Scripted
Netflix orders UK erotic thriller from Gaumont & Moonage Pictures
Netflix’s UK-based VP of scripted Anne Mensah has ordered a three-part erotic thriller from Gaumont…
RTL Group to triple original spending, as Fremantle hits $2.1bn revenue
RTL Group saw its profits soar to €1.5bn ($1.6bn) in 2021, with production arm Fremantle…
News round-up: Hulu & Amazon bite into ‘Reginald The Vampire’; HBO preps Jodie Comer drama; Rai orders political thriller
Hulu & Amazon bite into ‘Reginald The Vampire’ Disney-owned streamer Hulu and Amazon Prime Video…
NBCUniversal expands content pact with US producer-director Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow, the US director, producer and screenwriter behind The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The King…
Universal Int’l Studios & Buendía Estudios strike Spanish-language development & co-pro deal
Universal International Studios has partnered with Spanish prodco Buendía Estudios to co-develop and co-produce Spanish-language…
ITVS’s Cattleya hires Warner Bros. & ‘His Dark Materials’ execs for Spanish arm
ZeroZeroZero and Suburra producer Cattleya has hired veteran producer Denis Pedregosa and Warner Bros. exec…
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…
News round-up: Pluto TV sets Nordics launch; ZED to sell Zelenskyy doc; Federation shops ‘Good People’
Pluto TV sets Nordics launch Paramount Global’s AVOD service Pluto TV will launch in Sweden,…
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…
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…