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Reports
Propagate’s indie power play
Having been agents and then together at Reveille, Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens went…
Deal Monitor: 16 programming deals at a glance
In a week that began with MIPCOM recuperation and the news TV titan Time Warner…
TBI’s Top 10 Stories of the Week
Though a combined ‘AT&Warner’ equals a distribution and content monolith, just image the scale if…
Getting The Rights Exchange right
TRX is preparing a global 2017 launch with broadcaster backing, David Frank tells Stewart Clarke…
10 MIPCOM trends
MIPCOM has ended with no major dramas of the ash cloud, flood or industrial action…
The script for ITV Studios America
ITV Studios America wants to be the top indie drama studio in the US. In…
MIPCOM Hot Pick: Secrets of the Chinese Chariot
This 1x60mins blue-chip documentary looks at how chariots helped early Chinese civilisation dominate battlefields and…
TBI’s Top 10 Stories of the Week
Our exclusive Distributor Survey 2016 has been top of the agenda this week on TBIVision.com…
Simon Andreae’s Naked ambition
Ahead of MIPCOM, former Optomen, Fox and Discovery exec Simon Andreae tells Stewart Clarke about…
Brexit strategies
The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union is one of the most seismic…
Laughing matters at the Edinburgh Int’l TV Festival
Shane Smith and his plan to take over the media world dominated delegate chatter at…
Formats set for dramatic revival
Analysis of new programmes launched by genre round the world shows that the level of…
Brexit: what does it mean for kids TV?
The kids TV business is starting to weigh the impact of Britain’s pending European Union…
NATPE: better in Budapest
The NATPE Budapest 2016 Market & Content Summit, which launches today, is J.P. Bommel’s first…
Demanding more from TV
Exclusive data from TBIVision and Parrot Analytics reveals central and eastern Europe’s most in-demand programmes…
Annecy 2016 report
In a global animation market, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival reflected changes in the…
eSporting chance
The biggest programme genre of future might come from an unusual source. Jesse Whittock speaks…
Windows shopping
The advent of international OTT services has created unheralded demand for first-run drama. One result…
Telcos target TV
Telecoms operators are increasingly looking to TV to drive new subs, increase customer loyalty and…
8, 9, 10, Telemundo
Luis Silberwasser took charge of Telemundo in late 2014 and has set about revolutionising its…
Six things TBI learned at the LA Screenings
With the sun shining and acquisitions execs armed with budgets to buy the best new…
Monte Carlo’s TV circuit
The Monte-Carlo TV Festival wants to be for television what the Cannes Film Festival is…
LA Screenings 2016: Star profile
The US broadcast networks are going big this year, with popular actors, producers and franchises…
Emerging from the shadows: Brazilian drama
Brazil’s TV industry, widely and unwisely dismissed as primarily a source of telenovelas, has been…
Trans on TV
When cultural historians look back, 2015/16 will undoubtedly be seen as a landmark in terms…
Motoring up
With petrolhead show Top Gear making headlines, TBI gets to grips with the new show and…
In the spotlight: Stephen Poliakoff
British writer and director Stephen Poliakoff’s award-winning work spans more than three decades on both…
MENA creative boom beckons
Artistic experimentation in the Middle Eastern scripted market is booming. TBI assesses a new form…
The Chinese reality condundrum
Formats veteran Clare Thompson says the latest regulatory decrees about Chinese formats market are a…
Legitimate success for The Illegal
At the CoPro Series pitching competition in Berlin, the team behind The Book of Negroes…