A Very English Scandal exec producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins is setting up a new drama label wholly backed by ITV Studios. The new outfit, which is not yet named but will be based out of ITV Studios’ London HQ, is to focus on high-end returning series for the UK and international market. Treadwell-Collins will serve as […]
PBS explores with Backshall, visits Vienna PBS in the US is preparing to air 10-part adventure series Expedition With Steve Backshall and has agreed a deal for Red Arrow Studios drama Vienna Blood. Expedition With Steve Backshall, which will launch on PBS on 15 January, is produced by Sky-backed True To Nature and was originally […]
ITV Studios-backed MultiStory Media has restructured its creative team, with Ana De Moraes promoted to chief creative officer. De Moraes is now leading on the label’s creative strategy, overseeing factual and fact ent shows. She reports into Tim Carter, who recently took on the CEO reins for both MultiStory and Twofour. De Moraes joined MultiStory […]
ITV Studios’ shows including Love Island and Snowpiercer are set to boost the revenues of the UK broadcaster’s production arm by more than 5% this year. ITVS has been ramping up its stakes in production assets over the past five years, with deals for companies including Cattleya in Italy, US-based Tomorrow Studios and Piv Bernth’s […]
Amazon Prime has unveiled four new French shows including a local reboot of ITV reality format Love Island and a drama from the producers behind Netflix drama Narcos. The local version of Love Island is being produced by Amazon Studios and ITV Studios France, with the series set to launch exclusively on Prime Video in […]
ITV Studios-owned Armoza Formats has struck a co-development deal with Chinese broadcaster Hunan TV, with the first project between the companies already on air. Dance Smash is a primetime dance competition show and is based on Quebecor Content and Fair-Play’s original format Dance Revolution, which originally aired on Canada’s TVA. It has been further developed […]
UK dramas such as Bodyguard and Killing Eve helped to propel the country’s TV exports to record sales of £1.4bn ($1.8bn) during 2018/19, while worldwide deals between UK companies and global SVOD’s surged by more than 50% over the same period. The figures, revealed today in UK trade body Pact’s TV Exports Report, show that […]
As MIPCOM closes its doors after another frenetic market, TBI explores some of the big deals to emerge this year in Cannes. DRAMA With new streamers in town, scripted business was again frisk along the Croisette, with one of those new entrants, Topic, picking up rights to StudioCanal shows Vernon Subutex and Danish comedy drama […]
ITV Studios and Spain’s Atresmedia Studios have struck a co-development deal for gameshow format Trust Me I’m A Six-Year-Old. ITV Studios-backed Possessed worked with the Spanish firm to create the format, which sees celebrities going head-to-head across four competitive rounds, where their only guidance comes from a group of rowdy kids calling the shots with […]
ITV Studios has kickstarted a major restructure of its distribution business that sees the catalogues of Armoza Formats, Twofour and Talpa Media folded into one unscripted catalogue, and new chapter for ITV’s relationship with The Voice creator John de Mol. ITV Studios’ distribution and commercial arms, formerly known as ITV Studios Global Entertainment, will now operate […]
