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Matchbox’s Bowden, ex-Fremantle exec form Lingo

The founder of Matchbox Pictures and a former FremantleMedia Australia creative director have created a Sydney-based production company, Lingo Pictures. Helen Bowden, who was NBCUniversal-owned Matchbox’s managing director, and Jason Stephens have partnered to create the firm, which will produce scripted and unscripted content for the international and Australian markets. Bowden counts ABC drama The […]

News brief: Wuaki adds studio movies

European on-demand service Wuaki.tv has acquired new movies from several of the Hollywood studios. From NBCUniversal comes Minions and Ted 2, from Disney are Inside Out and Ant Man and from Fox is the recent Fantastic Four reboot. The movies have been added to the platform, which is aiming to be in 12 European territories […]

Hulu investment pledge as firm makes loss

Hulu made an equity loss in the quarter ending October 3 due to higher content and marketing costs, but the company’s owners plan to continue to up investment in the business. Announcing its fiscal fourth quarter and full year results, The Walt Disney Company – one of Hulu’s three co-owners – said that it was optimistic […]

Job losses expected after NBCU nets restructure

NBCUniversal is merging its UK and emerging markets channels business under its current central and eastern Europe managing director Colin McLeod, TBI sister publication DTVE has learned. McLeod (left) will be managing director of the UK and emerging markets business and that the UK managing director role occupied by Nicky Douglas will be abolished. DTVE […]

ProSiebenSat.1 nabs ‘important’ Disney content deal

ProSiebenSat.1 and The Walt Disney Company have agreed a significant multi-year agreement that gives the former new US series and movies for its free, pay and SVOD channels. The deal is a coup for German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, with Disney’s output previously going out in the territory through former local partner RTL. The master-licence agreement includes […]

Scripps ups int’l CFO to new post

Scripps Networks Interactive has promoted international chief financial officer Simone Nardi to a new post. He will now be managing director, finance and operations for Scripps Networks International, the worldwide arm of the US cable channels group. Based out of New York, he will continue to report to SNI’s international president, Jim Samples. Nardi (pictured) […]

NBCU launches comedy SVOD platform

NBCUniversal has revealed a subscription on-demand platform for comedy, SeeSo. The US$3.99 a month US service will include episodes and clips from shows such as Saturday Night Live, the UK and US versions The Office and Monty Python’s Flying Circus. NBCU Digital Enterprises executive VP Evan Shapiro said SeeSo was not designed to go up […]

Vivendi relaunches Watchever with SVOD ‘channels’

Watchever is being relaunched with a raft of international content companies launching channel-type offerings on the German SVOD service. Watchever is owned by Vivendi. Last year the French media giant implemented a transformation plan and brought in Karim Ayari to run the service. Speaking exclusively to TBI about the relaunch, Ayari said: “We feel we need […]

Comcast debuts YouTube rival Watchable

US media giant Comcast has launched its ‘YouTube killer’, Watchable, a streaming site that debuts with videos from around 30 partners. Ad-funded Watchable has gone live in beta, with Comcast describing it as “a new, cross-platform video service that curates a selection of the best content from popular online video networks and shows in an […]

NBCU’s Uva steps aside for Conde

NBCUniversal has promoted Cesar Conde to the new role overseeing the company’s Spanish-language business, with former incumbent Joe Uva stepping aside. Conde (left) has been named chairman of NBCU International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, having been executive VP of NBCU’s domestic US operations since October 2013. He will now oversee channels such as Telemundo, […]

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