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TVN buys Seven, Channel 5 shows

Poland’s TVN has acquired programmes including Seven Network’s World’s Richest Dogs from distributor TCB Rights. The commercial broadcaster has also bought another Seven series, the 19x30mins Surveillance, WAGTV-produced Combat Dealers, Arrow Media’s World’s Most Extreme and Channel 5 one-hour documentary Sun, Sea and Love Cheats. Elsewhere, TCB has sold Kate Middleton: Heir We Go Again […]

Leckie resigns from Seven board

Australian TV programming veteran David Leckie has resigned from Seven West Media, the parent of Network Seven. Leckie has also stepped down from the board of Seven Group Holdings, the Stokes family’s group that owns a 35% majority shareholding in SWM. However, he has signed a new multi-year consultancy agreement, having already been filling a […]

Seven, Ten legal spat rumbles on

Australia’s Network Ten has vowed it would not be “bullied” by Network Seven after a court it ordered to pay its rival’s legal costs in their bitter row over programming veteran John Stephens. Ten claims Seven has overstated the size of its legal costs, and reiterated a Supreme Court ruling last momth that its contract […]

Ten loses Seven programmer legal bid

Australia’s Network Ten has been dealt a blow after a judge rejected the broadcaster’s bid to stop a veteran programming exec taking a key role at rival Seven Network. Ten had offered John Stephens, who had been with Seven, a two-year contract that would block him from working for either broadcaster, but this was dismissed […]

21st Century Fox to delist in Oz

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is delisting shares from the Australia Stock Exchange after regulators okayed the move. The company will stop trading on the ASX on May 1, with all Class A and Class B stock then trading on the NASDAQ in the US. Murdoch (left) split his businesses in two last year, with […]

Network Ten: Seven has ‘case to answer’ over exec u-turn

Network Ten in Australia has accused rival channel Seven of having “a case to answer” relating to the pair’s clash over the hiring of a seasoned programming executive. Earlier this month on March 7, Ten announced it had poached veteran programmer John Stephens from Seven to become its director of scheduling and acquisitions. However, Stephens […]

Shine sells Clash of the Choirs into Ukraine

Shine International has shopped its Clash of the Choirs (pictured) format into Ukraine. The deal took effect earlier this year and local free-to-air commercial broadcaster 1+1 has just launched its local version of the singing competition series. The local Clash of the Choirs started last Sunday (November 10). Other international broadcasters that have taken the format, […]

MasterChef Australia finale ratings hit all-time low

Three years after MasterChef Australia posted a record-breaking four million viewers, the Shine-produced show has scored just one million for the current season’s finale. According to OzTAM ratings data, just 1.06 million viewers tuned in to see the denouement of the cooking series on Network Ten, which meant Seven’s The X Factor and Nine’s Australia’s […]

Anything Goes in Europe, Brazil

French comedy entertainment format Anything Goes has landed commissions in four new territories. Spain’s Antena 3, Ukraine’s 1+1, Romania’s Antena 1 and Brazil’s Globo have all ordered local versions of the format, in which comedians are tasked with performing humour tasks. Meanwhile, Shine Iberia has been commissioned to produce a second season on Portuguese broadcaster […]

FIC powers up with S.H.I.E.L.D. deal

Fox International Channels has acquired Disney-distributed US scripted series including the much-hyped superhero series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for its Spanish channels. Along with Marvel Television and ABC Studios-produced S.H.I.E.L.D., the deal also gives FIC Spanish broadcast rights to Josh Holloway-fronted Intelligence, Bradley Whitford comedy Trophy Wife, procedural Killer Woman, lottery winner drama Lucky 7 […]