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Germany’s NTV & US-based Big Media set ‘Fatal Engineering’ under output deal
RTL Germany’s free-to-air-channel NTV has commissioned Fatal Engineering, a new docuseries produced as the second…
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Belgium’s VTM & Germany’s NTV pick up Quintus, Peninsula-funded US immigration docuseries
Belgian channel VTM and RTL Germany’s NTV have picked up a new docuseries that has…
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Buyers Profiles: NTV’s Gabi Nensel & SPI’s Revi Benshoshan
This instalment of our TBI Buyers Profiles features Russian broadcaster NTV and Netherlands-based SPI International,…
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MIPCOM round-up: HBO Max snags ‘All The Way Up’; TF1 opens ‘Love Trap’; Looke buys NTV shows; MBC adds Talpa’s Avastars
HBO Max snags All The Way Up WarnerMedia in Latin America has acquired exclusive rights…
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Russia’s NTV returns to ‘Fear Factor’ with Banijay’s WeiT Media
Russian broadcaster NTV is returning to Fear Factor, 16 years after the show last aired…
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Factual round-up: Hollywood Suite to debut ‘No Roses On A Sailor’s Grave’; Harbour strikes NTV, NHK & RTHK deals
Hollywood Suite to debut ‘No Roses On A Sailor’s Grave’ Canadian broadcaster Hollywood Suite has…
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MIPTV round-up: Globo snags ‘First Love’; Sky Germany visits ‘Paris Police 1900’; Russian shows head to France
Brazil’s Globo snags First Love Brazil’s Globo has become the first international broadcaster to pick…
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Format round-up: BBC orders Storyboard photo format; Mongolia’s NTV enters ‘The Rolling Kitchen’; SimpelZodiak launches mystery dinner show
BBC orders Storyboard photo format UK pubcaster the BBC has ordered an original photography format…
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NTV sells Russian dramas in Japan
Russian broadcaster NTV is bringing two crime dramas to the Japanese market in separate deals….
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MIPCOM Drama round-up: SPT takes ‘Doc’ to US; NTV’s Russian dramas sell in Asia; ‘Babylon Berlin’ sales; BBCS, NENT & more…
Sony preps US remake of Lux Vide’s drama Doc Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has picked up…
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MIPCOM Factual round-up: Sky acquires Yusuf Hawkins doc; Beyond sells 300+ hours to US; Great Pacific asks ‘What If’
Sky acquires HBO’s Yusuf Hawkins doc Sky in the UK has acquired feature documentary Yusuf…
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Russia’s NTV talks maintaining quality amid Covid-19
TBI has been talking to broadcasters all over the world about how they have been…
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Pay TV in Russia, Turkey, Africa adapt to Covid-19 with free channel offers
Pay TV operators around the world have launched a range of free windows to audiences…
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Russia’s original output dips 12%
Locally-produced programming premiering on Russia’s seven biggest TV channels dipped 12% last year, new research…
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New CEO for Endemol Shine’s Russian prodco
The long-serving CEO of Endemol Shine Group-controlled WeiT Media has left the Russian producer for…
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Russian TV production falls
The number of original series on Russian TV fell by 12% last year as the…
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TV features heavily in top media firms list
Media agency ZenithOptimedia has ranked the world’s top media owners, with Disney, Comcast, Fox and…
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Networks clamber up Berlin Wall
Various broadcasters have acquired Sky Vision’s documentary Berlin Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed….
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New Dragons’ Den remakes in Europe, Africa
Broadcasters in Sweden, Portugal and South Africa are launching their own versions of the Sony-distributed…
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Mid East nets to perform Killer Karaoke
Broadcasters across the Middle East have ordered local versions of Zodiak Rights’ comic singing format…
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BBC cuts Chinese VOD deal
BBC Worldwide has licensed a raft of drama and factual programming to Chinese streaming and…
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BBC’s Musketeers swashbuckles into new territories
A raft of international broadcasters have acquired BBC drama swashbuckler Musketeers. The show launched this…
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Cineflix notches worldwide sales
Cineflix has sold factual and fct-ent titles to a raft of international broadcasters. The independent…
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History launches in Ukraine, grows in Russia
A+E Networks-owned pay TV channel History has launched in the Ukraine on a DTH platform…
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Asian nets bag 300 hours from TVF
Asian broadcasters have licensed more than 300 hours of programming from UK-based distributor TVF International….
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A+E makes History in Russia
A+E-owned channel History is launching in Russia today. History and its HD sister channel have…
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‘Russian HBO’ makes a major channels move
Russian producer Amedia has moved into the channels business in a big way, effectively launching…
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Mastiff acquires Eccho’s Exit
Zodiak-owned Mastiff has picked up Eccho Rights entertainment format Exit, as one of several deals…
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Amedia preps programming, distribution deals as HBO and OTT launch
Russia’s largest producer Amedia has launched a premium channel and an OTT service today and…
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Denmark’s Mastiff buys Japanese gameshow format
Danish producer Mastiff has acquired rights to Japanese gameshow Exit from vendor Eccho Rights. The…
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