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UK-Brazil coproduction treaty ratified
The UK and Brazil production treaty has finally been formalised, smoothing the way for TV and…
Sundance orders first SVOD scripted series
New US streaming service Sundance Now has become the latest SVOD platform to order an…
Ex-ITV Studios exec joins DRG drama club
Former ITV Studios, Shine Group and Cineflix exec Dave Clarke has joined UK-based DRG to…
HBO Nordic, Zee take on The Good Fight
CBS has shopped The Good Fight to HBO in Europe and Zee in India. The…
Warner lines up DC digital service
Warner Bros. Television is working on a pair of original series for a soon-to-launch DC-branded…
BBC drama launch in India
BBC Worldwide is launching its BBC First brand in India for the first time, and…
Globomedia co-founder creates drama unit
A cofounder of Globomedia, Daniel Écija, is creating a ‘fiction factory’ within the Spanish-language production…
Fremantle buys a portion of Duck Soup
FremantleMedia has taken a 25% stake in Duck Soup Films, the UK film and TV…
Eliza Dushku sets up Black Company fantasy series
Eliza Dushku’s Boston Diva Productions and David Goyer’s Phantom Four are teaming with IM Global…
Writers Guild vote authorises strike
The Writers Guild of America members have overwhelmingly voted to authorise a strike that would…
Red Arrow re-ups Bastin at Fabrik
Henrik Bastin, the CEO of LA-based Fabrik Entertainment, has renewed his contract at the Bosch…
New Lat Am vendor to shop Gaumont shows
A new Latin America-focused distribution company has landed regional rights to Gaumont’s scripted drama and…
CBS names Europe copro chief
The international studios arm of US broadcaster CBS has named a new coproductions chief in…
Fox, Tencent team for financial drama series
A new high end drama set in Hong Kong’s financial district has been greenlit and…
Netflix, E4 prep for The End of the F***ing World
Streaming service Netflix and UK youth-skewed network E4 have co-commissioned a dark comedy-drama about a…
BBC celebrates Gay Britannia
UK pubcaster the BBC is to run a season of programmes celebrating gay culture in…
Aussie SVOD net orders eOne comedy
Australian subscription VOD service Stan sent a comedy-drama from North America’s Entertainment One Television into…
Lifetime to tell Berlanti’s ‘twisted love story’
US cable channel Lifetime is going straight-to-series on “the most twisted love story ever”, which…
Viaplay orders first Icelandic original
Scandinavian SVOD player Viaplay’s latest original is an Icelandic drama. The commission of Stella Blómkvist…
Hulu adapts horror-fantasy comic for TV
US streaming service Hulu has greenlit a one-hour pilot of comic property Locke and Key….
All3Media Int’l to plough more cash into drama
The international arm of All3Media will double its investment in drama this year, putting more…
Hierro marks Franco-Spanish drama first
Paris-based prodco Atlantique and its Coruña-based counterpart Portocabo are joining forces to make drama series…
Working Title UK hires ex-BBC comedy chief
Working Title Television UK has hired former BBC comedy chief Mark Freeland to run its…
Nat Geo teams with Jay Z, ups scripted commitment
National Geographic is teaming up with rapper Jay Z and The Weinstein Company to make…
Gomorrah writer making Gaddafi series
Roberto Saviano, the writer of Italian crime series Gomorrah, is developing a new series about…
Sky, HBO in $250m high-end drama deal
Leading pay TV players Sky and HBO are joining forces to create a development slate…
Cohen’s Access buys Packer out of RatPac
Access Entertainment has bought James Packer out of PatPac Entertainment, the US prodco the latter…
BBC Studios taps Red Planet for Wales drama chief
Red Planet Pictures’ Simon Winstone is joining the production arm of UK pubcaster the BBC….
Hollywood strike vote underway
Writers Guild of America members have begun voting on whether to strike over a labour…
Ex-ABC exec in as Aussie prodco targets drama
Former ABC and Nine Network exec and local industry veteran Courtney Gibson has joined Australian…