After more than 35 years of operation, TBI is closing its doors and our website will no longer be updated daily. Thank you for all of your support.
Chris Bonney
10 min read
TBI Roundtable: Deal makers
No other sector has had to adapt as quickly to the rapidly changing content market…
2 min read
Cineflix Rights signs first-look with Finestripe
Cineflix Rights has signed an exclusive first-look development deal with popular factual indie Finestripe Productions. The…
1 min read
Scott Brothers Entertainment buys production rights to ‘Property Brothers’ franchise
Scott Brothers Entertainment, the production company owned by Property Brothers’ twin presenters Drew and Jonathan Scott, has bought…
7 min read
TBI Weekly: Old vs. new money face off for unscripted
A wealth of shiny digital entrants may well suggest TV is currently a supplier’s market,…
1 min read
Cineflix gains global rights to White Boy Rick doc
Cineflix Rights has acquired the worldwide rights to White Boy, a feature-length doc on the…
2 min read
Cineflix Rights snaps up Russian drama
Cineflix Rights is betting on Russian drama Ordinary Woman, with plans in place for a…
2 min read
Show of the week: The Queen’s Green Planet
The Queen’s Green Planet tackles one of the world’s great ecological conundrums: protecting the forests…
2 min read
Cineflix gets new lease of Life as Paramedics leads deals
Cineflix Rights has hired industry veteran Richard Life as VP of acquisitions. His hire comes…
8 min read
Television’s love affair with the People’s Princess
Yearlong activities have taken place to mark the twentieth anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, and…
1 min read
Sky Arts, Movistar+ explore History of Comedy
Three European pay TV channels and Israeli have acquired a new eight-part CNN series about…
1 min read
Cineflix buys Dior, builds Lego
Cineflix Rights has snagged international rights to two UK-produced factual series, Inside Dior and A…
1 min read
Cineflix bags Bellum’s Bizarre duo
UK-based distributor Cineflix Rights will sell Bellum Entertainment shows Bizarre Murders and Bizarre Bloopers. Bizarre…
1 min read
Cineflix strikes deal with Monty Halls’ Seadog
Cineflix Rights has inked a first-look deal with Seadog Productions, the UK indie created by…
2 min read
Peter Emerson takes stake in Cineflix
Former Entertainment One Television sales chief Peter Emerson has taken a stake in Cineflix Media,…
1 min read
Cineflix secures Borders
Discovery has acquired Border Security: America’s Front Line, the latest instalment in the Border Security…
1 min read
Discovery joins Detectives Club in UK, Europe
Discovery Networks in the UK and Europe have bought The Detectives Club: New Orleans. The…
2 min read
TV’s Big Questions: has the wave of M&A been positive for the industry?
Industry consolidation continued apace in 2015. The biggest deal, announced last year and effective from…
2 min read
TV’s Big Questions: has the wave of M&A been positive for the industry?
Industry consolidation continued apace in 2015. The biggest deal, announced last year and effective from…
4 min read
TV’s Big Questions: are the main markets still relevant?
Distribution is changing. The Frank brothers have created a digital rights trading platform, TRX, which…
1 min read
Pivot explores 1000 Days for the Planet
American cable channel Pivot Network has acquired all three seasons of natural history series 1000…
1 min read
Broadcasters buy into Lego’s secret doc
A raft of international broadcasters have acquired The Secret World of Lego, the one-off doc…
1 min read
Cineflix snags buzzy British noir series
The distribution arm of Cineflix has won the rights to Marcella, the upcoming ‘British noir’…
1 min read
Cineflix to sell Pivot shows
Cineflix Rights has secured rights to sell programming from US cable channel Pivot. The catalogue…
1 min read
AMC, Discovery Lat Am score Cineflix shows
AMC Networks Iberia and Discovery Networks Latin America are among buyers of programming from UK-based…
1 min read
Cineflix blocks out Lego doc deal
Cineflix Rights has snagged international rights to The Secret World of Lego, the one-off behind-the-scenes…
1 min read
Heaney’s TCB poaches Cineflix exec
TCB Media Rights chief Paul Heaney has recruited a managing director from his former company,…
1 min read
Cineflix snags buzzy sex-change series
Cineflix has taken international rights to the buzzy upcoming US reality show Becoming Us. The…
1 min read
Cineflix bringing supersized family to Cannes
Cineflix Rights will start selling Bringing up Bates, a new reality show about a Tennessee…
1 min read
France Télévisions buys into Cineflix’s Secrets & Lies
French pubcaster France Télévisions has acquired Australian drama series Secrets & Lies from Cineflix Rights….
1 min read
Lifetime UK calls out Property Brothers
Lifetime in the UK has acquired North American home renovation show Property Brothers from distributor…
- 1
- 2