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News brief: HBO chiefs to headline Banff
HBO’s Richard Plepler (left) and Michael Lombardo will headline the Banff World Media Festival. The…
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Writer’s Room: Daisy Goodwin
British producer and novellist Daisy Goodwin’s first screenplay is for upcoming ITV and PBS period…
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Televisa embarks on second English drama
Televisa is working up The Seventh Day, a post-apocalyptic English-language drama from Scott Shepherd. Televisa…
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Wowow opens Japanese Cold Case
Japanese premium cabler Wowow has ordered a local version of Cold Case, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced…
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Red Arrow spies Russian Mata Hari deal
Red Arrow International has snagged the worldwide rights to a Russian drama about the exotic…
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Elba, Ridley lead major Sky drama investment
Sky has commissioned six dramas that feature talent including Idris Elba, John Ridley, Julia Stiles,…
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Crackle takes Fargo route with Snatch series
Sony Pictures Television’s on-demand service, Crackle, is rebooting gangster film Snatch as a television drama….
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Legitimate success for The Illegal
At the CoPro Series pitching competition in Berlin, the team behind The Book of Negroes…
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Lucy Lumsden forms prodco with ABC deal
Former Sky and BBC comedy chief Lucy Lumsden has formed her own indie, Yellow Door…
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Netflix and TF1 strike free TV deal
TF1 will screen the opening episodes of Netflix’s first French original series Marseille two weeks…
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Netflix adding 100 hours of HDR content
Netflix will add over 100 hours of high dynamic range (HDR) programming to its service…
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Drama’s Dirty Dozen emerge from Serial Eyes
As well as a popular 1967 war movie, the Dirty Dozen is a 12-strong collective…
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Corrie off air in the US, Hollyoaks stays on
Coronation Street has been taken off streaming service Hulu, meaning the iconic British soap is…
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Acorn becomes US partner on ITV cop drama
The production arm of US SVOD service Acorn has joined upcoming UK cop drama The…
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Stargate’s Wright making Netflix sci-fi show
US streaming service Netflix and Corus Entertainment Canadian specialty channel Showcase are joining forces for…
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New deals for The Night Manager
The Night Manager will be on free TV in France and on a Chinese streaming…
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Telefonica’s Movistar ramping up pay TV originals
Spanish telco Telefonica is ramping up its original local output on its Movistar Plus pay…
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A (Movi)star is born
A new player is joining Europe’s top drama producers: Spain’s leading pay TV platform Movistar…
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Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell map Barbary Coast
Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson have all signed up to a new TV…
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Comcast on-demand platform adds Sony’s Crackle
Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand is adding Sony Pictures Television’s streaming platform Crackle to its cable…
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Narcos producer making new Netflix original
Netflix has ordered its second Brazilian originated original drama, an untitled project based on a…
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Sky picks Content horror drama
UK digital terrestrial channel Pick has acquired US-Canadian horror drama Slasher from London-based distributor Content…
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TNT officially revisits Tales From the Crypt
US cable channel TNT has officially greenlit a reworking of the classic television horror anthology…
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Spike peers into The Mist with Stephen King
US cable channel Spike is to remake horror movie The Mist. The network has ordered…
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Worldwide buys into literary agency, prodco
BBC Worldwide has bought 10% of Original Talent, the parent company of literary agency Curtis…
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eOne denies ITV takeover bid
Canadian media group Entertainment One has denied receiving a takeover approach from UK broadcaster ITV,…
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Nat Geo hires Homeland exec for drama push
National Geographic Channel has hired drama executive Hugh Fitzpatrick as it pushes further into scripted…
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Two originals for NBCU’s comedy SVOD net
Seeso, the comedy SVOD platform run by NBCUniversal, will launch two original reality-comedy series in…
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Astro preps on-demand exclusives, box-sets
Malaysian pay TV operator Astro has beefed up its on-demand line-up, with several upcoming offerings…
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Jane Tranter’s prodco staffs up
Fledgling producer Bad Wolf has hired Miles Ketley as its chief operating officer and brought…