Ahead of the news that DR is to cut spend on international drama and focus its efforts on regional content, Nick Edwards reports on what may well be the last of big international investments in the genre at the Danish broadcaster With shows such as The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge, Danish national broadcaster DR […]
ITV’s market valuation and the premium that would be required to buy it means that the commercial broadcaster is “not interesting” as an acquisition target to Liberty Global, according to president and CEO Mike Fries. Answering an analyst question on ITV, in which Liberty Global holds a 9.9% stake, after the cable giant reported less […]
All3Media has bought into Story Films, the UK drama indie run by David Nath and Peter Beard. Nath (pictured above, right) made the award winning drama-influenced doc series The Murder Detectives (below) and moved into drama with The Watchman, both for Channel 4. Beard (above, left) has also made docs and drama, and is best-known for My […]
Steve Morrison has joined the board of UK pubcaster the BBC. Morrison is the co-founder of Chrysalis TV, which later became All3Media. He left the UK-based production and distribution giant in 2012, and it was subsequently sold to Discovery Communications and Liberty Global in 2014. The former All3 exec will be the Scotland representative on […]
All3Media International and TV4 Entertainment are joining forces for an OTT initiative that will see the pair launch a range of online channels, TBI can reveal. The agreement between All3Media’s international arm and US-based TV4 will see the pair work up online channels that will be distributed over the top, as well as through the […]
Discovery is pushing further into drama with The Suck, a ten-part Vietnam war series being produced by Lionsgate. The deal comes after Discovery and Liberty invested in the US independent studio, and as Lionsgate boss Jon Feltheimer told investors the company is growing its strategic relationship with Discovery. The Suck will go out on Discovery […]
All3Media International has opened up in Asia ahead of ATF and now has a local team pushing drama, factual and, increasingly, factual entertainment. TBI speaks to local boss Sabrina Duguet about the base, and how All3 wants to be at the forefront of a fact-ent revolution in the region All3Media’s new Asian office is just […]
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries has said that the company will be “selective” about content investments, but hinted work is now underway with US studio Lionsgate on a string of shows. Speaking on Liberty Global’s third quarter earnings call, Fries said that Liberty has “four or five great ideas cooking with Lionsgate”, after the cable […]
Liberty Global fell into the red in the third quarter. The company recorded a loss of US$249.5 million, driven by its US$436 million losses on derivatives, compared with a profit of US$133.3 million for the same period last year. The international cable group nevertheless posted solid revenue growth, recording sales of US$5.2 billion for the quarter, […]
Liberty Global chairman John Malone is still seeking some sort of deal with Vodafone, but has so far failed to find an agreement that he could propose to shareholders, the cable mogul has told Bloomberg. In an interview with Bloomberg, Malone said the pair had not been able to come up with an asset swap […]
