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Universal Television Alternative Studio
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Universal & ‘Cooking With The Stars’ outfit South Shore strike development pact
Cooking With The Stars and Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams outfit South Shore has agreed…
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NBC teams with ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ creators for mass extinction docuseries
US network NBC has ordered a new prehistoric docuseries, Surviving Earth, which uses new digital…
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News round-up: Germany’s BR asks ‘Fact Or Fake’; Disney rebooting ‘Zorro’; NBC preps Shakira dance format
Germany’s BR asks ‘Fact Or Fake’ German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARD’s free-to-air channel for…
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Documentary round-up: BBC preps McQueen race relations doc; Peacock orders factual trio; Rudy Giuliani duo in the works
BBC preps McQueen race relations doc UK pubcaster the BBC has reteamed with Small Axe…
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Banijay adds Universal Television exec for North America programming & development
Banijay Studios has appointed former Universal Television exec Rebecca Mayer to oversee programming and development…
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Endemol Shine’s Hurford-Jones boards Universal TV Alternative Studio
Endemol Shine North America’s Georgie Hurford-Jones has boarded NBCUniversal’s unscripted outfit Universal Television Alternative Studio….
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NBC’s ‘Making It’ secures first international remake with Discovery Finland
Discovery Finland has become the first broadcaster to remake NBC series Making It, after striking…
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Universal Television Alternative Studio hires Toby Gorman
Universal Television Alternative Studio has appointed Magical Elves’ Toby Gorman as president. The exec, who…
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NBC inherits ‘Small Fortune’ remake
US broadcaster NBC has signed on to adapt Youngest Media’s Small Fortune competition series. The network has…
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MIPCOM Hot Picks: Songland
Distributor: NBCUniversal International Formats Producer: Universal Television Alternative Studio and Live Animals in association with…
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Exclusive: The Wall heads to the Middle East
Game show The Wall, a US format created and produced by Glassman Media, SpringHill Entertainment…
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Endemol Shine & Seven climb The Wall in Oz
Endemol Shine Australia has been commissioned by Australia’s Seven Network to produce the international game…
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NBC hires ex-Endemol Shine unscripted exec
US broadcaster NBC has hired former Endemol Shine North America unscripted production chief Linda Giambrone….
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NBC’s alternative all stars
Amid the golden age of TV drama, NBC has done something remarkable in launching and…
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NBC reunites Poehler & Offerman for unscripted show
Parks and Recreation stars Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman are reuniting on an unscripted series…
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NBC’s unscripted supremos to keynote at MIPTV
The head of unscripted at NBC, Paul Telegdy, and boss of the broadcaster’s new unscripted…