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Simon Andreae
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Simon Andreae to run Fremantle in UK
Fremantle has appointed Simon Andreae as CEO of its UK business, and has fully acquired…
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FremantleMedia secures global rights to Manson documentary
FremantleMedia International is to handle global distribution for a new ITV documentary series that uses…
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Simon Andreae’s Naked ambition
Ahead of MIPCOM, former Optomen, Fox and Discovery exec Simon Andreae tells Stewart Clarke about…
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Simon Andreae prodco hires exec from ITV
Naked Entertainment, Simon Andreae’s prodco, has hired Matthew Cox from ITV. He joins the UK-based…
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All 4 tries on Naked sex shorts
UK-based Channel 4’s on-demand platform has commissioned a short-form series about the threesome dating scene….
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Andreae’s Naked hires O’Brien
Naked Entertainment has recruited Tom O’Brien to run its development and work up new unscripted…
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Naked hires ex-Fox TV Studios UK chief
Simon Andreae’s production company, Naked Entertainment, has appointed former Fox Television Studios UK managing director…
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TV’s Big Questions: has 4K truly broken through?
There was a buzz around ultra-high definition television coming into 2015, but did the medium…
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TV’s Big Questions: have direct-to-consumer services affected the market?
Many believe 2015 was the year traditional pay TV broadcasters finally accepted they would need…
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FremantleMedia buys Dutch indie
FremantleMedia has acquire a majority stake in Dutch producer No Pictures Please, a controversial factual…
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Andreae forms new indie with FremantleMedia
Former Fox programming chief Simon Andreae has formed Naked Entertainment, a new indie prodco that…
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Andreae out at Fox, Electus’ Henson in
Simon Andreae’s spell at the top of US broadcast network Fox’s reality arm is over,…
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Fox’s Utopia experiment over
US broadcaster Fox has cancelled big-budget social experiment format Utopia. Just two months after the…
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Beyond Duck Dynasty…
Stuart Carter, Pioneer Productions So what would you do if you suddenly won US$1 million…
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Fox prepares for Utopia
Big Brother creator John de Mol’s hot new reality format Utopia has been bought by…
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Cineflix’s Levenson joins Andreae’s Fox team
Cineflix Productions’ executive VP for development Lisa Levenson is one of two hires for Simon…
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Simon Andreae lands Darnell’s Fox role, Sony project in doubt
Fox Broadcasting has handed Simon Andreae the coveted role at the top of its alternative…
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Sony sets up new prodco with Discovery exec Andreae
Simon Andreae is leaving Discovery to set up his own production company Scarlet Media. Sony…