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Beta Film
Drama, Italian style
Italy has emerged from the doldrums to become a leading European drama producer in recent…
Televisa USA adapting Spanish drama Gran Hotel
The US arm of Mexican media giant Televisa is adapting hit Spanish drama Gran Hotel,…
Beta to debut Germany pay TV drama, kids division
Beta Film heads to Cannes with new shows including the much-hyped German psycho-thriller drama Weinberg…
Netflix buys Italian corruption drama
Netflix has acquired US subscription streaming rights to Italian crime and corruption period drama 1992,…
Israeli VOD service lands Romanzo Criminale
New Israeli on-demand platform Cellcom TV has acquired Italian gangster drama Romanze Criminale from Germany-based…
Beta’s Welbers to join German indie
Eric Welbers’s next post will be at German independent film and TV producer Neue deutsche…
NATPE Europe: Welbers exiting Beta Film
Eric Welbers will leave Beta Film in the next few weeks, after almost twenty years…
Beta seals CCTV drama deal
Beta Film has sealed a raft of Asian sales including shopping a pair of drama…
Beta stops Starfighter sales, explores Valley
Germany’s Beta Film has acquired distribution rights to pay channel TNT Serie’s drama The Valley…
Hulu goes to Wonderland with Beta
US streaming service Hulu is among buyers of the Beta Film-sold drama Wonderland. Beta has…
Beta Film sets a MIP date for 1992
German distributor Beta Film will launch buzzy Italian drama 1992 and Spanish drama hit Under…
HBO remaking Scandi drama in Europe
HBO Europe is making two local versions of Nordic Noir hit Mammon. The European arm…
Sky takes UK and German rights to Italy’s 1992
Sky has acquired 1992, the upcoming political drama produced for Sky Italia, for its UK…
Beta prodco hires production vet for new office
A production subsidiary of Jan Mojto’s Beta Film has hired a German production veteran to…
Beta joins Sky Italia drama 1992
Germany’s Beta Film has signed on for Sky Italia’s big budget political crime series 1992….
Shades of Guilt at MIPCOM for Beta
German-based distributor Beta Film’s MIPCOM highlight is Shades of Guilt, a third-party drama series it…
Ex-ITV Studios Germany boss launches Beta drama prodco
Jan Kromschröder, who recently stepped down as managing director of ITV Studios Germany, has launched…
Spanish net bags mob drama Gomorrah
Spanish broadcaster laSexta will broadcast Italian mafia drama Gomorrah. LaSexta’s parent Atresmedia struck a deal…
Sky Deutschland and ARD making original drama
German pay TV operator Sky Deutschland is teaming up with public broadcaster ARD to collaborate…
Autentic and WDR launch new German doc distributor
Autentic, the Munich-based docs and channels group run by Beta Film and Patrick Hörl, and…
Spain’s drama producers look to go global
Spain’s crisis has forced TV producers to seek international business. Local fiction continues to dominate…
Beta Film takes on the Mafia
Italian crime writer Roberto Saviano, whose mafia exposé Gomorrah lead to death threats, tells Jesse…
Sky Deutschland, HBO buy mafia series Gomorrah
Beta Film has confirmed a deal with HBO Nordic for its Italian crime series Gomorrah….
Autentic opens new sales office
Autentic has opened a new sales office and said it plans to ramp up investment…
Regulator blocks Germany’s Gold streaming service
Regulators have blocked the Germany’s Gold service that a group of German media companies had…
HBO Europe’s Burning Bush to get US outing
Burning Bush, the big-ticket original series for HBO Europe, will be shown on HBO in…
Hulu checks in to Grand Hotel
US VOD service Hulu is among the latest buyers of Spanish period drama Grand Hotel, TBI…
Arte gets on board Spanish adventure drama series Alatriste
Franco-German cultural broadcaster Arte has joined upcoming Spanish period drama series Alatriste as a coproduction…
MIPTV News: Six execs to get the first-ever MIP Medal of Honour
The organisers of MIPTV have announced the first-ever roster of executives to get the MIPTV…
Tricky Business and Cracked head Beta Film slate
Beta Film will launch Canadian cop series Cracked at MIPCOM. The German distributor has international…