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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…

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TVP joins Globo’s international original

Argentinian pubcaster TVP has come on board Supermax, the original drama Brazil’s TV Globo is…

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Wolf Hall prodco taking The Widow to TV

Playground picked up rights to several book properties that it will seek to adapt for…

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Soderbergh: “My plan right now is TV”

Steven Soderbergh is a producer, director and writer best known for movies including Sex, Lies…

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First Arab drama launches on iTunes

Arab TV and film content is on iTunes for the first time after Arab Telemedia…

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Hulu takes US streaming rights to Book of Negroes

Hulu has taken exclusive US rights to Canadian miniseries The Book of Negroes. The deal…

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Red Arrow invests in Skogland’s Mad Rabbit

Red Arrow Entertainment’s latest strategic play is investing in a new production company led by…

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Fraud drama revealed after Panama papers

A thriller drama about high stakes money laundering is the first fruit of Zodiak Rights’…

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Pivot, BBCWW visit BBC One’s Capital

Buyers from the UK, Canada and Australasia have acquired BBC One drama Capital from FremantleMedia…

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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….

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Amazon buys Red Rock soap opera

Amazon has picked up US rights to Red Rock, the soap opera that plays on…

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BBC drama firsts for India

Indian digital services Hungama and Vuclip have bought drama packages from BBC Worldwide, which will…

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StudioCanal buys into Cumberbatch indie, Bambu

French production and distribution group Studiocanal has strengthened its TV assets by taking minority shares…

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Superheroic acts

Ahead of another season of fresh US studio dramas, Jesse Whittock investigates the role superhero…

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Universal Channel takes Second Chance

Universal Channel in the UK has acquired rights to new Howard Gordon series Second Chance….

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Walter Presents adds Keshet scripted pair

The UK’s only foreign-language-focused VOD platform, Walter Presents, has bought two scripted series from Keshet…

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Ovation takes exclusive US rights to Versailles

US arts network Ovation TV has acquired exclusive local rights to French period drama Versailles….

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Show of the week: The Collection

The Collection is on-trend, with big-ticket period dramas such as Versailles, War and Peace and…

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MIPTV: Federation gets The Break

Federation Entertainment has snagged the rights to Belgian drama series The Break. The independent French…

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MIPTV: Netflix buys ITV crime drama

Netflix has scooped global rights to Marcella, the upcoming ITV drama from The Bridge writer…

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Reel One, UP create ‘landmark’ family drama deal

Reel One Entertainment and US channel UP TV have joined forces to create family drama…

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Ex-Atlantique exec creates Dramacorp with Beta

Former Atlantique Productions and Nice Entertainment drama boss Patrick Nebout has launched his own prodco,…

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Endemol Shine creates Israeli scripted hub

Endemol Shine Group has created a production hub in Israel dedicated to scripted programming. Endemol…

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Globo plans Dangerous Liaisons in Cannes

Brazilian media giant Globo will launch its 4K drama Dangerous Liaisons in Cannes. The adaptation…

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Fox stocks up on Turkish drama for MIP

The distribution arm of Fox’s international channels division will have a raft of Turkish drama…

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ITV drama chief latest to exit

The director of drama at ITV is leaving after 16 years at the UK broadcaster….

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TLC moving into drama with Tyler Perry

Discovery’s female-skewed cable net TLC has ordered its first drama series, Too Close to Home….

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Netflix wires up first Spanish original

Netflix is to work up an original drama from Spain with Madrid’s Bambú Productions. The…

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Lionsgate, Kevin Hart launch VOD platform

Comedian Kevin Hart is getting his own video-on-demand service after going into business with US…

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Turkish drama The End remade for Dutch PSB

Dutch pubcaster KRO-NCRV is remaking Turkish psychological drama The End, with filming on adaptation beginning…