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Amazon orders Waller-Bridge’s ‘Tomb Raider’ & remakes C4 format amid unscripted push
Amazon has made a series order for its Phoebe Waller-Bridge penned adaptation of Tomb Raider…
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ProSiebenSat.1 ‘on right track’ as record Joyn performance drives Q1 results
ProSiebenSat.1 has seen AVOD revenues at streamer Joyn surge by 50% and group revenues rise…
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Series Mania & Beta launch third Seriesmakers scheme, offering $54,000 prize
French festival Series Mania and Germany’s Beta Group have launched the third edition of creative…
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Andy Kaplan & George Chien’s KC Global to shutter GEM in Japan
Andy Kaplan and George Chien’s KC Global Media is shuttering its Japanese linear network GEM…
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Disney+ orders first Central & Easter European original with crime drama ‘Breslau’
Disney+ has ordered a period drama from Poland, marking the streamer’s first original scripted series…
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Sony Pictures Entertainment profits down 10% following Hollywood strikes
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) profits fell by almost 10% over the past year, with revenues…
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Warner Bros. Discovery names Hulu alum as GM in Japan, Chieko Nishi to lead networks
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has rejigged its senior ranks in Japan with the hire of…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Unpicking Prime Video’s strategy for ‘Fallout’
Amazon Prime Video’s release of Fallout marked the streamer’s first video game-based TV series. With…
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NBC preps Belgian format ‘Destination X’, ‘The Americas’ for 2025
US broadcaster NBC will launch its remake of Belgian format Destination X and the second…
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Netflix’s ‘Top Boy’ lands BAFTA TV Awards, as ‘Happy Valley’ star Lancashire wins again
Netflix drama Top Boy and Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire were among the stand-out winners…
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Vix content chief Rodrigo Mazon to leave TelevisaUnivision streamer
Rodrigo Mazon, chief content officer & EVP at TelevisaUnivision’s Spanish-language streamer Vix, is stepping down….
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News round-up: BBC Studios announces ‘Bluey’ minisodes; Paramount+ renews ‘Lioness’; Sony rebooting ‘Charlie’s Angels’
BBC Studios announces ‘Bluey’ minisodes BBC Studios has announced a series of 20 x 1-3-minute…
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Exclusive: Great Point closure points to ‘end of TV investment’ in UK
Investor confidence in the TV & film sector is set to plummet in the wake…
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Lionsgate TV developing drama based on Shohei Ohtani interpreter scandal
Lionsgate Television is developing a scripted drama series based around this year’s gambling scandal surrounding…
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Tubi orders workplace comedy ‘The Z-Suite’, starring & exec produced by Lauren Graham
Fox-owned AVOD service Tubi has greenlit The Z-Suite, a new original workplace comedy series, starring…
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ITV Studios revenue drops 16% due to Hollywood strikes
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has posted a Q1 revenue drop of 7%, down to £887m…
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Disney+ pushes into VR originals with immersive version of Marvel animation ‘What If…?’
Disney+ has commissioned an interactive instalment of Marvel animated superhero series What If…? for the…
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Peacock greenlights ‘The Office’ spin-off from Greg Daniels, set around daily newspaper
Peacock has greenlit a spin-off from NBC comedy The Office, from that series’ showrunner Greg…
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Banijay Rights lands former BBC Studios sales exec in Germany, Poland
Banijay Rights has hired a former BBC Studios exec to oversee sales in German-speaking countries…
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The North Road Company hires Netflix, HBO alum to head business affairs
Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company has landed a former Netflix exec as its head…
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Fremantle’s Q1 revenue drops 9%, advertising & streaming growth fuels RTL Group
Fremantle made a stuttering start to 2024 with revenues declining almost 10%, but parent company…
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‘100 Foot Wave’ prodco Amplify develops ‘Clone High’ scribe’s Native comedy
100 Foot Wave producer Amplify Pictures has started development on a comedy series from Siena…
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SeriesFest unveils ‘Potluck Ladies’ & ‘Breakthrough’ among Awards winners
Canadian scripted show Potluck Ladies and a documentary exploring what happens when elite athletes are…
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Netflix orders Dutch comedy ‘Roosters’ from Hollands Licht
Netflix has greenlit Roosters, a new Dutch comedy series about four friends trying to survive…
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Paramount+ spins off ‘The Neighbourhood’ with Tracy Morgan-led sitcom ‘Crutch’
Paramount+ has ordered Crutch, a spin-off from CBS sitcom The Neighbourhood. Produced by CBS Studios,…
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Warner Bros. Animation veteran Ed Adams to retire; Matt Matzkin expands remit
Veteran Warner Bros. Animation exec Ed Adams is retiring after 15 years with the company….
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RTL Deutschland ups former Netflix exec to become chief content officer
Former Netflix exec Inga Leschek is to become chief content officer at RTL Deutschland from…
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Paramount opens M&A talks with Sony & Apollo, Skydance deal remains on table
Paramount Global opened M&A negotiations with Sony and Apollo over the weekend, after Skydance Media’s…
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TBI Weekly: How ‘Gomorrah’ put Italian drama on the map
Few shows have done as much to put Italian TV drama on the map as…
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Max commissions Polish original spy thriller ‘The Easterngate’
Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer Max has commissioned The Easterngate, a Polish original spy thriller Directed…