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Factual round-up: BBC heads ‘Inside Dubai’; ‘The Beatles And India’ goes global; Netflix acquires Peter Tatchell doc for Oz & NZ
BBC heads ‘Inside Dubai’ UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned Inside Dubai: Playground Of The…
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ADD Content’s ‘Sirens’ set for Russian adaptation
Content creation and distribution company ADD Content has signed a scripted format deal with Channel…
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Twofour scores format deals in Russia
Twofour formats What Would Your Kid Do? and Change Your Tune are heading to Russia….
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Talpa sells celebrity ageing format to BTV
Formats company Talpa has shopped its new format, Story of My Life, to Bulgarian free…
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New free TV deal for Talpa’s latest format
Talpa’s The Story of My Life has won an order from Russian free-to-air broadcaster Channel…
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Russia’s original output dips 12%
Locally-produced programming premiering on Russia’s seven biggest TV channels dipped 12% last year, new research…
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Channel One buys Section Zero
Russian broadcaster Channel One has acquired edgy French drama Section Zero. The free-TV station will…
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Red Arrow spies Russian Mata Hari deal
Red Arrow International has snagged the worldwide rights to a Russian drama about the exotic…
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Russian TV production falls
The number of original series on Russian TV fell by 12% last year as the…
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Italian, Russian nets to remake The Returned
Sky Italia’s new pay TV channel Sky Atlantic is one of two channels who will…
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Separatists ‘demand Ukrainian channels go dark’
Leading Ukrainian cable operator Volia has reported pro-Russian separatists entered its premises and demanded that…
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Ukrainian channels forced off cable in Crimea
Crimean cable operators have switched off Ukrainian channels following armed intervention by pro-Russian separatist forces…
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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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French drama Braquo getting Russian remake
The Emmy-winning French drama Braquo is to be remade in Russia, its distributor Zodiak Rights has…
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Format deals for The Ultimate Entertainer
Nordic World’s shiny floor format The Ultimate Entertainer will be remade in Georgia and Armenia…
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RTL plans Russia exit
European broadcast giant RTL Group is planning to exit the Russian market after reportedly failing…
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News brief: RTL Klub says Your Face Sounds Familiar
Hungary’s RLT Klub has commissioned a local version of Your Face Sounds Familiar. The Endemol…
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Russian channel to adapt NZ Cult drama
State broadcaster Rossiya 1 has commissioned a Russian version of Kiwi mystery drama The Cult….
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Endemol cuts Russian Hot in Cleveland format deal
Endemol has inked a deal for a Russian version of its hit comedy series Hot…
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Formats to see in CEE
As NATPE Budapest gets underway, TBI speaks to the main players about selling formats into…
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Russian net dives in for Banijay format
A Russian broadcaster has become the latest to licence Banijay International’s celebrity diving format Stars…
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M6 buys Your Face Sounds Familiar
Broadcaster M6 is taking Endemol format Your Face Sounds Familiar into France. A primetime version…
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Argentina, Brazil, Canada and Russia check in for In Treatment
There will be new seasons of the local versions of In Treatment in Argentina, Canada…