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Original Programming
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MTV launches MTV Studios, revives Daria
MTV is launching MTV Studios, a new unit focused on developing new series and re-imaginations…
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Apple orders first international series from Canal +
Apple has ordered an English language adaptation of Canal + French series Calls, which will…
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Apple orders immigration anthology series from Big Sick duo
Apple has ordered immigrant anthology series Little America from The Big Sick’s Lee Eisenberg and Alan…
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Acorn TV & All3Media team for Aussie drama
Acorn Media Enterprises (AME) has partnered with All3Media International to distribute ABC Australia six-part drama…
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House producer signs with Sony Pictures TV
Liz Friedman, the senior producer of top medical drama House, has signed a multi-year deal…
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YouTube Premium launches across 17 territories
YouTube Premium, the rebranded YouTube Red service, will now be available in 17 countries including…
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RTÉ & Irish Film Board pick up four comedy pilots
RTÉ and the Irish Film Board today announced the four projects that have progressed to…
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‘You get a show!’: Apple signs Oprah to multiyear deal
Apple has signed a multiyear deal with Oprah Winfrey to create original programming on its…
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Apple to develop best-selling novel Shantaram
Apple is set to develop Gregory David Robert’s best-selling novel Shantaram, with American Hustle’s Warren…
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Apple orders J.J. Abrams music dramedy
Apple has ordered a J.J. Abrams musical dramedy named Little Voices, which will star Waitress…
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UKTV & RTÉ board Sharon Horgan drama
UKTV has partnered with RTÉ to bring Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) drama Women on the Verge…
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ABC Studios Int’l & Stan set to launch global original
Australian streamer Stan is to launch a new original series by The Kettering Incident’s (pictured)…
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BBC One readies drama from Doctor Who’s Russell T Davies
Doctor Who’s Russell T Davies is set to write new BBC One drama Years and…
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Acorn Media to develop first Benny Hill biopic
Acorn Media Enterprises (AME), the UK-based development division for Acorn TV, has partnered with Free@Last…
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Mediaset, Warner Bros. & Netflix team for Spanish drama
Mediaset Espana, Warner Bros. International Television Production Spain (ITPS) and Netflix are teaming for Spanish…
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Netflix orders Canadian drama Northern Rescue
Netflix has ordered CBC original drama Northern Rescue, and will have all rights outside of…
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eOne brings Stan’s The Other Guy to North America
Entertainment One (eOne) is bringing Stan’s half-hour original series The Other Guy to Hulu in…
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Showtime picks up Affleck/Damon drama
Showtime has made a series order for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon drama City On…
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Amazon gives Maradona original the greenlight
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit a new Prime Original series based on the life of…
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MGM to up originals for Epix to promote growth
MGM is planning to “reposition and expand” its underperforming premium subscription service Epix one year…
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Acorn TV to launch new Irish original with RTÉ and Treasure
Acorn Media Enterprises (AME), the UK-based development division for Acorn TV, has partnered with RTÉ…
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Hulu lands US rights to Federation’s Bad Banks
Hulu has acquired the US streaming rights to Bad Banks, Federation Entertainment’s European thriller series…
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Hulu and Telemundo expand content pact
Hulu has inked a further deal with NBCUniversal’s Telemundo to provide more Spanish-language titles for…
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BBC Studios invests in drama start-up Moonage Pictures
BBC Studios has acquired a minority stake in British scripted drama start-up Moonage Pictures. Moonage…
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Sky Italia to co-produce Clooney’s Catch 22 as C4 brings it to the UK
Sky Italia has confirmed that it will co-produce George Clooney (pictured) drama Catch-22, alongside Paramount…
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Arte picks up rights to BBC drama Trust Me
Producer/distributor Studiocanal has licensed four-part limited series Trust Me to European cultural channel Arte. The…
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Thunderbird options Canadian novel The Marrow Thieves
Canada’s Thunderbird Entertainment has optioned Cherie Dimaline’s novel, The Marrow Thieves. The book, which won…
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Federation secures distribution rights to Italian thriller
Federation Entertainment has acquired the global rights to distribute Don’t Leave Me (Non Mi Lasciare),…
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BBC Two orders Riz Ahmed original among new slate
BBC Two has ordered a new original drama from actor and comedian Riz Ahmed (pictured)…
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Amazon to up video spend throughout 2018
Amazon said it plans to increase its spend on video throughout 2018, after the company…