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ChaiFlicks picks up ‘Kafka’ biopic rights for North America
ChaiFlicks, the streaming service dedicated to Jewish content, has picked up the North American rights…
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Wartime spy drama ‘Davos 1917’ secures trio of European broadcast sales
Mediaset in Italy is among three European broadcasters to have picked up rights to upcoming…
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Prime Video & Germany’s ARD take in South Africa-based drama ‘The Morning After’
Prime Video is ramping up its offering in sub-Saharan Africa with the pick-up of local…
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German broadcasters ARD & ZDF combine libraries for joint streamer
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have formally rolled out their combined streaming service, which…
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News round-up: MIPTV embraces FAST; German copro scheme joins All3’s ‘Messenger’; C4 & NFTS strike three-year pact
MIPTV embraces FAST MIPTV a FAST-focused “channel summit” to take place during its April event…
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Scripted round-up: Videoland travels with ‘Bonnie & Clyde’; ARD & CBS link for murder series; Kanal D forges Vuulr pact
Videoland travels with Bonnie & Clyde Netherlands-based streamer Videoland has ordered a four-part drama inspired…
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TBI Weekly: Exploring Germany’s fast-evolving scripted sector
Germany’s content business is booming, with scripted programming fast becoming a key tool for incumbent…
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US streamer Fox Nation & Germany’s ARD board Plimsoll, ITVS nature ‘epic’
Fox News Media streamer Fox Nation and German broadcasting group ARD have boarded Plimsoll Productions’…
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News round-up: TF1, Globo take Beta drama; BBCS extends in Russia; Two Rivers gets ‘Top Dog’; MTV’s Gobstopper deal
BBCS extends Russian deal with Friday! Russian free-to-air channel Friday! has extended its deal for…
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Covid-19 round-up: German broadcasters to shoulder costs; Oprah launches Apple show; Rakuten TV adds free films
Apple launches Oprah Talks Covid-19 Oprah Winfrey has launched an Apple TV+ show exploring the…
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Arte plots VOD service with ARD, ZDF, France Télévisions
Franco-German culture channel Arte is planning to launch a video-on-demand (VOD) platform in partnership with…
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Netflix takes US rights to Babylon Berlin
Streaming service Netflix has acquired exclusive rights to big-budget German drama Babylon Berlin. The series…
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Sky and Scandis buy Babylon Berlin
Beta Film has sealed a raft of deals for Babylon Berlin, the upcoming €40 million…
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German pubcasters miss Discovery Olympics deal
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have failed to secure a deal with Discovery to…
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UK, Germany clean up at international Emmys
Programmes from the UK and Germany led the way at the International Emmy Awards in…
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Deal Monitor: 16 programming deals at a glance
In a week that began with MIPCOM recuperation and the news TV titan Time Warner…
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New German VOD net buys NRK drama
A new German VOD platform, Canal+’s SVOD service in France and Channel 4’s Walter Presents…
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German nets salute Armoza’s Local Heroes
German pubcaster ARD has ordered a local version of the Local Heroes format, while German-language…
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Netflix explores German History X
Netflix has bagged exclusive SVOD rights to ARD drama NSU German History X in six…
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BBCWW secures detective series presales
BBC Worldwide has shopped upcoming detective drama Maigret to France 3, Germany’s ARD, Sweden’s TV4…
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Canal+ buys Russian athletics doping doc
French pay TV service Canal+ has acquired Doping – Top Secret: the Shadowy World of…
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ARD Adidas-Puma drama goes global
Germany-based distributor Global Screen is to debut an ARD primetime drama Rivals Forever – The…
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CEE formats deals for All3’s Filmpool
All3Media International has struck two new deals for formats from German prodco Filmpool. Long-running Sat.1…
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German kids TV veteran dies at 61
Popular German kids TV executive Angelika Paetow has passed away aged 61. Paetow worked at…
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German net joins BBC’s Hunt
Germany’s NDR Naturfilm has become a coproduction partner on the BBC’s new Alastair Fothergill natural…
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UK leads video apps market, Netflix in first
Consumers in the UK are the most voracious in Europe when it comes top downloading…
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Sat.1 readies German Gogglebox, RTL preps rival
Germany’s Sat.1 has ordered a local version of hit reality format Gogglebox as rival free-to-air…
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Sony’s Pop picks up Funnymals
Sony’s recently-acquired UK digital channel Pop TV and the African feed of Comedy Central has…
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Sky, ARD set up ‘pioneering’ German drama
Sky Deutschland and ARD are two of four partners attached to a German-produced crime thriller…
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Sky Deutschland and ARD making original drama
German pay TV operator Sky Deutschland is teaming up with public broadcaster ARD to collaborate…
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