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Company Pictures
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News round-up: Sandberg hosts Hamas sexual violence doc; Fox extends ‘Animal Control’; Acorn TV & C5 order ‘Ellis’
Sandberg hosts Hamas sexual violence doc Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta and founder of…
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Banijay Rights snags ‘Wolf Hall’ from BBC Studios, as BBC & PBS prepare finale ‘The Mirror And The Light’
Banijay Rights has picked up distribution of Wolf Hall from BBC Studios (BBCS), with the…
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ITVSGE strikes deal with Kate Sinclair’s Alchemy Entertainment
ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVSGE) has struck a first-look deal with Alchemy Entertainment, the recently…
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Acorn TV joins Virgin Media thriller
Acorn Media Enterprises has inked a copro deal with All3Media International, Company Pictures and Element…
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Sovereign drama
Top drama producers tell Jesse Whittock about the small screen’s enduring fascination with royalty. The…
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All3, Undercover Boss chief form reality prodco
All3Media America has formally brought Undercover Boss showrunner Chris Carlson into the fold. Carlson will…
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Ex-Mammoth Screen chief to run Company Pics
Michele Buck, who recently left Mammoth Screen, has been appointed CEO of Wolf Hall coproducer…
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Amazon buys The White Queen
Amazon has taken exclusive US streaming rights to period drama The White Queen. The series…
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New Worlds for Super Channel, M-Net
Big-budget period drama New Worlds has sold to channels in Canada and pan-Africa. The Power-distributed…
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Company Pics founder forges All3-backed indie
Company Pictures co-founder George Faber has launched a drama indie with financial backing from UK-based…
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TF1 buys UK drama The Missing
France’s leading commercial broadcaster TF1 has prebought The Missing, the upcoming UK drama about a…
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Discovery, Liberty set for $933m All3Media takeover
Discovery Communications and Liberty Global have reportedly paired up to acquire UK production powerhouse All3Media…
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All3Media launches US prodco with ex-Ryan Seacrest exec
All3Media has hooked up with former Ryan Seacrest Productions unscripted programming chief Heather Schuster to…
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Starz, BBC and Company Pictures team for abduction drama
Production has started on The Missing, a US-European coproduced drama about a man obsessed with…
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Company Pics execs to head new look Shed drama unit
Company Pictures executives John Griffith and Johann Knobel are to head a new Shed Media…
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Sky Vision to show Fortitude
Sky Vision is set to land international rights to upcoming big-budget drama Fortitude, TBI understands….
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Company Pictures’ Flint starts own drama indie
Helen Flint has left Company Pictures and started up her own drama production business, TBI…
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MIPCOM Hot Pick: Sky Vision’s Moonfleet
There’s no shortage of pirate-themed projects hitting the market this year, but perhaps only one…
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Sky Atlantic boss exits for Pattinson’s New indie
Elaine Pyke is leaving her role as boss of the Sky Atlantic channel to join…
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Raft of broadcasters buy Gabriel Byrne drama Secret State
Numerous international broadcasters have acquired Secret State, the political drama that stars Gabriel Byrne and…
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Shooting Starz
Starz has built a solid slate of original programmes in recent years with the Spartacus…
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MIPTV Hot Pick: The White Queen
The White Queen has a built-in fan base given the Philippa Gregory books upon which…
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Starz’ White Queen to be crowned at MIPTV
Starz will launch and screen its original period drama The White Queen at MIPTV. The…
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The vision for Sky Vision
Carl Hall and Sophie Turner Laing tell TBI about how the freshly minted Sky Vision…