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Shiver hires De Moraes after TwoFour exit
Shiver has hired the creator of The Choir and First Dates Ana De Moraes as…
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Blue Ant looks to Lat Am with sales hires
Blue Ant Media has made a host of sales appointments to its expanding Global Networks…
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Banijay launches scripted outfit Neon Ink
Banijay Group has partnered up with former ITV Studios creative drama execs Kate Lewis and…
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Warner Bros. prodco taps Boundless development head
Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has hired the development chief at FremantleMedia UK-owned Boundless,…
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Ex-MTV exec joins newly established Shout! Studios
Former MTV comedy and animation chief Brent Haynes has joined Shout! Studios, the newly established…
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ZDFE merges factual and entertainment under Rückauer
ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has consolidated its factual and entertainment wings under doc chief Ralf Rückauer….
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Marvista expands with ex-Cinetel & Fox execs
Marvista Entertainment is looking to growth in 2018 with new senior appointments including Darrell Cross…
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Ratings winner: The Good Doctor on call
ABC’s autism-themed medical drama is the biggest new show on US primetime, and buyers are…
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Lupe’s creative burst: Why the US rapper turned content producer
Lupe Fiasco has created a prodco that looks to touch on cultural exchange, artificial intelligence…
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Gaumont hires sales execs as Narcos heads for int’l market
LA-based distributor Gaumont has hired execs from Snap TV and Miramax, news that comes as…
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Fremantle taps ex-CMT exec for unscripted post
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has hired former CMT development head Jayson Dinsmore as president of…
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KKR-backed Emerald buys Cosmos-Maya
A media firm with backing from private equity investor KKR has acquired a majority stake…
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Fox Asia hires Multichoice EVP for FOX+ OTT service
Fox Networks Group Asia (FNGA) has appointed Multichoice exec John Kotsaftis in the newly created…
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John de Mol chips in to Taco Ketelaar’s DFFRNT Media
John de Mol’s Talpa Network has acquired a minority stake in DFFRNT Media, a digital…
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Discovery leaving Maryland HQ after three decades for New York
Discovery Communications is planning to relocate from its home in Maryland to New York City…
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Fox Asia & Tencent team for celebrity foodie original
Fox Networks Group Asia (FNGA) is set to launch its first season of original production…
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Potato gains Powers through Love hire
ITV Studios (ITVS)-owned prodco Potato has hired Love Productions executive producer Sharon Powers. She joins…
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NBCU alumnus to succeed Ford at Fox UK
Former NBCUniversal (NBCU) European channels chief Colin McLeod will succeed Jeff Ford as managing director…
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Canadian cable mogul Jim Shaw dies aged 60
The vice chairman and former CEO of Canadian broadcasting giant Shaw Communications, Jim Shaw, has…
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Epix programming chief exits
US premium cable network Epix is saying goodbye to its head of programming, Jocelyn Diaz….
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De Moraes exits as Twofour restructures development team
Formats veteran Ana De Moraes is leaving UK-based Twofour Group, which is restructuring its development…
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Vice president on leave after allegations
Vice Media president Andrew Creighton has been placed on leave as the youth-skewed entertainment and…
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Hollywood women hit back at harassment
More than 300 women working in film, television and theatre are backing an initiative aimed…
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What you missed over the holiday period: TV news highlights
Around the world, industry execs are dusting off the holiday season cobwebs, slurping down the…
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Abraham & Heller replace Nevins as HBO doc bosses
As HBO doc boss Sheila Nevins steps down after 38 years in service, Nancy Abraham…
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MGM rejigs int’l TV sales to achieve ‘greater efficiencies’
MGM has rejigged its international sales division in order to find “greater efficiencies”. The changes…
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Vevo president and CEO Erik Huggers steps down
Erik Huggers has stepped down as the president and CEO of major label-backed music video…
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Spurlock dropped from projects after misconduct admission
After Supersize Me’s Morgan Spurlock admitted to previous accounts of sexual misconduct, he has been…
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Doc boss Sheila Nevins exiting HBO after 38 years
HBO Documentary Films’ influential president Sheila Nevins is leaving the premium US pay business after…
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BET names Viacom exec as president in rejig
BET Networks, the US network targeting African Americans, has named Scott M. Mills from parent…