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Endeavor & World Wrestling Entertainment strike deal to create $21bn ‘entertainment powerhouse’
LA-based talent group Endeavor has agreed to buy World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as part of…
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News round-up: SeriesFest lands Starz, Tubi, TelevisaUnivision execs; Amazon strikes Imagine pact; CMore extends ‘Helsinki Crimes’; NATPE Budapest unveils attendees
SeriesFest lands Starz, Tubi, TelevisaUnivision execs Denver-based TV festival SeriesFest has announced the line-up for…
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BBC Studios Australia & New Zealand extends Deb Tod remit to include affiliate sales
BBC Studios Australia & News Zealand ((BBCS ANZ) has upped Deb Tod to an expanded…
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Scripted round-up: ‘Ghosts’ to exit BBC; Expectation lands ‘Ted Lasso’ star Ambreen Razia
BBC comedy series Ghosts is to end after its upcoming fifth season. The show, which…
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Netflix orders ‘Scott Pilgrim’ anime, reunites original cast
Netflix has ordered a new anime series based on romantic action-comedy Scott Pilgrim Vs. The…
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Netflix, CBC & APTN order first scripted original with Arctic comedy from Inuit writing duo
Netflix has linked with the CBC and APTN in Canada for its first scripted original,…
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BBC to cut 1,000 hours of TV & increases savings target to $495m as licence fee freeze bites
The BBC has revealed it is cutting 1,000 hours of programming from its slates in…
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Paramount+ beams aboard ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ as sci-fi franchise expands
Paramount+ is expanding its long-running sci-fi adventure Star Trek franchise with an order for a…
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Canada Media Fund to receive $29.5m funding boost to support underrepresented groups
Canada’s government is injecting C$40m ($29.5m) into the Canada Media Fund (CMF) in a bid…
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Spain’s Boomerang TV lands Jorge Pezzi as CEO, replacing co-founders Pedro Ricote & Juan José Diaz
Spanish production outfit Boomerang TV has reshuffled its senior team, with Jorge Pezzi named CEO…
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C4 & Starz line up Eagle Eye adaptation of Dutch drama ‘New Neighbours’, with Sam Heughan
Channel 4 in the UK and US network Starz have ordered a six-part thriller adapted…
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Netflix extends ‘The Night Agent’ & orders supernatural animation
Netflix has renewed action-thriller series The Night Agent for a second season and ordered a…
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Disney ousts Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter amid cuts
Marvel Entertainment chairman Isaac ‘Ike’ Perlmutter has been laid off as part of Disney’s efforts…
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News round-up: BBC, C4 lead RTS Awards; WBD unveils UK & Ireland slate; Paramount renews ‘Star Trek’ spin-offs
BBC, C4 lead RTS Programme Awards The BBC and Channel 4 were the stand-out winners…
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Amazon alum Georgia Brown to lead UK skills task force
Georgia Brown, the former Amazon Studios Europe chief, is to chair a skills task force,…
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Netflix, Prime Video & Disney+ to face Ofcom scrutiny as UK gov’t reveals media reforms
The UK government has outlined plans to bring global services including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video…
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Netflix orders ‘Man On Fire’ series & ‘Snow Girl’ sequel
Netflix is going big on thrillers with orders for a series based on the A.J….
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WildBrain inks $11.4m acquisition of Toronto animation firm House of Cool
Canadian kids & family firm WildBrain is to acquire Toronto-based animation company House Of Cool…
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Banijay appoints former Banijay Studios France COO to new group chief business officer role
Banijay has appointed the former COO of its Banijay Studios France division to a newly…
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Apple TV+ adapts Cosmopolitan article with Jessica Chastain, Fifth Season & Anonymous Content
Severance firm Fifth Season has linked with Anonymous Content and Jessica Chastain on a new…
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Swedish TV and film industry develops intimacy guidelines
The Swedish Film & TV Producers Association, The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film…
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Paramount Global’s programming chief for streaming Tanya Giles to exit
Paramount Global’s chief programming officer for streaming Tanya Giles is to exit after almost three…
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Argo’s Richard Johns & director E. Elias Merhige launch Promethean Pictures
British producer Richard Johns, founder of Argo Films, has partnered with US director E. Elias…
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Disney cuts Hulu & Freeform execs as production operations merged & creative acquisitions unit closed
Disney has begun laying off staff as part of its “strategic realignment”, with production operations…
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‘Dark Woods’ prodco Bavaria Fiction hires X Filme producer Maximiliane Prokop
Dark Woods producer Bavaria Fiction has landed Maximiliane Prokop as an executive producer, based out…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: How ‘The Last Of Us’ has plotted a new path for gaming & TV
HBO drama The Last Of Us has underlined the huge potential of creating a TV…
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Fremantle Italy promotes Marco Tombolini to CEO
Fremantle Italy has promoted Marco Tombolini to CEO, with the exec expanding his remit to…
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Roku names heads of scripted & alternative following Colin Davis’s exit to Sony
Roku has rejigged its senior ranks following Colin Davis’ move to join Sony Pictures Television…
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Exclusive: HBO & HBO Max chief Casey Bloys compares ‘streaming correction’ to Dot-com bubble
HBO & HBO Max chief Casey Bloys has told TBI that the industry remains “right…
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Netflix expands anime, renews ‘You’ for final season & retains ‘Arrested Development’
Netflix’s anime push continues with the streamer announcing two new series set to debut later…