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Starz
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Power casting progresses, 50 Cent expected to take cameo role
Starz has added new cast members to its upcoming urban drama Power. Rapper Curtis “50…
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Sky Vision to show Fortitude
Sky Vision is set to land international rights to upcoming big-budget drama Fortitude, TBI understands….
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Power Play: why celebs are becoming execs
As the global media superpowers march into ever more sectors, A-list actors, musicians, fashion gurus…
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Comic books firm IDW moves into TV with V-Wars
Comic book publisher IDW has created a new TV division and agreed a deal with…
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BBC Worldwide on board Starz Blackpool series
Blackpool is the next series to come under the Starz and BBC Worldwide production pact,…
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Starz making new drama series Gringo
US cable net Starz is developing Gringo, a one-hour drama series based on the non-fiction…
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Starz making comedy with basketball star Lebron James
US cable net Starz is making Survivor’s Remorse, a half-hour comedy series starring NBA star…
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News brief: Former Turner VC joins Starz board
The former vice-chairman of Turner Broadcasting System, Andrew Heller, has joined the board of US…
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Huguez exits, Thornton takes over in Starz distribution shake-up
Starz has upped Michael Thornton in a reorganisation of its distribution activities that also sees…
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‘Mid East Netflix’ bags Black Sails, White Queen
Dubai-based VOD platform icflix has scored a major deal with Starz for titles including the…
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The Magic runs out for Starz series
Starz has cancelled its original drama Magic City after two seasons. The series, which is…
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Black Sails plots course to MIPCOM
Starz’s new original pirate series Black Sails will hit the international market for the first…
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Starz, Fox in major multi-year film licensing deal
Starz has secured a massive multi-year deal for hundreds of movies from Twentieth Century Fox…
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Starz pirate series sails to second season
Starz has greenlit a second run of its pirate series Black Sails – before the…
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Netflix to move into original feature docs, stand-up
US streaming service Netflix will broaden its original content strategy by moving into one-off feature…
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Starz plans post-civil war Texas drama
US premium cable channel Starz is developing a post-American civil war drama drama from writer-director…
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International Studios: Drama Studies
For a week in May the attention of the TV world is focused on Hollywood…
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All3Media, Shine and Starz cut Viewster OTT deals
OTT operator Viewster has cut programming deals with a raft of distributors, picking up drama…
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2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Sarah Wright, controller of acquisitions, BSkyB
UK pay TV operator BSky is the largest UK-based buyer of US studio programming and…
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Miniseries strike back
A few years ago, it looked like scripted miniseries were heading for the scrapheap. With…
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Piers Morgan, Virgin, Lionsgate making Fleet Street drama for Starz
TV presenter and journalist Piers Morgan is executive producing a drama about 1970s Fleet Street…
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Shooting Starz
Starz has built a solid slate of original programmes in recent years with the Spartacus…
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Middle Eastern ‘Netflix’ preps summer launch
A new Middle East-based on demand service has scored deals with Hollywood studios, Arabic content…
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Epic drama for factual channels
The last decade saw the big factual channels move from documentary led schedules to grids…
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Starz prepares to go Airborne
US premium cable net Starz is developing a new coming-of-age drama set during the Vietnam…
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Esquire Network gears up for Party Down
Esquire Network, the new identity of NBCUniversal cablenet G4, has licensed US broadcasting rights to…
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Starz plans originals boost
US cable network Starz is committed to boosting its original output following its split from…
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Starz waltzes into Blackpool
US premium cablenet Starz is developing an original scripted series about competitive ballroom dancing set…
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Starz inks huge content deal with Sony
US cable network Starz has inked a huge multiyear programming deal with Sony Pictures. Neither…
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Liberty and Starz complete split
John Malone’s Liberty Media and US cable network Starz have completed their planned split. …