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Ex-ICM exec Pippa Lambert joins WME
Packaging specialist and talent agent Pippa Lambert is joining WME and relocating from London to…
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The script for ITV Studios America
ITV Studios America wants to be the top indie drama studio in the US. In…
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Endemol Shine brings Guerrilla talent to town
Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Babou Ceesay (Black Mirror, Eye In The Sky) are headed to…
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Rai’s Bastardi located in Cannes
The sales arm of Italian pubcaster Rai has a new slate for MIPCOM that includes…
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Gold Rush star debuts prodco with Prodigal drama
The star and creator of Discovery Channel reality series Gold Rush will go mining for…
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Johnny Carson comedy set for Seeso
NBC’s comedy SVOD platform, Seeso, has commissioned a coming-of-age comedy set in the 1970s when…
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CBS preps Korean drama remake
Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’ US indie Propagate Content has got an international drama deal…
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Sky buys Belgian drama for UK, Germany
Sky has picked Public Enemy, taking the Belgian drama for its Sky Atlantic channels in…
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AMC orders final run of PC drama Halt and Catch Fire
AMC has said 1980s tech drama Halt and Catch Fire will come to an end…
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BBC Four plants Roots with A+E
UK pubcaster the BBC is among the latest to buy A+E Networks’ reworking of the…
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ABC names new comedy chief
US broadcast network has upped Jamila Hunter to replace Samie Falvey as its comedy chief….
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ZDF gets to work on Reformation drama
German pubcaster ZDF has commissioned a two-part miniseries about revolutionary priest Martin Luther to celebrate…
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Euro, Lat Am nets find Conviction with eOne
Major networks in the UK, France and Latin America have bought Entertainment One Television’s new…
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Canal+ buys Argentinian drama
French pay TV provider Canal+ has acquired Argentinian drama El Marginal from Israel-based Dori Media…
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Alibaba buys into Spielberg JV prodco
The entertainment arm of Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group has acquired a minority stake in Amblin…
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Swedish-French Sun to rise in Cannes
A new Swedish/French drama from the creator of Bron will launch at MIPCOM. StudioCanal will…
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NHK, WOWOW prep 4K drama screenings
Broadcast groups NHK and WOWOW are co-hosting a pair of 4K HDR premieres in Cannes…
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YLE ploughs extra €20m to high-end drama
Finnish pubcaster YLE is a locate an extra €20 million (US$22.8 million) into high-end drama…
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Turner bringing Will Shakespeare to MIPCOM
Turner’s sales arm, Turner International, is launching drama and comedy from its US cable nets…
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Netflix hires ex-Universal TV exec as content VP
Netflix has appointed former Universal Television president Bela Bajaria as its vice-president of content. Bajaria…
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E4 acquires US comedy Black-ish
UK terrestrial Channel 4 has acquired ABC comedy Black-ish, and will premiere it on its…
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Peter Chernin sets up Campo to replace Di Loreto
Peter Chernin’s media business has recruited Kristen Campo to run its TV business. She will…
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HBO, Keshet team for Israeli kidnap drama
HBO and Keshet International are making a ten-part show dramatising events surrounding the 2014 disappearance…
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Kyle MacLachlan taking Twin Peaks to Cannes
Twin Peaks star Kyle MachLachlan is heading to MIPCOM to promote the new sequel to…
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East Los High recruits Dynamic for sales
LA-based Dynamic Television is to sell Hulu original East Los High after acquiring rights to…
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Federation has Premonitions of market deals
France’s Federation Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights (excluding French-speaking Canada) to new supernatural thriller…
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SVOD net replaces Starz on BBC drama
Subscription video-on-demand service Acorn TV has replaced Starz as US coproduction on the upcoming BBC…
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New German VOD net buys NRK drama
A new German VOD platform, Canal+’s SVOD service in France and Channel 4’s Walter Presents…
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Buccieri takes Studios job at A+E
Paul Buccieri has been confirmed as the new head of A+E’s on house production arm…
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Exotic drama slate for Eccho
Scandinavia-based distributor Eccho Rights is taking varied slate of new drama to MIPCOM. The firm…