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MIPTV scripted round-up – updated throughout the day

BBCS to adapt ‘Eve Stranger’ BBC Studios has optioned Eve Stranger, the comic-book series created by writer David Barnett and illustrated by Philip Bond for TV series development. Eve Stranger is the story of the enigmatic Eve, who has unlimited funds, a jet-set lifestyle, and extraordinary abilities – as well as a growing suspicion that she’s working for the […]

Sky Studios hires Netflix & Working Title execs as UK drama team expands

Sky Studios, Sky’s original programming arm across Europe, has boosted its UK drama commissioning team, hiring Netflix alum Sam Hoyle as executive producer and former Working Title Films exec Tilly Coulson as head of development. Both Hoyle and Coulson joined the company in February and report into Gabriel Silver, Sky Studios director of drama commissioning. […]

Sky & Peacock link for first joint scripted co-commission on ‘Lockerbie’

Comcast-owned Sky and US-based sibling Peacock have co-commissioned their first scripted project together, a miniseries exploring the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Lockerbie is being co-produced by Universal Content Productions (UCP) and Sky Studios, with Universal International Studios’ UK prodco Carnival Films also attached. The five-parter is based on the book The Lockerbie Bombing: […]

SkyShowtime go for launch as JV streamer gets regulatory approval

Sky’s parent company Comcast has announced that its joint-venture streaming operation with ViacomCBS has received full regulatory approval for a European launch. The new streamer, SkyShowtime, was first revealed in mid-2021 and will launch in more than 20 European markets encompassing 90 million homes later this year. It will bring together entertainment, movies and original […]

NBCU’s Peacock original spend to hit $5bn, as investment shifts from linear

NBCUniversal (NBCU) is to double its investment on Peacock originals in 2022 to $3bn, with plans to hit annual spending of $5bn in the “next couple of years.” The additional domestic spending on content will be moved from NBCU’s linear networks to the streamer, according to the company’s CEO Jeff Shell, who was speaking on […]

TBI Weekly: Five questions for SkyShowtime’s new CEO

This week’s appointment of Monty Sarhan as the CEO of SkyShowtime takes us one significant step closer to the launch of the new Comcast and ViacomCBS joint venture streaming service. Expected to roll out across more than 20 countries later this year, the pan-European streamer will combine content from Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky, and ViacomCBS […]

ViacomCBS & Comcast name CEO for European SVOD SkyShowtime

SkyShowtime, the new Comcast and ViacomCBS joint venture streaming service, has found its CEO. Monty Sarhan will lead the pan-European streamer across more than 20 territories and oversee a content offering that includes shows from Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky, and ViacomCBS brands such as Showtime, Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures. Sarhan, who will be based out […]

Abacus Media Rights hires UKTV & Sky alum to lead acquisitions

UK-based distributor Abacus Media Rights (AMR) has hired former UKTV and Sky exec Charlie Charalambous to lead its acquisitions activity. He will be based out of London and will oversee the addition of unscripted and scripted content for AMR, which is backed by Amcomri Entertainment. Charalambous was most recently at UKTV, where he was responsible […]

Sony buys ‘His Dark Materials’ prodco Bad Wolf from Sky, HBO & Access

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has taken a majority stake in His Dark Materials and I Hate Suzie producer Bad Wolf, with Sky, HBO and Access Entertainment exiting the business. The deal, which emerged last month, will see SPT also acquiring the Wolf Studios Wales sound stage facility in Cardiff, UK, and Bad Wolf’s 30% stake […]

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