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Rai asks for more ‘Ladies’ Paradise’
Rai Uno has ordered another 320 episodes of Ladies’ Paradise (Paradiso delle Signore) from Banijay Group’s Aurora…
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AMC’s Sundance joins The Name Of The Rose co-production
Germany’s Tele München Group has announced that AMC Networks’ SundanceTV and Sundance Now are coming…
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TBI Weekly: Three moves that may chip at Netflix dominance
Moves to combat the Netflix-effect are high on the agenda for major broadcasters and networks…
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France Télévisions, Rai, ZDF drama pact takes on Netflix
European public broadcasters France Télévisions, Rai and ZDF have unveiled the first projects to be…
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Tele München to coproduce €26m Rai drama
Tele München Group (TMG) is set to co-produce an eight-hour adaptation of Umberto Eco’s The…
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Walter Presents brings in first Italian drama
Walter Presents, the global television drama service that Channel 4 launched last year, has brought…
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TBI Weekly: The best of Cartoon Forum
Cartoon Forum took place this week, bringing in some of the best animators, distributors, producers…
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Rai orders Endemol Shine crime drama
Italian pubcaster Rai has tapped Endemol Shine for a crime drama. Set in an idyllic…
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Pubcasters pact to combat Netflix, Amazon threat
Two of Europe’s primary public broadcasters are strategically combining their arsenals to combat the growing…
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Grandpas Over Flowers set for Turkey remake
South Korean format Grandpas Over Flowers is being remade in Turkey for Show TV. The…
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Worldwide touts drama sales ahead of Showcase
BBC Worldwide has shopped several of its drama series to buyers, including SS-GB to RTL…
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Grandpas Over Flowers blooms in Italy
Hit Korean format Grandpas Over Flowers is set for an Italian remake after Rai ordered…
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Italy’s Rai launches streaming service
Rai has launched Rai Play, its free OTT service, which offers live streams of a…
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Pubcasters set off for The West
Public broadcasters in Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Australia are among channels that have acquired historical…
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Hulu snaps up Cyber’s Zorro series
Hulu has picked up the rights to Zorro the Chronicles and will launch the French-produced…
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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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Berlin: Edge bags film version of Netflix drama
Scandinavia-based Edge Entertainment has acquired the feature film accompaniment to Netflix’s first Italian drama series….
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RAI plots SVOD Netflix rival
Italian public broadcaster RAI is planning to create an online pay TV platform that can…
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Netflix increases prices again
Leading online streaming service Netflix has increased the monthly price of a subscription by a…
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Sky gives Rai top spot in Mediaset channels row
Sky in Italy is to give public broadcast channel Rai4 a prime spot on its…
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US drama Parenthood getting Italian remake
Italian pubcaster Rai has ordered a local version of US network comedy Parenthood. The format…
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Rai Com creates buzz around Italiana
The commercial division of Italian pubcaster Rai is in Cannes launching a magazine series based…
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Rai Com scoops journalist miniseries drama
Rai Com, the international sales arm of Italian pubcaster Rai, is taking a scripted miniseries…
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ITV resurrects The Saint
UK broadcaster ITV is looking at a reboot of classic spy drama series The Saint….
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News brief: Romanian net Can Do That
Romania’s Antena 1 has commissioned a local version of Armoza Formats’ studio entertainment format I…
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Monello gets first commission with Barenboim toon
Fledgling French prodco Monello Productions has won its first commission, Kevin Maestro, an animated series…
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Italy’s Rai completes successful Rai Way IPO
Italian public broadcaster Rai’s transmission tower subsidiary Rai Way has successfully completed its IPO, with…
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Cyber plays the Long, Long game
Founder of Cyber Group Studios Pierre Sissman tells TBI that the firm is expanding its…
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News brief: Italy’s Rai sells drugs drama to the US
The international division of Italian state broadcaster Rai has notched several sales in the wake…
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VIMN scores Americas, Euro sales
Viacom International Media Networks has closed a batch of deals in North and Latin America…