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Paul Heaney
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TCB Media Rights boosts legal and rights team, unveils 40-show slate for MIPCOM
TCB Media Rights is heading to next month’s MIPCOM market with a 40-title slate that…
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Yesterday lines up Woodcut’s ‘Greatest Palaces’
UKTV has lined up Woodcut Media’s World’s Greatest Palaces for factual channel Yesterday. The multi-channel broadcaster…
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TBI Weekly: MIPTV at critical juncture to safeguard its future
MIPTV reached a major turning point this week, with the future of the spring market…
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TCB hands DCD Rights exec a multi-territory sales role
Distributor TCB Media Rights has appointed Lenneke de Jong to the newly created role of…
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Passion acquisitions chief moves to TCB
Passion Distribution’s head of acquisitions, Jimmy Humphreys, is moving to rival UK distributor TCB Media…
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Kew acquires Paul Heaney’s TCB Media Rights
Kew Media Group has struck a deal to buy Paul Heaney’s TCB Media Rights for…
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World’s Worst docs land pre-buys
Network Nine, Channel 5, Sky and RMC Decouverte are among pre-buyers of new documentaries from…
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eOne exec switches to TCB post
London-based TCB Media Rights has again expanded its team with the fire of Entertainment One…
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TCB adds to sales team
TCB Media Rights has hired Simona Argenti and she will cover Italy, Spain, Latin America…
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TCB dealing out Justice at MIPCOM
TCB Media Rights has struck deals for several of its shows, ahead of launching 30…
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TCB takes on food shows as SBS exits sales
UK-based distributor TCB Media Rights has taken on the food programming catalogue of Australian pubcaster…
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A+E commissions Combat Ships in UK
A+E Networks UK has commissioned a documentary series from indie Woodcut Media, Combat Ships. The…
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TV’s Big Questions: has the wave of M&A been positive for the industry?
Industry consolidation continued apace in 2015. The biggest deal, announced last year and effective from…
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TV’s Big Questions: has the wave of M&A been positive for the industry?
Industry consolidation continued apace in 2015. The biggest deal, announced last year and effective from…
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TV’s Big Questions: are the main markets still relevant?
Distribution is changing. The Frank brothers have created a digital rights trading platform, TRX, which…
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TV’s Big Questions: which digital platform made the most impact in 2015?
“I am in no doubt that Netflix in particular has completely changed the way we…
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Sky’s Pick orders Monkey Life
Sky has commissioned a new series of Monkey Life and bought two earlier seasons of…
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Smithsonian aims for Survival in the Skies
US cable network Smithsonian Channel has commissioned three-part factual series Survival in the Skies, with…
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Heaney’s TCB poaches Cineflix exec
TCB Media Rights chief Paul Heaney has recruited a managing director from his former company,…
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TCB’s immigration format travels
Free-to-air broadcaster SBS Belgium has bought a local version of buzzy immigration format Go Back…
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UK sport agency picks up Marathon rights
A new UK sports agency has signed a long-term broadcast rights deal for distribution of…
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2014 Year in Review, part one
In the first part of a three-part special on the moments of 2014 and those…
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TCB poaches TVF sales exec
TCB Media Rights has hired a sales executive from rival UK-based distributor TVF International. Anna…
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TCB grows with Global Agency hire
Paul Heaney’s growing indie distributor TCB Media Rights has added another sales agent to its…
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Heaney’s TCB Rights adds Italy, Germany reps
Paul Heaney’s distributor TCB Rights has added sales agents for Italy and Germany. Veteran Mediaset…
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Heaney’s TCB snags Aussie content deal
TCB Media Rights has added more Australian programming to its growing catalogue after cutting a…
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Cineflix Productions bosses exit in restructure
Cineflix Productions’ Toronto-based CEO Simon Lloyd and executive VP Joe Houlihan are exiting the business…
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Paul Heaney’s TCB inks Seven Network deal
TCB Media Rights has taken international rights to several shows from Australian broadcaster Seven Network….
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Nick Godwin to run new factual prodco at Argonon
Ex-Cineflix executive Nick Godwin has created a new factual production company, BriteSpark, which will be…
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Paul Heaney taking care of business with new distribution outfit
Paul Heaney has launched his own distribution firm TCB Media Rights. Heaney was president and…