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France’s M6 launching suite of online channels

French commercial broadcaster M6 Group will tomorrow launch four online TV channels on its 6play app. The four new channels on 6play are Styles, focusing on fashion and beauty; Stories, comprising television movies; Comic, a comedy channel and Crazy Kitchen, covering cooking. Valéry Gerfaud, CEO of M6 Web, said that the ambition for 6play is […]

BBC crafts swathe of format deals for Sewing Bee

BBC Worldwide has agreed deals for local versions of its Sewing Bee format in France, Norway and Sweden. David Weiland, Worldwide’s executive VP, Western Europe, told TBI about the deals from the ongoing BBC Showcase event in Liverpool. The fact-ent format, which was created by Bake Off producer Love Productions, has also been optioned Italy, […]

Nickelodeon signs up for Alvinnn! and The Chipmunks

Nickelodeon has taken international rights to the new Alvin and the Chipmunks series. The new show, Alvinnn! and the Chipmunks, will go out on Nickelodeon’s international channels with the exception of the US and Brazil. The show was created by by Janice Karman and is produced by Bagdasarian Productions and OuiDO! Productions. Nick has bought […]

News brief: Shopping Monsters hit the high street in Latvia

Viasat’s Latvian channel TV3 has launched a local version of Global Agency format Shopping Monsters. The show is known locally as Iepirksanas Pavelnieces (Shopping Commanders) and comes as Global also sells a second season of the format to M6 in France and Vox for a fifth season in German. Meter Television is Sweden, Shine Finland […]

Canal+ makes competition complaint against TF1

Vivendi-owned Canal+ has filed a complaint against commercial broadcaster TF1 with the French competition authority, alleging that the latter has abused its dominant position in the country’s TV advertising market, according to local reports. According to business news service BFM TV, the pay TV channel operator has based its complaint on the fact that TF1 […]

ITV closes in on Rising Star

ITV is expected to land UK rights to Rising Star, marking another key international deal for Keshet International’s buzzy Israeli-originated format. The commercial broadcaster declined to comment, but is understood to be about to sign a deal for the show. ITV is well stocked with talent series with The X Factor and Got Talent already […]

French channel commissions girls toon

French broadcaster M6 has commissioned family entertainment company Studio 100 to produce a 52x13mins series for girls. K3 will be handled by Paris-based Studio100 Animation, with production beginning at the start of the new year ahead of an end-2015 TX date. The K3 franchise already comprises live action movies and a girls’ band. The new […]

Keshet’s Rising Star sparkles in new territories

Keshet has inked deals for its super buzzy Rising Star format in Germany and the Nordic territories. The Israeli-originated show, in which would-be singing stars are voted on live by viewers at home before being revealed to a studio audience if they garner enough support, created a lot of noise last week at MIPCOM where […]

Keshet notches another Rising Star deal

Keshet International has inked another deal for its buzzy talent format Rising Star. The company, the international division of Israeli broadcaster Keshet, has sold the format to Russian state-owned free-to-air broadcaster Rossiya 1. The agreement follows a format deal with French fee-to-air channel M6, announced earlier this week. The interactive format has viewers vote live […]

News brief: Channel 4 gets Taste for Nigella cooking series

The UK’s Channel 4 has secured broadcast rights to Nigella Lawson-fronted US cooking competition series The Taste and ordered a local version of the format. CPL Productions, the UK prodco owned by Taste rights holder Red Arrow Entertainment, will create the UK show, which will pair celebrity chef Lawson with Anthony Bourdain and Ludo Lefebvre. […]