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Mediaset set to offload Canal+ stake

Mediaset executive vice-president Piersilvio Berlusconi has given the strongest indication yet that his group will sell its 22% stake in Spain’s Canal+ to Telefónica ahead of Friday’s deadline, possibly as part of a wider strategic agreement with the Spanish telco. Speaking to journalists at a presentation of the group’s autumn schedules, Berlusconi said that, while […]

Canal+ adds new YouTube comedy channels

French pay TV provider Canal+ has added two new comedy channels to its YouTube multi-channel network Canal Factory. Canal+ has added Le Comité des Reprises and Fun Corp to the Canal Factory offering. Le Comité des Reprises, produced by Firr Productions, features musical events introduced by presenters PV Nova and Waxx, distributed each Thursday at […]

Telefónica moves for Mediaset’s Canal+ stake

Telefónica has offered €295 million (US$400 million) to acquire Mediaset’s 22% stake in Spanish pay TV operator Canal+. The move to take full control of Digital+ follows Telefónica’s announcement of its agreement for the acquisition of Spanish media group Prisa’s 56% stake in the operator, formerly known as Digital+, for €750 million at the beginning […]

Canal+ to launch YouTube children’s channels

French channels operator Canal+ is launching a pair of children’s networks on YouTube. Zac & Zig and Piwi will debut on the Google-owned platform on June 18, targeted at kids aged 3-6. Zac & Zig will be an education-themed network with educational programming and participatory games offered, while Piwi will show cartoons and educational shows. […]

WOWOW, Canal+ in tune with Foo Fighters doc

Pay TV operators in Japan and Spain have pre-bought an eight-part documentary about rock group the Foo Fighters. WOWOW and Canal+ have bought Sonic Highways from BBC Worldwide, which announced today it has taken global distribution rights from producer Roswell Films. Sonic Highways was produced for HBO in the US. The premium pay channel will […]

Creatives speaking: Gilles Bannier on Paris

Gilles Bannier was lined up to direct The Tunnel, the Canal+ and Sky remake of hit Scandinavian drama Bron (The Bridge), but he put that to one side after a call from the producer of Paris, a new drama series from Engrenages (Spiral) writer Virginie Brac. “I heard it was written by Virginie, and her […]

Telefónica seals €750m deal for Canal+ Spain

Prisa and Telefónica have definitively agreed the sale of Prisa’s 56% stake in pay TV platform Canal+’s holding company to the Spanish telecom giant for €750 million. The agreement follows Prisa’s acceptance in principal of Telefónica’s offer to buy the majority stake in the platform on May 7. The deal will give Teleféonica, which already […]

Canal+ buys Fox’s Wayward Pines

French pay TV broadcaster Canal+ has become the first international buyer of upcoming M. Night Shyamalan drama Wayward Pines. The series, which will star Matt Dillon, will go out on the Fox broadcast network in the US. Fox International Channels has taken all global rights and is planning a simultaneous launch of the show across […]

Italian, Russian nets to remake The Returned

Sky Italia’s new pay TV channel Sky Atlantic is one of two channels who will remake French supernatural drama The Returned. Sky and Russia’s Channel One have both acquired the original series, which Haut et Court produced for French pay TV operator Canal+ and Zodiak Rights sells internationally, and local remake rights. Sky Italia’s deal […]

Telefonica’s €725m Spanish pay TV takeover offer accepted

Spanish media group Prisa has accepted Telefónica’s €725 bid for its 56% stake in pay TV platform Canal+’s holding company Distribuidora de Televisión Digital (DTS). The deal gives DTS a market value of €1.3 billion (US$1.8 billion) and, if approved by regulators, will give the telecom company a controlling stake of 78%, leaving Italy’s Mediaset […]

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