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BossaNova
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London TV Screenings Insights: Paul Heaney, CEO, BossaNova
As buyers flock to the UK for London TV Screenings and BBC Studios Showcase this…
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News round-up: Be-Entertainment recruits ITVS exec; ‘Great Songwriters’ sales; History Channel Iberia buys museum doc
Be-Entertainment recruits ITVS exec Martijn Plaizier Belgian format distributor Be-Entertainment has hired ITV Studios Global…
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BossaNova hires Beyond Rights exec Claire Runham as head of acquisitions
Night Train Media-backed financier and distributor BossaNova has hired former Beyond Rights exec Claire Runham…
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Show of the week: Con Girl
This 4 x 60-minute documentary series tells the stranger-than-fiction story of con artist Samantha Azzopardi,…
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News round-up: BossaNova preps development days, sells to Bell; Quintus launches True Crime channel; Global snags Sky deal
BossaNova preps development days, sells to Bell Canada’s Bell Media has acquired feature documentary, Siegfried…
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UK’s C4 partners with BossaNova on Egypt & Cambodia history shows
UK pubcaster Channel 4 has partnered with Paul Heaney’s BossaNova Media to co-finance two history…
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BossaNova snags Beyond alum as new head of sales
UK-based Searching For Michael Jackson’s Zoo distributor BossaNova has appointed Beyond Rights’ Holly Cowdery as…
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Sales Talk: BossaNova’s Paul Heaney on surging content & ‘The Tinder Swindler’
Buyers, hungry for new content, are in the UK capital for meetings, presentations and drinks…
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Show of the week: Black Panthers of World War II
This one-hour special tells the story of the US’s first African American armoured unit to…
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UK’s BossaNova unveils second pitching event plans
UK-based distribution firm Bossanova has put out an open call to factual indies interested in…
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UK’s BossaNova unveils second slate of ‘original’ productions
Paul Heaney’s UK-based distribution outfit BossaNova has unveiled its second slate of original productions, consisting…
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MIPCOM round-up: Nutopia’s ‘Extra Life’ travels; BossaNova sales in MENA; Insight TV’s China co-pro
Movistar, SBS, Kan claim Nutopia’s Extra Life Movistar in Spain, Australia’s SBS and Israeli pubcaster…
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BossaNova hires NENT Studios exec for acquisitions & co-pros
UK-based funding and distribution company BossaNova has appointed former NENT Studios exec Olivia Morgan to…
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TBI Weekly: What attending a post-Covid event feels like
NEM Dubrovnik offered another indicator that the face-to-face events circuit is beginning to spark back…
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Germany’s Night Train Media buys UK distributor BossaNova
Germany’s Night Train Media (NTM) has taken a majority stake in UK-based distribution company BossaNova….
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Exclusive: UK’s BossaNova hires Banijay Rights exec for sales
UK-based funding and distribution company BossaNova has made its first senior commercial hire with the…
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TBI Weekly: How the future of markets is shaping up
As Digital MIPTV draws to a close, TBI talks to a variety of distributors to…
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France’s RMC Découverte seeks quick-turnaround Suez Canal doc from Factual Factory
French network RMC Découverte has ordered a quick-turnaround documentary from Factual Factory and about the…
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UK’s BossaNova unveils distribution launch slate & pitching event
BossaNova, the UK-based content creation, financing and distribution outfit launched by TCB Media Rights co-founders…
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TCB co-founders Heaney & Subhani launch new sales & financing firm
TCB Media Rights co-founders Paul Heaney and Dina Subhani are returning to the content business…