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Wild Money: The new rules of play in distribution
Distributors are under greater pressure than ever, needing to be nimble, innovative and cash-rich –…
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Drive takes global rights to doc fronted by Escobar’s widow
Drive has acquired a documentary series about the wife of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar…
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Drive forges Back2Back sales in Europe, Asia
Indie distributor Drive has sold a slate of Back2Back titles, including The World’s Deadliest Weather, into…
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Viewpoint: Thriving in uncertain times
Lilla Hurst, joint-MD of Drive, discusses the growth of UK Screenings, and makes a case…
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TBI Weekly: The Future is Factual – The Top Unscripted Trends of 2018
Weeks after unveiling its long-gestating, multi-million-dollar collaboration with David Attenborough, Netflix made another strong statement…
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Arrow and Drive partnership takes flight
A new factual series detailing catastrophic events on board aeroplanes is in the offing after…
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BBC2 greenlights October Films Iraq production
BBC 2 in the UK has commissioned a two-hour mini-series from UK producer October Films,…
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SBS & Viasat World speed to factual deals with Drive
Drive, the production-funding and distribution agency led by Lilla Hurst (pictured), has gained a range…
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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…
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Diana, Our Mother gains raft of int’l sales
Drive, the distributor for Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, has announced a range…
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TBI weekly round-up: Diana doc, Silverman’s Jamaican drama
TBI’s latest news round-up takes a look over some of the biggest deals, hires and…
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Drive picks up ITV & HBO’s Diana doc
As the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death approaches, a new HBO and ITV doc…
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Drive adds ex-Channel 5, Tigress exec to ranks
Former Channel 5 and Tigress Productions exec Lulu Prutton has joined UK-based production funding and…
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Discovery lines up Body Cam Cops
Discovery Networks UK has greenlit Body Cam Cops, a six-part series following police units wearing…
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Discovery, Channel 5 buy Supernatural Nazis
Channel 5 and Discovery have both prebought Supernatural Nazis, the upcoming factual series about Hitler’s…
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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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A first-timer’s (re)view of MIPCOM
So Drive made its virgin trip to MIPCOM as a distributor this week; full disclosure, we have…
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Drive’s distribution arm strikes Barcroft deal
Fledging distributor Drive Media Rights has picked up a raft of content from Barcroft Media….
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Drive moves into distribution, strikes Netflix deal
TV funding specialist Drive has moved into distribution, launching a new division and striking a…
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The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 – part IV
The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 reveals why, where and how the genre is evolving, tackling…
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Motoring up
With petrolhead show Top Gear making headlines, TBI gets to grips with the new show and…
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ITV orders Top Gear rival Drive!
UK broadcaster ITV has commissioned Drive!, a new motoring entertainment series that will go up…
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BBC Two gets in Vogue
UK terrestrial BBC Two has commissioned an observational documentary about British fashion magazine Vogue as…
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Discovery pre-buys Tsunami feature doc
Discovery Networks Western Europe has pre-bought feature documentary After the Wave, for a number of…
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The copro landscape: Meet the fixers
A batch of one-stop shop consultancies from the UK aimed at facilitating global coproduction has…
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SundanceTV puts gears in motion for Drive deal
UK production and financing consultancy Drive is to identify international scripted drama projects for US…
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Sierra/Engine selling brainy new ABC drama The Black Box
Distributor Sierra/Engine will sell The Black Box, the straight-to-series midseason drama just ordered by ABC,…
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International Studios: Drama Studies
For a week in May the attention of the TV world is focused on Hollywood…