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MIPCOM
MIPCOM slates – Viacom & BBCWW
BBC Worldwide BBC Worldwide (BBCWW) is revving up its factual entertainment titles for MIPCOM. Joining…
Who to meet in Cannes: Katie O’Connell Marsh, Platform One Media
Name: Katie O’Connell Marsh; Company: Platform One Media Liberty Global’s push into original content has…
MIPCOM slates – Discovery & A+E
Discovery Networks International Discovery Networks International will look to highlight four new documentaries at its…
MIPCOM slates – Keshet International & Zee
Keshet International Keshet International is heading to MIPCOM with a slate of eleven original formats,…
MIPCOM slates – Red Arrow & Zed
Red Arrow International A Red Arrow International format in which families hand over responsibility of…
MIPCOM slates – All3Media & Argonon
All3Media International In the lead up to Cannes, All3Media International has expanded its third-party formatsline-up….
MIPCOM slates – Kanal D & Global Agency
Mehmed the Conquerer Turkey’s Kanal D is set to bring a period drama, Mehmed the…
MIPCOM slates – Passion, D360 & Flame
Passion Distribution UK-based Passion is taking some 300 new hours to Cannes next week. Toplining…
UK indie hires Discovery & eOne alum for sales
UK indie Wag TV has appointed former Discovery Networks exec Janice Strangward to lead its…
BBCWW brings Mitchell & Webb to MIPCOM
BBC Worldwide (BBCWW) will bring a line-up of talent to MIPCOM to launch its scripted…
Big number of SVOD nets set for MIPCOM
MIPCOM organiser Reed MIDEM expects close to 500 VOD services to attend this year’s market,…
DRG brings in 7A Media as first agent in Lat Am
DRG has appointed 7A Media as its first ever agent for Latin America and Hispanic…
TCB secures Essential catalogue
London-based distribution company TCB Media Rights has closed a representation deal with Sydney’s Essential Media…
Cannes Series gears up for launch with ex-iTunes exec hire
Cannes Series has hired artistic director Albin Lewi to bring the newly proposed event to…
MIPCOM to debut Sky/Amazon drama Britannia
Big-ticket Sky and Amazon drama Britannia will have its world premiere at MIPCOM in October….
The view from the Riviera
It’s hard to find a more beautiful and glamorous location to shoot than the Côte…
MIPTV gets into new zones
The organisers of MIPTV will have a new Latin American showcase as well as kids,…
Cannes plots Film Festival-scale TV event
The mayor of Cannes has said the city will launch a television series event next year…
Reed Midem reacts to UK indie news
Reed Midem said today it will hold talks with UK indies and the UK Department…
Pact steps back from MIPTV and MIPCOM
Pact will stop running its stand at the MIP and MIPCOM markets in the face…
Orange Smarty claims £250k in post-MIPCOM deals
UK indie distributor Orange Smarty has sold a 50-hour package of programming to Foxtel and…
Fremantle prodco details claim against Banijay
FremantleMedia-backed Israeli prodco Abot Hameiri is claiming an initial £42,528 (US$52,700) from Banijay Group in…
TBI’s Top 10 Stories of the Week – 4 November 2016
Could Eurosport become the ‘Netflix of sports’? That’s what cable giant Discovery Networks claims in…
TBI’s Top 10 Stories of the Week
Though a combined ‘AT&Warner’ equals a distribution and content monolith, just image the scale if…
10 MIPCOM trends
MIPCOM has ended with no major dramas of the ash cloud, flood or industrial action…
MIPCOM 2016 in numbers
The organisers of MIPCOM have reported 14,000 attendees for this year’s event. Of that total,…
A first-timer’s (re)view of MIPCOM
So Drive made its virgin trip to MIPCOM as a distributor this week; full disclosure, we have…
MIPCOM: Day three deal round-up
The sun came out for the TV business on the Tuesday of MIPCOM, bringing with…
MIPCOM: Day one deals
The traditional flood of press releases TBI receives the minute MIPCOM begins has revealed deals…
Turner bringing Will Shakespeare to MIPCOM
Turner’s sales arm, Turner International, is launching drama and comedy from its US cable nets…