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Netflix boards BBC America drama
Streaming service Netflix has boarded BBC America comedy thriller series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency….
Study: ‘peak TV’ reached this summer
Most consumers believe 2016 will mark the ‘summer of peak TV’, but that the saturation…
Top Gear host’s show heads for US cable
A motoring show from one of the presenters of the Top Gear reboot has been…
BBC America puts Poehler drama in development
US cable network BBC America has put a raft of drama projects into development, including…
IMG to sell BBC America drama
IMG is moving further into distribution by acquiring rights to new BBC America drama Dirk…
Amazon snags Doctor Who rights
Amazon has bagged exclusive US streaming rights to Doctor Who, the iconic UK sci-fi series….
Euro nets buy Planet Earth follow-up
Scandinavian pubcasters SVT and DR and Italy’s Mediaset have bought Planet Earth II as the…
BBCWW pushes ahead with US OTT plans
BBC Worldwide is pushing ahead with its plans to launch an OTT service in the…
BBC America spurs AMC to Q2 growth
AMC Networks’ new stake in US cable channel BBC America allowed the cable channels group…
BBC America ties with Deutschland ’83 scribe
US cable channel BBC America now counts a new project from Deutschland ’83 co-creator Anna…
Finance group buys Orphan Black producer
The Toronto-based prodco behind BBC America sci-fi drama Orphan Black has been sold to a…
Profit down at BBC Worldwide post-AMC deal
Profit and revenue have declined at BBC Worldwide in the wake of the sale of…
Collier names AMC, SundanceTV top team
Charlie Collier has laid out his top level management team at US cable channels AMC…
Amazon gives Ripper Street two more seasons
Having rescued UK drama Ripper Street, Amazon has now committed to two more seasons of…
Hulu bags ‘major’ AMC drama output deal
American on-demand service Hulu has bagged a pair of major deals, one with AMC Networks….
Collier replaces Barnett at SundanceTV
AMC’s president, Charlie Collier, will add SundanceTV to his duties. By becoming president and general…
Alastair Fothergill on The Hunt
Alastair Fothergill embodies blue-chip documentary more than any other filmmaker and with his latest series,…
German net joins BBC’s Hunt
Germany’s NDR Naturfilm has become a coproduction partner on the BBC’s new Alastair Fothergill natural…
Barnett recruits Rodrigue for BBC America post
Sarah Barnett has brought SundanceTV colleague Nena Rodrigue to US cable channel BBC America. Rodrigue…
Simon Perry to run production at Swedish film fund
+++CORRECTION An earlier version of this story named former BBC America boss Perry Simon as…
Regal ambitions
Royalty is in vogue. Ahead of the launch of Lionsgate’s series The Royals, TBI speaks…
Simon exits as Barnett takes on BBC America
BBC America’s 49.9% stakeholder, AMC Networks, has appointed SundanceTV executive Sarah Barnett as president and…
French telco tracks down BBC’s Intruders
French telco operator OCS has acquired the BBC’s new mystery drama Intruders following MIPCOM. The…
AMC buying into BBC America in US$200m deal
AMC Networks is buying a 49.9% stake in BBC America for US$200 million. The US…
BBC, BBC America order horror series from Life on Mars Team
BBC1 and BBC America are coproducing The Living and the Dead, a new period ghost-hunter…
BBC Two, America on alert for Intruders
The UK’s BBC Two and US cable channel BBC America are coproducing an 8x45mins mystery…
AMC tipped to make move for BBC America stake
US-listed channel operator AMC Networks is in negotiations to buy almost half of BBC America,…
BBC, BBC America order epic period drama from Downton Producer
UK pubcaster the BBC and US cable net BBC America have commissioned The Last Kingdom,…
Worldwide sells BBC America royal comedy back into the UK
UK channel E4 has acquired Almost Royal, the first original comedy to come out of…
BBC Worldwide content push continues with promotion
BBC Worldwide has upped executive producer Julie Swanston to VP of commissioning in Worldwide’s channels…