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Acquisitions
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Viacom acquires AVOD Pluto TV for $340m
Viacom has offered $340m in cash to close a sale for ad-supported streamer Pluto TV,…
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Chicken Soup for the Soul acquires Kutcher’s A Plus for $15m
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, a company building VOD networks that provide positive content,…
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Fox to adapt French detective drama from France 2
Fox Network is set to adapt French detective drama Witnesses, created by Hervé Hadmar and…
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Critical Content acquires T Group Productions
Global content studio Critical Content has acquired Jenny Daly’s T Group Productions. T Group, which…
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Boat Rocker acquires Lip Sync Battle producer
Canada’s Boat Rocker Media has acquired Matador Content, the full-service production company behind Emmy-winning format…
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Blue Ant acquires Canada’s Saloon Media
Blue Ant Media has acquired Toronto-based company Saloon Media, which specialises in factual projects. Saloon…
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TCB inks first-look deal with Argonon’s Transparent TV
TCB Media Rights has signed a two-year first-look deal with Argonon-owned indie Transparent TV. Under…
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Argonon takes full stake of BriteSpark
Argonon Group has acquired 100% of BriteSpark Films, its joint venture with Nick Godwin. Godwin,…
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Cineflix signs first-look deal with Mayhem Entertainment
Cineflix Rights has signed a first-look development deal with Canadian producer Mayhem Entertainment. The partnership…
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Blue Ant brings CBS titles FBI & Charmed to Asia
Blue Ant Media, an international content producer, distributor and operator, is bringing fresh CBS Studios…
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Jetpack nabs first live-action title The Cul de Sac
Global kids distributor Jetpack Distribution has acquired its first live-action property from New Zealand, The…
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Endeavour hires ex-Hulu exec for int’l acquisitions
Endeavour Content has appointed a former Hulu and Roku exec, Kelly Miller, as its new…
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India’s Tata Sky picks up Keshet’s Prisoners of War
Indian distribution platform Tata Sky has picked up Keshet International’s drama series Prisoners of War….
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UKTV returns to Virgin with more content than ever
UKTV’s channels returned to Virgin Media at the weekend, ending a three-week negotiations stand-off that…
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ProSiebenSat.1 takes Endemol Shine’s Younger to Germany
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE has secured a deal with Endemol Shine International for the hit US…
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CTV acquires Roseanne spin-off
Canada’s CTV has acquired the Roseanne spin-off series for this October. The Connors is an…
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Dori licenses Russia’s Road To Calvary to ERT Greece
Distributor Dori Media Group has signed an agreement with Greece’s public broadcaster ERT for Russian…
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VIMN secures format deals in Russia, Nordics & Canada
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has unveiled format production deals for MTV global reality hit…
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Will Smith acquires German distributor Telepool
Will Smith and director Mark Forster have teamed up to acquire German distributor Telepool. Smith…
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Denmark’s DR1 picks up BBC Studios’ Meet The Humans
BBC Studios has licensed the format for Meet The Humans to Danish public service channel DR1. The…
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Australia’s ABC takes indigenous drama to France TV
ABC Commercial, the commercial arm of Australian public broadcaster ABC, has sold indigenous Australian drama Redfern…
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Germany picks up Banijay’s All Against 1
Germany’s ProSieben has picked up Banijay Group’s interactive, studio-based entertainment format, All Against 1. Brainpool,…
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MGM acquires Live PD producer Big Fish
MGM has acquired the producer of A&E’s Live PD, Big Fish Entertainment. The company will…
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SVOD platforms drive £902m in UK TV export sales
Streaming services such as Amazon and Netflix accounted for a quarter (£225 million) of UK…
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Spanish drama El Accidente sells across Lat Am
Eccho Rights and DirecTV have completed a deal to offer Spanish drama, El Accidente, on DirecTV’s…
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BBC Two picks up Showtime’s New York Times doc
BBC Two has picked up Showtime’s The New York Times: The Fourth Estate, due to…
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ABC Studios Int’l & Stan set to launch global original
Australian streamer Stan is to launch a new original series by The Kettering Incident’s (pictured)…
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ITV2 pairs Love Island’s Chris and Kem
Twenty Six 03 Entertainment, the entertainment and formats joint venture founded by Duncan Gray and…
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CBS links with Japanese streamer U-Next
CBS Studios International (CSI) has signed a multi-series, multi-year content licensing agreement with one of…
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Flame inks factual deal with Amazon via Janson Media partnership
Flame Distribution has announced a deal with digital distributor Janson Media to bring a package…