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TCB Media Rights
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TBI Weekly: MIPTV at critical juncture to safeguard its future
MIPTV reached a major turning point this week, with the future of the spring market…
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Former Pioneer exec sets up production consultancy
Former Pioneer Productions MD Kirstie McLure has set up a new consultancy business connecting productions…
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Nat Geo buys TCB’s Borderforce USA
Nat Geo has bought Dave series Borderforce USA: The Bridges from TCB Media Rights. The broadcaster…
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Barcroft and TCB Media partner for Shake My Beauty
Factual indie Barcroft Media and TCB Media Rights have inked a co-pro deal for an…
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TCB inks first-look deal with Argonon’s Transparent TV
TCB Media Rights has signed a two-year first-look deal with Argonon-owned indie Transparent TV. Under…
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TRX adds TCB Media Rights to its digitized sales platform
TCB Media Rights is the latest distributor to sign up to the online sales platform…
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TCB hands DCD Rights exec a multi-territory sales role
Distributor TCB Media Rights has appointed Lenneke de Jong to the newly created role of…
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TCB hires BBC Studios’ Demidowicz as commissioning editor
TCB Media Rights has appointed BBC Studios’ Hannah Demidowicz to the position of commissioning editor,…
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Show of the Week: TCB Media Rights’ Combat Machines
Many broadcasters will already be familiar with History UK’s Combat series. The 2015 series Combat…
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Passion acquisitions chief moves to TCB
Passion Distribution’s head of acquisitions, Jimmy Humphreys, is moving to rival UK distributor TCB Media…
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Kew acquires Paul Heaney’s TCB Media Rights
Kew Media Group has struck a deal to buy Paul Heaney’s TCB Media Rights for…
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Ex-TCB exec in as Reel One adds two
Reel One Entertainment has bolstered its international distribution team with the appointment of former TCB…
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TCB secures Essential catalogue
London-based distribution company TCB Media Rights has closed a representation deal with Sydney’s Essential Media…
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World’s Worst docs land pre-buys
Network Nine, Channel 5, Sky and RMC Decouverte are among pre-buyers of new documentaries from…
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Factual Hot Picks
Following the Sunny Side of the Doc event in La Rochelle, France, TBI profiles five hot…
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eOne exec switches to TCB post
London-based TCB Media Rights has again expanded its team with the fire of Entertainment One…
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Drive picks up ITV & HBO’s Diana doc
As the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death approaches, a new HBO and ITV doc…
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ATF: done deals as Asian market expands
As the dust settles on another Asia Television Forum, TBI runs down some of the…
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TCB dealing out Justice at MIPCOM
TCB Media Rights has struck deals for several of its shows, ahead of launching 30…
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TBI DISTRIBUTOR SURVEY 2016: The rights fight
Getting the right rights at the right price. That’s the challenge for distributors in a…
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TCB takes on food shows as SBS exits sales
UK-based distributor TCB Media Rights has taken on the food programming catalogue of Australian pubcaster…
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A+E commissions Combat Ships in UK
A+E Networks UK has commissioned a documentary series from indie Woodcut Media, Combat Ships. The…
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Rebranded MTG net takes factual from TCB
The recently rebranded MTG World channel has prebought a 10x60mins American Heroes Channel series from…
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Pre-MIPTV presales for TCB Media
TCB Media Rights has presold a trio of its new shows ahead of MIPTV. The…
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Serialised killers
A new wave of true crime series that ape the structure of serialised dramas has…
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TV’s Big Questions: are the main markets still relevant?
Distribution is changing. The Frank brothers have created a digital rights trading platform, TRX, which…
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Sky’s Pick orders Monkey Life
Sky has commissioned a new series of Monkey Life and bought two earlier seasons of…
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Oz, NZ deals for TCB
Broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand have acquired programming from UK-based distributor TCB Media Rights….
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Content companies vie to be Best Distributor
Five content sales companies have been shortlisted for the Best Content Distributor category in the…
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Smithsonian aims for Survival in the Skies
US cable network Smithsonian Channel has commissioned three-part factual series Survival in the Skies, with…