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Endeavor files for IPO amid writers clash
Endeavor, the Hollywood talent agency and media empire, has announced it is filing for an…
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Georgia faces film and TV backlash following anti-abortion bill
Georgia, the biggest state for filming in the US, is facing a growing backlash from…
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Disney presents 18-title slate to LA Screenings buyers
Disney has uncovered its highly anticipated content offerings to buyers at LA Screenings. The Mouse…
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Exclusive: Sky Drama exec joins Anne Mensah at Netflix
Sky Drama’s head of development Lindsay Salt has joined Anne Mensah’s scripted team at Netflix,…
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Disney to take full control of Hulu in five years
Disney has agreed a deal with Comcast to take full control of Hulu — in…
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Black Friday cancellations: ‘Lethal Weapon’, ‘Murphy Brown’ axed
US broadcasters have pulled the plug on a number of shows as part of its…
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DHX Media launches children’s SVOD service
Canada’s DHX Media is to launch a children’s SVOD service. The streaming platform, titled Kids…
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TBI Weekly: Formats thrive in purple patch post-MIPTV
The formats market has struck a purple patch a month on from MIPTV, with the…
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BBC Three commissions Banijay’s Wonder for fact ent formats
BBC Three has commissioned Banijay Group-owned prodco Wonder for a pair of fact ent series…
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Amazon spent $1.7bn on content in first quarter of 2019
Amazon spent $1.7 billion on video and music content during the first quarter of this…
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WarnerMedia to reveal details of streaming service in autumn
AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson has confirmed that WarnerMedia is to unveil its streaming…
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Netflix promises greater transparency after beating earnings expectations
Netflix bosses have promised to reveal more data around the viewership of its programming after…
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Good Omens: Adapting the unadaptable
The creative team behind BBC Studios and Amazon Studios’ Good Omens tells Manori Ravindran how…
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Exclusive: ITV swoops for ‘The Masked Singer’
ITV has swooped for Fox’s hit format The Masked Singer, TBI understands. The UK broadcaster…
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Katzenberg’s 20-year journey to short-form domination
Jeffrey Katzenberg is the superstar Disney alum who has built a 30-year reputation for the…
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BBC, Discovery to build “Marvel library” of factual content with SVOD
Discovery boss David Zaslav has likened the business’s whopping nine-figure deal for BBC content to…
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Jeremy Wade returns to Animal Planet for ‘Dark Waters’
Beloved biologist and River Monsters star Jeremy Wade returns to Animal Planet after two years…
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Former Pioneer exec sets up production consultancy
Former Pioneer Productions MD Kirstie McLure has set up a new consultancy business connecting productions…
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Disney completes $71bn acquisition of 21st Century Fox
Disney completes its US$71bn acquisition of the bulk of 21st Century Fox today, paving the way…
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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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PBS launches streaming channel on Amazon
PBS distribution has launched streaming channel PBS Living on Amazon’s Prime Video Channels, which will…
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Netflix: Humans, not machines, greenlight our shows
Netflix exec Cindy Holland has said it is “humans” and not machines making commissioning decisions…
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Netflix’s CMO Kelly Bennett exits
Netflix’s chief marketing officer Kelly Bennett is to step down from the company after seven…
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For My Next Trick: TVF International’s Harriet Armston-Clarke
Each day this week, in the lead-up to International Women’s Day on Friday (8 March),…
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The Royal Television Society reveals nominees for its Programme Awards 2019
The list of nominees for the 2019 Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Awards has been…
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For My Next Trick: Endemol Shine International’s Cathy Payne
Each day this week, in the lead-up to International Women’s Day on Friday (8 March),…
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HBO chief Richard Plepler steps down amid WarnerMedia reorg
HBO CEO Richard Plepler has abruptly stepped down from the AT&T-owned company after 27 years…
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Anonymous Content hires HBO’s ex-drama chief
Anonymous Content has hired HBO alum David Levine as president of television. In the newly…
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Exclusive: Endemol Shine Poland set for first period drama
Endemol Shine Poland has been signed up to produce its first period drama, Our Century,…
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Off the Fence rejigs management structure
Two months after its acquisition by Germany’s ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE), specialist factual distributor Off the…