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Amazon adapts The Departed for TV
Amazon Studios is adapting Oscar-winning crime movie The Departed into a television series, according to…
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Roughcut TV names comedy chief
UK indie Roughcut TV has promoted Alex Smith to head of comedy. Smith has produced…
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BBC One adds seven Agatha Christie dramas
UK broadcaster BBC One has kicked off the Edinburgh International Television Festival with an agreement…
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Netflix orders Nick Stoller sitcom
US-based streaming service Netflix has ordered a comedy from husband and wife team Nick Stoller…
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Spanish net remaking Turkish drama The End
Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco has ordered a local version of well-travelled Turkish scripted format The…
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Netflix, CBC adapting Anne of Green Gables
Streaming service Netflix and Canadian pubcaster CBC are hooking up on their second scripted coproduction,…
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Nippon lines up drama, format pair
Japan’s Nippon Television has created a new drama and pair of new formats, which will…
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Breaking Bad alumnus sells drama to ABC
Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul has sold a one-hour drama to US broadcast network ABC….
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DirecTV Lat Am welcomes Last Panthers
Pay TV provider DirecTV Latin America has acquired six-part crime series The Last Panthers. The…
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Netflix boards BBC America drama
Streaming service Netflix has boarded BBC America comedy thriller series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency….
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Hulu orders Marvel pilot
US streaming service has ordered a Marvel Television pilot based on a comic book series…
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Fear the Walking Dead returns with ‘Snapchat Lens’
AMC Global has teamed up with Snapchat to create an exclusive Fear the Walking Dead…
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Australia’s Seven buys UK drama prodco
Australian commercial broadcaster Seven Network has acquired a stake in British production company Slim Film…
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Amazon Germany may bag Deutschland 86
Amazon Prime Video Germany looks set to pick up first-run rights to the second instalment…
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BBCWW backs Alex Graham, Michael Jackson firm
BBC Worldwide has bought a minority stake in Two Cities Television, a new drama indie…
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Keshet to make shows for Interscope Geffen A&M
The iconic LA music label behind stars such as Eminem and Lady Gaga is getting…
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Ex-E! scripted boss to run Lionsgate JV
Former E! head of scripted programming Kevin Plunkett will lead the new Lionsgate and New…
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Amazon brings drama with Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Amazon Prime Video has given the greenlight to a TV adaptation of the Tom Clancy-created…
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Virgin orders comedy shorts, buys Magic City
UK pay TV provider Virgin Media is pushing further into original programming, commissioning Avalon Television…
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eOne poaches Amazon Studios scripted exec
Entertainment One Television has bolstered its scripted ranks by drafting in Carolyn Newman from Amazon…
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C More anoints Young Pope
Scandinavian pay TV operator and SVOD provider C More has acquired local rights to big…
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Greek net welcomes La Famiglia
Greece’s Antenna TV is to localise Israeli comedy format La Famiglia for its ANT1 channel….
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SVT drama chief joins Pinewood TV
Swedish pubcaster SVT’s drama chief is joining the fledgling London-based outfit Pinewood Television to oversee…
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Nelonen to open Finnish Office
Finnish broadcasters Nelonen and Elisa Entertainment has ordered a local version of Ricky Gervais’ fly-on-the-wall…
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KKR ‘to rival ITV in eOne chase’
Private equity giant KKR is reportedly lining up a bid for Entertainment One. This puts…
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SMILF, Mating pilots attract Showtime
US premium cable channel Showtime has ordered a pair of racy comedy pilots. The greenlights…
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BBC Two brings comedy trio to new strand
UK terrestrial network BBC Two has commissioned three more sitcoms for its soon-to-start ‘New on…
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Strong first-look for Endemol Shine
Endemol Shine International has secured a first-look deal with Broadchurch and 11/22/63 director James Strong….
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FX chief slams ‘assembly line’ Netflix
FX Networks president John Landgraf has criticised the algorithm-based commissioning system of SVOD service Netflix,…
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TV4 hires film chief for pay TV operations
Swedish free and pay TV broadcaster TV4 Group has named Suzanne Glansborg to the new…