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DR to cut back on int’l drama following channel cuts
Danish public broadcaster DR will focus increasingly on regional content following significant budget cuts that…
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ABC Australia picks up Fremantle’s Recording Studio
Australian public broadcaster ABC has announced plans to create a local version of FremantleMedia’s new…
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Epix among nets going Deep State with Fox
MGM-owned cable channel Epix has bagged exclusive US rights to Fox Networks Group Europe &…
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DR names TV2 exec as drama chief after Bernth exit
Danish pubcaster DR has named a TV2 producer has its new drama chief after the…
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ITV Studios back Piv Bernth drama studio
ITV Studios has bought a minority stake in the new drama production house of former…
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DR drama chief exits for own venture
DR’s long-serving drama chief, Piv Bernth, is exiting the Danish pubcaster to create her own…
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BBC among French sci-fi drama buyers
The UK’s BBC Four, Germany’s RTL and DR in Denmark have boarded a French sci-fi…
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Nordic pubcasters combine to fight SVOD threat
Public broadcasters in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland are forming an alliance to combat…
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Factual Hot Picks
Following the Sunny Side of the Doc event in La Rochelle, France, TBI profiles five hot…
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Victoria reigns in Europe, Israel
ITV period drama Victoria has found new homes in Italy, Russia and Israel. The Mammoth…
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DR names media chief as Rabøl resigns
Danish pubcaster DR has appointed a new media director after the resignation of incumbent Gitte…
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Sky and Scandis buy Babylon Berlin
Beta Film has sealed a raft of deals for Babylon Berlin, the upcoming €40 million…
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Ex-Endemol Shine exec joins DR
Former Endemol Shine Denmark leader Rikke Kristine Nissen has joined DR in Denmark. Nissen will…
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Drive deals for Why Are We Here?
Drive, the UK funding and copro specialists that recently set up a distribution arm, have…
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Orange Smarty claims £250k in post-MIPCOM deals
UK indie distributor Orange Smarty has sold a 50-hour package of programming to Foxtel and…
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UK, Germany clean up at international Emmys
Programmes from the UK and Germany led the way at the International Emmy Awards in…
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DR docs and copros chief exiting
Mette Hoffman Meyer, DR’s docs and copros, is leaving the Danish public broadcaster. She will…
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AMC will no longer Feed the Beast
US cable channel AMC is not progressing with its freshman season drama Feed the Beast….
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Netflix enters CNN’s Race For the White House
Netflix, DR and Foxtel are among international buyers of a CNN original docuseries about famous…
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Netflix consumes Toast in 200-hour ABC deal
British comedy Toast of London has debuted in Australia and New Zealand on SVOD service…
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Scandi pubcasters buy Universum docs
Public broadcasters in Scandinavia have bought documentary programming from Austria’s ORF. DR in Denmark took…
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TV4 recruits Finnish Nurses for format
Swedish commercial channel TV4 is to remake Finnish drama Nurses following a deal with distributor…
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Euro nets buy Planet Earth follow-up
Scandinavian pubcasters SVT and DR and Italy’s Mediaset have bought Planet Earth II as the…
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BBCWW secures detective series presales
BBC Worldwide has shopped upcoming detective drama Maigret to France 3, Germany’s ARD, Sweden’s TV4…
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CBC, SVT buy Lanzmann doc
Pubcasters in Europe and North America are the latest to buy Adam Benzine’s documentary Claude…
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Canal+ buys Russian athletics doping doc
French pay TV service Canal+ has acquired Doping – Top Secret: the Shadowy World of…
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News brief: BBC buys Lockerbie bombing series
The BBC has acquired UK rights to a new PBS documentary series that sheds new…
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Nordic pubcasters urges UK gov’t to back BBC
Director generals from the Nordic region’s pubcasters have warned the British government not to weaken…
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NHK buys BBC One Agatha Christie drama
Japanese pubcaster NHK is one of a batch of networks to acquire BBC One period…
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AMC to remake Danish drama
AMC has gone straight-to-series on Broke (WT), a drama based on Denmark’s Bankerot. AMC Studios,…