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Drama, Italian style

Italy has emerged from the doldrums to become a leading European drama producer in recent…

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Televisa USA adapting Spanish drama Gran Hotel

The US arm of Mexican media giant Televisa is adapting hit Spanish drama Gran Hotel,…

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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…

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Netflix buys Italian corruption drama

Netflix has acquired US subscription streaming rights to Italian crime and corruption period drama 1992,…

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Israeli VOD service lands Romanzo Criminale

New Israeli on-demand platform Cellcom TV has acquired Italian gangster drama Romanze Criminale from Germany-based…

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Beta’s Welbers to join German indie

Eric Welbers’s next post will be at German independent film and TV producer Neue deutsche…

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NATPE Europe: Welbers exiting Beta Film

Eric Welbers will leave Beta Film in the next few weeks, after almost twenty years…

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Beta seals CCTV drama deal

Beta Film has sealed a raft of Asian sales including shopping a pair of drama…

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Beta stops Starfighter sales, explores Valley

Germany’s Beta Film has acquired distribution rights to pay channel TNT Serie’s drama The Valley…

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Hulu goes to Wonderland with Beta

US streaming service Hulu is among buyers of the Beta Film-sold drama Wonderland. Beta has…

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Beta Film sets a MIP date for 1992

German distributor Beta Film will launch buzzy Italian drama 1992 and Spanish drama hit Under…

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HBO remaking Scandi drama in Europe

HBO Europe is making two local versions of Nordic Noir hit Mammon. The European arm…

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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…

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Beta prodco hires production vet for new office

A production subsidiary of Jan Mojto’s Beta Film has hired a German production veteran to…

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Beta joins Sky Italia drama 1992

Germany’s Beta Film has signed on for Sky Italia’s big budget political crime series 1992….

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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…

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Ex-ITV Studios Germany boss launches Beta drama prodco

Jan Kromschröder, who recently stepped down as managing director of ITV Studios Germany, has launched…

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Spanish net bags mob drama Gomorrah

Spanish broadcaster laSexta will broadcast Italian mafia drama Gomorrah. LaSexta’s parent Atresmedia struck a deal…

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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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Autentic and WDR launch new German doc distributor

Autentic, the Munich-based docs and channels group run by Beta Film and Patrick Hörl, and…

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Spain’s drama producers look to go global

Spain’s crisis has forced TV producers to seek international business. Local fiction continues to dominate…

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Beta Film takes on the Mafia

Italian crime writer Roberto Saviano, whose mafia exposé Gomorrah lead to death threats, tells Jesse…

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Sky Deutschland, HBO buy mafia series Gomorrah

Beta Film has confirmed a deal with HBO Nordic for its Italian crime series Gomorrah….

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Autentic opens new sales office

Autentic has opened a new sales office and said it plans to ramp up investment…

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Regulator blocks Germany’s Gold streaming service

Regulators have blocked the Germany’s Gold service that a group of German media companies had…

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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…

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Hulu checks in to Grand Hotel

US VOD service Hulu is among the latest buyers of Spanish period drama Grand Hotel, TBI…

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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…

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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…

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Tricky Business and Cracked head Beta Film slate

Beta Film will launch Canadian cop series Cracked at MIPCOM. The German distributor has international…