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Amazon greenlights Harlan Coben’s ‘Shelter’ from MGM Int’l Productions

Amazon Studios has greenlit Harlan Coben’s Shelter, with soon-to-be in-house studio MGM producing. The show is based on the first novel from the author’s Mickey Bolitar trilogy and will star Jaden Michael (Colin In Black And White), who will play the title character in the series. Shelter is from MGM International TV Productions and will […]

Fox-owned AVOD Tubi to double originals output, but retain acquisition focus

Fox-owned AVOD service Tubi plans to double its originals output to around 80 projects in the coming year, while keeping library acquisitions as its main focus. Speaking at the 30th Annual Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference yesterday, Fox Corp COO John Nallen highlighted the importance of the streamer to Fox as a “core […]

Amazon & MGM’s $8.5bn deal gains European Union approval

Amazon has won European Commission (EC) approval to acquire James Bond, The Handmaid’s Tale and Vikings studio MGM. The $8.5bn acquisition, which is now waiting for approval by the US Federal Trade Commission, represents Amazon’s second biggest-ever deal. European Union (EU) officials said there was limited overlap between the companies and added that it would […]

Sister invests in Netflix’s Pamela Anderson doc prodco Dorothy St Pictures

Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider’s Sister Pictures has acquired a minority stake in Dorothy Street Pictures, the Julia Nottingham-led prodco that is behind the upcoming Pamela Anderson doc for Netflix. Nottingham (Be Water, Kingdom of Us) and her team of documentary filmmakers will continue to develop and produce TV and feature content in […]

London TV Screenings reveals attendance numbers & confirms 2023 event

The distributors behind The London TV Screenings have claimed that more than 500 buyers attended the first ever in-person iteration of the event, with execs from around the world flying into the UK capital. Organisers All3Media International, Banijay Rights, eOne, Fremantle and ITV Studios were joined by an array of smaller firms including StudioCanal, Blue […]

WarnerMedia’s HBO Max to merge with Discovery+ following $43bn deal

Discovery will merge streaming services HBO Max and Discovery+ after it completes its acquisition of WarnerMedia, the company has said. The $43bn deal, announced in mid-2021, was ratified on 11 March by Discovery shareholders and is set to close in early 2022. While there had been much speculation on whether the company would continue operating […]

NBCU Launch & Telemundo team to support Hispanic female directors

NBCU Launch, the umbrella brand that houses the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across NBCUniversal’s television portfolio, has forged a new partnership with its Telemundo network to increase the number of Hispanic female directors in scripted television. The initiative comes as the latest DGA Episodic TV Director Inclusion Report found that only 2.4% of scripted […]

Endeavour-backed Blink49 Studios to adapt Marissa Stapley novel

Toronto-based Blink49 Studios, the recently launched, Endeavor Content-backed firm, has acquired the rights to adapt author Marissa Stapley’s novel Things To Do When It’s Raining. The Canadian epic romantic drama tells the story of a woman who is driven by deception and despair to return home from the city to her grandparent’s inn. There, she […]