After more than 35 years of operation, TBI is closing its doors and our website will no longer be updated daily. Thank you for all of your support.
Rai
1 min read
New international deals for Chaplin toon
PGS Entertainment has notched more sales of Chaplin & Co, the series featuring the famous…
1 min read
News brief: Global sales for new Jungle Bunch series
Broadcasters in Europe, the Middle East and North America have bought Tat Productions and Master…
1 min read
News brief: Portugal’s RTP in for Armoza primetime format
Portuguese broadcaster RTP has commissioned a local version of Armoza Formats’ primetime show I Can…
1 min read
News brief: Rai Gulp backs Sendokai Champions
Italian kids channel Rai Gulp has acquired animated action series Sendokai Champions from Spanish distributor…
1 min read
Cineflix notches worldwide sales
Cineflix has sold factual and fct-ent titles to a raft of international broadcasters. The independent…
1 min read
Armoza’s I Can do That! sells to Spain
Armoza-distributed format I Can Do That! has been acquired by Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Telecinco. The…
1 min read
RAI and SBS Discovery make non-scripted programme acquisitions
Italian broadcaster RAI has bought Hurricane Hunters and Prehistoric Assassins from GRB Entertainment amid a…
1 min read
Italian broadcaster buys Armoza celeb format
Italy’s RAI has acquired a local version of celebrity-themed entertainment show I Can Do That!…
1 min read
RAI, ORF capture Gestapo’s Most Wanted
Pubcasters in Italy and Austria have acquired Gestapo’s Most Wanted, a docu-drama biopic of the…
2 min read
A+E poaches Fox boss to run Italian channels biz
A senior Fox International Channels Italy boss will run A+E Networks’s new Italian networks business….
1 min read
ORF seals German Screenings deals
ORF Enterprises, the commercial arm of the Austrian pubcaster, has announced a raft of documentary…
1 min read
Cyber Group announces raft of MIPCOM deals
France-based producer and distributor Cyber Group Studios has announced a raft of programme sales off…
8 min read
The War Report
With the 100th anniversary of the most terrible conflict in world history coming in 2014,…
1 min read
Int’l orders, Rai recommission for volleyball toon
Italian public broadcaster Rai has ordered a second season of Spike Team, the animated series…
1 min read
News brief: Bat Pat takes off with RAI, TVE
European pubcasters RAI and TVE have come on board Spanish-Italian-Malaysian coproduction Bat Pat. Following investment…
1 min read
Rai loses legal battle with Sky Italia
Italian public broadcaster RAI has lost its appeal against a court ruling that it should…
1 min read
Rai Yoyo seasons schedule with more Peppa
Italian public children’s channel Rai Yoyo has acquired seasons five and six of Entertainment One-sold…
1 min read
Filmax’s cancer drama being remade in Italy
Spanish producer and distributor Filmax has inked a deal with Rai for a local version…
1 min read
EBU experiments with CERN science series grants
The European Broadcasting Union and major particle physics lab CERN have handed out a pair…
2 min read
Italian media coin crashes, down €1.6bn
Combined revenues of Italy’s media companies, including broadcasters and online players, fell by €1.6 billion…
1 min read
Euro pubcaster chiefs demand ERT is restored
Fifty European pubcaster bosses have demanded the Greek government reverses its decision to shutter national…
1 min read
New Italian distributor Lion International launches
Italian media execs Giuseppe Gargiulo and Sesto Cifola have formed a new distribution business Lion…
1 min read
News brief: Rosie returns to Rai
Italian public broadcaster Rai has committed to the second season of V&S Entertainment’s much-traveled preschool…
1 min read
New Rai net goes global
The international arm of Italian state broadcaster Rai is in due to launch its new…
1 min read
Starz goes wild at Bindi’s Bootcamp
US premium cablenet Starz has bought children’s wildlife game show series Bindi’s Bootcamp from distributor…
1 min read
News brief: Al Jazeera Children’s Channel and V&S coproducing more Everything’s Rosie
V&S Entertainment and Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) are coproducing a third season of preschool…
1 min read
Italy’s Rai bets on Red or Black
Italian public broadcaster Rai has ordered a local version of gameshow format Red or Black….
1 min read
TF1 making first animated series
The production arm of French commercial broadcaster TF1 is making its first animated series, Mini…
1 min read
Sony taking Talpa’s The Voice into Italy
Sony Pictures Television’s Italian prodcution arm along with Talpa have inked a deal for hit…
8 min read
Girls want toons!
Commissioners want more girl-skewed animation and say there is not enough coming their way. Producers…