Netflix buys Israel’s Blackspace Netflix has picked up rights around the world to Federation Entertainment’s Israeli drama Blackspace. The 8 x 60-minute psychological thriller is set in an Israeli high school and has been written by Anat Gafni and Sahar Shavit, with Drama Team and Federation producing for local network Reshet 13. It has now been acquired […]
Ovation TV’s reboot of Inside The Actors Studio is shaping up. The US arts network will feature Oscar-nominated director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) as host, interviewing Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Laura Dern. Tony Award nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson is also set to interview Emmy Award-winning actor Alfre Woodard. Dern stars as “Marmee March” […]
US arts network Ovation TV is the new home of Bravo’s long-running interview programme Inside The Actors Studio. The channel holds exclusive linear and digital rights in the US to new episodes of the show, which is presented as an acting seminar to students at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University’s […]
US arts network Ovation TV has a struck a licensing deal with Sky Vision for the exclusive US television broadcast rights to Sky Arts’ André Rieu: Welcome To My World. Violinist André Rieu has sold more than 35 million albums globally, and André Rieu: Welcome to My World follows the popular entertainer from Australia to […]
US arts network Ovation TV has acquired exclusive local rights to French period drama Versailles. The Canal+ original drama, which was shot in English, will premiere on Ovation on October 1. This comes after it closed a deal with Banijay Group’s sales arm, Zodiak Rights, whose sister firm Zodiak Fiction coproduced the series with France’s […]
American arts network Ovation TV has hired cable veteran Mike Pons to become its senior VP of content distribution. Pons’ hire comes concurrently with the promotion of programming and production head Scott Woodward to executive VP. Pons (pictured) joins from cable company US-based Cox Communications, where he was general manager, business development. He was also […]
