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Viaplay orders Swedish Dicks with Keanu Reeves
Modern Times Group (MTG) has commissioned the first original series for its Viaplay online TV…
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Fox makes Chinese content commitment
Fox’s international production and Asian divisions are teaming to produce Chinese-language content in a major…
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Kevin Spacey will not join Relativity
House of Cards star Kevin Spacey has decided not to join a new-look Relativity Studios…
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Sony buys into new drama indie
Sony Pictures Television has acquired a minority stake in a new UK-based drama production company….
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Sitcom Fuller House in demand on Netflix
Netflix’s sitcom Fuller House was by far the most demanded on the SVOD streaming platform…
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StudioCanal Paranoid about new ITV drama
ITV has ordered Paranoid, a new eight-part drama about a group of detectives sucked into…
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Writer Coben, Red launch new prodco
Writer Harlan Coben and Red Production Company have launched a joint venture production company. Coben…
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Endemol Shine tipped for Anonymous investment
Endemol Shine Group wants to buy into US film and TV prodco Anonymous Content, according…
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NBCU’s Working Title gets new UK boss
NBCUniversal-backed drama prodco Working Title Television UK has hired former Kudos prodcuer Andrew Woodhead as…
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Zodiak Rights in $150m scripted pact
Banijay Group’s sales arm, Zodiak Rights, has closed a deal with British writer-director David Raymond…
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Fox’s Cotton picked as Heyday US chief
Nancy Cotton is leaving Fox 21 Television Studios to become US president of new NBCUniversal…
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Sonar taking The Fifth Beatle to TV
US producer and distributor Sonar Entertainment has optioned Vivek J. Tiwary’s The Fifth Beatle: The…
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Red Arrow, Nevision team for drama
Red Arrow Entertainment and boutique finance and production group Nevision have inked a drama co-development…
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Amazon to leave Ripper Street
The fifth season of period crime drama Ripper Street will be its last, Amazon Prime…
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ABC creates Quantico VR experience
US broadcast network ABC has launched its first scripted VR experience. This tied in with…
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Netflix plays House of Cards in France, NZ
Netflix is to reportedly air the fourth season of its flagship drama House of Cards in…
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All3, Endemol Shine among 30 PactUS sign-ups
All3Media America and Endemol Shine North America are among 30 TV producers that have signed…
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Two true-crime dramas for BBC
The BBC has ordered Murdered by My Father, and a new season of Murder for…
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Playground developing refugee crisis drama
Drama producer Playground Entertainment has secured rights to The New Odyssey – The Story of…
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Legendary finds Parent as Rosenblum exits
Legendary Entertainment has brought in producer Mary Parent to run its film and TV operations,…
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Fox locates Last Panthers in Balkans, Bulgaria
Fox Networks Group Bulgaria and Balkans has acquired six-part crime thriller The Last Panthers. The…
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Mediaset VOD net bags Prisoners of War exclusive
Mediaset’s Italian VOD service, Infinity, has bagged exclusive first window rights to Israeli thriller drama…
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TV4 recruits Finnish Nurses for format
Swedish commercial channel TV4 is to remake Finnish drama Nurses following a deal with distributor…
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AMC okays Terror anthology drama
US basic cable net AMC has given the greenlight to The Terror, an anthology series…
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Red Arrow promotes Baker to president
Red Arrow Entertainment Group has promoted its UK chief, James Baker, to president of the…
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Hulu scores first exclusive movie with Joshy
Hulu has become the latest US streaming platform to get into the original movies space,…
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Throop: TV, Family staying strong for eOne
The CEO of Canada-based Entertainment One, Darren Throop, has lauded the performance of the studio’s…
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Nat Geo orders Oyelowo cop drama
National Geographic Channel’s move into high-end drama has now seen it ordered a cop drama…
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Soderbergh making Western drama for Netflix
Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank are working up a serialised period drama for streaming service…
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OSN bags exclusive MGM movies
UAE-based pay TV provider OSN has renewed an exclusive supply deal for movies with MGM….