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France Télévisions shakes up quotas, rights deals

France Télévisions has agreed new production quotas and secondary rights agreements with industry groups representing the country’s content producers. The French pubcaster inked a deal with the SATEV the SPFA, SPI and USPA industry associations yesterday that governs how much it will plough into indie production and how much will be in-house, as well as […]

France Télévisions confirms plan to axe Newen

France Télévisions has reportedly confirmed it will no longer create new projects with Newen Group after protracted talks ended in deadlock. According to local reports, the French pubcaster has “stopped” negotiations on future Newen projects after it emerged commercial market leader TF1 Group was buying 70% of the production company. It had previously said it […]

Canal+ to close Planète+ Thalassa

Canal+ and France Télévisions plan to close their joint marine life-focused factual channel Planète+ Thalassa at the end of the year. Canal+ revealed the plan to close down the channel in a programming bulletin this week, without giving further details. France Télévisions, which originally broadcast Thalassa as a documentary strand on France 3, had a […]

Adele special hits the right note for buyers

A raft of broadcasters have acquired a concert special featuring multi-million album selling pop star Adele. The show, Adele – Live at the BBC, will go out on BBC One in the UK on November 20 in an 8.30pm slot. The UK pubcaster’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is selling it internationally. It has shopped the […]

Michel replacing Recayte at TV France Int’l

France Télévisions executive Hervé Michel has been elected president of TV France International and will take the helm at the French distributors industry group from early next year. He replaces Laetitia Recayte, the former head of distribution at Newen, the production group controversially being bought by TF1. She resigned at TVFI president after leaving Newen […]

Controversial TF1-Newen deal agreed

TF1’s deal for French production group Newen has been agreed. The agreement will see 70% of the prodco come under the control of TF1, France’s largest commercial broadcaster. This will create a new business that, the partners said, will seek to become a European production and distribution powerhouse. The deal has caused controversy in France, where […]

Newen expelled from indies group over TF1 talks

French producers association USPA has unanimously decided to exclude Newen Group and its subsidiaries Telfrance, Barjac Production and Télécip from the organisation over its proposed sale to commercial broadcaster TF1. The exclusive acquisition talks announced between TF1 and French indie group Newen, which produces key drama titles including France 3’s daily drama Plus Belle la […]

Henson, France Television team for dino shorts

The Jim Henson Company is teaming with France Télévisions to make a series of Dinosaur Train shorts. The show has proved popular in France on the country’s pubcaster, and Paris-based prodco Kayenta Productions has now been brought in to make a 26x3mins shortform series. Each instalment will focus on a different letter of the alphabet with […]

Furious France Télévisions suspends Newen work

TF1’s potential acquisition of production and sales group Newen has sparked a furious reaction from France Télévisions. The French pubcaster has suspended all of its development work with Newen after market-leading commercial broadcaster TF1 released a statement that revealed it could take a majority stake in the Paris-based indie firm. Newen makes shows such as […]

Cartoon Network buys new Peanuts show

The commercial arm of French pubcaster France Télévisions has sold its animated Peanuts series to Cartoon Network in the US. The shorts, based on the classic Charles M. Schultz comic strip and featuring Snoopy and Charlie Brown among others, will go out on the linear Cartoon Network channel, as well as the Cartoon Network app. […]

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