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Fremantle deal with Mangan, Lincoln prodco
FremantleMedia International has inked a first-look deal with Slam, the drama indie set up by…
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Report: Apple starts work on first original
Apple has reportedly started work on its first original TV series, with plans to launch…
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StudioCanal staffs up London office
StudioCanal has added to its London-based sales team, poaching execs from All3Media, Shine Endemol Group…
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Sky snags Coogan comedy The Trip
Sky has ordered a third season of The Trip in a move that will see…
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Syfy orders linear, digital and virtual reality drama
Pay TV net Syfy has ordered Halcyon, a futuristic cop drama that will go out…
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Hulu captures 12 Monkeys
Hulu has acquired US streaming rights to Syfy series 12 Monkeys. The on-demand service has…
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Isaacs exits Kudos, reunites with Featherstone
Dan Isaacs (below left) is leaving his post as co-CEO of Endemol Shine Group-owned Kudos…
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Sky Arts retells Gaiman’s Likely Stories
UK satellite channel Sky Arts has commissioned a four-part scripted series from cult writer Neil…
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ABC loses drama, children’s bosses
Two senior programming executives are leaving Australia’s pubcaster, the ABC. Head of fiction Carole Sklan…
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All3Media America poaches Lifetime’s Lederman
Nina Lederman has joined All3Media’s US operation in the newly-created role of executive VP, scripted…
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Bavaria poaches Tandem exec for int’l push
Bavaria Fernsehproduktion has poached Moritz Polter from Tandem, and the new recruit will lead an…
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Starz to follow White Queen with White Princess
Starz has greenlit The White Princess, a follow-up to its successful War of the Roses…
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McCumber rises as NBCU rejigs entertainment
NBCUniversal is shaking up its entertainment networks division, with USA Networks president Chris McCumber heading…
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Amazon preps first German original
Amazon Prime Instant Video has ordered its first original German drama. Wanted will star movie…
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Ron Howard’s Imagine receives investment
Empire coproducer Imagine Entertainment has received “a significant investment” from global merchant bank The Raine…
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US SVOD service lands Oz drama, Brit comedy
Acorn TV has picked up Australian legal drama Janet King: The Enemy Within and UK…
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Turner, Canal Digital ink channels, on-demand deal
Nordic pay TV platform Canal Digital has agreed a new carriage deal for Turner’s channels….
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NBCUniversal launches on-demand mini-novelas
NBCU is launching two shortform telenovelas on its Xfinity X1 streaming and interactive service. The…
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Lagardère Studios shops Belgian dramas
Lagardère Studios Distribution has signed a worldwide rights deal with Flemish prodco deMENSEN for a…
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CanalSat launch for Sundance in France
The international Sundance Channel will launch on the Canalsat platform France this week. Sundance Channel…
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Disney Channel goes Backstage with DHX
Disney Channel has acquired rights to DHX Media’s original live action performing arts drama Backstage….
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Earley emerges at Berman’s Jackal
Former Fox Television Group COO Joe Earley has reunited with producer Gail Berman by becoming…
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Show of the week: The Night Manager
The first television series to adapt a John Le Carré novel in a quarter-century is…
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Kudos cofounder launches drama indie
Stephen Garrett has launched Character Seven, a new UK-based scripted indie, and the new prodco is…
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Showtime ups Christie to COO
Long-serving Showtime Networks distribution president Tom Christie has been promoted to COO. Christie has been…
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Acorn launches on Apple
Acorn TV, the US OTT service that is programmed with UK and international drama, has…
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Orphan Black studio restructures as Boat Rocker
Canada’s Temple Street Productions has created a parent unit that will house an expanded group of…
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US rubber-stamps Legendary-Wanda deal
US regulatory authorities have approved the deal that will see Legendary Entertainment pass into Dalian…
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Amblin Partners boss extends contract
Steven Spielberg’s new US content company, Amblin Partners, has extended CEO Michael Wright’s contract “for…
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Cruel Intentions, MacGyver rebooted in US
US broadcasters NBC and CBS have given separate pilot orders to classic American scripted properties….