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Motion Content Group
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TBI Formats Hot Picks: The Underdog
Producers: Primal Media & Motion Content Group | Distributor: All3Media International | Broadcaster: E4 (UK)…
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BET+ & Prime Video bring UK series ‘Blue Therapy’ to US & Africa
BET+ in the US and Prime Video Africa have both acquired upcoming UK relationship reality…
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News round-up: FilmRise acquires BBCS shows; Sky History seeks ‘Sex’; LADbible launches US formats
FilmRise acquires BBCS shows FilmRise, the New York-based film, and television studio and streaming network,…
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Greece’s Skai TV sets sail for ‘Love Island’
Skai TV in Greece has commissioned a local adaptation of popular reality dating format Love…
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‘Love Island’ US moves from CBS to Peacock with two-season pick-up
The US version of ITV Studios dating format Love Island is moving from CBS to…
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Netflix visits ‘Roaring Twenties’ as streamer supercharges reality push
Netflix is ramping up its reality TV output, with a new series commission, several renewals…
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TBI Weekly: Embracing autism & disability representation
To mark World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April, TBI deputy editor Mark Layton talks to…
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Netflix ‘experiments’ with scheduling for reality duo ‘The Circle’ & ‘Too Hot To Handle’
Netflix is experimenting with its release strategy again, this time launching episodes from two of its biggest…
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UK doc ‘My Big Family Farm’ travels in slew of global deals
Broadcasters in Canada, Australia, and across Europe, Asia, CIS and the Baltics have acquired UK…
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Passion to shop Stone Age fact-ent series and format
UK-based Passion Distribution has acquired the format and series rights to factual entertainment show Surviving…
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Discovery Italy sets sail for local ‘Love Island’
Discovery Italy has commissioned a local adaptation of ITV Studios reality dating format Love Island….
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UK’s Drive ‘Chops’ into expanded factual formats slate
UK-based funding and sales company Drive has acquired global distribution rights to three new factual…
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News round-up: Discovery goes Wild with Talos; Edinburgh TV Festival names Alternative MacTaggart; Painless, D4E deal
Discovery goes Wild with Talos Discovery has commissioned a new reality series, 100 Days Wild,…
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UK’s Channel 4 extends ‘The Circle’, orders celebrity edition
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a third season of Studio Lambert’s reality format The…
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UK’s ITV cancels winter version of reality juggernaut ‘Love Island’
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has cancelled the winter version of its hit format Love Island,…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Painting Covid-19’s impact by numbers
Lockdown might be the new normal for large swathes of the world’s population but its…
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ITV cancels summer ‘Love Island’ as Covid-19 hits reality juggernaut
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has cancelled its ratings juggernaut Love Island after being unable to…
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ITV’s Kevin Lygo cools on ‘Love Island’ return & reveals lockdown fears
ITV director of television Kevin Lygo has admitted that the return of hit UK reality…
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Netflix extends format duo ‘Love Is Blind’ and ‘The Circle’
Netflix has ordered two further seasons of dating format Love Is Blind and the US…
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ITV defends itself in wake of Caroline Flack death, as ‘Love Island’ returns
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has defended itself against growing criticism that it did not do…
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Romania’s Antena signs up for local version of ‘Love Island’
Romania has become the 15th territory to order a local version of ITV Studios’ and…
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Banijay Asia, GroupM strike content deal targeting Indian market
Banijay Asia and GroupM India have struck up a content partnership targeting the Indian market….
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Show of the Week: The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes
The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes is a Red Arrow – distributed social experiment format that…
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‘Love Island’ set for remake in Hungary with RTL
Reality format Love Island is to be remade in Hungary this year, taking its total…
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ITV’s Love Island heads to Belgium, the Netherlands & Poland
ITV Studios and Motion Content Group hit format Love Island will be adapted in Belgium…
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Netflix swoops for Channel 4’s The Circle
Netflix has snapped up Channel 4 format The Circle. The streaming giant is to adapt the…
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Channel 5 lifts the kilt on Scotland’s hidden treasures
Banijay Group company, IWC, and Motion Content Group, have been commissioned to make a new…
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New financier taps Van Den Bussche for TV push
Transatlantic media investment group MCap has appointed former Zodiak Media and Endemol Peter Van Den…
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Ex-Motion & C4 exec joins Reel One’s drama push
Dominic Schreiber, formerly of Channel 4 and Motion Content Group, has joined drama producer and…
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Bell & Motion pact for int’l originals slate
Canada’s Bell Media Studios has created a strategic production pact with Motion Content Group to…