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News round-up: Fulwell hires RDF duo; Prime Video Mexico buys from Kanal D; Fremantle dubs in MENA
Fulwell hires RDF duo UK & US The Kardashians prodcucer Fulwell 73 Productions has appointed…
Banijay buys My Kitchen Rules UK producer
Banijay Group has acquired 7Wonder, the UK-based unscripted producer behind the British remake of My…
Fremantle UK restructures as C4 exec enters
Richard Holloway will step down from his duties as interim CEO of FremantleMedia UK but…
Betty hires Optomen development chief
Discovery Communications-owned indie Betty has hired Optomen Television’s head of development. Damian Pitman will take…
Banijay & Zodiak: the story so far
Will television’s latest super group be called ‘Banijak’, ‘Zodijay’ and plain old ‘Banijay-Zodiak Group’? Zodiak…
Banijay, Zodiak merger talks confirmed
Banijay Group and Zodiak Media are in advanced merger talks. Various sources have linked the…
ITV Studios indie poaches BBC producer
ITV Studios-owned factual prodco Shiver has poached Richard Hastings from BBC Entertainment. Hastings (pictured) will…
Wild Things to roam in Cannes
Wacky UK gameshow Wild Things is set to hit the international market at MIPTV. The…
Electric Ray poaches Endemol’s Parry
Sony-backed UK prodco Electric Ray has brought Endemol entertainment executive Shaun Parry into its fold….
Nigel Pickard leaves Zodiak
Nigel Pickard is leaving Zodiak Media. Pickard was in charge of kids programming at RDF…
NBCUniversal hires for factual development team
NBCUniversal International Television Production has finalised the shape of the factual development unit that former…
Cable sparks a US indie M&A frenzy
The international media groups that previously drove rounds of M&A activity among indies in the…
Ex-Zodiak USA boss staffs up for new UK indie
Grant Mansfield, the former CEO of Zodiak USA, has launched his own indie and raided…
David Frank exiting Zodiak
Zodiak Media’s CEO David Frank (below) is exiting the company. Frank is understood to be…