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The Bridge
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Looking beyond the headlines of Korea’s booming scripted biz
Everybody knows about Squid Game, but how much do you know about the TV industry…
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Jamie Brown’s Grand River meets The Bridge for WW2 play adaptation
Talent packager and financier Grand River Productions has partnered up with Amanda Groom’s The Bridge…
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ATF 2019: Five key takeaways from this year’s Asia TV Forum
Amanda Groom, founder and MD of global media advisory firm The Bridge, tells TBI about…
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Territory focus: Thailand – Hitting the high notes
Thailand is establishing itself as a hotspot for production ingenuity both regionally and on the…
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Commissioning round-up: Yes TV flies back to ‘Magpie’; HBO Asia, Viu return to ‘The Bridge’; HBO extends sketch show
Yes TV takes in more Magpie Israeli network Yes TV has ordered a second season…
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Endemol Shine extends ‘The Bridge’ to Croatia, Serbia
Endemol Shine Group (ESG) has secured a deal for a 10 x 50-minute Croatian/Serbian version…
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Op-Ed: Look to Asian drama remakes for creative renewal
Amanda Groom, MD of co-production specialist The Bridge, explains why Asian remakes such as SBS…
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Liberty: DR’s last international drama?
Ahead of the news that DR is to cut spend on international drama and focus…
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Bridging local and global: Lars Blomgren on his new move
The Bridge producer Lars Blomgren sits with TBI to discuss his preparation for an upcoming…
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HBO Asia picks up Asian adaptation of The Bridge
HBO Asia is set to air the Asian adaptation of Endemol Shine’s The Bridge, a…
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ZDF strengthens its Bridge to Latin America
ZDF has sold the fourth and final season of Bron (The Bridge) to DirecTV Latin America….
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M6 picks up The Bridge from Endemol Shine
Endemol Shine Group has licensed adventure entertainment format The Bridge to M6 France. Originally created…
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Endemol Shine & Viu to adapt The Bridge for Asia
Asian VOD service Viu has teamed with Endemol Shine Group (ESG) to produce a localised,…
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In-demand chart: Norway (January 1-7, 2018)
Norway’s latest In-demand chart almost provided an exception to the rule that linear TV originals…
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Creating the dream team
Endemol Shine Group’s French prodcos merged on May 1, as the production and distribution giant…
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Netflix nabs Swedish original from The Bridge scribe
Netflix has commissioned its first original series from Sweden, which has the head writer from…
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Sky Deutschland heads to Der Pass for original
Sky Deutschland’s latest original drama will come from 4 Blocks producer Wiedemann & Berg Television….
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Asian docs evolution underlines region’s potential
Amanda Groom, MD of The Bridge, which facilitates deals between Asian- and English-language partners, reports…
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Brexit strategies
The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union is one of the most seismic…
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Argonon Int’l hires Fox formats chief
Jess Khanom has left Fox Networks Group to become managing director of UK-based distributor Argonon…
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SVT drama chief joins Pinewood TV
Swedish pubcaster SVT’s drama chief is joining the fledgling London-based outfit Pinewood Television to oversee…
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10 MIPTV takeaways: #8 a quiet drama
MIPTV’s answer to the international boom in high-end drama was the inaugural MIPDrama Screenings event…
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TV’s Big Questions: is the golden age of TV drama over?
We asked the industry whether the drama golden age had hit its peak and it’s…
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Cineflix snags buzzy British noir series
The distribution arm of Cineflix has won the rights to Marcella, the upcoming ‘British noir’…
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ZDF sells romance, dark drama in Cannes
Germany’s ZDF Enterprises has sold a collection of romantic telemovies to broadcasters in French-speaking Canada…
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AMC to remake Danish drama
AMC has gone straight-to-series on Broke (WT), a drama based on Denmark’s Bankerot. AMC Studios,…
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ITV sets dramas with Nye, Bridge writer
UK broadcaster ITV has commissioned a crime series from the screenwriter behind The Bridge, a…
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EBS, Bethel Global cross The Bridge
Korean educational broadcaster EBS has hooked up with drama coproduction facilitator The Bridge and Bethel…
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Porseryd exits as Endemol Shine Nordics arises
Endemol Shine Group has revealed the shape of its Nordics business, with Gary Carter overseeing…
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K-content: head on
The first South Korean content wave broke the country’s shows into China, Japan and across…
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