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Banijay hires Endemol Shine pair in Finland rejig
Banijay Group is merging its Finnish assets with those of Zodiak Media, splitting its scripted…
TVP joins Globo’s international original
Argentinian pubcaster TVP has come on board Supermax, the original drama Brazil’s TV Globo is…
Wolf Hall prodco taking The Widow to TV
Playground picked up rights to several book properties that it will seek to adapt for…
Soderbergh: “My plan right now is TV”
Steven Soderbergh is a producer, director and writer best known for movies including Sex, Lies…
First Arab drama launches on iTunes
Arab TV and film content is on iTunes for the first time after Arab Telemedia…
Hulu takes US streaming rights to Book of Negroes
Hulu has taken exclusive US rights to Canadian miniseries The Book of Negroes. The deal…
Red Arrow invests in Skogland’s Mad Rabbit
Red Arrow Entertainment’s latest strategic play is investing in a new production company led by…
Fraud drama revealed after Panama papers
A thriller drama about high stakes money laundering is the first fruit of Zodiak Rights’…
Pivot, BBCWW visit BBC One’s Capital
Buyers from the UK, Canada and Australasia have acquired BBC One drama Capital from FremantleMedia…
Acorn buys presale of BBC’s Secret Agent
The US’s Acorn has prebought BBC drama The Secret Agent from UK-based distributor Content Television….
Amazon buys Red Rock soap opera
Amazon has picked up US rights to Red Rock, the soap opera that plays on…
BBC drama firsts for India
Indian digital services Hungama and Vuclip have bought drama packages from BBC Worldwide, which will…
StudioCanal buys into Cumberbatch indie, Bambu
French production and distribution group Studiocanal has strengthened its TV assets by taking minority shares…
Superheroic acts
Ahead of another season of fresh US studio dramas, Jesse Whittock investigates the role superhero…
Universal Channel takes Second Chance
Universal Channel in the UK has acquired rights to new Howard Gordon series Second Chance….
Walter Presents adds Keshet scripted pair
The UK’s only foreign-language-focused VOD platform, Walter Presents, has bought two scripted series from Keshet…
Ovation takes exclusive US rights to Versailles
US arts network Ovation TV has acquired exclusive local rights to French period drama Versailles….
Show of the week: The Collection
The Collection is on-trend, with big-ticket period dramas such as Versailles, War and Peace and…
MIPTV: Federation gets The Break
Federation Entertainment has snagged the rights to Belgian drama series The Break. The independent French…
MIPTV: Netflix buys ITV crime drama
Netflix has scooped global rights to Marcella, the upcoming ITV drama from The Bridge writer…
Reel One, UP create ‘landmark’ family drama deal
Reel One Entertainment and US channel UP TV have joined forces to create family drama…
Ex-Atlantique exec creates Dramacorp with Beta
Former Atlantique Productions and Nice Entertainment drama boss Patrick Nebout has launched his own prodco,…
Endemol Shine creates Israeli scripted hub
Endemol Shine Group has created a production hub in Israel dedicated to scripted programming. Endemol…
Globo plans Dangerous Liaisons in Cannes
Brazilian media giant Globo will launch its 4K drama Dangerous Liaisons in Cannes. The adaptation…
Fox stocks up on Turkish drama for MIP
The distribution arm of Fox’s international channels division will have a raft of Turkish drama…
ITV drama chief latest to exit
The director of drama at ITV is leaving after 16 years at the UK broadcaster….
TLC moving into drama with Tyler Perry
Discovery’s female-skewed cable net TLC has ordered its first drama series, Too Close to Home….
Netflix wires up first Spanish original
Netflix is to work up an original drama from Spain with Madrid’s Bambú Productions. The…
Lionsgate, Kevin Hart launch VOD platform
Comedian Kevin Hart is getting his own video-on-demand service after going into business with US…
Turkish drama The End remade for Dutch PSB
Dutch pubcaster KRO-NCRV is remaking Turkish psychological drama The End, with filming on adaptation beginning…