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Drama
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News round-up: Blue Ant to shop ‘Stormy’; UKTV revives ‘Bergerac’; Harbour Rights deals
Blue Ant to shop ‘Stormy’ Blue Ant Studios has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Stormy,…
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UKTV picks up ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ in Disney drama deal
BBC Studios-owned UKTV has acquired the rights to six drama series from Disney for its…
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Script to Screen: The Marlow Murder Club
Ahead of the launch of The Marlow Murder Club tomorrow, Mark Layton speaks to creator…
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Exclusive: UKTV CEO on how broadcaster weathered storm of 2023 to achieve significant growth
While the past year has been marred by ad market downturn and all-round rising costs,…
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BBC Studios & UKTV stock up on AMC Networks dramas for UK & Benelux
BBC Studios and its broadcast group UKTV have jointly acquired the UK and Benelux rights…
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UKTV & PBS Masterpiece co-commission ‘The Marlow Murder Club’ from ‘Death In Paradise’ creator
UKTV and PBS Masterpiece in the US have co-commissioned an adaptation of The Marlow Murder…
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Scripted round-up: Viaplay orders ‘Bullshit’; UKTV’s Drama gets ‘Outrageous’; StudioCanal & Frank Miller team for ‘Corto Maltese’
Viaplay orders ‘Bullshit’ Viaplay has commissioned Bullshit from Nordisk Film Creative Alliance as its next…
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BBC Studios’ Hilary Salmon to launch prodco with Nick Betts and Radford Neville
BBC Studios drama veteran Hilary Salmon is leaving the organisation to launch a new production…
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All3Media secures ‘Liar’ remake in Spain, strikes Cinetic deal
All3Media has struck a deal with Spain’s Atresmedia to remake its scripted thriller Liar, and…
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China sets restrictions to limit foreign TV shows
China’s Radio and Television Administration is set to limit foreign TV content across its platforms. …
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Virgin Media TV seeks pitches for drama series
Virgin Media Television (fka TV3 Group) is currently seeking submissions for a new post-watershed, six…
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Netflix orders Annapurna musical drama Mixtape
Netflix has ordered musical drama series Mixtape from Annapurna Pictures in association with 20th Century…
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UK’s high-end drama boom leads to £2.6m in levy funds
The UK’s booming production schedule in television drama saw a record £2.6 ($3.63) million paid…
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Antenna & Tony Jordan team for Albanian mafia thriller
The Antenna Group has partnered with TV writer Tony Jordan (Eastenders, Hustle) to produce original…
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UKTV controller Emma Tennant passes away
The British television industry is today mourning the passing of the well liked UKTV controller…
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Take part in the TBI Drama Survey 2018
We would like to invite you to share your expert views on the state of…
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UKTV restructures acquisitions & channels teams
British channels group UKTV has created five channel director posts in a restructure that looks…
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BBC America pacts with Elisabeth Moss for drama
US cable channel BBC America is working with Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss on a…
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Discovery lines up Hindi ents network
Discovery Communications is to debut a Hindi-language general entertainment network in India. Discovery JEET will…
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Chinese giant buys Stan Lee’s POW!
A Chinese media, brands and merchandising giant has bought legendary comic book writer Stan Lee’s…
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The CW axes Frequency, No Tomorrow
High-concept dramas Frequency and No Tomorrow will not return to US broadcast network The CW….
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Syfy UK heads to Midnight, Texas
Pay TV channel Syfy UK has bought network drama Midnight, Texas from Comcast cousin NBCUniversal…
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Netflix & Syfy enter Ghost Wars
Netflix has taken exclusive worldwide rights to a new hour-long psychological drama that’s set for…
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ITV buys Line of Duty prodco
UK broadcaster ITV has acquired Line of Duty producer World Productions. World CEO Roger Charteris…
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Strike averted as WGA agrees ‘tentative’ deal
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has struck a “tentative” deal with Hollywood’s film and…
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Warner lines up DC digital service
Warner Bros. Television is working on a pair of original series for a soon-to-launch DC-branded…
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Second Swedish-French drama copro on horizon
Following on from SVT and Canal+ thriller Midnight Sun, a second Swedish-French scripted coproduction is…
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Paramount ties with Telefe for multi-lingual drama
Viacom’s recent acquisition of Argentinian broadcaster Telefe is already reaping rewards. Viacom-owned Paramount Television is…
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Netflix captures original Godzilla toon film
Streaming giant Netflix has grabbed rights to an original Japanese-animated toon movie based on the…
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HBO to dramatise Trump election
HBO is turning the unexpected election of Donald Trump as US president last year into…
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