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StudioCanal
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StudioCanal UK appoints eOne’s Alex Hamilton as CEO
StudioCanal UK has appointed former Entertainment One UK (eOne UK) executive Alex Hamilton as its…
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Newen to merge distribution with TF1 Studios, appoints Studiocanal alum to oversee process
French production giant Newen has appointed former Studiocanal and Global Road exec Rodolphe Buet to…
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TBI’s forward thinkers: Top execs reflect on 2019 and offer 2020 predictions
TBI speaks to leading execs from across the content business as they reflect on 2019…
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Studiocanal replaces outgoing CEO Didier Lupfer with UK managing director
Studiocanal has appointed the managing director of its UK business to become CEO at the…
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Deals round-up: SPI’s FilmBox adds ‘Narcos’; SBS buys Fremantle shows; New streamer Topic takes dramas
Narcos moves into CEE, Benelux Channels operator SPI/FilmBox has picked up broadcast rights to Narcos,…
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MIPTV organisers reveal first batch of distributors signed up to reimagined market
All3Media, Discovery and Warner Bros. are among the distributors to have signed up for next…
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Studiocanal alum’s prodco adapts ‘Queer as Folk’ in France
Telfrance Group-backed production outfit Aux Singuliers, launched by former Studiocanal development and acquisitions executive Joris…
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Sales round-up: All3Media Int’l, Studiocanal strike deals for ‘Baptiste’, ‘Years’
All3Media International scores in Spain The distributor has sold a slate of dramas into broadcasters…
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Studiocanal boards licensing portal TRX
French producer-distributor Studiocanal is the latest business to join online licensing portal TRX. The business…
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Studiocanal’s La Porta Rossa gets Russian remake
Studiocanal and TV-3 Russia have inked a deal to give the studio’s crime thriller La…
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Studiocanal appoints strategy and finance boss
Studiocanal has promoted Jérémy Gabbay to the role of chief financial and strategy officer. The…
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Red boss Nicola Shindler to lead Studiocanal UK
Nicola Shindler, head of Happy Valley producer Red, is to head up Studiocanal UK. Replacing…
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Tandem, Bron Studios set for thriller from The Bridge scribe
Tandem Productions, a Studiocanal company, and Bron Studios are set to produce a gritty dramatic…
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Arte picks up rights to BBC drama Trust Me
Producer/distributor Studiocanal has licensed four-part limited series Trust Me to European cultural channel Arte. The…
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Canal+ originals chief to lead new Studiocanal prodco
Canal+’s head of originals, , will lead a new French television production company at the…
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Different shades of Red: Nicola Shindler one-on-one
Nicola Shindler is surely the most well known drama producer from Manchester, England, with a…
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Fremantle hires Neylon as global content head
FremantleMedia International (FMI) has appointed Katrina Neylon to the role of executive vice president of…
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Studiocanal’s Neylon exits as Campos becomes sales head
Studiocanal executive VP of sales and marketing Katrina Neylon has departed the company, TBI has learned,…
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Returning miniseries
Distributors will tell you that if they could have one drama production in their portfolio…
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TBI weekly round-up: Diana doc, Silverman’s Jamaican drama
TBI’s latest news round-up takes a look over some of the biggest deals, hires and…
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Vivendi units team up with Red Bull production outfit
Vivendi’s production arm Studiocanal and sister company Universal Music Group has formed a co-development partnership…
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Canal+ reverses subs drops, eyes earnings gains
Canal+ subscriber additions outnumbered cancellations for the first time in many quarters in the three…
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Show of the Week: Ride Upon the Storm
‘Ride upon the storm’ is a line from the William Cowper poem God Moves in…
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StudioCanal recruits ITV, BBC sales veteran
StudioCanal has hired Louisa Bayles as its head of sales for Australasia. The new recruit…
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Cumberbatch to produce, star in new BBC drama
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is to produce and star in a BBC One adaptation of…
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New French indie group ‘circles Cattleya’
New France-based TV consolidator Mediawan is reportedly in the market to buy Gomorrah producer Cattleya….
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Viaplay orders OTT original from The Bridge scribe
Viaplay’s push into original programming has continued with an order for The Lawyer, a scripted…
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NATPE: Tandem sets up Miami drama
StudioCanal prodco Tandem is setting up Deep City, a new Miami-based drama series with Nashville…
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Midnight Sun set for Russia
Swedish-French drama series Midnight Sun is heading to Russia after free-to-air broadcaster Channel One bought…
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Swedish-French Sun to rise in Cannes
A new Swedish/French drama from the creator of Bron will launch at MIPCOM. StudioCanal will…