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StudioCanal
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VRT bags StudioCanal drama package
Belgium’s VRT has acquired a three-title drama package from Europe-based distributor StudioCanal. The agreement hands…
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DirecTV Lat Am welcomes Last Panthers
Pay TV provider DirecTV Latin America has acquired six-part crime series The Last Panthers. The…
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Netflix to coproduce ITV conspiracy thriller
Streaming service Netflix has joined ITV conspiracy thriller drama Paranoid as a coproducer and will…
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Sky follows up The Five with The Four
Sky has ordered another original drama from best-selling novelist Harlan Coben (pictured), The Four. The…
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Canal+ takes Kissman stake
French commercial broadcaster Canal+ has taken a 50% stake in Kissman Production Group. Kissman is…
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Telefonica buys StudioCanal drama package
Telefonica has acquired a package of drama series from StudioCanal for its Spanish pay TV…
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StudioCanal buys Paddington Bear
French TV and film producer and distributor StudioCanal has acquired classic kids property Paddington Bear….
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Channel One buys Section Zero
Russian broadcaster Channel One has acquired edgy French drama Section Zero. The free-TV station will…
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Dutch drama deal for The Five
Dutch public broadcaster NPO has acquired Harlan Coben-penned UK drama The Five. The ten-part drama…
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Yes deal for Harlan Coben’s The Five
Israeli pay TV platform Yes has acquired The Five, the UK drama from bestselling writer…
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The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 – part III
The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 reveals why, where and how the genre is evolving, tackling…
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The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 – part II
The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 reveals why, where and how the genre is evolving, tackling…
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Canal+ shedding French subs
Canal+ France lost 183,000 subscriptions in the first quarter, taking its domestic total to 8.3…
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MIPTV takeaways: #3 Vivendi puts Europe in the spotlight
MIPTV is now mostly about Europe and the continent’s content, and last week it was…
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StudioCanal buys into Cumberbatch indie, Bambu
French production and distribution group Studiocanal has strengthened its TV assets by taking minority shares…
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StudioCanal Paranoid about new ITV drama
ITV has ordered Paranoid, a new eight-part drama about a group of detectives sucked into…
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Writer Coben, Red launch new prodco
Writer Harlan Coben and Red Production Company have launched a joint venture production company. Coben…
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Fox locates Last Panthers in Balkans, Bulgaria
Fox Networks Group Bulgaria and Balkans has acquired six-part crime thriller The Last Panthers. The…
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New Oz CEO for StudioCanal as Slaviero exits
The Australasian arm of StudioCanal is getting a new CEO after the exit of incumbent…
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StudioCanal staffs up London office
StudioCanal has added to its London-based sales team, poaching execs from All3Media, Shine Endemol Group…
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Bauer gets new US StudioCanal role
Tandem Productions CEO Rola Bauer is expanding her role to oversee StudioCanal’s television projects in…
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DirecTV completes Spotless deal
DirecTV has bought one-hour drama Spotless for Latin American pay TV. The series will air…
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Vivendi CEO joins buy outs firm as non-exec chair
Gloo Networks, a company set up to buy and operate consumer brands in the media…
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StudioCanal cleans up with Spotless deal
StudioCanal has shopped edgy drama series Spotless to South Africa-based pay TV platform M-Net. Spotless follows…
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SBS buys another Studiocanal drama
Australian pubcaster SBS has acquired another drama from French distributor Studiocanal. The deal comes after…
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ProSiebenSat.1 nabs ‘important’ Disney content deal
ProSiebenSat.1 and The Walt Disney Company have agreed a significant multi-year agreement that gives the…
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Studiocanal, Red back new UK indie
France-based film and TV giant Studiocanal is backing Guilty Party, a new UK prodco start-up…
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Tandem lines up Ken Follett event series
Tandem Productions is lining up another series based on a Ken Follett novel, taking rights…
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Vivendi buys Can’t Stop, Flab Lab and Studio+
French media powerhouse Vivendi has made three prodco acquisitions in its ongoing content drive, including…
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Vivendi moves for stake in Banijay-Zodiak
French media giant Vivendi is in talks to buy a minority stake in the soon-to-be…