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More hires at NBCU Cable Entertainment

NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment continues to tinker with its executive line-up, with Oxygen’s Brie Miranda Bryant the latest to get a new role. Bryant, currently senior director of development and production, has been elevated to VP, development and production, original programming. Based out of New York, she’ll report into Cori Abraham, senior VP, development and international. […]

NBCU acquires full ownership of Sprout

NBCUniversal has acquired the shares in US preschool channel Sprout it didn’t already own to make it the sole owner of the cable net. NBCU Cable Entertainment has acquired the stakes from public broadcaster PBS and HIT Television Ventures, an Apax Partners-operated fund. The network was launched in 2005 as a joint venture of NBCU, […]

Spotts takes Bravo role as Cohen launches prodco

Lara Spotts will become US cable channel Bravo’s head of development with current incumbent Andy Cohen exiting to launch his own production company. Cohen, executive VP of development and talent and also a late night talk show host often referred to as the ‘face’ of Bravo, has launched prodco Most Talkative. This means VP, development, […]

ITV orders more Downton

ITV has ordered a fifth season of hit period drama Downton Abbey. The UK broadcaster has greenlit another season following the success of the fourth, which has proved a big ratings winner in a Sunday night slot. The period drama is made by NBCUniversal-owned UK producer Carnival Films. It is distributed internationally by NBCU’s content […]

Australia and NZ take a seat at the drama table

Producers in Australia and New Zealand are creating a new wave of international-friendly scripted series for their distribution partners to take to market, but the popularity and lower cost of formats and reality shows poses a threat to the sector, report Dan Barrett and Stewart Clarke. Expectation. Its shadow carries considerable weight across Australia and […]

NBCU revenue down but cable grows

NBCUniversal saw its second quarter revenue drop 14.2% – a fall largely driven by dips at US broadcast network NBC owing to a 2012 Olympic Games bump. NBCU’s results for the three months to September 30 showed its broadcast television segment had fallen 41.1% year-on-year from US$2.79 billion to US$1.64 billion. NBCU parent Comcast attributed […]

Rihanna’s Style series makes switch to Bravo

Rihanna-fronted competition reality show Styled to Rock has found carriage on NBCUniversal-owned Bravo after its previous home was canned in a restructure. The show, in which upcoming and coming designers compete to become a member of the pop star’s personal design team, was scheduled to broadcast on NBCU Cable Entertainment’s Style Network on November 5. […]

NBCU’s Zalaznick exits after 12 years

NBCUniversal’s executive VP Lauren Zalaznick is leaving the company after 12 years. Zalaznick, who has held a number of roles at NBCU but is primarily credited with building the Bravo brand, earlier this year lost her programming responsibilities in a restructure that saw Bonnie Hammer take control of the Comcast-owned company’s cable TV nets. Since […]

All eyes on P7S1 as opportunity knocks

The future of ProSiebenSat.1 Media is the subject of intense speculation following the latest structural changes at the European broadcast and media giant, reports Jesse Whittock. On August 16, German TV and media firm ProSiebenSat.1 completed a stock conversion that reduced its majority shareholders’ voting shares from 88% to 44%. Significantly, the move converted private […]

Foxtel conjures up Presto online movie service

Australia’s Foxtel will launch an online subscription movie streaming service. Presto will be priced at A$24.99 (US$23.56) per month and offer the movies pay platform Foxtel has on licence at that time. This will include films from MGM, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Roadshow Films, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. […]

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