Factual


TBI Factual: Cashing in & carrying on with archived IP

As Covid-19 hampers production across the globe, Nicolas d’Hueppe, CEO at content aggregator and online channels operator Alchimie, extols producers and rights holders to exploit the potential of factual programming’s long tail These are strange times we are living in. The Coronavirus pandemic has required us to change our behaviour for our own protection and […]

TBI Factual: Why streamers might affect the climate change message

As Covid-19 continues to impact on producers globally, Stephen McQuillan, creative director at UK-based Icon Films, reflects on how another immense global challenge – climate change – is being tackled on the small screen and why new streamers might usher in a new way of getting the message across to viewers. Amid the New Orleans […]

TBI Factual: How UK city of Bristol became a global production powerhouse

Andrew Jackson is president of international production & development at Plimsoll Productions, based out of Bristol in the UK. He reflects on how this relatively small UK city became famed for its natural history programming and explores what’s next for this creative powerhouse When I first came to Bristol, about the only thing I knew […]

TBI Factual: Dialing up diversity in a new decade

As part of our focus on delivering more incisive commentary on the global content business, TBI is launching a series of new strands of longer-form content, which will be delivered online to our readers around the world.  To kick off our TBI Factual strand, which runs every Wednesday, we hear from Lizi Wootton, head of popular […]

Documentary groups sue Trump administration over social media registration rule

The International Documentary Association (IDA) and Doc Society are challenging the Donald Trump administration around a new rule requiring US visa applicants to register their social media handles in their applications. The two documentary bodies have filed a lawsuit against the US State Department and the Department of Homeland Security over the visa restrictions, which […]

Asian Academy Creative Awards fete ‘Delhi Crime’, ‘World’s Got Talent’

Richie Mehta’s Netflix series Delhi Crime picked up four gongs at the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAAs) in Singapore. The annual awards show, which held ceremonies on 5 and 6 December, saw the seven-part drama – which dramatises India’s notorious 2012 gang-rape case – win Best Drama Series, Best Original Programme by a Streamer/OTT, Best […]

ITVS GE strikes Asian sales for ‘India’s Wild Karnataka’, ‘Gold Digger’

ITV Studios Global Entertainment has struck a raft of sales for the likes of drama Gold Digger and A Confession as well as natural history series India’s Wild Karnataka. Package deals have been signed with True Visions in Thailand across drama, factual and entertainment, while FPT Telecom in Vietnam has acquired a host of drama […]

Reelz orders Kinetic Content and Pyramid’s ‘Friends Speak’ to series

Reelz has ordered Kinetic Content and Pyramid Productions’ Friends Speak special into a series following the success of Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak. The cable channel is building on the Anthony special with four-part series Jodi Arias: The Friends Speak, which is to premiere on Sunday (8 December). The Friends Speak strand centres on the […]

TCB Media Rights appoints CNBC Intl’s Federica Rossi for Asian sales drive

TCB Media Rights has appointed CNBC International exec Federica Rossi as sales exec, while promoting Simona Argenti to head of sales. Rossi, who most recently served as an EMEA account exec for CNBC International, will focus on Asia for TCB. A fluent Japanese speaker, she began her career as a sales-support exec for BBC Studios. […]

TBI Weekly: How mega-mergers are set to impact third-party distribution deals

A frenzied period of consolidation is beginning to leave an indelible mark on the distribution business as more projects and producers find themselves caught in the crosshairs of mergers. Mega-deals such as Comcast’s acquisition of Sky, the impending Banijay-Endemol merger and a Red Arrow sale on the horizon are changing the face of the distribution […]

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