This instalment of our TBI Buyers Profiles features Russian broadcaster NTV and Netherlands-based SPI International, which operates more than 30 networks around the world. NTV’s Gabi Nensel tells us about the best performing shows on his network and what he’s looking for next, while SPI’s acquisitions chief Revi Benshoshan outlines key programmes and his rights […]
HBO Max snags All The Way Up WarnerMedia in Latin America has acquired exclusive rights to the first two seasons of Canal+ comedy drama All The Way Up (aka Validé). The 10 x 30-minute show is produced by France’s Mandarin Télévision and co-produced with Canal+ and Autodidakte, with StudioCanal distributing. It has also been sold […]
Russian broadcaster NTV is returning to Fear Factor, 16 years after the show last aired in the country. The format, which was created by Endemol Shine Netherlands, is being produced by Banijay’s Russian prodco WeiT Media and will be hosted by singer Anatoliy Tsoy. It last aired on NTV in 2005. The new 8 x […]
Hollywood Suite to debut ‘No Roses On A Sailor’s Grave’ Canadian broadcaster Hollywood Suite has acquired Go Button Media’s documentary No Roses On A Sailor’s Grave for its global TV debut. CBC & Radio-Canada Distribution has also taken global distribution right for the 1 x 80-minute film, which tells the story of a lost World […]
Brazil’s Globo snags First Love Brazil’s Globo has become the first international broadcaster to pick up BBC Studios (BBCS) relationship format First Love. The four-part series, which has been adapted from the original Motive Television show, will air later this year and tells the stories of people who are curious to find out how life […]
BBC orders Storyboard photo format UK pubcaster the BBC has ordered an original photography format from Scotland’s Storyboard Studios. The 4 x 60-minute Great British Photography Challenge will see six amateur photographers take on a variety of assignments around the UK and guided by world-famous portrait and fashion photographer Rankin. The series producer-director is David […]
Russian broadcaster NTV is bringing two crime dramas to the Japanese market in separate deals. NHK Enterprises, the business arm of Japanese pubcaster NHK, has acquired rights to NTV’s period drama Noble Detective, which is to be aired on the Sony Pictures Entertainment-operated AXN Mystery in Japan in February 2021. Japanese distributor Trans World Associates […]
Sony preps US remake of Lux Vide’s drama Doc Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has picked up exclusive format and distribution rights to Lux Vide’s Italian primetime medical drama Doc – Nelle Tue Mani, with a US remake in the works. The show, which debuted on Italian pubcaster Rai Uno, is based on a true story about […]
Sky acquires HBO’s Yusuf Hawkins doc Sky in the UK has acquired feature documentary Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn for broadcast on its Sky Documentaries channel and NOW TV on-demand service. Produced by Lightbox and directed by Muta’Ali Muhammad, the film, which premiered on HBO, tells the story of Hawkins, a black teenager who was […]
TBI has been talking to broadcasters all over the world about how they have been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. Today, we hear from Timur Weinstein, general producer at Russia’s NTV. [Please note that this article has been substantially altered since original publication] What was the immediate impact of the Coronavirus to your working routine? […]
