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Utopia
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Amazon greenlights Utopia remake by Gone Girl scribe
Amazon Studios has greenlit a straight-to-series order for Utopia, based on the British series of…
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Fremantle buys a portion of Duck Soup
FremantleMedia has taken a 25% stake in Duck Soup Films, the UK film and TV…
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Fox orders Endemol Shine Germany format
US broadcaster Fox has ordered an eight-hour unscripted series, Superhuman, based on Endemol Shine Germany…
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Sat.1 cancels Talpa’s Newtopia
German broadcaster Sat.1 has cancelled Newtopia, the local version of the Talpa format Utopia. The…
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ITV completes Talpa takeover
ITV has completed its takeover of The Voice producer Talpa Media, a stock market announcement…
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Talpa, Sat.1 embroiled in ‘Faketopia’ scandal
Newtopia, the German version of Talpa’s Utopia, is at the centre of a scandal after…
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Canada Netflix rival buys UK, US sci-fi
Project Latte, the upcoming Canadian OTT service from telco and broadcast group Bell, has bought…
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Fox’s Utopia experiment over
US broadcaster Fox has cancelled big-budget social experiment format Utopia. Just two months after the…
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Shine has Parti to nurture Asian talent
Shine Group drama prodco Kudos Film & TV will work with indie Parti Productions to…
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What next in the Netherlands?
From Big Brother to The Voice via Deal or No Deal and Splash! Dutch producers…
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Canadian channel seeks format Utopia
Canada has become the sixth territory to get a local version of Talpa Media’s buzzy…
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Prima buys into Talpa’s Utopia
Romanian free-to-air broadcaster Prima TV has ordered a local version of Utopia, the reality format…
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Channel 4 poaches Red Arrow exec for int’nl push
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has poached a Red Arrow UK scripted boss to lead a…
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Fox orders Zig Zag’s Prince Harry lookalike dating series
Fox has greenlit I Wanna Marry ‘Harry’, a new reality show in which US women…
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De Mol’s Talpa launches branded prodcos in Europe
John De Mol’s Talpa Media is launching branded production bases in the UK, Italy and…
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Talpa format is Utopia for Turkish channel
Talpa Media’s reality format Utopia will be produced in Turkey for media tycoon Acun Ilıcalı’s network…
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Shine cuts format deal with Talpa
Shine and Talpa will jointly produce formats including The Voice in Spain and Portugal after the…
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Fox prepares for Utopia
Big Brother creator John de Mol’s hot new reality format Utopia has been bought by…
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Digiturk launches sci-fi channel Dizimax
Turkish pay TV operator Digiturk has launched a new sci-fi channel, Dizimax Sci-Fi HD. The…
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Miniseries strike back
A few years ago, it looked like scripted miniseries were heading for the scrapheap. With…
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Viewpoint: Is Channel 4’s content strategy fit for purpose?
Nick Thomas, principal analyst, TV & Digital Media, at Informa Telecoms & Media asks whether…