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Reshet 13 lands ex-Shine & Fox exec Emiliano Calemzuk as CEO

Reshet 13 has hired former Shine and Fox exec Emiliano Calemzuk as CEO of the Israel network. Calemzuk replaces Yoram Altman, who departed earlier this year, and joins having previously led Shine Americas where he worked on shows such as the US remake of The Office and MasterChef. Before that, he had been president of […]

SkyShowtime hires Disney & Fox alum for acquisitions & licensing

SkyShowtime has hired former Disney and Fox Networks Group exec Josephine Van As to oversee its acquisitions and licensing activity. Van As will work under former Netflix exec Kai Finke, who was hired in September as chief content officer to replace the outgoing Jon Farrar. Finke’s team oversees all programming for the Paramount Global and […]

Fox to share Prime Video show & snags ‘Baywatch’ remake

Fox has struck an innovative deal with Amazon Prime Video to secure rights to the streamer’s upcoming remake of The 1% Club, as well as unveiling a reboot of Baywatch. The arrangement with Prime Video will see Fox airing episodes of the BBC Studios format eight days after they are released on the streamer in […]

News round-up: Fox renews ‘Food Stars’; Nippon TV launches format trio

Fox renews ‘Food Stars’ Fox in the US has renewed culinary series Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars for a second season. Produced by Studio Ramsay Global, the titular chef serves as an executive producer, alongside Deborah Sargeant who is also showrunner. Season two will see Ramsay will take the show global, recruiting a new group of […]

TBI Weekly: How three deals underline opportunity in a turbulent market

It has been a busy week of news over the past seven days, from the streamlining of Sky Studios in the UK to the imminent exit of BBC Studios Production CEO Ralph Lee. But three seemingly disparate deals around the world reflect the opportunities that lie behind the recent headlines of job cuts and spending […]

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery & Fox join forces to launch US sports streamer

Disney’s ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Fox have joined forces to launch a new sports streamer aimed at reasserting the companies’ positions within the US streaming landscape. The trio will create a joint venture service that will house a raft of sports rights held by the companies, ranging from the NFL and NBA to […]

Fox’s streamer Tubi takes BBC’s ‘Boarders’ into North America & Lat Am

Fox’s AVOD streamer Tubi has taken exclusive rights in North America and Lat Am to the BBC’s coming-of-age dramedy Boarders. The show is produced by All3Media’s Studio Lambert and was created by screenwriter Daniel Lawrence Taylor. It follows the lives of five talented Black teenagers from inner-city London as they navigate life at an elite […]

Fox streamer Tubi snags exclusive rights to South African drama ‘Devil’s Peak’

Fox-owned AVOD streamer Tubi has acquired exclusive rights to South African drama Devil’s Peak. The five-episode crime thriller, first revealed in 2022, is based on the 2004 novel by Deon Meyer and is produced by Lookout Point and Expanded Media Productions in association with MultiChoice Studios and BBC Studios.The latter sells globally. Tubi will have […]

TBI Weekly: Unpacking the key trends for 2024

The next 12 months will define the future of the content industry, as streamers, broadcasters and producers compete for survival in a landscape battered throughout 2023 by economic headwinds and strategic u-turns. For some, this emerging ecosystem is presenting opportunities, with co-productions taking centre stage and distributors finding buyers increasingly open to flexible deal-making and […]

Fox lands US rights to Karl Alberg adaptation ‘Murder In A Small Town’

Fox has ordered an adaptation of L.R. Wright’s crime novel series Karl Alberg, with Vancouver-based Sepia Films producing. Murder In A Small Town follows a cop who moves to a small town to soothe his psyche but finds himself back at work as a series of murder victims wash up on the community’s shores. The […]

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