the premium cable channel to become head of television at…
Fox Asia assesses The First Half of My Life
Fox Networks Group Asia (FNGA) has signed a deal with prodco New Classics TV for…
Amazon Studios names heads of drama & comedy
Transparent producer Amazon Studios has named Nick Hall as head of drama and promoted Gina…
Netflix & Canal+ co-order Safe drama
Streaming service Netflix and French paycaster Canal+ have co-commissioned an eight-part drama, Safe, which was…
Netflix opens Gerard Way’s Umbrella Academy
Netflix has ordered a ten-part live-action series based on Gerard Way’s graphic novel The Umbrella…
Game of Thrones writer preps new HBO show
Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin will act as executive producer for the show Who…
Netflix orders Central Park Five drama
Subscription VOD service Netflix has ordered a five-part drama based on the true story of…
Ampere: Netflix budget focused on drama and comedy
More than a third of Netflix’s original content spend to-date has been for drama titles,…
UFA Fiction exec transfers to Beta
Beta Film has tapped a producer from German compatriot UFA Fiction to become its international…
Series Mania to challenge Cannes from Lille
French drama forum Series Mania is relocating to Lille after being named as the winning…
Warner Bros. plans live-action Jetsons revival
Warner Bros. Television is reportedly shopping a live-action revival of classic animated family comedy The…
Genius prodco Imagine names new TV chief
Anna Culp has become the new executive VP of television at Genius producer Imagine Television….
ITV Studios hires USA & ABC execs for scripted
ITV Studios America (ITVSA) has hired USA Networks’ Jed Valdecantos and ABC Studios’ Jim Dietle….
Amazon takes CBS summer drama – again
Subscription VOD service Amazon Prime Video has again secured rights to a CBS summer drama…
Landgraf’s FX ups trio
US cable channel FX Networks has promoted a trio of executives, with two execs who…
Rai orders Endemol Shine crime drama
Italian pubcaster Rai has tapped Endemol Shine for a crime drama. Set in an idyllic…
Fremantle ups scripted buyer
FremantleMedia International (FMI) has promoted Rebecca Dundon to director of scripted acquisitions, and hired an…
Reel One hires Mary Kills People execs for int’l push
Montreal-based Reel One Entertainment has hired Mary Kills People producer Adam Fratto as senior VP…
Netflix drama will prove Everything Sucks!
Netflix is going back to the 1990s with a coming-of-age drama original titled Everything Sucks!….