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All3Media Int’l recruits BBCS’ Tony Ziran Tang for APAC sales

London-based distributor All3Media International has appointed BBC Studios’ Tony Ziran Tang as VP of sales for Asia Pacific. Reporting to Sabrina Duguet, EVP of Asia Pacific, Tang will be responsible for co-productions and finished programme and format sales in China, Korea, Japan, across TV, local digital platforms and home entertainment. Tang arrives at All3media International […]

BBC Studios revenue hits $2.6bn but channels & streaming suffer as profits fall 24%

BBC Studios (BBCS) has provided some good news for its embattled public broadcaster parent by revealing that revenue topped £2bn ($2.6bn) for the first time in 2022/23, although its channels & streaming arm’s profits fell by a quarter. The results, released today in tandem with the BBC’s Annual Report, show that BBCS saw its overall […]

BBC Studios backs ex-Lime exec Sarah Tyekiff’s format firm Mettlemouse Entertainment

BBC Studios (BBCS) is backing former Lime Pictures’ exec Sarah Tyekiff’s nascent format prodco Mettlemouse Entertainment by taking a 25% stake. Tyekiff, who was most recently head of unscripted at All3Media-backed Lime, is joined at Mettlemouse by former Youngest Media chief creative officer Shaun Parry, who becomes creative director. The prodco is baseed out of […]

Scotland’s STV Studios buys Greenbird Media for $27m from Keshet International

Scotland’s STV Studios has bought UK-based producer group Greenbird Media after striking a £21.4m ($27m) deal to acquire the company from majority shareholder Keshet International (KI). The acquisition, which comes 10 months since TBI first revealed KI was exploring offers for the group, means STV Studios will gain stakes in 15 production companies including A&E […]

BBC Studios hires Raise The Roof exec Sandy Robertson as head of fact ent production

BBC Studios (BBCS) has hired Raise The Roof exec Sandy Robertson as its first head of production for the company’s Glasgow-based factual entertainment division. Robertson will work alongside creative director Adeline Ramage Rooney and is responsible for leading production teams across all fact ent programming, while also being tasked with helping to grow BBCS’s Glasgow base […]

Opinion: Mapping the Nordic market & what it means to Formatland

Consolidation has been rife across the industry over recent months, so who better than TBI’s resident format expert Siobhan Crawford to pin down exactly who owns what & what it means for the rest of the industry Mergers and acquisitions. It is not just Banijay’s favourite hobby, it is happening on all fronts. So many […]

BBC Two & PBS track down NHU’s six-parter ‘Big Cats 24/7’

BBC Two in the UK and PBS in the US have linked up on a Natural History Unit (NHU) six-parter about big cats in Africa, while the British broadcaster has also ordered a wildlife special from UK prodco Hello Halo. Big Cats 24/7 (6 x 60-minutes) is from the NHU and takes viewers into the […]

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