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ChaiFlicks picks up ‘Kafka’ biopic rights for North America
ChaiFlicks, the streaming service dedicated to Jewish content, has picked up the North American rights…
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Xumo & European pubcasters ink pre-sales for ‘Silverback’ documentary
US streamer Xumo and European pubcasters ORF in Austria, UR in Sweden and YLE in…
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Wartime spy drama ‘Davos 1917’ secures trio of European broadcast sales
Mediaset in Italy is among three European broadcasters to have picked up rights to upcoming…
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News round-up: Netflix snags NBCU’s ‘Girls5eva’; Lionsgate+ extends ‘Serpent Queen’; ORF renews Prime deal
Netflix snags NBCU’s Girls5eva Netflix has picked up the third season of Girls5eva, which had…
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Austria’s ORF joins Beta Film’s big-budget ‘Rise Of The Raven’
Austrian pubcaster ORF has boarded Rise Of The Raven, which is being billed as one of…
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Exclusive: France TV, C4, ZDF, CBC & others link to co-fund science projects
France Télévisions and some of the fellow pubcasters that make up the Global Doc commissioning group…
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TF1 in France & Austria’s ORF join Beta Film drama ‘Sisi’
France’s TF1 and Austria’s ORF have picked up Sisi, the upcoming drama for RTL Group…
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ViacomCBS sells more ‘Oprah With Meghan And Harry’ in Europe & Lat Am
Broadcasters across Europe and Latin America have become the latest to pick up rights to…
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ORF and ZDF take a second stab at ‘Vienna Blood’
Broadcasters ORF in Austria and ZDF in Germany have ordered a second season crime of…
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Orange Smarty claims £250k in post-MIPCOM deals
UK indie distributor Orange Smarty has sold a 50-hour package of programming to Foxtel and…
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China’s Schindlers set for RTVE, ORF
Broadcasters in Europe have bought China’s Schindlers, a New Zealand-produced documentary about two Chinese men…
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Discovery sub-licenses Olympics to ORF
Discovery has inked a deal with ORF that sees the Austrian pubcaster sub-license Olympics TV…
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Scandi pubcasters buy Universum docs
Public broadcasters in Scandinavia have bought documentary programming from Austria’s ORF. DR in Denmark took…
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Shrek producer to reboot evolution show
John Williams, who produced the Shrek feature films, has acquired rights to make an animated…
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Nat Geo buys ORF national park doc
National Geographic Channels International has acquired ORF Universum documentaries Making an Ancient Forest – Kalkalpen…
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ABC adapting Austrian hour-long
Broadcast network ABC is adapting an Austrian comedy, Braunschlag, for the US market. The deal…
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ABC to remake Austrian drama
US broadcast network ABC has ordered a pilot script of Austrian-created scripted format Janus. The…
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ORF, CCTV10 traverse the Himalayas
Austria’s ORF and Chinese statecaster CCTV10 are going into production on a three-part wildlife series, Sky…
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ORF’s Austrian SVOD JV to fight Netflix, Amazon
Austrian pubcaster ORF has entered into a joint venture with local SVOD portal Flimmit in…
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RTL Hungary CEO exiting post
RTL Group’s long-serving Hungarian chief executive Dirk Gerkens is leaving his post, with Andreas Rudas…
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Monster Frog attracts Austria’s ORF
Austrian pubcaster ORF will coproduce a pair of wildlife films with factual specialist Earth Touch….
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ORF, Mexican channel to sign MOU at MIPCOM
Austria’s ORF will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Mexico’s TV UNAM next week at…
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Imira changes pace with Tom Turbo
Spain’s Imira Entertainment has acquired a trio of new programmes, including Austrian live-action series Tom…
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CEE Euro nets tread The Road to War
Broadcasters across central and eastern Europe have acquired World War I documentary The Road to…
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ORF ‘eyeing VOD platform’ as Netflix launch looms
Austrian public broadcaster ORF is reportedly in talks to buy domestic video-on-demand portal Filmmit, ahead…
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News brief: Euro broadcaster ask Java to Show Me Rio
Five European broadcasters have acquired Show Me Rio, a Portuguese-produced documentary about the Brazilian city…
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News brief: ORF Universum launches industry-aimed site
The doc arm of ORF Enterprises, ORF Universum, is launching an industry-focused information website for…
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RAI, ORF capture Gestapo’s Most Wanted
Pubcasters in Italy and Austria have acquired Gestapo’s Most Wanted, a docu-drama biopic of the…
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The War Report
With the 100th anniversary of the most terrible conflict in world history coming in 2014,…
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BBC Two acquires ‘German Band of Brothers’
BBC Two has acquired the 3x90mins German miniseries Generation War, marking the first foreign language…
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