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ITV
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George upped at ITV America as Leftfield Ents brand retires
Leftfield Entertainment CEO David George has been named president of ITV America. He takes the…
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Gil brings in former Shine exec for formats push
Gil Formats has brought in former Shine head of international productions Paula Warwick to boost…
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BBCWW hires ex-ITVS formats director
Former ITV formats exec Sumi Connock has joined BBC Worldwide as its global head of…
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ITV America strikes LaLaLand deal
The US arm of UK broadcaster ITV has inked an exclusive production deal with actress,…
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ITV greenlights three Gordon Ramsay offerings
ITV has ordered a primetime doc series and a daytime cooking series from celebrity chef…
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ITV preps Karaoke Kidz format
UK broadcaster ITV is working up a new music format that will feature singing kids….
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Sacha Baron Cohen prodco making ITV pilot
Sacha Baron Cohen and Andrew Newman prodco Spelthorne Community TV is making JudgeMental, a new…
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ITV shops Meet the Parents format
Finnish broadcaster MTV has ordered a local version of ITV Studios’ Meet the Parents format….
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Bazalgette leads gov’t’s UK creative industries review
TV industry veteran Peter Bazalgette will lead an independent review into the UK’s creative industries,…
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Prison sells
Prisons have long been a source of fascination for TV producers – as illustrated by…
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Benelux nets look fowards to This Time Next Year
Deals for hot UK format This Time Next Year don’t appear to be slowing as…
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ITV calls $100m Gurney countersuit ‘baseless’
The American arm of ITV has described a US$100 million countersuit slapped on the broadcaster…
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ITV ‘preps for end of Crozier era’
UK broadcaster ITV is preparing for life after CEO Adam Crozier, though TBI understands there…
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TBI Factual: Year in Review
If scripted TV dominates the headlines at the moment, 2016 served up a few factual…
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TBI Formats: Year in Review
The best-sellers, the trend makers, the battles, the emerging territories, the industry favourites… here is…
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Duck Dynasty prodco founders sacked and sued
The founders of Duck Dynasty have been sacked and are being sued by its board…
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ITV buys into Discovery-backed New Form
ITV has invested in digital studio New Form. The digital studio was set up in 2014…
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ITV launches premium on-demand on Hub
ITV is expanding its ITV Hub on-demand offering by adding what it describes as a…
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Meldal-Johnson to run global content at ITV Studios
Julie Meldal-Johnsen has been appointed director of global content and will oversee acquisitions and coproduction…
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Warner Bros. poaches ITV exec for UK role
Alexia Edwards has joined Warner Bros. TV Production UK as commercial director, joining from commercial…
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ITV, AwesomenessTV create UK block
Details of the upcoming AwesomenessTV-themed block coming to UK digital terrestrial channel ITV2 have been…
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BBC Worldwide poaches ITV sales exec
BBC Worldwide has hired Andre Renaud with the sales exec joining from ITV where he…
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UK indies rebound on international growth
UK indie producers have reversed a sector-wide revenue decline, with international growth propelling the sector…
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TBI’s Top 10 Stories of the Week
Though a combined ‘AT&Warner’ equals a distribution and content monolith, just image the scale if…
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Studio Lambert hires TwoFour exec for new label
All3Media-backed Studio Lambert has created a shiny floor entertainment unit, and hired a top TwoFour…
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ITV cutting jobs amid concern over Brexit
ITV is cutting about 120 staff in a cost-cutting drive, amid Brexit-driven uncertainty, with the…
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New ITV drama boss unveils first slate
ITV’s new head of drama Polly Hill has ordered four new drama series for the…
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Netflix builds LEGO, CiTV partnerships
Netflix has commissioned six original kids series, one from the LEGO Group and another from…
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ITV links with Talpa for another show
UK broadcaster has greenlit quiz format Five Gold Rings, its latest project with Talpa, the Dutch…
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Channel 4 buys NBC drama
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has acquired NBC’s dramedy This is Us from Twentieth Century Fox…